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2ndWave Launches Its Next Generation of Products

2ndWave Inc, a leading provider of IT decision support solutions, announced they are expanding the capabilities of the VistaCenter product offerings to include support for the following vendors: BMC, Hewlett Packard, Tivoli and NetIQ. These new offerings, called Vista Collectors, are designed to extract relevant data from the myriad of management data repositories across the IT infrastructure to enable understanding, insight and better decision-making. This release brings coverage to all major management vendors and provides a centralized vantage point to view this information in logical business context. 2ndWave continues to expand its data sources with plans to add support for Mercury Interactive, Concord and Peregrine Systems. The data that was once useful only to a few can now be leveraged for business value by a wider, non-technical audience in the pursuit of business service optimization.

The most unique benefit of VistaCenter and the new Vista Collectors is that it's a turn-key solution leveraging data from customers' existing best-of-breed management products. VistaCenter enables customers to finally realize the full return on investment from all the other products that manage the infrastructure.

2ndWave is capitalizing on an opportunity that was presented by several of its customers. One such customer, a large financial organization, has been leveraging VistaCenter to report business-relevant management information to senior-level executives across lines of business. "With the launch of Vista Collectors for several additional vendors, our customers are now able to receive a more complete picture of their environment, thus enhancing the value of the information for critical decision making," said Ed Anderson, CEO of 2ndWave.

With this expanded set of Vista Collectors, 2ndWave customers are able to more accurately measure the impact of the underlying infrastructure on the business. As a result, IT organizations are able to optimize their delivery of service, resulting in tangible benefits such as increased IT and user productivity, enhanced customer goodwill, increased revenue and cost avoidance. With VistaCenter, customers will now be able to meet the evolving needs of the business by accurately measuring the impact of IT on a business process.

2ndWave Inc

2ndWave Inc, www.2wi.com, is a leading provider of IT data warehousing and decision support solutions that enable organizations to optimize the delivery of service, resulting in tangible cost savings. The company enables its customers to leverage the data that is currently locked away in functional management silos to deliver a powerful decision-support solution. 2ndWave is the only company to deliver its solution to Fortune2000 companies via a Web-based platform that transforms silos of management data into actionable business-relevant information.

Headquartered in Austin, Texas, 2ndWave was founded in 1998 and is funded by leading capital venture firms and private investors. For more information, you may contact 2ndWave at 888-717-8760.

Contact 2ndWave Inc, Heather Fleming, 512-439-5054, hfleming@2wi.com.