Bradmark Technologies and LECCOTECH Announce Partnership

Houston, TX and San Francisco, CA.--(BUSINESS WIRE)—October 3, 2003— Bradmark Technologies Inc., a specialist provider of enterprise monitoring and database administration tools and LECCO Technology Inc. (LECCOTECH), the leading provider of application performance assurance and optimization solutions, today announced they have entered into a strategic partnership.

The partnership allows customers to identify database application performance bottlenecks at its core, the SQL statement level, and optimize the under performing queries to achieve peak performance.  As performance bottlenecks are pinpointed through the use of Bradmark’s NORAD® Surveillance™ and DBControl™ products, SQL statements can then be passed to LECCOTECH products for automated SQL optimization. LECCOTECH products automatically generate every semantically equivalent SQL statement to the source SQL and benchmark the results to find the fastest alternative, resulting in immediate performance gains. The end result ensures that applications are running at optimum performance.

“We are very excited to combine forces with a company that offers such an innovative software offering,“ comments Mike Sweeney, Bradmark Channel Sales Manager. “We already share common resellers in Europe and Asia and through this partnership, our complimentary product sets will offer customers an end-to-end solution for monitoring, diagnostics, database administration and performance enhancements, expanding the customer base for both organizations.”

NORAD® is a fully integrated suite of tools designed to help the DBA monitor and maintain a single relational database environment or an enterprise of hundreds of disparate servers and databases. NORAD is the most comprehensive product suite on the market for maintaining database and system availability. NORAD® Surveillance™ is a real-time monitoring tool capable of overseeing the entire database environment and will notify a DBA before something goes wrong, eliminating unplanned downtime. NORAD® DBControl™ works online without requiring maintenance windows, which helps reduce or even eliminate the need for planned downtime.

“Our joint product offerings are a natural choice for customers who clearly understand the importance of database application performance management. Having a technology in-house that identifies performance bottlenecks and solves them in a quantified fashion is the best possible strategy when managing inefficiencies related to application performance across the enterprise,” said Eric Auckerman, Partner Sales Manager.

LECCOTECH’s products offer the only solution available that delivers predictive performance bottleneck identification and automated engines to optimize the performance of enterprise database applications. With LECCO DB Expert™, IT professionals are enabled to analyze, predict, preempt, optimize and manage performance changes throughout the application lifecycle, providing immediate cost savings and allowing teams to deploy applications with performance confidence.  With LECCO SQL Expert™, application development teams will realize an increase in staff productivity and application performance as well as positively impacting the overall quality of application code both in development and production.

Founded in 1981, privately-held Bradmark Technologies, Inc. develops, markets, sells and supports data management solutions that provide anytime ÷ anywhere access to managing database, application and operating system components. Bradmarkâs innovative product suites detect and prevent problems before they adversely affect productivity, ensuring that IT environments are up and operating at peak performance. Headquartered in Houston, Bradmark has offices in San Jose, California, Seattle, Washington, London, Munich, and The Netherlands. Additionally, Bradmark reaches global audiences through a network of Channel Partners and International Distributors. For additional information, visit www.bradmark.com.

About LECCOTECH

Founded in 1995, LECCO Technology Inc. (LECCOTECH) is the leading provider of application performance assurance and optimization solutions. LECCOTECH's products allow organizations to capitalize on current IT resources by establishing performance benchmarks and standards for the Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB and Sybase databases. LECCOTECH is customer focused and dedicated to delivering the highest level of service and support through its offices in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom and Hong Kong. LECCOTECH also markets and services its products through a network of strategic partners and solutions providers in Europe, Japan, Australia, China, Taiwan and Latin America.  For more information please visit www.leccotech.com or call 1-877-880-6545.