NEW STRATEGY AND SOFTWARE CAN STOP SKYROCKETING PROBLEM OF CONTROL-FREE E-MAIL, WEB AND FILE ACTIVITY WITH INTELLIGENT CONTROL LAYER
New York, NY - June 06, 2007

Today, Orchestria unveiled a comprehensive strategy and new software - Orchestria 5.0 - for solving the rapidly escalating problem of uncontrolled electronic communications and actions.

The Control-Free Crisis: Two Million Uncontrolled E-mails a Day

Over the last five years the growth in e-mail, instant messaging, Web surfing, Blogging, file uploading and other electronic communications and actions has exploded. It is not unusual for a Global 2000 company to send over two million e-mails a day. At most enterprises, these electronic communications and actions are control-free. The ramifications of this control-free computing environment often have a material, adverse effect on the organization and leave the enterprise exposed to operational, financial, regulatory, legal, employee, and reputation risk. Anyone who has read the front page of The Wall Street Journal or Financial Times over the last month has seen the clear evidence of this.

WITH THE PUSH OF A BUTTON AN A EMPLOYEE CAN:

• Taint a financial transaction
• Break a customer relationship
• Break the law
• Breach regulatory rules
• Commit sexual harassment
• Create a PR nightmare
• Steal or inadvertently transmit valuable intellectual property
• Unlawfully disclose personally identifiable information

Research conducted by Orchestria with over 250 companies shows that the average enterprise:

• Sends and receives approximately 50-100 messages per employee, per day
• 0.1 to 1.0% of those messages breach either company policy, laws, or regulatory rules
• 90% of Global 200 companies have limited or no strategy or software technology in place to stop, correct and review potentially damaging electronic actions and communications

Additionally, there has been a dramatic increase in electronic control blunders over the past several quarters, illustrating a fundamental lack of control at enterprises across all industries and government sectors.

ORCHESTRIA'S ELECTRONIC CONTROL STRATEGY
To address this growing threat, Orchestria has unveiled the industry's first Electronic Control Strategy. The strategy is built on the premise that "good controls are good business." It identifies the key steps required to ensure that all electronic actions and communications are compliant with laws, internal policies and external regulations. The strategy details the steps required to block, correct, capture, classify, and/or review all electronic communications and actions. This comprehensive approach is the first complete solution that can ensure that employees who intend to do damage to the enterprise are stopped and that employees who might inadvertently breach policy are able to correct their electronic actions before they cause damage to the company or themselves.

Orchestria is also revealing its Strategic Product Roadmap to key customers, partners and analysts. The Orchestria roadmap outlines the company's technology agenda to provide an intelligent control layer that monitors and manages all electronic communications, actions, and file activity (save, delete, copy, print, etc.) across all computing and communication platforms.

"As the lines between regulatory, data loss prevention, legal and governance tools begin to blur, customers across all verticals can benefit from solutions that support and protect all types of electronic messaging and file activity," said Toby Bell, Research Vice President at Gartner.

NEW SOFTWARE RELEASE: ORCHESTRIA 5.0
Orchestria 5.0 introduces the largest set of new capabilities and enhancements in the company's history. The new version allows customers to intelligently analyze and actively control all electronic communications and actions. Orchestria 5.0 is a powerful set of electronic control software that allows customers to manage data loss prevention, compliance, legal hold, and records management functions.

• Orchestria 5.0 broadens Orchestria's control coverage from electronic message activity to message, Web and file activity.
• Orchestria 5.0 expands Orchestria's deployment flexibility by adding a fifth class of control agent - a network agent which complements the already released fifteen distinct client, message server, archive, and importer control agents.
• Orchestria 5.0 increases the solution set with the introduction of Orchestria's Data Loss Prevention and Records Management solutions, thereby enhancing the breadth of Orchestria's suite which includes the already proven and widely implemented Intelligent Compliance and Legal Hold solutions.
• Orchestria 5.0 expands Orchestria's market leading policy capabilities by offering additional levels of granular control and support for international deployments.
• Orchestria 5.0 adds additional integration to complementary solutions and technologies from IBM, EMC, Microsoft, Oracle, NetApp, and FAST.

Orchestria 5.0 brings the total number of patents granted or pending to 40, with more than 1,000 distinct patent claims among them.

"The control-free computing crisis has become an unacceptable risk for every enterprise," said Bo Manning, President and CEO at Orchestria. "Our goal is to provide the intelligent electronic control layer that allows global companies and government agencies to solve this skyrocketing problem. The release of our Electronic Control Strategy and Orchestria 5.0 is a seminal step in achieving this goal."

"Given the mounting electronic control crisis, Orchestria's strategy of enabling organizations to implement a single, enterprise-wide intelligent electronic control layer enables customers to address this important problem," stated Brian Babineau, Research Director at ESG.

About Orchestria
Orchestria is the global leader in electronic control software, providing an intelligent control layer that monitors electronic communications and actions to ensure they comply with laws, regulations, and corporate policies. The technology substantially mitigates the risk of the control-free crisis that has arisen from the explosion in the use of Internet activities such as e-mail, Web and file actions. Orchestria ensures that employees who intend to do damage are stopped, while empowering employees who inadvertently breach policy to correct their actions before they do harm. Deployed across more than 33 countries world-wide, Orchestria solutions protect more than 50 million electronic actions every working day. The Company has 40 patents granted or pending in the field of electronic control. For more information visit www.orchestria.com.

Orchestria is a registered trademark of Orchestria Corporation. Real-Time Prevention, Intelligent Review, Smart Tagging and iConsole are trademarks of Orchestria Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners.

For more information:
Stephanie Powers
Orchestria
+1 212-402-3336
stephanie.powers@orchestria.com

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