itSMF USA 2005 Exhibitor Profiles.

CHICAGO -- itSMF USA 2005 takes place Sept. 19-24, 2005 at McCormick Place in Chicago. For in-depth information about the event, visit http://www.jupiterevents.com/itsmf/fall05/index.html.

Below are profiles from itSMF USA 2005 exhibitors; breaking news releases are available at http://www.tradeshownews.com, Business Wire's trade show, conference and event news resource. Business Wire is the official news wire service for itSMF USA 2005.

Company: AlarmPoint by Invoq Systems
Booth/Stand: 212
Media Contact: Jessica Mullens
Investor Relations Contact: Troy McAlpin
Phone:   [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.AlarmPoint.com

Company description: Invoq Systems is the leading provider of
interactive alerting and crisis communications software. Invoq's
products enable organizations to alert and interact with key
personnel, allowing them to resolve events remotely or on-site.
Founded in 2000, now with over 700 global customers, Invoq's
AlarmPoint applications have become the standard in delivering on the
ITIL and ITSM promise. AlarmPoint Enterprise allows IT and non-IT
personnel to subscribe to service alerts. The alerts are delivered,
with curing options, enabling remote resolution. Invoq partners
include BMC, IBM, Peregrine, HP and other leading event management
firms.

Company: Bizcarta & Provance Technologies
Booth/Stand: 715
Media Contact: Deborah Clark, CMO
Investor Relations Contact: Kurt Woodall, CFO, 614-761-2499
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.BizCarta.com & www.Provance.com

Company Description: BizCarta helps enterprises and government
agencies worldwide develop their IT alignment strategy and business
processes to drive operational excellence and increase customer
satisfaction. By fusing process management with business acumen, we
provide a disciplined approach resulting in a more reliable and
productive environment. BizCarta delivers guaranteed Strategic
Planning, Project Management, ITIL Readiness, Systems Integration,
Business Process, and Asset Management Services using the proven
methodology within our ADEPT6(SM) Processes.

As a leading provider of IT services and asset management
software, Provance(TM) helps Global 2000 companies, government
organizations, and IT outsourcers improve visibility into their
operations and gain tighter control of their costs, while dramatically
improving IT service delivery to their customers. The Provance suite
also helps ensure alignment with IT Management models such as ITIL and
compliance with legislative regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley.
BizCarta is an authorized reseller for Provance and provides all the
above professional services related to the Provance IT Services and
Asset Management Suite.

Company: CalAmp
Booth/Stand: 128
Ticker Symbol & Exchange: CAMP
Media Contact: Russell Bell
Investor Relations Contact: Rick Vitelle
Phone: [phone] x8249
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.calamp.com

Company description: CalAmp is a provider of wireless products,
engineering services and software that enable anytime/anywhere access
to critical information, data and entertainment content. With
comprehensive capabilities ranging from product design and development
through volume production, CalAmp delivers cost-effective high quality
solutions to a broad array of customers and end markets. The Company
provides wireless connectivity solutions for the direct broadcast
satellite (DBS) industry, telemetry and asset tracking markets,
healthcare industry, enterprise-class wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi,
networks, and digital multimedia delivery applications. For more
information visit www.calamp.com.

Company: Coeus, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 625
Media Contact: Gari Scherbring
Investor Relations Contact: Steven Lambros
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Web: www.coeusinc.com

Company description: Coeus, the Technology Asset Management and
Consulting firm, specializes in inventory and financial control
creating operational best practices to effectively manage your
enterprises. Coeus's complete approach builds on a strategy that
understands your business environment, processes and direction.

Key Objectives of Asset Management:

   --  Reduce Net Operating Expense (26% average)

   --  Improve & Standardize Processes

   --  Provide Long-term Financial Controls

   --  Increase Staff Productivity & Effectiveness

   --  Support Business Strategies

Coeus provides expertise for initiatives including IP telephony
strategies, contract negotiations, system/service design, acquisitions
and implementations, project management and strategic planning,
creating synergies within your managed enterprise.

