OpenSpan Announces Availability of Profile Report from Leading Analyst Firm

Business Wire, Feb 4, 2008

Report Asserts that OpenSpan's Unique Approach to Developing Composite Applications and Process Automation is "Delivering Impressive Results"

ATLANTA -- OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced the availability of the IDC report: "OpenSpan's Approach to Mashing Up Applications Delivers Rapid Results," Doc # 209547, November 2007. The report, authored by IDC Analyst Maureen Fleming, concludes that OpenSpan is a viable choice for companies seeking to integrate, extend, build and automate applications and processes for improved productivity across the enterprise.

"OpenSpan's unique approach to process automation makes it a vendor that should be considered for application integration and process automation projects that involve the need to improve productivity and quality for groups of users who work on repetitive, process-oriented tasks requiring the frequent use of multiple applications," writes IDC. "Beyond contact centers, this product can be used to address a variety of areas, including sales and structured decision making, lending, underwriting and claims evaluations."

The IDC OpenSpan profile is part of a series of studies that examine the choices customers make when integrating their applications. The report evaluates the company's flagship product, the OpenSpan Platform, and includes detailed customer case studies of Afni, a leading provider of customer interaction, call center, credit and collections services, as well as Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, a leading provider of property valuations and home inspections for lending institutions and consumers.

"The OpenSpan Platform is helping a growing number of companies across a wide range of industries realize near immediate ROI on integration projects of all sizes," said Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. "We're very pleased to see leading analyst firms, such as IDC, report on the benefits of our unique approach to application integration and the impact it is having on our customers' businesses."

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry's only software platform that transcends traditional server and user interface integration technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the integration process across both legacy and modern application platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build business process automations that span multiple environments, including desktop applications.

To download the entire IDC report, please visit www.openspan.com.

About OpenSpan, Inc.

Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company's unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC[R]) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors' Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.