ATLANTA, February 19, 2008 – OpenSpan, Inc., the enabler of the New Enterprise Desktop, today announced that the OpenSpan Platform has received a 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. The award is the latest in a series of third-party endorsements of the OpenSpan Platform as an essential tool for integrating, automating, extending and building applications across the enterprise desktop.

“Every year, we consider a number of excellent solutions for our Editors’ Choice Awards, but only those with the greatest capacity to help IT professionals are chosen,” said Lafe Low, executive editor at Redmond. “We selected the OpenSpan Platform because it provides an intuitive approach to integrating applications on the desktop.”

The OpenSpan Platform is the industry’s only software platform that transcends traditional server and user interface integration technologies by leveraging the interactions between applications and the underlying operating system. This dramatically simplifies the integration process across both legacy and modern application platforms, including Web services. It also allows enterprises to build business process automations that span multiple environments, including desktop applications. 

“IT professionals depend on the OpenSpan Platform to enable rapid application integration and automation of repetitive tasks, while eliminating data entry errors, extra key strokes, and copying and pasting between multiple screens,” said Francis Carden, CEO of OpenSpan. “Redmondmagazine’s Editors’ Choice Award is the latest in a number of awards solidifying the OpenSpan Platform as a leading tool for building business process automations across disparate environments.”

About OpenSpan, Inc.
Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. The award-winning OpenSpan Platform received the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Technology Marketing Corporation’s (TMC®) Customer Interaction Solutions magazine as well as the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine, the authoritative, independent voice of the Microsoft IT community. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.

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