Altiris Releases New Asset Management Solutions for Automated IT Operations; New Altiris® Asset Management Solutions Help Improve IT Governance, Compliance and Asset Visibility

Business Wire, June 13, 2006

SALT LAKE CITY -- Altiris, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATRS), a pioneer of service-oriented management solutions, today announced significant new updates to numerous IT asset management solutions to help drive savings through automated IT operations and improved IT governance, compliance and asset visibility.

The new PeopleSoft(1) Foundation Suite by Altiris and updates to other Altiris IT asset management solutions provide companies with various options to discover, track and manage IT assets to uncover and eliminate hidden costs, address compliance requirements, streamline processes, and achieve greater return on IT investments.

Steve Morton, Altiris VP of product management and marketing, said, "Altiris service and IT asset management solutions simplify the complexity of IT operations management and further distinguish Altiris from the competition. In today's economy, companies are tasked to reduce IT costs while expenditures continue to grow as a percentage of overall capital costs. Altiris solutions help promote good governance, enable license compliance and manage IT costs and quality of service agreements."

According to research authored by Enterprise Management Associates, "Altiris is distinctive in its approach to modeling asset information as an extension of its configuration item models within the CMDB. Asset information is natively modeled within the CMDB, rather than simply accessed from a separate data store, and includes contractual information, leases, warranties, SLAs and SLOs."(2)

The New PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris

The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris provides out-of-box integration with Oracle(1) PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials IT Asset Management Solution. With the PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris, IT organizations can control IT costs for licenses, hardware and service, help ensure compliance with software license agreements and regulations including Sarbanes-Oxley, FISMA, HIPAA, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley, optimize IT asset investments, and align IT help desk and software service resources with industry best practices.

The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris populates the Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management repository with detailed IT asset inventory and usage data through the Altiris Connector for PeopleSoft, which provides one-way transfer of data from the Altiris configuration management database (CMDB).

Oracle PeopleSoft IT Asset Management integrates with Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management & PeopleSoft Enterprise CRM IT Help Desk to automatically reconcile physical and financial IT inventory, redeploy underutilized software, provide service agents with visibility into actual hardware/software configurations and help divisions meet growing compliance requirements.

Updated Altiris Asset Management Solutions

Altiris asset management solutions track IT assets to determine reallocation opportunities, promote accurate purchasing decisions, proactively manage vendor contracts and help deliver full utilization within the enterprise. Altiris provides a breadth and depth of native functionality through a project-based, extensible architecture, enhanced security, and shortcuts to the most common tasks. Updated solutions include:

--Altiris Application Metering Solution(TM) software

--Malware metering for improved security and operations

--Improved notifications of unauthorized software usage attempts

--A consolidated management console increases application data visibility

--Event batching for greater efficiency and scalability

--Altiris Asset Control Solution(TM) software and Altiris Contract Management Solution(TM) software

--Software license contract scoping and trending helps reduce license costs

--Securable reports

--User audit trail

--Many UI enhancements including new auto-fill selector, summary screens and reports, and notification policies

--Rolled-up Altiris TCO Management Solution(TM) functionality

--Altiris Barcode Solution(TM) software now offers support for Windows(1) Mobile 5.0

Licensing and availability

The PeopleSoft Foundation Suite by Altiris is now available and supports Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise IT Asset Management 8.9. Asset Control Solution 6.2 and Contract Management Solution 6.2 are now available. Application Metering Solution will be available in July. Asset Control, Contract Management and Application Metering Solutions are available as components of Altiris Service and Asset Management Suite or as standalone solutions. For more information, please contact your local Altiris sales representative by visiting www.altiris.com/sales.> About Altiris

Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software that enables IT organizations to easily manage, secure and service heterogeneous IT assets. Flexible solutions from Altiris help IT align services to drive business objectives, deliver audit-ready security, automate tasks, and reduce the cost and complexity of management. For more information, visit www.altiris.com.

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