OPNET Technologies Earns HP OpenView Solution Alliance Achiever’s Award
OPNET Recognized among HP OpenView Partners for Superior Business Performance associated with Integrated Solution
BETHESDA, MD - December 8, 2003 --OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT), a leader in management software for networks and applications, today announced receipt of the HP OpenView Solution Alliance Achiever’s Award. The award recognizes joint business success resulting from OPNET’s IT Guru product integration with the HP OpenView product suite. This comes just six months after OPNET’s debut as a Certified Solution Partner in the HP OpenView Solution Alliance Program, with the introduction of ‘end-to-end’ capacity and performance planning capabilities for OPNET and HP customers.
The combined solution from OPNET and HP provides IT professionals with the ability to cost-effectively address a myriad of IT challenges, including:
- Server sizing, capacity planning, and data center relocation and consolidation
- Network capacity and resiliency assessment
- Application deployment impact analysis
“We’re honored to receive this distinguished award from HP,” commented Todd Kaloudis, OPNET’s Vice President of Business Development & Marketing. “Our mutual success to date is simply a result of providing a strong value proposition to our customers—enabling them with powerful ways of leveraging production data to evaluate the impact of proposed or pending changes—in the safe haven of OPNET’s virtual environment.”
“OPNET has demonstrated a remarkable ability to deliver added value to our joint customers,” stated Todd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager, Management Software Organization, HP. “The complementary nature of our solutions—with the high degree of data leverage—makes this integration especially appealing to the HP OpenView community.”
About OPNET
Founded in 1986, OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) is a leading
provider of management software for networks and applications.
For more information about OPNET and its products, visit www.opnet.com.
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