B&L Associates

Companies Find Tracking Foreign Media Easy with Vertices^®

NEEDHAM, Mass. - August 4, 2005 - After two years of wide release, Vertices Foreign Media Manager Module^™ has proven to be the easiest and most reliable way of tracking and logging foreign media within a company.

"The response has been fantastic," commented Michael Kramer, vice president of sales and marketing for B&L Associates. "Customers have told us that this has really simplified their entire media management process."

Vertices^® is the comprehensive media management tool for open systems that helps easily store, move, track and protect all removable media. And with Vertices Foreign Media Manager Module, Vertices' customers receive that same level of performance with their foreign media.

"Typically, our clients use and store media from other companies only temporarily," added Michael Kramer. "With the Foreign Media Management Module, you can easily process and store media from disparate sources using the same centralized Vertices database."

Foreign media-media that a company neither owns nor writes- usually enters a company's system from outside vendors or clients. Traditionally companies set up separate systems to handle media from outside sources.

With Vertices Foreign Media Manager Module, customers can log and track media from outside companies without it affecting a company's main database of media information. That's because Vertices maintains completely separate tables within its database, so there is no possibility of commingling foreign media information with a company's own media information.

The Vertices Foreign Media Manager Module also provides a comprehensive search feature, the flexibility to create unique storage and handling profiles, and 15 pre-defined reports to help easily manage foreign media.

About B&L Associates Inc.
Since 1975, B&L Associates, Inc. has offered the most powerful, flexible and robust data center operations automation products and storage management solutions available for open and legacy environments. That's why industry-leading companies in 26 countries around the world such as Capital One, QUALCOMM, Toys R Us and United HealthCare Corporation rely on B&L for solutions. For further information, contact B&L at 877-VERTICES (877-837-8423) or through the product Web site at www.vertices.net.

Editors - for further information contact:

L.J. DiCarlo
B&L Associates, Inc.
781/444-1404
ljdicarlo@bandl.com