April 21, 2008 09:18 ET

OpenPages Introduces Hosted Enterprise GRC Management Solution

Shortened Time-to-Deployment Delivers Faster Business Value to Customers

WALTHAM, MA--(Marketwire - April 21, 2008) - OpenPages, the leading provider of enterprise GRC management solutions that optimize business performance, introduced today a hosted offering of their leading governance risk and compliance (GRC) technology, OpenPages Hosting. OpenPages Hosting provides customers an easy and reliable way to deploy a secure, dedicated instance of OpenPages' solutions without the administrative and internal IT costs associated with installing and managing an in-house system. OpenPages Hosting provides a full range of infrastructure management, application management and support services for all OpenPages technology modules.

OpenPages Hosting delivers a GRC solution that can address unique customer needs, delivering fast time-to-deployment without having to rely on in-house IT departments to deploy the servers, storage and other resources required for an enterprise application deployment. With the most configurable solution on the market, OpenPages Hosting enables complete configuration for a company's GRC requirements, avoiding the need to modify internal processes to match a prepackaged, hard coded template. In addition, OpenPages Hosting provides an environment tailored to a company's specific requirements without the delays associated with service change requests that plague so many other hosted software offerings.

OpenPages solutions are deployed on dedicated servers sized to meet each customer's specific performance, configuration and storage requirements. Security services include firewalls, intrusion detection, dedicated anti-virus scanning and SSL acceleration. Complete system administration and help desk support ensure security, scalability, and performance for an assured level of service and quality.

Key benefits of OpenPages Hosting include:

--  Efficiency: Fast time-to-deployment to realize business value sooner
--  Economy: No hardware infrastructure purchases
--  Configurability: Ability to upgrade and configure a dedicated instance
    of the OpenPages solution
--  Assurance: Assured service levels with Service Level Agreement (SLA)
--  Security: Managed in a secure data center facility
--  Support: Dedicated experts deploying and maintaining the OpenPages
    solution
    

"As a company that prides itself on providing agile technology solutions for our customers, the addition of the OpenPages Hosting services to our product suite was a natural fit," said Gordon Burnes, vice president of sales and marketing, OpenPages. "The release of OpenPages Hosting coupled with the upgrade to our overall technology platform OpenPages version 5.5 further underscores our commitment to listening to customer feedback and providing the most configurable GRC technology solutions in the market today."

For more information, please visit www.openpages.com to learn more about OpenPages Hosting and how it may benefit your organization.

Additional links

-- OpenPages 5.5 product announcement

-- OpenPages Q1 momentum announcement

-- OpenPages blog

About OpenPages

OpenPages is the leading provider of enterprise GRC management solutions that optimize business performance. OpenPages empowers the world's largest companies by unifying governance, risk and compliance (GRC) activities across the enterprise and by incorporating risk management into their everyday business processes. Market-leading corporations select OpenPages because of its domain expertise and software solutions that seamlessly adapt to their unique risk management methodologies while providing the flexibility to evolve their governance, risk and compliance processes over time. Founded in 1996, the company is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with international offices in Japan and the United Kingdom, and regional offices throughout North America.

For more information on OpenPages' suite of risk and compliance solutions, please call 781-693-5999 or visit www.openpages.com.

OpenPages is a trademark of OpenPages, Inc. All other trademarks contained herein are the property of their respective owners.