Invoq Announces AlarmPoint BCP 2.2; New Component Streamlines Crisis Communications and IT Event Resolution within a Single Application.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Invoq Systems, Inc(TM), the leading provider of Event Resolution and Interactive Alerting applications, today announced at the DRJ Conference in San Diego, the release of AlarmPoint(R) BCP 2.2, an optional AlarmPoint Enterprise 2.2 component. The AlarmPoint Enterprise product suite enables global enterprises to manage large IT infrastructures with fewer resources for increased efficiency and maximum reliability.

Invoq's AlarmPoint products enable enterprises to capture, communicate and remotely resolve important systems and business events. The AlarmPoint product suite acts as a central notification and alerting platform, to ensure that critical events are identified and resolved in the most timely, effective way possible.

"AlarmPoint BCP extends Invoq's leadership position by enabling our customers to easily identify and resolve business-impacting events," said Troy McAlpin, Chief Executive Officer, Invoq Systems. "As the recent tragic events in London and New Orleans have demonstrated, robust and reliable crisis communication tools are vital when it comes to saving lives or business assets. Today, some of the world's largest financial institutions, communications companies, government agencies and airports depend on the power and reliability of AlarmPoint Enterprise with AlarmPoint BCP."

"Invoq's AlarmPoint is the leading application for crisis communications and event notification," said Ian Banks, Managing Director, DaraSoft. Enterprises and organizations can use AlarmPoint BCP 2.2 to easily notify thousands of personnel in minutes should a disaster or business continuity event occur."

AlarmPoint BCP 2.2 delivers enterprise-class features and functionality that IT and business continuity professionals require:

--Unified Event Handling -- Combining AlarmPoint BCP with AlarmPoint Enterprise allows organizations to use one notification system for both day-to-day IT-impacting events and for crisis communications. This cost-effective solution increases the accuracy of personnel data across IT and BCP/DR groups.

--Sophisticated Permissions Settings -- Access can be granted to all AlarmPoint BCP tools, or only to specific settings, such as those allowing personnel to test or initiate notifications. Permissions can easily be customized to meet the needs of any organization.

--Flexible Notification Scenarios -- Detailed notification instructions, called Scenarios in AlarmPoint BCP, define how AlarmPoint notifies people during an event. Scenarios are extremely flexible, allowing organizations to plan for virtually any event requiring crisis communications. And, when even the best planning fails to anticipate a situation, a one-time Scenario can be used to respond to the extraordinary, with the same feature set found in predefined Scenarios.

--Scenario Testing -- Before going live, Scenarios can be run in a testing mode, allowing organization to run drills, familiarize personnel with response options, troubleshoot, and generate response performance metrics.

--Powerful Situation Control -- Automated call-outs eliminate call trees to ensure the processes and plans are followed, with the fastest and most consistent notification method possible. Two-way response allows BCP officers to dispatch teams appropriately and poll for responses.

--Enhanced Messaging -- True interactive messaging, with fill counts, notification time limits, and fully customizable response options.

--User-Defined Scenario Attributes -- Keywords called Attributes can be associated with notification Scenarios, making it fast and simple to search existing Scenarios when an event occurs.

--Alert Subscriptions -- A web-based self-service feature allows stakeholders to 'sign up' to be alerted when AlarmPoint BCP Scenarios are launched for specific events.

--Real-time Reporting -- AlarmPoint BCP includes powerful reporting features that you can use to plan, implement, evaluate, and troubleshoot crisis communication performance.

Pricing and Availability

AlarmPoint BCP for AlarmPoint Enterprise 2.2 is available now. The price varies depending on system configuration and business requirements. AlarmPoint Enterprise and AlarmPoint BCP are available from Invoq Systems, BMC Software, Hewlett-Packard or one of Invoq Systems' value-added resellers listed at: www.alarmpoint.com.

About Invoq Systems

Invoq Systems' award-winning products are the industry's leading automated, interactive event notification and resolution software applications. Invoq's AlarmPoint systems are used to enhance network, security, and emergency data center management, by reducing operational inefficiencies. Today, Invoq's products are used by over 700 global institutions including AT&T, Bank of America, Barclays Bank, Barclays Global Investors, British Telecom, Cable & Wireless, Consumers Energy, McKesson, Pacific Gas & Electric and the US Treasury. AlarmPoint by Invoq Systems is a BMC Software Market Zone Direct product, an IBM Tivoli Beacon Award winning solution for Best Managing Technology Solution and a 2004 HP Achievers Award winner. Invoq Systems, Inc. is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with European operations headquartered in Richmond, Surrey, U.K. For more information, please visit the Invoq Systems web site at www.AlarmPoint.com or www.InvoqSystems.com.