Learn more: www.coeusinc.com

Company:    Covestic
Booth/Stand:    312
Media Contact:  Jim Ange
Phone:  [phone] x227
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web:    www.covestic.com

Company description: Covestic leads the industry in technology and
management consulting services, providing objective expertise based on
years of successful implementations within many of the world's premier
companies. Covestic begins with an in-depth assessment of the client's
business needs and then delivers optimized IT infrastructures and
processes that maximize the business value for the client. Each
Covestic practice is designed to offer clients the expertise needed to
address business challenges and improve IT operations.

Company: Cranel Inc.
Booth/Stand: 134
Media Contact: Kim Komara
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.cranel.com/isodx

Company description: ISOdx, from Cranel Inc., is the first
comprehensive change isolation tool (patent pending) supporting IT
service management. With ISOdx, you can instantly pinpoint changes
made to an IT environment -- right down to the character level. ISOdx
provides your IT support team the information they need to quickly
resolve problems caused by changes in your IT environment. ISOdx
offers your organization an unmatched level of visibility and control
enabling improved IT service management, reduced IT recovery time,
improved service levels, increased efficiencies and productivity, and
improved IT-to-Business communications.

Company: Forsythe Solutions Group
Booth/Stand: 120/122
Media Contact: Kyra Auslander or Mark Guess
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.forsythe.com

Company description: Since 1971, Forsythe has served as a national
provider of technology infrastructure and leasing solutions to
organizations across all industries, including many Fortune 1000
companies. Forsythe acts as a trusted, independent advisor, helping
organizations manage the cost and risk of their IT infrastructure.
Forsythe does this by serving as a single point of contact while
providing technology and business consulting services, technology
leasing services, and value-added reseller services for all of the
leading technology product manufacturers. To learn more about
Forsythe's IT Service Management offerings, please visit the IT
Strategy and Infrastructure Management areas on www.forsythe.com

Company: HyPerformix, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 219
Media Contact: Michael Cohen
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.hyperformix.com

Company description: HyPerformix, Inc.
...predicting the impact of change(TM)

HyPerformix is a leading application performance and capacity
management software company focused on the needs of Global 2000
enterprises who share three common goals:

  1. Deliver applications that meet performance objectives

  2. Maximize IT investments

  3. Manage the risk of constant change

HyPerformix helps reach these goals through a proactive approach
to performance and capacity management that provides a service level
view across the entire application life cycle. This end-to-end view of
the application ensures alignment between IT resources and business
needs that meet both performance and financial objectives.

Company: ITSM Academy, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 517
Media Contact: Lisa Schwartz
Phone: 888-872-ITSM (4876)
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.itsmacademy.com

Company description: ITSM Academy, an EXIN accredited training
provider, offers fully accredited IT Service Management training
courses, delivered in the format which makes the most sense to you and
your organization - Traditional Classroom (cClass), Online (eClass),
or a blending of both (vClass).

We train all levels of ITIL(R) Certification Courses as well as
non-certification Process Specific Workshops in our Ft. Lauderdale
Training Center and on client sites.

ITSM Academy is among the few providers offering MOF(R) and
COBIT(R) eClasses and is the only organization delivering Visible Ops:
The Class(R) (based on Visible Ops Handbook). IT Service Management
publications through our bookstore - www.itsmbookstore.com

Company: KEDAR Information Technologies, Inc.
Booth/Stand: Booth # 725
Media Contact: [e-mail]
Investor Relations Contact: Charles Williams
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.kedarites.com

Company description: Is a leading IT Service Management provider
that specializes in management training and consulting. KEDAR offers:

   --  EXIN-accredited ITIL training,
   --  Practice ITIL Foundations exams,
   --  Professional consulting services, and
   --  Moderated ITIL, COBIT and Process Engineering forums.

Our management training courses and workshops include ITIL
Foundation course, IT Service Management Essentials course, IT
Security course, COBIT Essentials course, and ITIL Implementation
workshop and CMMI, ITIL and COBIT Executive workshops.

