Independent Research Firm Publishes Key Findings about Configuresoft Enterprise Configuration Manager's Comprehensive Configuration Database.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- EMA Study Highlights ECM's Strength in Configuration, Systems and Compliance Management and Security

Configuresoft, an innovator in systems management technology and the creator of enterprise compliance management, announced today that its Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) and its underlying Comprehensive Configuration Database (CCDB), earned praise from research firm, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), in a June 2005 report entitled, "The CMDB Landscape: Market Directions, Vendor Solutions and IT Deployments." This is the second in a series of CMDB reports which gives an extensive analysis of what CMDB offerings are available and offers a landscape of the CMDB marketplace. In this piece, EMA recognizes the strength of Configuresoft's CMDB, known in ECM as the CCDB, as providing much needed scalability, automation and dependability in large enterprise settings.

In EMA's perspective regarding the development of CMDBs, vendors "need to focus more on the architectural demands of developing an ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)-supportive CMDB in conjunction with their own product development directions." Configuresoft addresses this with ECM as it "gathers deep, granular configuration data on systems, which is the core of its CMDB. ECM gathers configuration data down to registry settings and event log entries, which represent elements that are at a depth that the ITIL does not address." Configuresoft leverages the granularity of its configuration data beyond pure configuration management, as it extends the use of its detailed data to assess security patches before they are deployed, as well as allows for personalized configuration settings.

"EMA is a recognized research leader in the area of a CMDB-based approach to ITIL's processes and practices," said Chris Farrow, director, Configuresoft's Center for Policy & Compliance. "This endorsement by EMA validates Configuresoft's approach to solving security and regulatory compliance issues and reinforces the need for automated, easy-to-use configuration management tools within an organization. ECM's built-in remediation from compliance reports, best practice compliance toolkits, security recommendations and audit recommendations enable IT administrators to ensure that their enterprise systems are known and conform to the desired or mandated state. This ensures that systems proactively meet regulatory compliance and security policy requirements."

According to EMA, ECM's focus on security and compliance issues is one of its core strengths. "Configuresoft's strategic partnership with AlterPoint, is an example of the future direction of configuration management, which is the convergence of network and systems configuration management with security management. ECM's CCDB offers deep configuration information that provides a wealth of configuration settings for management applications that require this level of configuration knowledge. It also performs the monitoring and management of granular configuration settings for configuration management and compliance."

About Enterprise Configuration Manager

ECM centralizes and automates the tasks of monitoring, managing and auditing the hardware and software configurations deployed in large enterprise networks or Web server farms. By standardizing server and client configurations, ECM ensures operational compliance to regulatory, industry and corporate standards throughout a computing infrastructure. Sustained by the industry's most proven scalable architecture, ECM collects detailed critical configuration data from each Windows, UNIX, and Linux server and workstation--storing that information in a centralized database for immediate access, analysis and reporting. ECM enforces security policies by automatically resetting configurations to their pre-defined standards when an unauthorized change (or deviation) occurs. These powerful capabilities help IT organizations keep their critical systems properly configured, while ensuring security compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, GLBA, Sarbanes-Oxley and FISMA.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft is an innovator in systems management technology, serving eight of the world's 25 largest companies. Based in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the Company offers enterprise configuration, policy compliance and remediation products that span both operations and IT security. At a time in which organizations must maintain a continuous state of audit throughout their infrastructure, Configuresoft ensures these environments conform to any desired or mandated state. To contact Configuresoft, call 719.447.4600, visit us on the Web at www.configuresoft.com or write to [e-mail].