Ventyx Unveils Asset Suite 6.0

New Release Offers Superior Navigation and Tailorability via Foundation Architecture

ATLANTA, July 19, 2007 — Ventyx™, the leading Service Delivery Management (SDM) solution provider, today announced general availability of the newest release of its industry-leading enterprise asset management (EAM) solution, Asset Suite. Release 6.0 of Asset Suite delivers key enhancements to its industry-leading feature set for managing work and assets, safety and compliance and the maintenance supply chain for clients in asset-intensive industries. Through a new release of its services-oriented Foundation Architecture, the solution also provides enhanced flexibility for easily tailoring its features and navigation to the unique needs of specific organizations and a more diverse set of users.

Among the numerous enhancements to Asset Suite 6.0 are new features in the following key areas:

• Work Management — The solution enhances users' ability to take credit for overlapping preventive maintenance routines, recalculate resources for model work orders based on actual results and automate the completion of work orders.
• Supply Chain Management — Improved security, extended lead times for parts staging and additional tax considerations in invoice matching are just some of the new procurement-related features in Release 6.0.
• Library of Tailored Pages — A searchable, indexed library of more than 300 preconfigured XML pages provides a jumpstart for implementation and development of role-based views and business processes, and can be further tailored by the client to meet specific user, department or organizational needs.
• Web Service Catalog — The Foundation Architecture now includes a catalog of more than 100 Web services which allow clients to easily develop workflows, integrate to third-party solutions and create system-to-system interfaces independent of underlying code.
• Usability — The new release provides innovative features enhancing usability, including a highly intuitive interface with advanced navigation features such as tabs and grids, a rebranded context-sensitive online help and e-learning and a toolkit available to facilitate tuning the online help and e-learning features to specific customer requirements.
• Internationalization — A new toolkit facilitates and automates localization.

"Asset Suite 6.0 is the culmination of years of research, development and testing — by Ventyx and by our industry-leading clients and partners as well," said Ventyx CTO Steve Carpenter. "As a result, Asset Suite 6.0 continues to be the industry standard in meeting the needs of the most demanding and asset-intensive industries. And, with its enhanced tailorability and usability features, Asset Suite can now meet the needs of an even wider set of users in the industries we serve, including utilities, communications and other commercial markets."

New Architecture Key to Enhanced Navigation and Integration
Asset Suite 6.0 delivers the flexibility and ease of use provided by the latest release of the company's Foundation Architecture. Developed using a services-orientated architecture (SOA), the Foundation Architecture provides enhanced configurability and agility to meet rapidly evolving business needs. In addition, Asset Suite delivers a personal user interface that includes role and rule-based content and workflow-based navigation and is configurable for the individual user. Design techniques for the Asset Suite user interface incorporate human factors and industry best practices for an intuitive, visually compelling environment. Productivity and usability aids to improve the user experience include hover tips, pop-ups, wizards and drop-down lists. In addition, simplified workflows that optimize the workflow of routine tasks eliminate the need for the user to have detailed Asset Suite knowledge.

Numerous Ventyx clients were involved in developing Asset Suite's new user interface, and many are already reaping the benefits. One such client is Entergy Corporation, the second-largest nuclear generator in the U.S. "We were pretty excited about the new user interface enabled by the Foundation Architecture because we saw it as a way to provide our end users with a more facile way to navigate and to do their jobs," said John S. Smith, former Director, Nuclear IT, Entergy Corporation. "In total cost of implementation and in the ability for one product to manage our full suite of actions and activities, the Ventyx solution was the best. Working with Ventyx, Entergy was able to use the tailoring and workflow process development that the new user interface offered to provide a solution that moves us toward our specific requirements."

Web Services Ensure Optimum Flexibility to Grow as Needs Change
Asset Suite 6.0 is delivered with more than a dozen predefined workflows to guide users through focused processes, such as creating work orders and material requests. The Foundation Architecture also includes a catalog of more than 100 Web services. As a result, clients can use the Web services to build their own workflows to share tasks and information across diverse systems and departments, without an intimate knowledge of programming languages and independent of the underlying code in the software solutions.

The inclusion of these Web services will help clients continue to tailor Asset Suite to their precise needs as business challenges grow. And, it will help them keep up with a growing number of colleagues and competitors in their industry who are leveraging Web services and related technology. According to a recent Gartner report, "Survey results indicate that companies are achieving very high levels of service reuse and are planning to spend more than 20 percent of their 2007 IT budgets (hardware, software, internal staffing and IT services) on items related to SOA, Web 2.0 and Web services."

Availability
Asset Suite 6.0 is available immediately from Ventyx and its certified reseller partners. For more information, contact your local sales representative or send an email to sales@ventyx.com.

About Ventyx
Ventyx is the leading provider of proven Service Delivery Management solutions which enable utility, communications and other commercial field service organizations to optimize the management of their customers, workforce, spare parts inventory, equipment, tools and documentation — empowering organizations to maximize efficiencies in their customer relationships, facilities, workforce and field service operations. With offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, the company has more than 400 clients in select asset-intensive service-based industries. For more information, visit our Website at www.ventyx.com.