Apptitude is First to Identify and Track Multimedia Applications for Internet Commerce.

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 11, 1999--

Company Expands Capabilities of its Visualizer Solution,

enabling CIOs to make informed decisions about their

Internet commerce networks

Apptitude, Inc., the leading provider of application visibility solutions for enterprise networks, today announced that it has added full multimedia, streaming video and audio recognition and analysis to its Visualizer solution. With its expanded capabilities, Visualizer enables CIOs to eliminate guesswork and make informed network decisions as they roll out bandwidth-intensive Internet commerce applications.

"Enterprises that have made a strategic commitment to Internet Commerce now have a powerful new tool that provides an accurate picture of how these new customer channels are affecting the network," says Chris Kenber, CEO of Apptitude. "To date, decisions on network capacity and configuration have been made largely by guesswork. But the cost of flying blind in Internet commerce is prohibitive. We have a simple and effective answer to that problem."

Internet commerce revenue is expected to grow from $2.6 billion in 1996 to $220 billion in 2001, according to International Data Corporation's Internet Commerce Market Model.

Apptitude's Visualizer can now automatically identify and track applications running on common Internet protocols such as RTP (Real Time Transport Protocol) and RTCP (Real Time Transport Control Protocol) through the H.323 real-time multimedia teleconferencing standard. This capability provides recognition for all H.323 compliant applications including Microsoft's NetMeeting, Cisco's Multimedia Conference Manager, Netscape Conference and Intel's ProShare among many others.

"Audio and video and multimedia web presentations have been identified as the key drivers of customer and consumer interest on Internet and e-commerce sites," says Bill Leavy, Apptitude's VP of Marketing. "These technologies are very heavy consumers of bandwidth, so a clear understanding of their actual impact on the network is critically important to successful Internet commerce implementations."

According to a March 1999 report by The Aberdeen Group: "As businesses weave e-commerce into the very fabric of their business processes, massive amounts of information -- in the form of data, voice, and video "packets" -- will flood the myriad networks that make up our global communication system."

Apptitude's Solution

Apptitude's solution includes the Apptitude Visualizer, a data collection device that automatically captures and tracks individual application conversations by user and network segment, the Apptitude Analyzer, a real-time monitoring and analysis application, and the Apptitude Reporter, a web-based, reporting application. With Apptitude's comprehensive Internet application visibility, it has assumed the lead position in the exploding Internet commerce management market.

Pricing and Availability

The enhanced Apptitude Visualizer will be available in June 1999. Pricing is determined by a customer's network environment. A typical installation is priced at approximately $100,000.

About Apptitude

Founded in 1995, Apptitude, Inc. is a leader in the application visibility for enterprise networks. The company provides solutions to large enterprises worldwide in the financial services, manufacturing, high technology, utilities and telecommunications industries. The company also licenses its technology to leading network equipment vendors. Apptitude's web site is www.apptitude.com

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