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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
For Marketing: brianne@aggroup.com
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AG Group, Inc. Releases WatchPoint Version 2.1

Powerful Real-time Internet Server Monitoring and Analysis

WALNUT CREEK, California - April 11, 2000

AG Group, Inc., a leading provider of accessible, affordable network monitoring tools, today announced WatchPoint 2.1, an upgrade to its breakthrough server monitoring and analysis application. WatchPoint offers corporate Internet data centers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) the first practical means of getting real-time information about their Internet site usage and performance.

Marketing and sales professionals have the complex task of measuring Web visitor database transactions and traffic patterns to maximize site profitability and retain online customers. WatchPoint provides report generation and utilization statistics in real-time, allowing marketing and sales personnel to easily capture and analyze the behavior of online customers on the fly -- freeing users from cumbersome, time consuming log-file analysis.

"As a Software Product Manager, I have come to rely on our web traffic more and more for vital customer interchange," says Dovid Coplan of Netopia. "WatchPoint assists me in recognizing where my visitors are coming from and therefore better refine the partnerships and content that I maintain."

Through WatchPoint data is extracted, analyzed and presented in an intuitive, graphical report format to deliver information such as the average length of a user's session, web pages or files downloaded, server performance, top entry and exit pages, the most frequently visited pages and more.

WatchPoint v.2.1 Feature Enhancements

The 2.1 release of WatchPoint adds many new enhancements including Auto Refresh, Suffix Resolver and Preference Specified Column Widths:

  • Auto Refresh - Provides viewing statistics in real-time intervals with automatic updates every five seconds.

  • Suffix Resolver - Restructured format for top-level domain names allows users to view domain name suffix meanings and personalize them for new domains.

  • Preference Specified Column Widths - Gives support for unique preferences in column tables

    These new access control features add to an already robust feature-set and help users manage information more efficiently, saving time and online revenue.

    "There has been an emergence of hosted services in our market that provide real-time reports on web site utilization. This trend is in response to the performance, scaling and aggregation challenges associated with traditional server-resident log file web analysis tools," states AG Group's Channel Manager Ed Hazarabedian. "With its unique technology and at a fraction of the cost of hosted services, WatchPoint passively monitors web site, server and network activity in real-time with no modifications to existing web pages, without degrading server performance and without burdening the IT staff."

    WatchPoint uses a unique, non-invasive network monitoring approach to measure Internet activity, and extracts this key data through the capture and re-assembling of all packets passing back and forth between all TCP connections on the network. WatchPoint's functionality also benefits the IT staff by providing server and network performance metrics.

    WatchPoint Pricing and Availability

    WatchPoint 2.1: Real Time Server Analysis

    Small Business Edition (SBE) - $1,000.00
    Enterprise Edition (EE) - $3,000.00

    Multi-user site licenses offered

    AG Group's products are available through major distributors and resellers worldwide. For a complete listing visit http://www.aggroup.com/products.

    WatchPoint System Requirements

    Monitor (server):

    • Windows NT4.0 service pack 3 or Windows 2000
    • Pentium 400 MHz and faster
    • 128M of RAM

      Console (client):

    • Windows 95/98/2000, NT4.0 or Mac OS with Mac Runtime Java 2.0
    • Pentium 166 MHz and faster
    • 64 MB of RAM

    About AG Group, Inc.

    AG Group, Inc. specializes in the development of powerful and affordable software-based tools to troubleshoot, optimize and maintain mixed-platform, multi-protocol network environments. Our goal of bringing superior technology, accessibility, value and flexibility to the ever-expanding realm of network management incorporates both software and service products. Currently, AG Group offerings include network and protocol analyzers, LAN/WAN and internet traffic monitors, TCP/IP test utilities, and network management and protocol-specific training classes.

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