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Voyence Broadens Solution Integration With CA

CA Certifies VoyenceControl NG ca smart™ with Unicenter NSM r11

Richardson, Texas, March 23, 2006 – Voyence, the leading provider of automated network change and configuration management solutions, today announced it has expanded its partnership with CA, one of the world’s largest information technology (IT) management software companies, by tightly integrating VoyenceControl NG with CA’s Unicenter® Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) r11 software.

The certification is part of Voyence’s unique approach to managing the entire network change and configuration management lifecycle including automating the design, change and compliance processes. The VoyenceControl NG integration further enhances Unicenter NSM users’ ability to manage heterogeneous networks by empowering them with rich device change and configuration data integrated within Unicenter NSM’s Management Command Center.

“Integrating VoyenceControl NG with Unicenter NSM r11 provides organizations with greater visibility and understanding of the impact of network changes on business services. Armed with this information, IT management and network administrators may prevent future outages by adjusting configuration standards and change management practices,” said Mary Morgan, Voyence’s senior vice president, Business Development. “With this certification, customers are now aware of successful and unsuccessful changes and network managers are in a position to quickly associate device change events to positive and negative effects on the infrastructure.”

VoyenceControl NG is an automated compliance, change and configuration management solution that delivers industry-recognized best practices, a collaborative network infrastructure design, controlled change processes, network device and service configuration transparency, and helps enable compliance with corporate and regulatory requirements. Unicenter NSM ensures the health, availability and performance of an organization’s infrastructure by continuously assessing and self-managing elements such as systems, network devices, business applications and databases.

“Our two companies’ customers are all seeking to increase IT staff productivity, reduce network operating costs, and ensure compliance with existing and emerging regulatory standards or corporate policies,” said Melvin Estrada, business and product manager for Network and Systems Management Solutions at CA. “The integration of CA Unicenter NSM r11 and VoyenceControl NG extends the capabilities of our Service Availability solution, enabling these customers to keep their heterogeneous networks properly configured and secure – thereby optimizing the availability of service while streamlining technology management across today’s complex service oriented architectures.”

Additional Integration Benefits Include

• Extends visibility and understanding of the impact network device changes have on delivering IT services, enabling increased network availability and reliability of associated services.
• Delivers alerts regarding configuration-related events that could negatively impact the performance or availability of the network.
• Couples network configuration management more tightly within CA’s comprehensive FCAPS (fault, configuration, accounting, performance and security) management architecture to enable customers to streamline the process of identifying and resolving network services issues faster — before business services are affected.

About Voyence
Voyence is the leading provider of configuration and change management solutions that automate critical change, compliance and activation processes. The company’s solution, VoyenceControl NG, helps organizations drive out operational costs, increase availability, improve security, and demonstrate regulatory compliance. VoyenceControl NG is the only configuration and change management solution based on a multi-tiered architecture that can effectively manage tens of thousands of devices across heterogeneous infrastructure. For more information please visit www.voyence.com.

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