AmberPoint today announced that H&R Block Financial Advisors has selected AmberPoint’s Service Level Manager and AmberPoint Management Foundation to manage and secure its service-oriented IT systems.
After a thorough review, H&R Block Financial Advisors chose AmberPoint for its non-invasive approach to managing and securing services and for the breadth of AmberPoint’s capabilities.
“AmberPoint’s solutions were more comprehensive than any other we evaluated,” said Ernie Smith, divisional information officer, H&R Block Financial Advisors. “We were impressed by the functionality and flexibility of the solutions, which met our management requirements. AmberPoint is now a strategic part of our enterprise SOA.”
H&R Block Financial Advisors began its relationship with AmberPoint through testing its Web services with AmberPoint’s free developer edition software, AmberPoint Express. AmberPoint Express provides visibility into the performance and behavior of Web services in test environments, enabling fine-tuning before deployment. AmberPoint Express quickly convinced H&R Block Financial Advisors’ IT and Operations teams that AmberPoint solutions would address their greater management needs. H&R Block Financial Advisors is one of thousands of AmberPoint customers that have downloaded AmberPoint Express.
According to Investment News, H&R Block Financial Advisors is one of North America’s largest broker-dealers. It is one of several business units of H&R Block, Inc., the world’s largest tax services company. H&R Block delivers tax services and financial advice, investment and mortgage products and services, and business accounting and consulting services.
“H&R Block Financial Advisors has a forward-thinking vision for its IT infrastructure, with a complex SOA that requires comprehensive management,” said AmberPoint CEO John Hubinger. “We’re pleased to have them join the ranks of our growing list of marquee customers, illustrating AmberPoint’s leadership in the market and validating the advantages of our solutions.”
In related news today, AmberPoint announced other marquee customers of its leading software solutions (see related release, “AmberPoint Signs Significant New Customers Including H&R Block Financial Advisors, Motorola, Northern Trust and Cegetel”).
With its uniquely non-invasive approach that quickly integrates into a service-oriented environment, AmberPoint provides the management layer that is critical for realizing the return on investment from distributed, heterogeneous service-oriented systems. AmberPoint’s solutions provide their comprehensive management, monitoring and security capabilities without requiring any changes to the services themselves. AmberPoint was the first Web services management vendor with solutions that run natively in both .NET and Java, enabling its software products to fully leverage the advantages of both prevailing Web services platforms.
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