07/09/2003

07/09/03--AmberPoint, Inc. has signed several new customers for its Web services management solutions, including Microsoft, Bouygues Telecom, AgentWare and Reuters. AmberPoint says it "continues to add large organizations to its growing customer base," which it says extends its "position as the dominant vendor in the Web services management market."

The company also announced that British Telecommunications has selected AmberPoint to bring enterprise-grade management capabilities to both its internal Web service systems and the services it offers.

"After a long evaluation of various Web services management solutions, BT has chosen AmberPoint as an integral part of our Web services offering to customers," said Peter Gandy, head of Web Services for BT Global Services. "We have been deploying Web services for some time and believe that a solid management foundation that provides active management, monitoring and security is vital for enterprise Web services. AmberPoint integrates easily into diverse Web services environments, helping to shorten implementation cycles."

AmberPoint says the new signings increase its "already significant industry lead in the number of software licenses, paid customers, customers in production and referenceable customers."

According to the vendor, "AmberPoint solutions offer a uniquely non-invasive approach for managing distributed, heterogeneous Web services systems. AmberPoint integrates into any Web services environment, quickly delivering comprehensive management, monitoring and security capabilities without requiring additional coding to the Web services themselves. AmberPoint is the only software vendor with management solutions that run natively in both .NET and Java, enabling its software products to fully leverage the advantages of both prevailing Web services platforms."

In addition to adding new customers to its industry-leading portfolio of premier customers, AmberPoint also completed follow-on sales to existing customers, including a large agency of the U.S. government, a large telecommunications company and a large manufacturing conglomerate.

"Organizations that are serious about Web services are uncovering a number of management challenges that they must overcome before taking those new systems into production," said John Hubinger, president and CEO of AmberPoint. "Our momentum in the industry grows steadily as we continue to release products that meet the rising demand for Web services management. This latest round of customer wins further validates the market need for Web services management and our ability to meet those requirements."