Orchestria and IBM Software Work Together to Provide New Approach to Messaging Governance; Orchestria Integration with IBM E-Mail Archiving Software Helps Customers Better Enforce Compliance in Electronic Communication

Business Wire, August 8, 2006

NEW YORK -- Orchestria Corporation, a global leader in software that helps organizations assure that their employees comply with critical regulatory and company policies associated with electronic communication, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have announced Orchestria's software now interoperates with IBM Content Manager and CommonStore for Messaging.

Together, the software provides a new approach for organizations that are concerned about messaging governance. This includes help in the prevention of corporate and regulatory policy violations, identification of non-compliant messages and the capability of intelligent review and more effective supervision of Web mail, corporate e-mail and instant messages.

Orchestria's Active Policy Management approach enables policies to be accurately enforced instantly as the user presses the send button, by applying corporate and regulatory policies across all key electronic communication channels including e-mail, instant messages, Web mail and blogs.

IBM CommonStore for Messaging provides e-mail archiving and retrieval of e-mail and attachments for any Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange database or server platform. It helps improve e-mail system performance, provides virtually unlimited user mailbox space and helps reduce the size of e-mail databases to reduce storage costs. This integration between IBM and Orchestria software helps assure good messaging governance across all electronic communication from creation or receipt of a message, through to archiving.

The combined Orchestria and IBM software together can help customers:

--Solve the "smoking gun" problem by helping eliminate communication violations from occurring;

--Enable targeted review by removing irrelevant messages from the review queue;

--Enable self-governance by providing rich interaction with the user ranging from block, warn, or quarantine to continue current operation, depending upon the severity of the violation;

--Capture and pass rich event data, such as when a policy-violating event occurred, which policy was violated and by whom; and

--Analyze messages sent and received by both internal and external recipients.

"Significantly increased data volumes will inevitably require more sophisticated, increasingly automated message review solutions in order to accurately identify potential policy infractions," explained Brian Babineau, an analyst with leading industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group. "Through its partnership with Orchestria, IBM can now provide its customers with an integrated message management solution that will ensure comprehensive governance from policy enforcement through to archiving. This provides IBM customers with greater control over the vast amounts of e-mail that businesses create on a daily basis."

"Messaging governance concerns every organization," said Bo Manning, chief executive officer, Orchestria. "By working with IBM we are expanding the reach of our award-winning solution, thereby driving innovation and accessing the global deployment capabilities offered by IBM's consulting and services teams."

About Orchestria

www.orchestria.com

Orchestria helps companies to manage their electronic communication to enforce regulatory compliance, defend intellectual property, adhere to critical financial and legal controls, and ensure appropriate employee behavior. Channels covered include e-mail, instant messaging, Web mail, blogs, and handheld devices such as BlackBerry(R) and Treo(TM). Orchestria's technology is also embedded in the Bloomberg Professional(R) service and fully integrated with most major archive solutions.

The company's approach has been adopted by more than 25 of the world's largest and most sophisticated corporations across a variety of industries. With new customers/industries joining each quarter, Orchestria customers include companies such as Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch.

Orchestria's Active Policy Management platform accurately applies standard and company specific policies to enable Real-time Prevention (stopping non-compliant messages before they are sent), Intelligent Review (focusing post send review efforts on high risk messages), and Smart Tagging (tagging messages with meta data for storage and retrieval optimization). Orchestria covers all key messaging channels, including e-mail, IM, Web mail, and blogs.

Orchestria is headquartered in New York with additional sales offices in Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Los Angeles and London.