Proxima Technology Appoints Mark Ehr as Director of Product Marketing; Industry Research Analyst Joins Proxima Technology

Business Wire, Feb 7, 2005

DENVER -- Proxima Technology, a provider of software solutions that help organizations understand and improve the business value of IT, today announced that Mark Ehr, former research analyst at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), has joined the company as Director of Product Marketing. In this role, Ehr will be responsible for overseeing the product marketing function.

Ehr brings 24 years of experience in technology and marketing to Proxima Technology. Most recently, Ehr served as Research Director at EMA, the first technology analyst firm to specialize exclusively in management software and services. Prior to his work at EMA, Ehr built a multi-million dollar middleware and systems management consulting business while at Polarsoft. Ehr also held senior engineering and IT management positions at Aprisma, Siebel and Sybase for nearly 10 years.

"It is clear that Proxima Technology is one of the leading BSM vendors in the market," said Ehr. "I have been involved with Proxima Technology for over five years and have always been impressed with their BSM and SLM solutions as well as their innovation. With a fast growing client reference base, Proxima Technology continues to have more blue chip BSM references than other vendors. I am looking forward to working with their marketing and executive teams to drive our growth in this space."

"Mark brings considerable market knowledge and technology experience to Proxima Technology," Said Steve Jones, CEO, Proxima Technology. "We welcome Mark to our team and look forward to having him contribute to an exciting future."

About Proxima Technology

Proxima Technology provides software solutions that help organizations understand and improve the business value of IT. Centauri Business Service Manager(TM) achieves alignment between IT and the business, optimizes critical IT services to reduce costs, improves business efficiency and prioritizes management of resources.

Proxima Technology is headquartered in Denver, CO, with sales offices across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Proxima Technology has a client list that includes many household names in the corporate world: T-Mobile (UK), Mutual of Omaha, Qualcomm, Abbey, Capgemini, Carlson Companies, National City Corporation among others. Proxima also works closely with IT service providers such as EDS (NYSE:EDS). For more information about Proxima Technology, please visit: www.proxima-tech.com.

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