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Active Reasoning and SSG Announce Strategic VAR Agreement

Business Wire, Nov 7, 2006

VAR Relationship Extends ServiceCenter for Closed-Loop Change Management

PALO ALTO, Calif. & CLEVELAND -- Active Reasoning, a leading provider of IT Governance Automation solutions, and SSG Consulting, a premier IT infrastructure consultancy, today announced that SSG is now a value-added reseller (VAR) of the Active Reasoning IT Controls Automation platform.

SSG designs and implements large enterprise help desk and asset management systems and is a leading implementer of HP OpenView ServiceCenter (formerly Peregrine ServiceCenter) for change management. Active Reasoning's integration with HP OpenView ServiceCenter automatically identifies unauthorized changes and out-of-compliance actions by comparing detected activities to approved change requests residing in ServiceCenter. Together, Active Reasoning and SSG will deliver closed-loop change management to help Fortune 500 organizations improve their change control processes, report adherence to corporate and IT policies and reduce audit-related costs.

The strategic partnership between Active Reasoning and SSG expands on the two companies' recent successful deployment at a leading healthcare provider where Active Reasoning provided 100% real-time visibility into user change. This gave the healthcare client greater confidence that its change management procedures and processes were being followed and reduced mean time to resolution of system failures by 80%.

Terry Schwab, Active Reasoning Vice President of Business Development, states, "Active Reasoning selected SSG as a VAR based on several successful engagements and honors received by SSG for exceptional service and performance in implementing ServiceCenter solutions. In working with SSG, we know that our valued clients will receive the best possible expertise."

David Rosenblatt, Chief Executive Officer of SSG Consulting, explains the tremendous synergy between ServiceCenter and the Active Reasoning solution, "ServiceCenter incorporates customizable processes for managing requests, incidents, problems, and changes. The Active Reasoning platform integrates with ServiceCenter to validate individual activities against established processes so that our clients can truly measure policy adherence and strengthen their ongoing service management."

About Active Reasoning

With its products installed in 59 countries on six continents, Active Reasoning is a leading provider of IT Governance Automation solutions. The Active Reasoning IT Controls Automation Platform operationalizes standards such as ITIL & COBIT, detecting, validating, and reporting unauthorized changes and out-of-policy actions on the IT infrastructure to help Fortune 500 clients meet SLAs, mitigate operational risk and reduce expenses. This is made possible by the combination of Active Reasoning's Policy Mapping Database[TM], event-based collection of the who, what, when, and where of user actions, and a correlation engine providing real-time policy review and validation. Active Reasoning is backed by top-tier venture partners including ComVentures, ArrowPath Venture Partners, ONSET Ventures, and InterWest Partners. For more information, visit the company's website at www.activereasoning.com.

Active Reasoning is a sponsor of the Gartner 25th Annual Data Center Conference, November 28th through Dec. 1st, at the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. http://www.gartner.com/2_events/conferences/lsc25.jsp

See a brief product demo at http://www.activereasoning.com/solutions/demo.html.> About SSG Consulting

SSG conceives, creates, and operates IT infrastructures to drive its clients' growth in the digital economy. Working with Global 2000 clients, SSG provides advanced IT professional services, facilities management software and services, and telecom managed services. SSG also provides extensive service and support for HP OpenView AssetCenter and HP OpenView ServiceCenter (formally Peregrine Systems' suite of infrastructure management products).

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