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New Voyence Reporting Suite Enables IT Managers To Demonstrate Network Compliance With Government Regulatory Requirements (Sarbanes-Oxley/HIPAA)

VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager Enables ITIL Compliance

Richardson, Texas, April 10, 2006 – Voyence, a technology visionary in automating network change and configuration management, today unveiled VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager, a new reporting suite that provides visibility into whether critical network resources are configured in compliance with government regulatory requirements (SOX, HIPAA, PCI, NSA), internal standards, as well as industry best practices for change management such as ITIL® (the IT Infrastructure Library) — the most widely accepted approach to IT service management in the world.

“Voyence's new reporting offering provides a more comprehensive approach to detailing and tracking network compliance management issues, which will have particular value in the compliance-sensitive business over traditional, device centric data reports,” said Scott Crawford, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates. “VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager's benefits will scale from assisting executives with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 302 sign-off requirements, to enabling IT managers with the ability for tracking approved or non-approved device changes — initiated locally or remotely.”

The new reporting suite provides real-time visibility and customized, role-based views of information that are critical to the entire organization: the network engineer, network manager, change manager, IT director and the CIO. The easy-to-understand reports help organizations quickly uncover potential network misconfiguration issues and clearly demonstrate policy adherence to internal and external audit committees.

Unlike competitive solutions, only VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager, coupled with VoyenceControl NG change management and approval workflow capabilities, deliver the network change management process adherence reports critical to any compliance initiative.

VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager
The new Compliance Report Manager contains four integrated families of reports: Executive-Level View, Compliance Management, Change Management and Inventory Management. Each family contains additional sets of individual reports that convey a full understanding of the network's compliance-ready status.

Executive Level View - Offers a high level of visibility and understanding, regarding the network’s compliance status as well as all critical change initiatives and policies followed — or not followed. Individual reports in the Executive Level View are: Dashboard, Scorecard, Change and Inventory.

Compliance Reporting - Provides critical information organizations must have to assess regulatory and non-regulatory (corporate) compliance mandates. Individual reports in the Compliance family are: Compliance Scorecards, Compliance Audit reports as well as standard and policy adherence reports.

Change Management Reporting - Offers in-depth views into whether or not defined change and configuration management processes are working and being adhered to by IT personnel. Organizations can quickly understand, who, what, where and when changes are made as well as whether those changes are approved or not approved. Individual reports in the Change Management family are: Change Management Scorecards, Change Audit reports, User Changes and Change Detail reports.

Inventory Reporting - Comprehensive views organize VoyenceControl NG's rich network device knowledge into reports that enable organizations to reduce the cost of maintenance and ensure the consistency and ease of upgrades. Individual reports in the Inventory Reporting family are device counts by: vendor, model, operating system and specific device details.

These capabilities are in addition to Voyence’s already extensive reports which are included with the base product, VoyenceControl NG. Reports already included in the base product provide device centric views across VoyenceControl NG’s automation library, compliance, change, IP address management, inventory, jobs, and user management. The reports allow operations and network engineering personnel to view the state of device and network configurations — for both hardware and software — to support day-to-day IT administrative activities.

“Compliance requirements demand that the network can no longer be treated like ‘plumbing’ in the wall that is invisible to everyone outside of network operations and management,” said Darren Orzechowski, Voyence’s vice president of marketing. “When the network is out of compliance because of misconfigured devices, it means the business is at risk of violating government regulatory requirements. If the network fails to pass regulatory audits, the business fails to pass these requirements, with potentially devastating impacts on revenue. Our new reporting suite provides managers with visibility into the network, to know in real time whether or not the business is at risk, and more important, the solution necessary to be able to do something about it.”

Voyence’s VoyenceControl NG Compliance Report Manager is now available. For more information please visit www.voyence.com or contact a sales representative via emailing sales@voyence.com or phone: 1-866-233-7569.

About VoyenceControl NG
VoyenceControl NG is the only network change and configuration management solution to address the entire configuration management lifecycle, supporting ITIL best practices while fully automating the process of documenting a network’s adherence to government compliance regulations.

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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