Partnership delivers Application Portfolio Management (APM) and mainframe modernization initiatives that boost IT governance, efficiency, and support for core business processes

August 8, 2007 - The world’s most successful companies adapt quickly to market pressures. But this business agility is crippled when key operations are implemented on costly, complex environments. CIOs must uncover which systems best support the business and which are increasing cost and risk without boosting value.

To address this need, Clerity will include Relativity Technologies’ Modernization Workbench® platform as part of its mainframe migration service offerings. Clerity professionals will leverage the platform to execute Application Portfolio Management (APM) and modernization initiatives. The combination of industry-leading technology and experienced professionals enables Clerity to identify, prioritize, and implement activities that realign clients’ application portfolios with business imperatives.

The partnership offers the ability to:

• Identify Modernization Priorities: Clerity will leverage the Modernization Workbench to extract critical business and technical insights from clients’ existing applications. Customizable dashboards summarize and trend the collected data, revealing business processes and applications with the highest levels of value, cost, and risk. This IT governance information enables clients to quickly evaluate current investments and selectively focus their modernization initiatives on high priorities.



• Execute Modernization Activities: Clients benefit from Clerity’s expertise with a diverse array of modernization activities: from rehosting, to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)-enablement, to web-enablement. The Modernization Workbench accelerates these activities by providing deep application intelligence across a broad range of programming languages from Cobol and Natural to Java and PowerBuilder, and beyond. The partnership’s combination ensures that applications can be modernized without disrupting established business processes.

”Our deep mainframe and open systems expertise, industry leading technology and full-service delivery approach typically lowers customer total cost of ownership 50 – 80%, while enhancing flexibility and time-to-market,” said Cameron Jenkins, COO and Executive Vice President, Clerity Solutions, Inc. “The addition of Relativity Technology’s Modernization Workbench to our migration service offerings further enhances our ability to understand a client’s current application portfolio and chart the most effective path forward to align operational efficiencies with strategic business goals.”

“The world’s largest IT vendors select Relativity Technologies’ software platform because of its best-of-breed ability to speed any application modernization or management activity. We are pleased that Clerity, a recognized leader in this space, has selected the Modernization Workbench. This partnership enables CIOs to better govern and rapidly adapt enterprise applications to support critical new business requirements,” said Steve Maysonave, chairman, president, and CEO of Relativity Technologies.

“Increased demands for flexibility and lowered TCO as well as concern over legacy skills availability are pressuring IT departments to modernize. Companies should use an Application Portfolio Management methodology to prioritize modernization initiatives that optimize business value. Once identified, organizations should consider a number of different modernization solutions, including external service partners to address their specific modernization challenges,” said Dale Vecchio, Research Vice President, Gartner Inc.

About Relativity Technologies, Inc.
Relativity Technologies is the leading provider of Enterprise Application Modernization and Application Portfolio Management solutions. Over 325 organizations—including seven of the ten largest financial services providers—have relied on our software platform to increase the governance, efficiency, and flexibility of the applications that automate their core business operations. The Modernization Workbench® delivers this value by enabling organizations to understand, manage, modernize, and maintain applications throughout the enterprise. For more information, please visit www.relativity.com.

About Clerity Solutions, Inc.
Clerity is a leading, full-service provider of mainframe migration and legacy modernization solutions. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois with offices worldwide, Clerity's migration team and automated software solutions have facilitated hundreds of successful migrations. With over 15 years' experience in mainframe and distributed environments and more than 1200 active sites worldwide, Clerity is uniquely positioned to assist organizations through all phases of migration. Additional information about Clerity is available at http://www.clerity.com.