The Choice of Industry Experts

When it comes to visibility, control and validation for SOA, the critics agree. Industry analysts favor AmberPoint for any number of reasons. This helps to explain why AmberPoint has more customers than all our competitors combined.

On AmberPoint SOA Management System:
"The solution has a broad and deep visibility into SOA implementations, a strong architecture for policy management and the strongest market presence of the vendors that we evaluated." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (AmberPoint's Market Presence Leads the Standalone SOA Management Market, Q4 2007)
"The AmberPoint product is the leader in this space for a reason. It's a really high-quality product." ~ Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group (as quoted in InfoWorld)
"Yphise certifies AmberPoint SOA Management System as the best ranked software product in comparison with the competition for Service Monitoring and Management (SMM), based on ISO 9001:2000-certified assessment. The product has the strengths required by large companies and represents a sound investment." ~ Yphise Assessment of AmberPoint SMS (March 2008)
"AmberPoint SOA Management System provides a broad, integrated solution for service-oriented architecture (SOA) management that can either operate as a standalone or integrate with other SOA and enterprise IT management infrastructures." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: SOA and Web Services Management, Q1 2006)
"The SOA Management System provides all five of the core functionalities required of a WSM solution—management, monitoring, policy administration, policy enforcement, and business activity monitoring." ~ Burton Group Product Profile (June 2006)
On AmberPoint's Policy-Based Approach:
"AmberPoint's architecture for policy management leads the market." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: Standalone SOA and Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007)
"The Amberpoint solution demonstrates strengths in controlling the SOA-based processes through policies. It includes advanced tools for customizing the deployment of policies. Amberpoint SMS also provides various options for deploying the Policies Enforcement Points (PEPs) in the information system. This facilitates the management of heterogeneous and highly distributed services." ~ Yphise Assessment of AmberPoint SMS (March 2008)
"AmberPoint has the most mature architecture for policy management, especially in its extensibility of policy specification and its ability to deploy policy to other vendor products." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: Standalone SOA and Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007)
"What makes SOA work is policy-driven management and control. AmberPoint totally delivered on that." ~ Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group (as quoted in eWeek)
"Butler Group has long held the view that policy (in the declarative or programmatic sense) is the key to SOA management and AmberPoint has implemented this in a strong and flexible solution." ~ Butler Group Technology Audit (August 2006)
On AmberPoint SOA Validation System:
"The SOA Validation System provides important adjunct functionality and better positions AmberPoint for future success." ~ Burton Group Product Profile (June 2006)
On the AmberPoint Architecture:
"AmberPoint’s architecture for policy management will ease the implementation of complex technical and business-oriented policies for your service operations. The architecture is strong enough that TIBCO Software OEMs it as a critical part of Active Matrix, which is TIBCO’s strategic new product direction for SOA platforms." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (AmberPoint's Market Presence Leads the Standalone SOA Management Market, Q4 2007)
"Not only is this an architecturally elegant solution, it is one that is easy to implement (even post service deployment) and works." ~ Butler Group Technology Audit (August 2006)
"The SOA Management System is AmberPoint’s core offering in the service-oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance arena and is one of the most complete solutions available. It is definitely the best architected." ~ Burton Group Product Profile (June 2006)
"AmberPoint has developed a solid architecture that is well-positioned to respond flexibly and with agility to the continually evolving SOA space." ~ Enterprise Management Associates Report (May 2006)
On AmberPoint’s Capabilities:
"AmberPoint’s solution has the breadth and depth to be the center of an SOA management environment. Its depth of visibility into service implementations enables quick problem isolation, and its full set of features in one package lends itself to faster implementation." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (AmberPoint's Market Presence Leads the Standalone SOA Management Market, Q4 2007)
"the AmberPoint systems represent best-in-class offerings that deserve a place in any evaluation of WSM products." ~ Burton Group Product Profile (June 2006)
"Other distinguishing features include powerful service level management capabilities, heavy-duty exception handling ability, and record/replay of messages for testing service modifications." ~ Enterprise Management Associates Report (May 2006)
"...a clean, unified package for addressing a wide range of SOA management issues." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: SOA and Web Services Management, Q1 2006)
On AmberPoint's Management Capabilities:
"There are many management systems in the SOA space that control the design aspect of services deployed, and many of these are effective, but there are few that carry out the level of management available with AmberPoint SOA Management System at runtime." ~ Butler Group Technology Audit (August 2006)
"AmberPoint addresses all the primary requirements of WSM with its powerful and comprehensive offering." ~ Burton Group Product Profile (June 2006)
"Amberpoint SOA Management System has the best coverage in "Monitoring the SOA". It also ranks high in "Measuring the availability of the SOA". The solution provides out-of-the box dashboards dedicated to performance management and exception management. It includes many options for customization. With a client-side agent (CSA), Amberpoint SMS can analyze the performance of a transaction from the end-user perspective." ~ Yphise Assessment of AmberPoint SMS (March 2008)
On AmberPoint’s Non-Invasive Approach:
"It is a completely non-invasive approach to management with complete platform agnosticism and with no elements of a proprietary nature, which makes it ideal for the heterogeneous environments across which a SOA operates." ~ Butler Group Technology Audit (August 2006)
On AmberPoint’s Satisfied Customers:
"Forrester talked with two customer references for AmberPoint: a large financial firm and a healthcare firm. Both reported high product quality and very good support. The healthcare firm reported that its initial, basic implementation of AmberPoint took two weeks, and it has been able to refine and expand its use of the product in an evolutionary fashion since then. The financial firm noted that AmberPoint’s open interfaces make it easy to envision ways to integrate it into the rest of the firm's application and management infrastructure." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: SOA and Web Services Management, Q1 2006)
On AmberPoint’s Fit for Heterogeneous Environments:
"Unlike many other management systems, implementation does not force any dependencies between service entities or between service entities and their environments, which makes it ideal for heterogeneous environments (as typically exist within all organizations). The notion of environmental dependencies is one that is too often ignored (either wittingly or unwittingly) by SOA vendors. AmberPoint has not ignored the problem, just implemented a solution." ~ Butler Group Technology Audit (August 2006)
On AmberPoint’s Product Strategy:
"AmberPoint has a deep vision for how SOA management needs to have visibility across both service interfaces and service implementations, including non-SOAP/HTTP protocols." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: SOA and Web Services Management, Q1 2006)
On AmberPoint's Partnerships:
"Although AmberPoint is a small vendor, it has developed strong OEM and reseller ties with multiple major IT vendors, as well as marketing partnerships, that give it deep roots in the market and several channels for increasing its revenue and market presence." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (AmberPoint's Market Presence Leads the Standalone SOA Management Market, Q4 2007)
"Custom integration between AmberPoint and NetWeaver will ensure a turnkey SOA management solution for the SAP environment that seamlessly integrates with other SOA environments. I see no downside to this partnership for AmberPoint, SAP, or their respective customers." ~ Anne Thomas Manes, Vice President and Research Director, Burton Group
"AmberPoint has the most channels to market and the best policy management engine." ~ Randy Heffner, Research Vice President, Forrester Research (The Forrester Wave: Standalone SOA and Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007)
On AmberPoint’s Status in the Market:
"One of the most respected names in the SOA marketplace." ~ Enterprise Management Associates Report (May 2006)
"(AmberPoint) has an accomplished product and an impressive blue-chip customer list. It’s also the only SOA management vendor to offer native versions of all its products for both J2EE and .NET platforms." ~ Loosely Coupled