AmberPoint and Systinet Announce SOA Starter Pack; Industry Leaders Offer Integrated Building Blocks to Accelerate Enterprise-Class SOA Implementations.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & OAKLAND, Calif. -- AmberPoint, the leading provider of management solutions for service-oriented architectures (SOAs), and Systinet, the leading independent provider of SOA registry and Web service standards-based products, announced today that the two companies have jointly developed and are now selling an integrated suite of essential SOA software solutions. The SOA Starter Pack provides the critical registry and management capabilities for existing and new service-oriented applications, and includes AmberPoint Management Foundation and the Systinet Registry, as well as support services and onsite training. Sold with one contract by either company, the bundle is the first of its kind in the SOA software market and will result in faster time-to-ROI for initial SOA projects.

Benefits:

--Forms the cornerstone of best practices around successful use of SOA and Web services

--Cost-effective means of quickly gaining proficiency with standards-based registry and management technologies

--Faster time-to-ROI for initial SOA projects

--Facilitates reuse of services

--Provides for orderly rollout and evolution of services over time

AmberPoint and Systinet are the market leaders in their respective categories. The newly announced bundle is an outgrowth of the companies' work with many shared enterprise customers and the natural synergies between their products. A partial list of joint customers includes Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Motorola, and France Telecom.

"After thoroughly evaluating the market, we selected solutions from AmberPoint and Systinet as essential building blocks of our SOA environment," said Toby Redshaw, corporate vice president of IT Strategy Architecture and eBusiness, Motorola. "We've seen firsthand what a powerful combination they are, and view the bundling of these complementary solutions as highly advantageous to companies starting down the SOA path."

Systinet Registry

Systinet Registry is a complete, SOA standards-based solution for publishing, discovering and reusing business services and for managing the lifecycle of business services. Systinet Registry brings visibility, adaptability, manageability and reusability to an enterprise SOA. Systinet Registry is the only solution to fully support the latest OASIS V3 UDDI specification and is the most feature-complete and widely deployed SOA registry available today.

AmberPoint Management Foundation

AmberPoint Management Foundation transforms SOA initiatives into trustworthy, production-ready business assets. It provides a policy-based approach for comprehensive management, tracking and security capabilities, including versioning and lifecycle management, security enforcement and monitoring, service brokering, custom instrumentation and dashboarding, logging and auditing and advanced policy definition and management. AmberPoint Management Foundation is the most widely implemented software solution for managing enterprise-class, service-oriented systems and is the first such solution available in versions for both .NET and J2EE.

"The partnership between industry leaders AmberPoint and Systinet provides two prime benefits to the market. First, it makes it easier for companies to understand what is required to build and operate a cost-effective SOA. Second, it makes it relatively inexpensive for organizations to quickly become proficient with registry and management capabilities," said Tom Rhinelander, president and founder of New Rowley Group. "Getting a taste of these products will help companies understand that to realize the benefits of SOA, they must invest in an SOA environment designed to rationalize and facilitate the development, deployment, reuse, and maintenance of both simple Web services and complex, multi-service solutions."

Combined Products Deliver Greater Capabilities

The SOA Starter Pack is pre-integrated to simplify implementation and to quickly deliver new capabilities, including:

--Automatic provisioning of management: As part of the provisioning process, AmberPoint will automatically update Systinet Registry with the appropriate technical information required for management, including the ability to automatically point consumers and clients to the appropriate endpoints.

--Automatic detection and publishing of service information: AmberPoint automatically detects changes in the Systinet registry and updates the management system as required.

--Sharing of service information and metadata: Systinet helps AmberPoint determine the security and transport protocols supported by a given Web service. AmberPoint will enter all the appropriate information on its agents into the Systinet registry.

"The bundling of our products with Systinet's makes a lot of sense for companies looking to quickly gain value from service-oriented systems," said John Hubinger, AmberPoint CEO. "By combining core elements of SOA infrastructure, together we're delivering the tools and technologies companies need to quickly move forward in implementing productive SOA systems that add real business value."

"Our customers are consistently looking for simpler, faster, and more standards-based ways to jump start their SOA initiatives," said Thomas Erickson, Systinet CEO. "By simplifying the integration and adoption of our Registry and AmberPoint's management products, Systinet and AmberPoint are saving our customers significant development time, getting them two steps closer to production with their SOA applications."

Availability and Pricing

The SOA Starter Pack is available immediately from either company. The bundle is priced at $25,000.

About Systinet

Systinet is the leading independent software vendor of Web service and SOA standards products. Systinet customers are successfully evolving fixed IT systems into agile, dynamic, business services that are easily adapted to business processes inside and outside the enterprise. With Systinet's suite of products, customers create and manage industry-standard Web services and SOA business services using existing and new IT applications and systems. Systinet's products include the only industry-standard SOA registry that supports business service lifecycle management, including enablement, publishing, discovery, and management. By using simpler, faster and standards-based Systinet products, customers achieve the benefits of business-level interoperability at dramatically lower costs. The Systinet suite of products (formerly named WASP) is based on industry-standards such as XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. More than 100 global 2000 clients rely on Systinet, including Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN), BMC Software (NYSE:BMC), Interwoven (Nasdaq:IWOV), JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM), Motorola (NYSE:MOT), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and SAIC. Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Systinet is a privately held company with more than 100 employees.

About AmberPoint

AmberPoint is the leading provider of management software for service-oriented architectures (SOA). With its modular, distributed architecture, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of service-based business solutions. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510-663-6300 or [e-mail], or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.