AmberPoint Brings Comprehensive Application Management to Business Process Managers

End-to-End Visibility into Application Flows through Leading Process Management
Infrastructure, including Oracle BPEL Process Manager, Oracle WebLogic
Integration, Microsoft BizTalk Server and TIBCO BusinessWorks
OAKLAND, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
AmberPoint today announced that its industry-leading application management
solutions now instrument composite applications built on business process
engines. As a result, organizations have more complete visibility into their
end-to-end application flows and are able to manage a broader set of components
and infrastructure participating in their applications.

Until now, organizations have paid a high price for their lack of visibility
into business process managers. Stalled processes, errors and exceptions can
have a direct, immediate and negative impact on a company`s bottom line.
However, with AmberPoint, process managers are no longer black boxes. AmberPoint
customers can see every hop across their distributed applications, including
every flow inside their process managers.

AmberPoint`s initial list of supported process managers includes Oracle BPEL
Process Manager, Oracle WebLogic Integration, Microsoft BizTalk Server and TIBCO
BusinessWorks. Additionally, AmberPoint can instrument, on demand, other process
managers using its Transaction Visibility Toolkit.

AmberPoint is optimized for specific business process managers. For example, it
provides deep visibility into BPEL process flows in Oracle BPEL Process Manager,
including individual process flows and a wide variety of interactions - such as
those with databases, files, manual workflows, JMS, EJB, email and Web services.

AmberPoint Advantages

* Real-Time: Unlike other solutions, AmberPoint gives organizations real-time
visibility into business process performance and service level agreements. It
delivers proactive notifications on stalled transactions and alerts users about
exceptions and errors.
* Cross Process: AmberPoint is unique in its ability to provide real-time
insight into either individual processes or multiple connected processes of any
type.
* Flexible: AmberPoint works across a wide variety of processes, including those
using either synchronous or asynchronous activities and those leveraging
different protocols.
* End to End: By combining its instrumentation of business process managers with
its coverage of application components and infrastructure, AmberPoint gives
organizations unparalleled views of their distributed application environments,
end to end.
* Non-Invasive: AmberPoint monitors process-centric applications without
modifying messages or process definitions. As a result, organizations are
confidently able to use AmberPoint to manage existing applications and processes
without risk of breaking existing production environments.

"Organizations have long sought end-to-end visibility into their enterprise
applications, but were previously handcuffed by their inability to instrument
process managers," said Dhruv Gupta, vice president of product marketing at
AmberPoint. "So there were black-outs in the process flows, where transaction
failures and application performance issues could go undetected. By adding the
leading process managers to the list of AmberPoint-supported infrastructure,
we`ve significantly improved the reach of the operations teams responsible for
these complex applications."

Benefits:

* Ensures performance and responsiveness end to end across all application
components
* Minimizes transaction fallout, which can directly impact revenue
* Improves awareness of deployed applications, integration points and
performance characteristics, resulting from end-to-end visibility across
application flows
* Improves compliance by ensuring more consistent policy enforcement across
application components
* Raises IT efficiencies by delivering centralized management of a more complete
set of application components and infrastructure
* Reduces operations overhead through greater system uptime and lower mean time
to repair

In related news, AmberPoint also announced today comprehensive management for
the Oracle platform (see "AmberPoint Announces the Industry`s Most Comprehensive
Application Management for Oracle") and strong sales growth (see "AmberPoint
Announces Sales Growth of More than 40 Percent in the First Half of Its Year").

See AmberPoint at Oracle OpenWorld

AmberPoint will demonstrate its comprehensive management for applications built
using Oracle infrastructure at the upcoming Oracle OpenWorld 2009 conference in
San Francisco, October 12-14, AmberPoint will be in booth #3842 in Moscone West,
next to the Oracle Fusion demo area.

About AmberPoint

AmberPoint provides the world's most widely distributed and implemented
solutions for governing and managing composite applications. Utilizing a
policy-based approach to manage the health and well-being of distributed
applications, AmberPoint enables its enterprise customers to better understand
system behavior, manage each transaction flowing across their environments, and
implement policies that automate performance management, remedy exceptional
conditions and uphold security. For more information, contact AmberPoint at
510.663.6300 or apinfo@amberpoint.com.

Staples Communications
Andrew Staples, 650-269-3126
Andrew@staplescommunications.com
or
AmberPoint, Inc.
Bob Dever, 510-433-6553
bdever@amberpoint.com

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