Aldon Drives Efficiencies for Nintendo With Application Lifecycle Management Solutions; Multi-Platform Change Management Software From Aldon to Support Rapid Change, Centralize IT

Business Wire, March 14, 2006

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Aldon, the leading provider of enterprise software configuration and change management solutions, today announced that Nintendo of America Inc., a leader in the creation of interactive entertainment, has selected Aldon Lifecycle Manager to manage the development of mission-critical corporate applications spanning its multi-platform enterprise. With Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Nintendo is expected to achieve greater control over the application development lifecycle, while increasing developer productivity, ensuring regulatory compliance and centralizing its IT organization.

The very nature of Nintendo's dynamic business means the company has numerous development projects going at once with changes to applications occurring regularly. Development cycles need to move fast and efficiently with project teams working from the same system. The company selected Aldon Lifecycle Manager, a comprehensive, flexible application lifecycle management solution that supports multiple platforms, centralizes development teams, and provides the necessary agility to manage rapid change and complexity.

Nintendo will standardize on Aldon Lifecycle Manager, across several key internal corporate applications, creating a unified environment for developers working on multiple applications and multiple platforms. Developers will be able to work in parallel, on different parts of an application or on the same part, supporting rapid, concurrent developer production while detecting and managing conflicting changes. Through Aldon Lifecycle Manager's single point of observation and control, users can also develop, deploy and manage applications using automated development process control along with user role-based views. All of this functionality will quickly translate into increased productivity, streamlined processes, and rapid production times for Nintendo applications.

In addition, through role-based interfaces, engineers, project leads, development managers and senior IT management will be able to get most up-to-date status of a project at any stage of the lifecycle, in a reporting structure that makes the most sense for them. Aldon Lifecycle Manager also provides an inventory of all application configurations and components, so that Nintendo will have a crystal clear view of all of its IT assets, at any given time.

"At Nintendo, we have a complex development environment and pride ourselves on delivering the highest quality of software across the enterprise. We expect the same quality standards of our vendors," said Don Birch, IS Business Manager, Nintendo of America Inc. "Aldon meets our high expectations with its multi-platform solution. This is why we selected Aldon Lifecycle Manager to support some of our most critical corporate applications. We anticipate once Aldon is in place, deployment processes will be smoother, production times faster, resulting in new levels of operational efficiency for the company."

Another key driver for Nintendo selecting Aldon Lifecycle Manager was to ensure the company applies a best-practices approach in the corporate auditing process; involving both the IT and business units of the company. The Aldon solution will provide Nintendo with a structured, repeatable and auditable software development process so that requests and changes to the test groups and business units are tracked at all times and there is a precise documentation of workflow processes across the enterprise.

The Aldon Suite

The Aldon Suite provides IT business process automation, requirements management, software configuration management, multiple version management and software deployment to companies worldwide. Built to address the needs of geographically distributed IT organizations and complex multi-platform environments, the Aldon Suite gives companies a defined, repeatable, measurable and traceable process for every stage of their application development. The integrated suite is comprised of Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager and Aldon Community Manager.

About Aldon

Aldon is the leading provider of enterprise software configuration and change management solutions that provide companies with greater visibility and management of their IT business processes, people and assets. Through a single point of observation and control, Aldon enables IT teams to greatly improve their products' time to market, reduce business disruptions due to defects, and ensure ongoing regulatory compliance and a higher return on investment. More than 1,300 companies, including 70 of the Fortune 100, rely on Aldon solutions. Established in 1979, Aldon is headquartered in Emeryville, California and maintains 14 offices worldwide serving more than 40 countries (www.aldon.com).

About Nintendo

The worldwide leader and innovator in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its popular home and portable video game systems. A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.nintendo.com.