NEW YORK, March 13, 2006 – Identify Software’s AppSight™ product has been named the winner in the "Best .NET Testing, Q/A, and Debugging” category and the first runner-up in the "Best .NET Application Management” category of the SYS-CON Media Readers' Choice Awards. Widely considered to be the most prestigious award program in the software industry, the Readers’ Choice Awards is a community-driven process in which the products participating in the program are nominated by customers, users, and vendors, as well as by the readers of SYS-CON Media’s industry-leading technology publications. The winners were determined by more than 17,000 votes.

Identify's AppSight Application Problem Resolution System is designed to make it easier for application development and support teams to uncover the root cause and resolve application problems quickly and to dramatically improve the quality of the applications they are building. AppSight has been proven to eliminate up to 80 percent of the cycle time traditionally consumed by root cause analysis. It is the first and only comprehensive solution for application problem resolution, with an architecture uniquely designed from the ground up to optimize the process of resolving problems.

AppSight leverages patented Black Box software technology to monitor actual application execution (in production, as well as in development and QA) and automatically detect faults and performance issues in .NET, Windows, and J2EE applications. When a problem is detected, AppSight automatically captures a synchronized, real-time log of user actions, system events, performance metrics, configuration data, and code execution flow – much like the "black box” flight recorder on an aircraft captures a real-time record of a flight. The captured information can be analyzed by the entire problem resolution team, utilizing role-specific views to rapidly pinpoint the root cause of performance, configuration, application code, or user errors. AppSight fully supports applications that use a mix of .NET managed code and legacy unmanaged code, such as COM objects.

AppSight has received much acclaim for its unique application problem resolution solution. It was chosen as the Best Development Tool in the Best of Tech Ed 2005 awards and won the 2005 MSD2D People’s Choice Award. In its 2005 Cool Vendors in Application Development report, Gartner noted, "Identify's technology is one of the few offerings that can provide visibility down to the source-code level (and the only one, aside from a profiler, that can capture the program data, not just entry points into methods).”

"We are delighted to have been chosen as the Best .NET Testing, Q/A, and Debugging solution by over 17,000 SYS-CON Media readers," said Yochi Slonim, CEO of Identify. "Our AppSight System is currently being used by over 700 companies, including half of the Fortune 50, to automate and accelerate their problem resolution processes–across the application lifecycle–in QA/testing, as well as in production support. This award reinforces the outstanding results our enthusiastic customer base is experiencing every day with AppSight."

Identify® is the leader in application problem resolution software, helping hundreds of enterprises and software vendors speed application delivery, increase application quality, performance, and availability, and reduce application support costs. The company’s AppSight Application Problem Resolution System leverages patented Black Box technology to monitor application execution and to capture, communicate, and determine the root cause of application problems, thereby dramatically accelerating problem resolution processes across the application lifecycle.

Founded in 1996, Identify is a global organization, with operational headquarters in New York and offices in Israel and throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information about Identify, please visit www.identify.com or call 800.364.5467.

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