AmberPoint Announces Sales Growth of More Than 40 Percent for the First Half of Its Year

Application Management Leader Achieves Impressive Sales Results over Last Year
OAKLAND, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
AmberPoint today announced strong financial performance for the first half of
its fiscal year, a period in which the company significantly broadened its
customer base and continually enhanced its industry-leading management
solutions. In the six months ended September 30, 2009, AmberPoint increased its
sales by 44 percent over the same period in the prior year. The company grew its
twelve month trailing performance by 22 percent.

"Last year was challenging for software companies and the market as a whole, so
we`re encouraged by our ability to secure new customers and to grow the size and
scope of the follow-on business from our installed base," said John Hubinger,
AmberPoint CEO. "We`ve seen enterprises continue to fund strategic IT projects,
and our solution plays an important role in those projects. Our strong
sequential results and our pipeline growth position us well for ongoing
success."

Organizations implement distributed applications to reduce costs and increase
the agility of their information systems. However, to realize the full benefits
of these complex, heterogeneous systems, they must address performance,
reliability, transaction visibility and security issues. These problems are more
challenging with composite applications. More organizations choose AmberPoint
Management System to meet these requirements than any other solution on the
market.

AmberPoint has shown consistent growth. In August, the company announced a 40%
year-over-year increase in its installed base. AmberPoint attributes its ongoing
success to several factors:

* Broad market interest in application performance management capabilities that
span application flows.
* Organizations are increasingly recognizing the value that end-to-end
transaction management brings to their distributed applications.
* After their initial success with composite applications, AmberPoint customers
typically grow their systems significantly, resulting in strong follow-on sales.

* The company has continually added important new capabilities to its products,
and has grown its market opportunities by extending the realm of application
components and infrastructure it manages.

In related news, AmberPoint also announced today that its management software
now instruments business process managers (see "AmberPoint Brings Application
Management Capabilities to Business Process Managers") as well as comprehensive
management for the Oracle platform (see "AmberPoint Announces the Industry`s
Most Comprehensive Application Management for Oracle").

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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