Industry Recognition for Innovation and Leadership

DM Review Innovative Solution Award 2008 (Category: Enterprise Application Integration)
Univé Verzekeringen, a nonprofit cooperative insurance company in the Netherlands, selected AmberPoint's runtime governance solutions to ensure the health of its service-oriented based systems and meet demands of more than 1.3 million customers with over 3.7 million policies. Univé successfully automated 60 percent of the 100,000 health insurance transactions they process annually, delivering enormous savings. DM Review editors felt that this project best exemplified a unique software solution achieving exceptional business value in the Enterprise Application Integration catogery.

AmberPoint Named a Top 100 Software Company
JMP Securities has selected AmberPoint for its Hot 100 report. The report, "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies," profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software research team at JMP Securities, a full-service investment banking firm.

Yphise Ranks AmberPoint #1
Yphise certified AmberPoint SOA Management System as the best software product in comparison with the competition for Service Monitoring and Management (SMM). Yphise certifies that the product has the strengths that represent a valuable investment according to expected benefits by large companies, based on ISO 9001:2000-certified assessment.

SearchSOA.com 2007 Products of the Year
SearchSOA.com embarked on their annual search for the best SOA and Web services products introduced in 2007 to help the public choose the products they should include on their "A" list for evaluation. The process enabled them to present an independent, unbiased list of category leaders in this highly competitive market. AmberPoint SOA Management System Version 6 won the top honors in the "Service Management/Monitoring" category.

InfoWorld 100 2007
The Infoworld 100 annually recognizes IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to enhance business goals. This year, two AmberPoint customers were honored for their innovation and effectiveness with SOA, based on their AmberPoint-managed applications. MedicAlert was honored as a top 10 finalist, while Unive was recognized for its leadership in the insurance field.

InfoWorld Top 25 Chief Technology Officers 2007
AmberPoint CTO and Founder Paul Butterworth was recognized for his contributions to the industry. Each year, InfoWorld honors IT executives who have shown leadership both inside and outside their companies. Nominations are reviewed and winners selected by the InfoWorld executive editorial team.

InfoWorld 100 2006
AmberPoint customer Motorola was honored for its use of AmberPoint's service oriented architecture (SOA) runtime governance software. The InfoWorld 100 annually recognizes IT projects that demonstrate the most creative use of cutting-edge technologies to enhance business goals. To win, projects must demonstrate that they stretch beyond typical, off-the-shelf solutions and use technologies in innovative ways.

Technology Managers Forum Best Practice Award 2006
AmberPoint and Motorola were jointly honored as first-place winners in the Services Oriented Computing category of the Technology Managers Forum 2006 Best Practices Program. The AmberPoint and Motorola partnership was chosen because their work together denotes a standard of excellence and provides a model for the entire industry that can be quantified, adapted and repeated.

Network World Enterprise All-Stars Award 2006
Network World editors selected enterprise IT organizations representing the best, most innovative application of network technologies, choosing from more than 200 nominees. MedicAlert Foundation was selected for its ongoing use of AmberPoint SOA Management System to drive business agility and improve the way it does business.

IT Week Top 100 Vendor 2006
IT Week Magazine recognized AmberPoint’s industry leadership with the Top 100 Vendors of 2006 award. The magazine’s annual list is compiled by the editors from reader feedback and independent research. It recognizes the leading vendors of products and services for IT professionals.

InfoWorld 100 2005
Honors real-world IT projects that use technology in innovative ways to meet business and technical objectives. H&R Block Financial Advisors was commended for its services-based lead-routing system, which uses AmberPoint runtime governance software to ensure operational health and maximize business value.

Network World Enterprise All-Stars Award 2005
Recognizes the exceptional use of network technology to further the business objectives of end-user organizations. H&R Block Financial Advisors was praised for its AmberPoint-managed services-based lead-routing system. "The company surely exemplifies the Enterprise All-Star concept through this SOA management project, especially as it resulted in huge cost-savings as well as increased revenue opportunities," says Beth Schultz, Editor, Network World Signature Series.

Loosely Coupled SOA Management Leader 2005
The industry experts at Loosely Coupled recognized AmberPoint for the leading role we play in delivering runtime governance solutions and our market traction.

Intelligent Enterprise Editor's Choice Award 2005
"If Web services and SOAs are to reach their potential, companies will need to reinvent systems management. AmberPoint has introduced an intelligent approach that's catching on with leading-edge organizations."
    -- David Stodder, Editor-in-Chief, Intelligent Enterprise Magazine

Always On Top 100 Award 2005
AmberPoint was selected for the third year in a row, handpicked by the AlwaysOn editorial team for innovation, market potential, customer adoption and investor value creation.

Computerworld Innovative Technology Award 2004
Recognizes leading-edge technology that provides measurable business value to end-user organizations. To be considered for the awards, vendors had to be nominated by IT end users. Nominees were surveyed regarding their technology innovations. A panel of experts reviewed 270 surveys before selecting 30 winners in 12 categories.

Best Practices in Enterprise Management Award 2004
Honors organizations that have applied exemplary management solutions to provide strategic advantage to their enterprises. Northern Trust was recognized in the Distributed Systems and Infrastructure Implementation category for its use of AmberPoint.

Network World Enterprise Excellence Award 2004
Network World’s User Excellence Award honors organizations using network technology in innovative and effective ways to further corporate goals.

Always On Top 100 Award 2004
AlwaysOn and KPMG identified the 2004 AO100 companies based on their demonstrated leadership and innovation in two key areas: market traction measured by revenue or customer growth and new approaches and technologies that are likely to cause significant change to existing markets and well-established players.

Web Services Journal World Class Product Award 2004
"AmberPoint Express is an easy-to-use, well-designed management and debugging system for Web services that keeps the needs of the developer in mind. Its Web console is thoughtfully designed and intuitive, and the tool is architected in such a way that it may be added to a project at any phase. Overall, this is an excellent utility for Web services developers to have on hand for their projects."

Always On Top 100 Award 2003
AmberPoint was ranked among the 100 most promising private companies by AlwaysOn and KPMG. The list is compiled based on the opinions of VCs, analysts, investment banks and industry leaders polled by KPMG and AlwaysOn.

Red Herring Top Innovators Award 2002
AmberPoint co-founder and CTO, Paul Butterworth, was named one of the "Top Innovators" of 2002. This honor recognizes innovative executives who have made breakthrough contributions to their companies and the information technology industry in general. Red Herring's annual Top Innovators feature honors executives who best represent the pioneering spirit with their ability to transform existing markets and sometimes create entirely new ones.

HotTech Rising Star Award 2002
AmberPoint was among a select group of companies to receive this award in 2002, including Hewlett-Packard, PeopleSoft, Plumtree Software, Google and Salesforce.com. Winners were chosen for their demonstrated ability to identify market requirements, develop leading technologies, secure financing, increase revenues and capture mindshare.