mValent Expands Sales Channel with Prolifics and Chicago Interface Group

Leading WebSphere System Integrators Chose mValent’s Automated Application Configuration Management Solutions to Complement Strategies to Deliver Enterprises Highly Available Production Environments

Burlington, MA – October 24, 2005 – mValent, the leader in automated application configuration management software, today announced two new system integrators as the company expands its channel distribution. Prolifics and Chicago Interface Group chose mValent as the optimal solution for automating the highly complex and error-prone tasks of configuring and maintaining the IT infrastructure underlying business applications.

Large enterprises are striving to improve IT business processes and are faced with managing hundreds of applications that are distributed, multi-tiered and running across multiple platforms. WebSphere application servers can require the setting of thousands of configuration parameters and Prolifics found mValent to be an effective solution to automating configuration and change management.

“As WebSphere technology integrators for financial, healthcare, government and manufacturing organizations, Prolifics delivers high-performing, complex systems to solve business challenges,” said Tony Webb, Practice Manager for Prolifics. “We look forward to working with mValent to automate the IT configuration process of complex infrastructures from development through to deployment.”

Chicago Interface Group (CIG) has partnered with mValent to broaden its WebSphere and Change Management practices. mValent complements CIG’s solution for making WebSphere for IBM’s z/OS operating system – a highly secure, scalable, high-performance enterprise operating system for building and deploying applications – practical, scalable and automated. The CIG solution is the bridge between the highly interactive Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) development world and the WebSphere for z/OS server platform.

“mValent technology takes us wider and deeper in our WebSphere and ITIL practices. We can now provide our clients with process engineering and automation that allows them to effectively scale their WebSphere infrastructure,” said Tim Currie, practice manager for CIG. “Additionally, we can advise on best practices for ITIL compliance, and provide an infrastructure to manage and enforce those best practices.”

“Chicago Interface Group and Prolifics are experts in helping large enterprises solve complex technology challenges and improve overall business processes,” said Joe Forgione, mValent’s president and CEO. “Working together with these system integrators enables us to jointly provide customers with a solution that will reduce risks associated with errors and downtime, lower operational costs, improve organizational agility and accelerate the deployment of new applications. We are aggressively moving to increase our channels as we ramp up our sales efforts and continue to enhance our product offering.”

About Chicago Interface Group
Founded in 1994, Chicago Interface Group, Inc. (CIG) is a recognized authority on Change Management best practices. CIG offers general change management implementation, WebSphere implementation solutions, and process/compliance engineering solutions (SOX/ITIL). CIG products and services are distributed in North America by CIG and globally through IBM.

About Prolifics
As 1 of 3 WebSphere Service Providers retained by IBM, Prolifics' Certified Consultants are top-ranked by IBM in delivering WebSphere, Portal, and Business Integration solutions. Using an innovative integration methodology, our solutions build agility into your business - enabling you to reach new markets, achieve increased customer satisfaction and ease collaboration within your enterprise. Prolifics has a remarkable 96% success rate deploying systems on-time, on-budget and to-specification. For more information, visit Prolifics at http://www.prolifics.com.