AmberPoint Integrates Web Services Management Solutions with Tivoli; Web Services Pioneer Extends Tivoli's Autonomic Computing Capabilities Across Java and .NET Web Services Environments

Business Wire, Dec 9, 2002

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002

AmberPoint(TM), Inc., today announced that it has integrated its pioneering Web services management solutions with Tivoli's leading systems management products. As a result of this integration, organizations will be able to achieve end-to-end management capabilities across their complete IT environments, including Web services-based systems. Because AmberPoint runs natively in both Java- and Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) .NET-based Web services environments, it provides Tivoli the ability to optimally interact with Web services across the leading Web services platforms.

"Web services-based applications add yet another layer of complexity to an IT environment that is already difficult to manage," said Cameron Haight, research director, Gartner. "Users of Web services technologies will likely have to integrate products from multiple management vendors to provide a view of the entire application stack."

IBM (NYSE:IBM) Tivoli software enables IT organizations to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve service levels of their IT infrastructures. Tivoli systems management software helps traditional enterprises and e-businesses worldwide manage security, storage, performance, availability, configuration and operations. It helps customers close the gap between business goals and IT processes through an autonomic computing model. This innovative approach to management helps businesses manage their e-business infrastructures with little or no manual intervention, giving them more resources and time for higher-value IT projects and activities.

The integration of AmberPoint solutions with Tivoli's systems management products will enable IT organizations to achieve holistic, self-management capabilities. AmberPoint optimizes the business value of Web services by performing actions based on the operational health of Web services-based systems and the real-time content and context of their interactions. Its integration with Tivoli fosters self-management throughout IT landscapes comprised of Web services and other IT systems by exchanging real-time data on systems and applications and bi-directionally delegating corrective management tasks to appropriate resources.

Benefits of the AmberPoint Integration with Tivoli

-- Holistic systems management: Integrated with Tivoli, AmberPoint delivers real-time information on Web services systems, data previously unavailable to traditional network and systems management solutions.

-- Autonomic computing across Web services: AmberPoint monitors and manages Web services-based systems, taking immediate, corrective actions based on the current state of the system and real-time Web services interactions. Integrated with Tivoli, AmberPoint extends greater self-managed computing capabilities to distributed, heterogeneous Web services systems.

-- Greater business insight: In addition to monitoring system-level information, AmberPoint enables organizations to monitor the business content of their Web services interactions to understand up-to-the-minute status. AmberPoint can now deliver this information to Tivoli management consoles, enabling organizations to optimize their IT systems by business priority. For example, IT staff can see the total value of orders processed through each Web service in order to allocate resources accordingly.

-- Setting and managing service levels: AmberPoint delivers the metrics on performance and availability that organizations need in order to run business-critical applications on Web services. By exchanging critical system information and management tasks with Tivoli, AmberPoint enables organizations to better align their IT systems with their business objectives.

-- Optimized for Java and .NET: Because AmberPoint is optimized for both Java- and .NET-based Web services environments, the integration extends high-performance management capabilities to Web services built on either leading platform.

"The rapid adoption of Web services brings new challenges for managing diverse enterprise computing systems," said Paul Butterworth, chief technology officer for AmberPoint. "Our integration with Tivoli significantly reduces the management burden for large organizations making the move to Web services by delivering end-to-end autonomic capabilities across Web services environments spanning department and enterprise boundaries."

About AmberPoint

AmberPoint, Inc., a pioneer in Web services management, offers the most comprehensive solutions for making Web services production-ready, business-ready and easily manageable. With its modular, architecture-independent design, AmberPoint radically simplifies the management and evolution of business solutions built on Web services. AmberPoint's Customer Experience Group delivers services to ensure successful deployment and use of all AmberPoint software. Founded in 2001, AmberPoint is privately held with venture backing from Crosslink Capital, Norwest Venture Partners and Sutter Hill Ventures. AmberPoint corporate headquarters are located in Oakland, California. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510-663-6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit the company website at www.amberpoint.com.