LogicLibrary Offers First Federated Library Support for Software Assets.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 25, 2004

Enables Enterprises to Maintain Intellectual Control over Software

Assets Created by Near-shore and Off-shore Developers

LogicLibrary(TM), the leading provider of software asset management tools, today announced the release of Logidex 3.0.1 for .NET, featuring federated library support. This unique Logidex capability allows LogicLibrary customers to maintain control over their geographically-dispersed software development assets (SDAs) from a central Logidex library. Logidex federated library support greatly increases the manageability of SDAs for all projects, including outsourcing initiatives.

For more information on Logidex's support for application development outsourcing (ADO), download the new LogicLibrary white paper, "Application Development Outsourcing: Why Software Asset Management is Required" at http://www.logiclibrary.com/white_paper.jsp.

LogicLibrary's federated library support makes it possible for two remote Logidex libraries to communicate and share assets with each other. Additionally, centrally-managed Logidex assets, such as technical and business architectures and core components, can be selectively distributed to remote libraries for use by developers at those remote sites. Logidex maintains the distinction between public and private artifacts - as flagged by library users - across federated libraries.

"Whether software assets are down the street or halfway around the world, it's vital that a company have the ability to control and manage its physically distributed SDAs," said Alan Himler, vice president of product management at LogicLibrary. "As the only solution supporting remote library-to-library interconnections, Logidex makes it possible for customers to securely share any or all of its enterprise SDAs."

Logidex is the industry's premier collaborative software development asset (SDA) management solution for development, integration and service-oriented architecture projects. Logidex is also the only software asset management product that features tight integration with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Eclipse, IBM WebSphere Studio and IBM Rational XDE.

Logidex for .NET 3.0.1 also includes:

-- Asset acquisition enhancements--New workflow features increase

a user's flexibility in managing and tracking access to key

SDAs within their development community. Logidex helps

organizations ensure compliance with SDA acquisition and use

processes.

-- New .NET preloaded content--With easy access to software

assets from Microsoft's Platform Architectural Guidance (PAG)

Group, LogicLibrary customers can dramatically improve their

ROI for service-oriented architectures (SOAs) and the

manageability of their .NET applications. Microsoft Service

Patterns and the Enterprise Instrumentation Framework (EIF)

have been added to Logidex 3.0.1 for .NET, making them easily

searchable via the Logidex Add-in for Visual Studio 2003. The

Service Patterns outline best practices for building Web

services and interfaces for creating collaboration between

applications and external services. EIF enables applications

built on the .NET Framework to be instrumented for

manageability in a production environment.

-- Enhanced support for Visual SourceSafe--The addition of a

wizard-driven facility enables Logidex users to directly

capture and retrieve Visual SourceSafe-controlled artifacts

from within an integrated development environment (IDE). This

dramatically improves developer productivity by enabling rapid

collaboration among key tools integrated with Visual Studio.

Logidex

Logidex is a collaborative software development asset (SDA) management solution that simplifies the creation, migration and integration of enterprise applications. It represents inherently complex, enterprise application environments in a graphical, intuitive way. Logidex is the only SDA management solution that offers federated library support, model-based searching, out-of-the-box assets, measurements and metrics.

About LogicLibrary

LogicLibrary is the leading provider of software and services that make it possible for enterprises to manage and reuse software development assets (SDAs). The company's patent-pending technology provides a comprehensive and collaborative approach for creating, migrating and integrating enterprise applications for use in service-oriented architecture, Web services and other software development initiatives. LogicLibrary has been positioned in the "Leader" quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s Magic Quadrant for Metadata Repositories, 2004 and maintains strategic partnerships with Microsoft, as a Premier member of the Visual Studio Industry Partner (VSIP) program, IBM, as an Advanced PartnerWorld Partner, and Merant. LogicLibrary is recognized on the SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the software development industry and has integration partnerships that include Microsoft, IBM/Rational, Eclipse and Borland. For more information, visit www.logiclibrary.com.

LogicLibrary and Logidex are trademarks of LogicLibrary, Inc.

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