New Alero Express Enables Enterprise-Class Content and Process Management for Companies of 50 Users or Less

Platform-independent ECM and BPM is now affordable for small to medium size businesses

San Diego, CA – August 29, 2006 – Today Alero Technology announces its new software version for workgroups of 50 users or less, Alero™ Express. This just-released edition provides small to medium businesses with a comprehensive solution to meet their information requirements, without the price tag associated with products of this caliber. Alero Express gives customers and partners platform-independent enterprise content management (ECM), business process management (BPM), enterprise content integration (ECI), and enterprise information integration (EII) capabilities in a single solution with a consistent, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

“With the ability to easily orchestrate disparate applications, regardless of platform, into one single virtual repository, Alero Express dramatically reduces the development, deployment, maintenance and support for either customized or off-the-shelf solutions,” Maurice Correa Alero Technology CEO says. “This allows our partners to surpass competitors by providing leading-edge solutions at a fraction of the time and cost required by others.”

A typical installation and configuration for Alero Express can be performed in eight hours or less and could include: up to five document types or classes; one business process of medium complexity; two distributed storages for file replication; and integration with a database.

“Alero’s installation time is significantly less than the other enterprise-wide software solutions in the market today,” Hoe Joo Kim President of SpenoCom and international IT consultant says.

According to the company, Alero Express customers expecting to see growth in the future, or corporations with greater, more complex requirements, can easily scale the new version to the Alero Enterprise Edition without changing products or additional installations. “Alero Express delivers most of the features and capabilities of the Alero Enterprise Edition in a smaller scale,” Correa adds.

Alero Enterprise Edition is designed to meet enterprise-wide requirements, including support for hundreds or thousands of users, thousands or millions of transactions, and one or many servers, virtualizing the access of data and management of the system in spite of its complexity (e.g., number of servers, vendors, platforms, data types, location, etc.).

Pricing

Alero Express, an out-of-the-box, BPM, ECM, and integration solution for companies of 50 users or less, sells for $500 or less per user. Alero Enterprise Edition, providing complex enterprise requirements such as: high transaction, high volume, fault tolerance, workload balancing, clustering, farming, server virtualization, sells for $700 or more per user. Both software editions are completely compliant with all service oriented architectures, and can orchestrate multiple servers and disparate applications.

Alero Express Benefits

Alero Express is comprised of three key services:

• Enterprise Content Management (ECM) services deliver: Document Imaging, Document Management, Content Archiving, and Content Storage Management.

• Business Process Management (BPM) services include the following web based applications: Graphical Process Designer (modeling tool), Process Monitor, Process Trace, and Process Viewer.

• Enterprise Content Integration (ECI) and Enterprise Information Integration (EII) services incorporate: Databases, File Systems, WebDAV/DASL, Dynamic SQL, Hummingbird DM and Tower Software among others.

About Alero Technology

Alero Technology is a pioneer in the enterprise information management (EIM) arena and a global provider of software solutions. The company's Alero™ products line combines enterprise content integration, enterprise information integration, enterprise content, and business process technologies under a single, uniform solution. Designed to manage any information in a production-level transaction processing environment, Alero Technology’s EIM development framework can be integrated and embedded into existing business applications or deployed as complete out-of-the-box solutions, speeding deployment and reducing development costs. The solutions are developed on a J2EE, XML, Unicode and service-oriented architecture (SOA). Alero Technology is a privately held company with headquarters in San Diego, CA. www.alerotech.com.

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