Edge Technologies Awarded Patent for Secure Portal-Based Information Display and Consolidation Technology
Delivers Web-Based, User-Specific Views of Real-Time, Dynamic Content via Secure Portlets
press release, 09/20/07

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Fairfax, VA, September 20, 2007, Edge Technologies, Inc. a leading vendor of secure information sharing and portal display software, announces the award of a patent for System and method for monitoring and managing an enterprise network (7,269,625) for its enPortal secure network management portal system.

Edge enPortal is used by large enterprises, government agencies and global network service providers in some of the worlds most secure and complex network environments. Edge enPortal provides secure, user-specific managed services views of real-time OSS and infrastructure management applications, delivering dynamic views such as status and threshold events, topology maps and network performance alarms to their customers via secure extranets, as well as consolidated OSS views for internal users. enPortal integrates commonly deployed management applications such as HP OpenView, IBM Netcool, BMC Remedy, CA eHealth, Lucent VitalSuite and many others.

The patent describes a network management interface system that receives network management data from one or more connected management systems. Each connected system provides a type of data from the network, such as device status data, event data, device performance monitoring data, or other suitable data. enPortal receives and presents the management data in a predetermined format, such as in one or more views, allowing data from incompatible management systems to be presented in a single, user-viewable display. Inventors include Ed Willhide, Nathaniel Cooper, Steven Hodecker and Hugh Warren. For additional information please visit Edge Technologies or click here to schedule a demo. Founded in 1993, Edge Technologies, Inc. is a customer-focused software company whose innovative solutions securely simplify highly complex problems. With field-proven expertise in security, network management and mission-critical systems, Edge provides leading-edge software products and enterprise services to many of the world's most secure and demanding corporations and government agencies.