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WILY PROVIDES APP PERFORMANCE MGMT FOR LOTUS WORKPLACE

Wily Technology, a leader in enterprise application management, announced that the company is further extending its support of IBM's On-Demand strategy by providing performance management support for IBM Lotus Workplace. Wily offers the only suite of solutions in the marketplace that addresses the critical need for comprehensive performance management across the entire IBM WebSphere application infrastructure, which links people, process and technology.

Lotus Workplace is a collaboration and human interaction solution that uses a single, open J2EE-based platform to successfully provide unified and simplified access to people, applications and business processes. Wily Portal Manager for IBM WebSphere Portal provides out-of-the-box performance management capabilities for IBM Lotus Workplace and will help IBM customers ease migration by allowing them to better ensure that their Lotus Workplace implementations are successfully meeting business and performance goals.

Wily Portal Manager monitors the performance and availability of the Workplace infrastructure -- including critical connections to back-end systems such as databases and transaction servers -- in production environments. It allows IT teams to quickly address performance issues as they occur, and proactively eliminate potential problems that could impact key business processes, employees, customers and trading partners. By providing a complete, integrated view of application infrastructure performance data, Wily Portal Manager plays a vital role in customers' ability to drive productivity, innovation and differentiation within the enterprise.

"Wily and IBM are working closely together to ensure a seamless transition for our joint customers who take advantage of the many benefits offered by Lotus Workplace," said Vic Nyman, senior vice president of products and strategy at Wily Technology. "This a natural extension of our existing strategy to help customers maximize their productivity while leveraging IBM's standards-based technologies. As the leading provider of J2EE application management solutions for production systems, Wily is uniquely positioned to help IBM Lotus Workplace customers drive business success through the streamlining of complex business processes."

In addition to its support of Lotus Workplace, Wily also provides market-leading performance management solutions for composite applications deployed on WebSphere Application Server, including products for managing portals and integration middleware. These are all part of Wily 5, the industry's first comprehensive performance management solution for Application Platform Suites. Used by enterprises worldwide to keep their mission-critical production systems up and running, Wily 5 is proven, mature and enterprise-ready. Its flexibility and scalability allow it to meet the needs of any unique enterprise application environment. Wily 5 facilitates inter-departmental collaboration by bridging the functional silos in customer organizations. It allows business units and IT teams to share critical information about the performance of enterprise applications and better assess their impact on the business.