Bristol Technology Announces Vigilant Technologies as Consulting Partner and Certified Developer.

BEDFORD, Mass. and DANBURY, Conn. -- E[acute accent]Vigilant to Deploy Bristol's TransactionVision(R) in Solutions for Application and Infrastructure Monitoring and Development

E[acute accent]Bristol Technology Inc., a leading provider of business process monitoring solutions, today announced that Vigilant Technologies is its newest Consulting Partner. Bedford-based Vigilant also earned certification from Bristol, which is headquartered in Danbury, as a TransactionVision Solution Developer. E[acute accent]A consulting firm specializing in application and infrastructure performance and testing, Vigilant is also a solutions partner of Compuware (NASDAQ: CPWR), which is positioned in the leaders quadrant in Gartner's recently announced Magic Quadrant(C) for Application Quality Ecosystem 2005(1). E[acute accent]Vigilant will offer Bristol's TransactionVision software solution as part of its Business Process Awareness offerings and services, according to Matt Hooper, its chief technology officer. E[acute accent]"We have found that TransactionVision gives our clients total visibility into their customer-facing business transactions. With that visibility, they can deliver superior customer service and solve problems quickly and efficiently. That is easier said than done nowadays because business application infrastructures have become very complex and stovepiped," said Hooper. E[acute accent]"When we integrate TransactionVision with Compuware Vantage, we enable the client to perform business-level monitoring in real time and to follow every single transaction from its opening to a successful conclusion," Hooper continued. E[acute accent]Bristol's Consulting Partners have deployed TransactionVision in many accounts globally, including Deutsche Telekom, Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, and National Account Service Company (NASCO). E[acute accent]"Vigilant has both the breadth and depth of expertise that we expect from our partners, who have to understand fully how systems operate and perform today," said Keith Blackwell, Bristol's chief executive officer. E[acute accent]"Their extensive technical knowledge of various platforms and their knack of empowering their clients by sharing that knowledge, combined with their Compuware experience, make them uniquely positioned to add value to any relationship. Bristol is looking forward to joining forces with Vigilant and assisting our customers with the best in integrated business monitoring solutions."

E[acute accent]About Bristol Technology

E[acute accent]Bristol Technology provides complete process visibility of customer transactions. Its TransactionVision product monitors the performance and reliability of customer transactions, ensuring higher customer satisfaction while lowering risk to reputation and to revenue-generation capability. TransactionVision provides Business Process Monitoring that dramatically increases visibility into customer facing transactions. Just as you would track overnight packages from origination to delivery, TransactionVision tracks customer transactions throughout their entire lifecycle. Bristol is headquartered in Danbury, Conn. and has EMEA headquarters in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. For additional information about Bristol Technology and TransactionVision, visit www.bristol.com.

E[acute accent]About Vigilant Technologies

E[acute accent]Vigilant Technologies LLC is an agile, responsive team of experts who specialize in application testing, deployment, and development. Vigilant's mission is twofold: to ensure that their clients derive peak performance and full business value from their enterprise applications and from the systems that run them; and to deliver the documented results, processes, and training that will enable clients' engineering staffs to maintain peak performance and build upon the success of Vigilant's engagements and projects. Vigilant headquarters is 200 Great Road, Bedford, MA 01730. For additional information visit www.vigitex.com

E[acute accent](1) The Magic Quadrant for Application Quality Ecosystem 2005: Leaders and Challengers is copyrighted March 8 2005 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. Author: Theresa Lanowitz. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

E[acute accent]Bristol Technology and TransactionVision are registered trademarks of Bristol Technology Inc. Compuware is a registered trademark of Compuware Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.