InfoVista Worldwide Expansion Fueled by Rapid Growth; Leading Business SLM Vendor Adds New Offices, Staff, and Partnerships.

COLUMBIA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 1999--

InfoVista, a global leader in Business-oriented Service Level Management (SLM) reporting and analysis solutions, today announced that significant growth in worldwide marketshare has resulted in the expansion of its Worldwide and US headquarters, professional staff, as well as the addition of numerous new partnerships in more than ten countries around the world.

Alain Tingaud, Chairman and CEO, of InfoVista, highlighted the reason behind the company's rapid expansion by stating, "InfoVista has changed the way people think of service level management. We are the first in our industry to look at SLM from a business solutions perspective, enabling end users, IT managers and business managers to make sense of the total IT picture. This departure from the norm has driven InfoVista's expansion worldwide. We continue to invest heavily in new facilities, are growing our professional staff by 20% per quarter, and we will continue to open offices and add new partners in additional countries. InfoVista intends to retain its position as a global market leader by expanding our corporate infrastructure to meet growing customer needs."

InfoVista has added numerous partners to its growing list of Business Solution Developers (BSD)s and Business Solution Integrators (BSI)s, resulting in a growing worldwide "VistaView Community" where BSDs and BSIs build application-specific VistaViews on top of InfoVista's core products. VistaViews are a key part of InfoVista's strategy to provide customers with powerful network and application reporting features and customization capabilities without compromise on ease of use.

The current list of InfoVista partners includes: 3Com (worldwide), Arche Group SIEMENS (France), BMC Software (US), Empire Technologies, Inc. (US) EMS (New Zealand/Australia), Lattis Enterprise Management (UK), COASIN (Chile), EIA Datacom, Inc., Millennium Technologies (Italy), Netlink Netwerken Datacommunicatie (Netherlands), Newlink Quaternaire Informatique (France), SCB Computer Technology Inc. (US), and XOR Technologies (Israel).

Key to InfoVista's global success has been its unique business focus on service level management and its ability to give the IT manager the full picture of the total IT infrastructure, including the network, system and applications. InfoVista's business solution focus on Service Level Management includes:

-- proactive end-to-end application performance analysis and

reporting tools

-- end-user application performance management

-- event/alarm correlation and management

-- service level management of public WAN data services

-- bandwidth management 

-- network management and security suites

Olivier Breittmayer, CEO of Newlink, a European InfoVista partner, stated, "Newlink selected InfoVista because it is the only company on the market to introduce solutions which enable companies to measure the performance level of networks, systems and applications. Moreover, the tailored possibilities of the product ensure a perfect correspondence between customer requests and product offer."

InfoVista has expanded both its worldwide Paris-based headquarters and research and development facility outside of Paris, added key management, sales, and engineering staff to its US headquarters, plans to double the size of its European offices by the end of the year, and will soon open an office in Germany. Worldwide sales, marketing and operations is located at Courtaboeuf, France Phone: [phone] o Fax: [phone]. Engineering, product development, research and support is located in Boulogne, France Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]. InfoVista also maintains a UK office in the West Midlands Phone: [phone] Fax: [phone]. US headquarters is located outside of Washington DC in Columbia, Maryland Phone [phone] Fax: [phone] Toll free phone (within US only): 888 511-6092.

About InfoVista

InfoVista is a global provider of Business-oriented Service Level Management and conformance solutions for Information Technology (IT) organizations, telcos, outsourcers, and network service providers. InfoVista collects and interprets data from every facet of the IT infrastructure, including network, device, applications, and systems. Using intelligence-based software and leading search and database technology, InfoVista provides a reporting and knowledge management tool that renders a uniform view of service level achievements across every component within an information system, as well as the ability to correlate that information with other business information throughout an organization.

InfoVista Corporation is a privately held company that was founded in 1995 by network management and object technology experts. Worldwide headquarters is located in Paris, France. US headquarters is located in Columbia, Maryland. The company is a recipient of numerous industry awards, including the Best of Show Award at Networld+Interop, as well as a Hot Product of the Year Award from Data Communications magazine. More information on InfoVista and its products can be found at: http://www.infovista.com.

InfoVista is a registered trademark of InfoVista, S.A.