New EMA White Paper Highlights Voyence's Unique Lifecycle Approach to Change and Configuration Management

Business Wire, March 9, 2006

RICHARDSON, Texas -- Voyence, a pioneer in automated change and configuration management solutions, today announced the availability of Enterprise Management Associates' (EMA) white paper entitled, "How Voyence's Lifecycle Approach to Infrastructure Change Management Can Support ITIL Best Practices." Available on the Web at www.voyence.com/ema, the informative paper details the industry's growing awareness of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the need for best practices to support superior network service quality, accountability and cost effective operation.

In the white paper, EMA calls VoyenceControl NG's unique Hybrid Management Architecture(TM) "outstanding" in its ability to automate the entire configuration management lifecycle -- while supporting ITIL best practices.

"VoyenceControl NG has demonstrated robust scalability in exceedingly large and complex environments, and shown strong ROI advantages down to mid-tier level buyers as well," said Dennis Drogseth, vice president, EMA.

Additional VoyenceControl NG features called out in the paper include:

--Effective inventory and discovery capability for network device configuration detail;

--Ability to generate compliance-related audits and reports based on matching existing configurations to establish policies;

--Automated capabilities for managing access control, based on role and security parameters;

--Design Workspace for pre-deployment assessments of configuration changes and updates; and

--Zero Touch Install to automatically discover and confirm a new device's firmware and OS level, while running diagnostics to ensure proper operation.

About Voyence

Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company's solution, VoyenceControl NG, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl NG is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.