Aternity Announces Microsoft Gold Partner Status

Aternity Achieves Highest Level of Competence by Enabling Comprehensive Visibility of Real End User Experience Across Microsoft Office Apps and System Center Operations Manager 

BOSTON, MA (USA) — March 16, 2010 — Aternity Inc., the industry’s technology leader in end user experience management solutions for Global 1000 enterprises, announced today that it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program with recognized competency in the System Management Solutions area, recognizing Aternity’s expertise and impact in the end user experience marketplace. As a Gold Certified Partner, Aternity has demonstrated the highest level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies and proven ability to meet the unique business needs of global enterprises.

“Attaining Gold Certified Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program highlights Aternity’s ability to deliver uniquely innovative end user experience capabilities to Global 1000 enterprises,” said Trevor Matz, President and CEO of Aternity. “Achieving Microsoft competency in System Management further demonstrates our comprehensive integration with the latest Microsoft platform technologies.”

Aternity redefines end user experience management by providing the industry’s first Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) platform designed to dramatically reduce business disruptions and significantly increase end user productivity. With Aternity organizations benefit from user-centric proactive IT management through a 360 degree view of real end user experience, self-learning, proactive problem detection and probable cause analysis, and right-time decision support capabilities. By uniquely transforming every desktop – real or virtual – into a self-monitoring platform that is user-experience aware, the Aternity FPI Platform arms organizations with real-time business intelligence on how application performance and usage impacts business results, and provides a path for constant improvement.

Although it takes days for partners and customers to instrument any application with Aternity’s FPI Platform, there's been an increasing interest from customers and partners to provide packaged solutions built for industry leading packaged applications out-of-the-box. Aternity FPI Solution Packs are available for the full complement of MS-Office applications, MS-Sharepoint and MS-Studio. With these FPI Solution Packs, Aternity provides the fastest path to end user experience management for Microsoft applications, enabling customers and partners to rapidly realize the full benefits of a comprehensive FPI strategy.

Combining the power of Aternity’s FPI Platform with Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager, provides customers with advanced monitoring capabilities extending from front end client systems all the way to back end application and database servers. Additionally, with on-the-fly classification for quality of service and communications problems, IT organizations leveraging Aternity can resolve problems faster, while ensuring maximum performance of their applications. Aternity’s advanced analytics and reporting also provides Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager and Operations Manager customers with the ability to proactively detect application and system problems, enabling the rapid implementation of a comprehensive user-centric, approach to proactive IT management.

About Aternity, Inc.

Aternity redefines real end user experience management by delivering the industry’s first Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform, effectively transforming every desktop – real or virtual – into a self-monitoring platform that is user experience aware. By arming organizations with user-centric, proactive IT management capabilities, the Aternity FPI Platform dramatically reduces business disruption and increases user productivity. With Aternity’s 360 degree view of end user experience, advanced analytics for preemptive problem detection and cause analysis, and right-time decision support capabilities, Global 1000 enterprises finally have the empirical evidence on how application performance and usage impacts business results, providing them with a path for constant improvement.

Aternity was recently named a Gartner Cool Vendor in IT Operations, a Top 10 Most Promising Start-up by Ernst & Young and Globes, and a Top 50 Startup by InformationWeek. In addition, the company has received prestigious industry recognition from the American Business Awards, the International Business Awards, The Marker, and NetworkWorld Magazine. To learn how Aternity can bring winning performance to your frontline and to find out if you qualify for a free proof-of-concept, visit www.aternity.com.