Stonebranch and OpsWise Announce Strategic Alliance

By Stonebranch, PRNE
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Companies unite to offer the most modern workload automation solutions for large-scale enterprises

AMSTERDAM, August 19, 2010 - At Innovation Europe 2010, the annual Stonebranch Executive Conference,
Stonebranch and OpsWise formally announced a wide-ranging strategic alliance.
Stonebranch, providers of managed file transfer
(www.stonebranch.com/infitran/index.html ) and job scheduling
technology (www.stonebranch.com/indesca/index.html),
will market, sell, implement, and support OpsWise's widely acclaimed Automation
Center - the industry's most modern and comprehensive workload automation
solution (www.stonebranch.com/index.html) for complex data centers.
OpsWise will offer its customers Stonebranch's Indesca Independent Scheduling
Agents for the i5 and SAP platforms. The companies also announced that there
will be further collaboration to seamlessly integrate Stonebranch and
OpsWise's technologies to provide significant added value for current and
future users.

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"Today is an important day in the growth of Stonebranch," noted Wolfgang
Bothe
, Stonebranch's President and CEO. "Our customers have been asking us
for several years to expand the capabilities of our Indesca solution to
include a modern workload automation engine. While we have considered
partnering with other vendors, we found that most of their solutions are
based on old and outdated technologies, difficult to configure, and expensive
for our customers to acquire and maintain. OpsWise, on the other hand, was
built from the ground up to take advantage of current technologies and to
solve the complex needs of today's large-scale data centers. Also, in
OpsWise, we found a team with a shared vision of the future of workload
automation and a commitment to being valuable short and long term partners."

OpsWise Automation Center reduces the complexity of managing and
automating enterprise-wide IT Workload by providing the most modern and
comprehensive automation capabilities spanning z/OS, distributed systems, and
cloud computing environments.

Jim Sievers, CEO of OpsWise, said "Our Automation Center technology is a
great fit for Stonebranch's customers. Not only does it provide a viable
alternative to existing legacy solutions, but our innovative pricing model
provides significant cost savings to customers - a fraction of what they pay
for solutions from typical legacy vendors in the marketplace. As Wolfgang
noted, we find partnering with the Stonebranch team to be a great way to grow
both of our businesses."

"Stonebranch will continue to be committed to the independent job
scheduling marketplace," noted John Mecke, Stonebranch's COO. "The core
mission of our Indesca and Infitran solutions will continue to be supporting
all of the job scheduling solutions that our customers use. Our alliance with
OpsWise enables us to offer our customers new options."

About Stonebranch

Stonebranch provides solutions which govern business processes and data
exchange for businesses. In 2009, Stonebranch launched Scribbos(TM), a
subsidiary of Stonebranch. Scribbos offers a secure business communications
solution, which complements Stonebranch's Infitran(TM), its Intelligent File
Transfer Solution, and Indesca(TM), its Independent Scheduling Agents
solution. Used separately or as a suite, Stonebranch and Scribbos products
and services interoperate with existing platforms/infrastructures and
emerging technologies. Stonebranch clients include some of the world's
largest financial, healthcare and technology institutions. Headquartered in
Atlanta, GA, Stonebranch has offices throughout the world, including Germany,
The United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain and Denmark. For more information
on Stonebranch, please visit: www.stonebranch.com.

About OpsWise Software

OpsWise Software is an innovative Data Center Automation company based in
Los Altos, CA . OpsWise's flagship product, OpsWise Automation Center, a
Workload Automation Broker, was released in September 2008.

Designed to accomplish the automation goals of any enterprise - From
Linux and Windows servers, mid-range UNIX and the Mainframe, OpsWise
solutions can be hosted on-premise, in the Cloud, or via
Software-as-a-Service. For more information on OpsWise, please visit:
www.opswise.com

Annelle Barnett, +1-678-366-7887 ext. 260, annelle.barnett at stonebranch.com

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