KEDAR's consulting services have helped companies assess their
readiness and design an implementation roadmap to IT governance and
process improvements using ITIL, CMMI, Six Sigma, and/or address
SOX/COBIT auditor requests.

Company: Managed Objects
Booth/Stand: 601
Media Contact: Frank Strong
Investor Relations Contact: Frank Strong
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.managedobjects.com

Company description: Managed Objects is the Business Service
Management Company. Business Service Management (BSM) aligns IT with
the business by integrating network, system, application, end user,
and business metric information into real-time business service
dashboards. Through Managed Objects' BSM platform, companies
effectively monitor, manage, and report on the services IT delivers to
the business -- services like online trading and e-commerce.
Consistently acknowledged by the analyst community as best in class,
Managed Objects has more BSM implementations in place than any other
company; our customers include Auchan, CSC, Credit Suisse, DISA,
Fidelity, JPMorganChase, NIH, Progress Energy and Reuters.

Company: Performance Management, Inc.
Booth/Stand: 233
Media Contact: Stephen Masko
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.pmi-online.com

Company description: Performance Management, Inc. provides custom
tailored support services for the users of software systems. These
include Custom Tailored Documentation, Training, Implementation
Planning, Change Management, and Help Desk. The PMI Difference is that
we focus on the actual users of the system, and how they use the
system day-to-day to perform their job responsibilities. This focus
helps to increase job satisfaction among employees and increases their
efficiency. If you're interested in maximizing your return on
investment of the implementation of your software systems, contact us
to see how we can help!

Company: Pink Elephant
Booth/Stand: 513
Media Contact: Ann Lamanes
Phone: [phone] ext. 295
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.pinkelephant.com

Company description: Pink Elephant is the world's leading IT
service management conference, education and consulting provider and
is one of the founding members of the IT Service Management Forum
(itSMF). A privately owned organization with operations throughout the
Americas, EMEA and the Asia Pacific region, Pink Elephant works with
an extensive array of clients, both public and private and many listed
in the Fortune 500, to improve the quality of IT services through the
application of established best practices, including the Information
Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).

Show Name: itSMF USA 2005
Company: Protiviti
Booth/Stand: 627
Media Contact: Kevin Donahue
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: www.protiviti.com

Company description: Protiviti is a leading global provider of
business and technology risk consulting services and independent
internal audit services. Protiviti helps clients identify, assess and
manage operational and technology-related risks encountered in their
industries, and assists in the implementation of the processes, best
practices and controls to enable their continued monitoring.

Protiviti approaches IT Service Management by first understanding
your business itself -- how the support environment is used to enable
your business strategy and how IT Service Management deficiencies
impact your business. We perform a comprehensive analysis of the
quality of your service management processes as compared to Protiviti
best practice.

Company: Relicore
Booth/Stand: 618
Media Contact: Marcie Lascher
Investor Relations Contact: Marcie Lascher
Phone: [phone] x258
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.relicore.com

Company description: Relicore delivers automated, real-time
application and server configuration management solutions for large
enterprise IT organizations. Relicore's flagship product, Relicore
Clarity, is an automated discovery, tracking, and dependency mapping
system for distributed application infrastructures that addresses the
fundamental challenges facing IT organizations today -- overwhelming
complexity, constant change and scattered information. It provides
seamless integration with a customer's existing systems management
tools, including IBM Tivoli and HP OpenView. Leading companies such as
Allmerica Financial, Cisco Systems, Hughes Network Systems, JP Morgan
Chase, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Company: SAS Institute
Booth/Stand: Booth #207
Media Contact: Bob Chase
Phone: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.sas.com

Company description: SAS has been an integral tool in performance
and capacity planning for over 20 years, and now SAS IT Management
Solutions take users beyond traditional IT performance management by
enabling them to realize the full potential of each IT resource. SAS
IT Management Solutions encompass IT resource optimization, service
optimization, financial optimization and enterprise performance
optimization. These technologies help to better align IT with the
bottom-line goals of the enterprise, and clearly demonstrate IT's
contributions to the attainment of those goals. Learn more at
www.sas.com.

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