Nashco Selects Solidcore to Deliver Industry-Leading Change Control Software

Joins 'Solidified-for-Change' Partner Program to Help Customers Improve Service Availability with Change Control

CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 19, 2006 – Nashco Solutions, a leading provider of service management and security solutions, today announced it has joined Solidcore’s "Solidified-for-Change" partner program, adding Solidcore’s industry-leading change control software to its solution portfolio. Nashco selects Solidcore to augment its information technology (IT) service management and service desk offerings with change control capabilities that include automated change policy enforcement and real-time change tracking.

As part of the new Solidified-for-Change partner program also announced today, Nashco will resell and implement Solidcore’s S3 Control software to help its customers increase the availability of IT services, enable the successful implementation of ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) projects, and reduce the cost of compliance initiatives such as Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI. The solution enables Nashco customers to achieve real-time visibility into what changes are made, reconciliation of actual changes with service desk ticketing systems, and technology-based change policy enforcement to automatically ensure changes made to the infrastructure are in-line with the change policy.

"The ability to automatically track change, enforce change policies and prevent unauthorized change will help all of our customers improve uptime and service availability," said Ken Stainsby, president of Nashco. "Solidcore allows our customers to automate the previously manual process of linking infrastructure changes with the change management process, and is the only solution that can automatically enforce change policy. Taking this to our customers will help them ensure the highest levels of service availability."

Service availability is constantly threatened by changes to infrastructure that do not conform to IT service management processes and policies. These include changes made at unauthorized times or without approved change tickets, as well as approved changes whose execution deviates from the expected change. Nashco will leverage Solidcore’s S3 Control software to help its customers close this change control gap between the change management process and the ability to understand and enforce actual changes to the infrastructure. As a validated BMC technology partner, Solidcore also makes it easy for Nashco to deliver a comprehensive change management and control solution based on the two leading technologies.

"Nashco is a leader in providing change management solutions, and we look forward to them delivering Solidcore’s best-in-class change control software to customers throughout the U.S. and Canada," said Bob Vieraitis, vice president of marketing for Solidcore. "Solidcore S3 Control software gives customers comprehensive visibility and control of change across the enterprise, and when integrated with change management processes, gives customers improved service availability, increased uptime and lowered costs of IT operations."

About Solidcore
Solidcore adds control to change management. Solidcore’s S3 Control software is the industry’s first and only solution to automate the enforcement of change management policies. Solidcore automatically reconciles infrastructure changes against change tickets, and provides real-time change auditing so enterprises can measure the effectiveness of change management processes and policies. Customers trust Solidcore to improve service availability, implement ITIL initiatives, and lower costs related to Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. Solidcore also provides change control for embedded systems and is used by major device manufacturers to securely leverage open systems to meet their business requirements. Solidcore is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. For more information, visit www.solidcore.com.

About Nashco
Nashco is a leading provider of service management and security solutions that support the integration of ITIL best practices. Nashco enables customers to deliver faster, more comprehensive services that increase revenue opportunities, lower the cost of ownership and mitigate risk. Nashco provides solutions for service desk automation, change control, asset management, eSupport, and virus protection. We offer business process consulting, training, implementation & data migration services. Nashco has been providing service desk solutions since 1993. For more information, visit www.nashcosolutions.com.

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