Intersperse Announces Release of Intersperse Manager 5.0(TM) -- The Most Advanced and Complete SOA Application Monitoring and Management Platform.

PASADENA, Calif. -- Intersperse, Inc., the leading provider of monitoring and management solutions for the service-oriented enterprise, announces version 5.0 of Intersperse Manager, the industry's most advanced solution targeting the monitoring needs of next-generation J2EE and .NET SOA based applications.

Intersperse Manager 5.0 supports WebLogic Application Platform Suite, WebLogic Server, WebLogic Portal and WebLogic Integration. With this release Intersperse Manager also supports WebLogic Server 9.0 while going beyond the BEA WebLogic platform environment by supporting IBM WebSphere, Tomcat/JBoss and Microsoft .NET environments.

Intersperse Manager provides whole-system visibility and real-time control over SOA environments by managing and monitoring coarse grain business processes and webservices as well as fine grain objects and components that compose them. By managing and monitoring up and down the application stack and across integrated business applications, Intersperse Manager delivers significantly increased SOA application performance and availability.

"Traditional systems management products lack the application and services centric view and monitoring capabilities that is required to effectively monitor and manage highly dynamic SOA environments," said Martin Milani, Chief Executive Officer of Intersperse." With more enterprises embracing service-oriented architectures and rolling these new, mission-critical SOA applications into production, enterprises are discovering that they need far more nimble and services centric solutions tailored to monitor mission critical SOA based applications. Intersperse has been providing those solutions to the market for the past two years, significantly reducing the risks in deploying mission critical SOA based applications across the enterprise."

"Intersperse Manager effectively bridges the gap between traditional systems management and Web Services management, because of its deep application and services monitoring capabilities," said Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst with ZapThink. "Now that Intersperse Manager supports Microsoft .NET and IBM WebSphere as well as BEA WebLogic, Intersperse is well-positioned to provide comprehensive application management capabilities for many of today's SOA implementations."

Pricing and Availability

Intersperse Manager 5.0 for WebLogic and WebSphere is available immediately. Intersperse Manager 5.0 for Tomcat/JBoss and .NET is available for shipping Feb 27, 2006. For more information on configurations and pricing, please contact Intersperse sales at 800-340-4553.

About Intersperse

Intersperse is the leading provider of management solutions for service-oriented enterprise applications. Intersperse Manager is the first and only management tool designed to help master the rapidly growing complexity of SOA business systems. It gives developers, operators, and analysts a comprehensive view of all relevant tiers, the ability to proactively monitor and analyze system performance in business contexts, and the control to automatically or directly corrects problems in the production environment. Users can visualize not only application services, but also the ways in which those services are expected to perform, ensuring compliance with established service-level commitments and agreements (SLCs and SLAs).

Deployed at Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries and federal government entities, Intersperse Manager provides manageability and visibility into software components across application, integration, and process servers, and it can be extended to manage integrated homegrown, legacy, and packaged applications.

Product and corporate information can be found at http://www.intersperse.com. Intersperse and Intersperse Manager are trademarks of Intersperse, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.