Deloitte Technology Fast 50: Special ANVAR Prize Awarded to InfoVista InfoVista Recognized for its Innovative Research and Development Policy PARIS, and HERNDON, Va., Feb. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- InfoVista (Nasdaq: IVTA; Nouveau Marche: FR0004031649), the leading service-centric performance management software company, today announced it was awarded the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award for the fourth consecutive year and in addition was awarded the ANVAR prize as part of the 2004 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 award program. [ANVAR is a French agency that promotes and supports innovation in French industry.] The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards recognize the 50 French high-tech companies that have achieved the highest sales growth over the past five years. The ANVAR special prize rewards one of these companies for an exceptionally innovative R&D policy. Commitment and innovation are at the heart of InfoVista's success. With the telecom downturn of 2001-2003 forcing companies to pinch their pennies, InfoVista not only maintained but increased its investment in research and development and acquired the technology building blocks needed to support its industry leading position as "innovator". InfoVista has experienced exceptional growth and this success results from the software's ability to improve business effectiveness, reduce operating risk, lower cost of operations, increase agility and create competitive advantage. In collaboration with its customers and technology partners, InfoVista continues to innovate and design increasingly high-performance software in response to the market's requirements. For example, VistaFoundation 2.0, the new generation of InfoVista's intelligent, performance-management platform, supports pre-packaged solutions containing unique Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for performance management of today's critical IT services, including IP VPNs, IP Telephony, VoIP, Wi-Fi, servers and networked application infrastructures. These solutions, based on InfoVista's expertise with over 550 customers, are capable of streamlining and optimizing the service quality of information systems according to the company's objectives and business lines. "We are very happy to be the 2004 winner of the ANVAR special prize. It recognizes our efforts and active R&D policy," says Manuel Stopnicki, InfoVista CTO. "Our solutions must anticipate and meet our customers' needs and help them deliver new services in a reliable and optimal manner. Our software integrates the most recent technological developments and takes into account new information-system architecture, such as IP convergence and consolidation of data centers." ANVAR operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Industry and its core mission is to support innovation efforts undertaken by entrepreneurs, small and medium-sized businesses and research laboratories. It shares the financial risk inherent in technology transfer and the development of a product, process or new service with a technology component. The agency promotes the commercialization of scientific research and supports industrial development and economic growth. In addition, it takes advantage of the network of close relationships it has forged with a variety of economic, technological and financial players in France and abroad in the area of innovation. 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 the Nouveau Marche (FR0004031649). For more information about the company, please visit http://www.infovista.com/ DATASOURCE: InfoVista CONTACT: Joanne Rasch, of A&R Partners for InfoVista +1-301-871-3335, ; or Arlene Taffera of InfoVista, +1-703-435-2435, ext. 236, Web site: http://www.infovista.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/149429.html

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