Nimsoft Raises the Bar for SLA Monitoring with Latest NimBUS Release; Immediate Availability of NimBUS 3.2 Offers Everything Needed to Ensure Extreme SLA Compliance.

LAS VEGAS -- Privately held Nimsoft today announced NimBUS version 3.2, the latest release of its service-level management solution which aims to provide customers with a single solution to proactively ensure that all business-critical applications comply with service goals. Available immediately, NimBUS version 3.2 builds on numerous new embedded functionalities that enable it to accurately reflect and monitor practically any customer-unique service level agreement (SLA). Nimsoft will be showcasing the latest release of NimBUS at the Networld + Interop Las Vegas 2005 Convention, May 1-6, at booth #1560.

"Our experience shows that most organizations still use a costly, time-consuming manual process for calculating and reporting against service level agreements," said Gary Read, President of Nimsoft. "With this latest release of NimBUS, we aim to reach every customer example of service level paradigm, and to rapidly automate its monitoring and reporting process while dramatically slashing the inherent complexity and cost associated with it."

Unlike Any Other SLA Management Offering

Building on the rising NimBUS market momentum, Nimsoft today announced the following enhancements in Version 3.2:

--Monitoring of Multi-tiered Service Level Agreements: New grouped/tiered SLA capabilities provide cascading service level monitoring for maximum applications performance. SLAs can now be grouped by branch office, customer, business unit, geography, service, technology, and application, and rolled up to higher level agreements.

--Wizard-based Approach for SLA Creation and Definition: New intuitive wizards facilitate and accelerate SLA creation and definition. Users can now take advantage of this wizard-based approach to rapidly create thousands of customer-based service levels in minutes.

--Enhanced Compliance Calculation Engine: New complex compliance calculation formulas (including interval, weight, sequential, median, average, best, worst, and, or) provide for practically any customer-tailored SLA compliance requirements.

--Data Integration with 3rd Party Products: New ability to accept data from multiple and disconnected third party products, including help desk products, other monitoring tools or any other application, and combine it all into Service Level or Operational Level Agreements.

"At IBBS, we are responsible for monitoring hundreds of service level agreements for our broadband/cable customers," said Cedric Brown, Vice President of Operations at IBBS. "In the past, we have struggled with traditional management tools and had to supplement them with hours and days of manual effort, pulling together Excel-based reports. Now with Nimbus, we can put in place new customer SLAs in minutes, reducing our SLA administration down to virtually zero."

About NimBUS

NimBUS is an IT management platform completely developed in-house which provides scalable, resilient and reliable monitoring capabilities for organizations that wish to proactively manage critical IT resources against service level requirements. These resources include, but are not limited to, servers, hosts, applications, databases, networking services and network devices.

About Nimsoft

Nimsoft is a premier provider of cost-effective service level management solutions for maximum business uptime and compliance. The future-ready NimBUS solution is already empowering hundreds of IT enterprises across industries and around the world to successfully manage against their SLA targets within a matter of hours. Nimsoft stands ready 24x7 to help its customers manage complex network systems with an advanced performance and service-level management solution built on a flexible architecture, and offering a cost of ownership that brings Service Level Management ... within reach. For more information, visit www.nimsoft.com.

With US headquarters in San Mateo, California; European headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and regional offices in Spain, Sweden and the UK, Nimsoft is an Independent Software Vendor fully owned by its founders and employees and self-finances its growth with the proceeds from its operations.