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InfoVista (NASDAQ: IVTA; Compartment C of Eurolist by Euronext - ISIN Code: FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software company, announced today that executives Alain Tingaud, chairman of the board, and Gad Tobaly, chief executive officer, will preside over the closing bell at The NASDAQ Stock Market on Thursday, July 14. InfoVista celebrates ten years of success assuring the optimal delivery of business-critical IT services for service providers and enterprises. As a truly global company, InfoVista has a solid track record meeting the network performance and service management requirements of organizations worldwide. "InfoVista is built on a firm technological foundation demonstrated by its success in penetrating the carrier market, moving into the enterprise market and establishing a worldwide presence," said Steve Steinke, Senior Analyst with The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. Steinke continued, "It has established partnerships and integrated its products with many of the biggest participants in networking." This comment appeared in an independent report, titled "Is InfoVista's object-based, real-time design the future of performance management?" which was published on May 27 of this year (see Editor's Note below). InfoVista looks to build its momentum, evolving with the needs of large enterprises and service providers and capitalizing on the following critical trends shaping the market for communications services: -- Service-Centric Management: Enterprises and service providers need to deliver meaningful information to both technology and business users. A service-centric approach to IT management combines the highest quality service delivery from the end-user perspective with management and reporting capabilities that are meaningful to all constituents. InfoVista's solutions reduce operating risk, improve business effectiveness, lower total cost of ownership, enhance business value and create a competitive advantage. -- Increased Competition: Performance management is becoming a strategic initiative for service providers whose ability to thrive in an increasingly competitive market for communications services depends on the success and speed with which they roll out new services and offer support to customers. InfoVista offers service providers an edge by providing the reporting flexibility and predictive visibility into the quality of service and performance of the underlying IT assets. In addition, InfoVista allows service providers to speed time to market for new services, ensuring end users experience new offerings with the highest satisfaction possible from the outset. -- IP Convergence: Internet Protocol (IP) convergence is continuing unabated as affordability and new converged services like triple play and voice over IP (VoIP) are providing new areas of growth for service providers and offering compelling benefits to customers. InfoVista has a long history with early adopters of IP based services and is helping enterprises plan their IP convergence strategies and increase the performance of new technologies and services. -- Selective Sourcing: Enterprises that once farmed out entire IT functions to a select few outsourcers are taking a more exacting approach--choosing multiple best-of-breed providers and embracing a selective-sourcing model. InfoVista enables companies to report on multiple services, both internal and external, allowing for better management of the accountability of providers in accordance with service-level agreements. -- Security: Scrutiny surrounding IP services like VoIP is heightened, as service providers and enterprises alike consider the possible impact of security attacks in the form of phishing, pharming or clipping. Ensuring privacy and securing network vulnerabilities will help alleviate enterprise user and consumer concerns and achieve high adoption rates for new IP services. Leveraging baselining capabilities and early warning systems of performance management solutions is a first key step in the detection and mitigation of many security issues. "In addition to our 10-year anniversary as a company, today also marks the five-year anniversary of InfoVista's IPO on NASDAQ," said Tobaly. "We attribute our success to our vision of an IP-centric world, dedication to technology innovation and drive to execute. InfoVista's success meeting current and future market needs validates our position as the best-of-breed partner of choice for service providers and enterprises looking to transform their technology assets into strategic business value." Editor's Note: The 451 Group's report, "Is InfoVista's object-based, real-time design the future of performance management?" referenced above, is an independently-produced report that was neither sponsored by nor otherwise funded directly by InfoVista. The report and its entire contents are the sole property of The 451 Group, copyright 2005, and are reproduced here by permission. The entire contents of this report are available at www.the451group.com. About InfoVista InfoVista is the Service-Centric Performance Management Software Company that assures the optimal delivery of business-critical IT services. Driven by a uniquely adaptive and real-time technology foundation, InfoVista solutions improve business effectiveness, reduce operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create competitive advantage. Eighty percent of the world's largest service providers as ranked by Fortune(R), as well as leading Global 2000 enterprises, rely on InfoVista to enhance the business value of their technology assets. Representative customers include Allstream, Banques Populaires, Banque de France, Broadwing Communications, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Deloitte & Touche, Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, Savvis Corporation, SingTel, US Cellular and Verio Inc. InfoVista stock is traded on the NASDAQ (IVTA) and on Eurolist by Euronext (FR0004031649). For more information about the company, please visit www.infovista.com.