Bradmark Announces OEM Agreement with Expand Beyond; Partnership Brings Mobile Control to NORAD Data Management

Business Wire, Sept 19, 2002

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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 19, 2002

Bradmark Technologies Inc., an established provider of data management solutions, today announced an OEM agreement with Expand Beyond, the worldwide leader in mobile software for enterprise management. The agreement marks the launch of NORAD mobile solutions, powered by Expand Beyond.

By partnering with Expand Beyond, Bradmark has added powerful mobile functionality to its flagship NORAD(TM) solutions. Mobile functionality ensures that IT professionals have secure access to their business-critical systems from wireless handheld computers, even when they are hours or miles away from the nearest Internet or desktop connection.

"With NORAD mobile solutions, Bradmark is the first company in our industry to offer true wireless functionality for a complete line of software products," stated Brad Tashenberg, chairman and chief executive officer of Bradmark Technologies. "By integrating Expand Beyond mobile software with NORAD, our customers can respond to both routine and critical notifications on-the-spot, offering unprecedented control over enterprise applications, databases and operating systems. With this partnership, we have added a new dimension to the concept of Service-Level Management."

Bradmark's NORAD software monitors and manages databases, applications and operating systems, providing IT departments with real-time feedback and optional automatic corrective action of problematic events to ensure maximum performance, availability and reliability. The new mobile functionality from Expand Beyond extends NORAD beyond the confines of the office, providing 24x7 anytime-anywhere administration of critical resources and applications. Upon receiving NORAD notification of pending failures or issues via e-mail or paging, IT professionals can launch Expand Beyond mobile software on their handheld device to check the status of the system and make changes in real-time to fix the issues. When IT professionals return to the office, they can utilize NORAD for further diagnosis, repair and troubleshooting.

"In the 1990s CTOs insisted that software vendors factor the Internet into their solutions," said Delana A. Sandy, president at DBA Zone Inc., a worldwide distributor for both companies. "Now, senior management asks about the mobile Internet, so their IT administrators can get the latest information delivered to hand-helds, and then use mobile software to take both proactive and corrective action. Bradmark and Expand Beyond are critical to our success in providing anytime-anywhere enterprise management services to our customers."

NORAD mobile software will be offered directly through Bradmark, as well as through participating Bradmark subsidiaries, distributors and channel partners worldwide. Pricing information can be obtained through the Bradmark sales office in Houston.

About NORAD(TM), PocketDBA(TM)and PocketAdmin(TM)

NORAD integrated data management software increases the availability and performance of enterprise applications, databases and operating systems in a distributed computing environment. With NORAD, users can monitor and manage operating systems and Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

PocketDBA mobile software from Expand Beyond gives database administrators an intuitive menu-driven navigation along with command line capability that quickly and easily allows them to perform any database-related task or query from a wireless handheld device. PocketAdmin mobile software from Expand Beyond provides network and system administrators full SSH terminal capability and cursor control from wireless handheld devices. Using a secure shell to a VT-100 compliant Unix, Windows, firewall or router command line, the administrator can execute literally any server command.

About Bradmark Technologies Inc.

Founded in 1981, Bradmark Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of database management tools for Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft SQL Server and Hewlett-Packard Image databases. Through innovative architectures, such as NORAD, customers receive easy-to-install, highly reliable and flexible products, which increase performance and database availability. Bradmark customers include more than 200 of the Fortune Global 500 and hold more than 10,000 licenses worldwide. Headquartered in Houston, Bradmark has offices in San Jose, Calif., Seattle, Birmingham, United Kingdom and Munich, Germany. For additional information see http://www.bradmark.com.

About Expand Beyond Corporation

Expand Beyond Corporation is the worldwide leader in mobile software for enterprise management. With Expand Beyond mobile software, organizations can control business-critical databases, networks and systems from a wireless device. By taking mobile control of the infrastructure, organizations can improve system availability, increase productivity and lower costs. Expand Beyond customers span five continents and include Fortune 1000, government and education institutions. Expand Beyond is headquartered in Chicago with EMEA operations based in Paris. For more information, please visit www.XB.com