Press Release

AmberPoint Expands Governance and Business Transaction Management Solutions for Use with SAP NetWeaver

Runtime Governance Leader Works with SAP to Bring Significant Benefits to Customers

Las Vegas, NV, September 9, 2008 -- AmberPoint announced today that its industry-leading closed-loop governance and business transaction management capabilities now support the SAP NetWeaver® governance platform. Working with SAP, AmberPoint has introduced product enhancements that improve the agility, reliability and business value of service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications. The result is a governance solution that simplifies SOA by bridging the gap between design-time intentions and the runtime realities of complex, heterogeneous systems. Today’s announcement was made at SAP® TechEd 2008 Las Vegas, SAP’s largest ecosystem education event of the year, where AmberPoint is exhibiting in booth 9.

With solutions from AmberPoint, enterprises implementing services-based applications can better understand system behavior, manage each transaction flowing across composite applications, and implement policies that automate performance management, remedy exceptional conditions and uphold security. Significantly, they can do all this without special coding to the services or message tags. AmberPoint's non-invasive architecture allows SOA systems to evolve and grow without constant recoding to system components.

New SOA Governance and Business Transaction Management Capabilities
AmberPoint has worked closely with SAP, applying their collective expertise to introduce new capabilities for the benefit of customers.

Business Transaction Management: With AmberPoint applications used together with the built-in SOA governance capabilities of SAP NetWeaver, customers have the ability to analyze and manage business transactions end to end across heterogeneous SOA landscapes. Benefits include the following:

• Real-time visibility into and control of orchestrated transactions


• Enables service-level agreements for end-to-end transactions and manages heterogeneous systems to meet those goals


• Identifies and resolves transaction errors, failures and bottlenecks quickly


• Takes action to prevent problems—such as throttling transactions by user segment before agreement violations occur

Closed-Loop Governance: AmberPoint eliminates the gap between design-time intentions and runtime realities by providing integration with SAP’s Services Registry, leading to the following benefits:

• Publishes real-world service metrics to the Services Registry


• Service Scorecard information provides actual performance, availability and transaction throughput results


• Discovers rogue services and brings them into the governance fold

Integrated Security Capabilities: AmberPoint has brought enhanced security to composite SOA applications by integrating with the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) capabilities. Benefits provided include the following:

• Trustworthy transactions for SOA applications spanning multiple security domains


• Policy-based authentication, access control, content filtering, and message security


• Support for federation across networks, corporate divisions, and business partners

Benefits

• Improves the business value of SOA systems by reducing transaction failures and lowering mean time to repair


• Increases system agility by promoting component reuse


• Improves governance efficiency by automating policy provisioning


• Brings greater security to composite applications


• Simplifies SOA by bridging the gap between design-time and runtime

"Left unchecked, SOA applications can quickly introduce complexity issues that can hinder their ability to deliver business value," said Gary Rinedollar, vice president of Business Development, AmberPoint. "Our work with SAP is helping to solve these issues, making SOA easier by automating and streamlining many governance tasks. These latest integrations and product enhancements will ultimately benefit customers."

About AmberPoint
AmberPoint is the runtime SOA governance of choice for commercial organizations, federal agencies and software vendors alike. Utilizing a policy-based approach to manage the health and well-being of SOA applications, AmberPoint's industry-leading software brings real-time visibility and control to services and applications at each stage of the SOA lifecycle. For more information, contact AmberPoint at 510.663.6300 or info@amberpoint.com, or visit www.amberpoint.com for a complimentary developer's edition of AmberPoint software.

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Press Contacts:

Bob Dever
AmberPoint, Inc.
510.433.6553
bdever(at)amberpoint.com