QinetiQ selects Ontology Systems for Service Management

Ontology’s OSS/CAD application to provide key service assurance for MoD’s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure programme

Nice, France, May 6th, 2009 – Today at Management World 2009 conference, Ontology Systems, the company behind the ground breaking OSS/CAD service management application, announce that international defence and security technology company QinetiQ has selected OSS/CAD to provide key service assurance functionality for the UK Ministry of Defence‘s Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) programme, for which QinetiQ is the lead services provider.

OSS/CAD will be integrated into the overall ESII programme being delivered to the MoD to create a service assurance environment in which key user services can be managed across a federated heterogeneous policy-driven network of networks. This will provide a service management capability to monitor and manage the user experience, and actively validate the application of new network policies across wideband mobile communications and infrastructure.

The ESII programme seeks to provide the UK MoD with a flexible method of obtaining cost-effective and timely research into the key issues relating to delivery of the Global Information Infrastructure. . The overall multi-million pound programme delivers research, analysis and experimentation on behalf of the MoD to mature solution concepts that technically derisk the construction of a managed system for a group of complex networks that is both resilient and capable of resisting network attack.

Martin Huddleston, QinetiQ’s Management Systems Technical Leader for the ESII programme commented: ”OSS/CAD’s unique use of semantic technology and ontologies will provide a high degree of agility and flexibility in bringing together data from a variety of heterogeneous network and operational support systems to form a virtual unified service model of the operational environment. In addition to the core application and software configuration capabilities Ontology Systems provides, being UK based was another important element in their selection.”

Ontology Systems’ CEO, Benedict Enweani added: “We are pleased to be able to bring the benefits of OSS/CAD to QinetiQ and MoD in such a challenging deployment environment. OSS/CAD’s capability to rapidly align multiple heterogeneous systems will deliver service management benefits that include a lower cost of ownership, the highest level of agility and the ability to embrace ongoing changes in the overall systems..”

The engagement is progressing to schedule with the service management capability ready for demonstration to the MoD in June 2009.

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About Ontology Systems

Ontology Systems is radically simplifying the way in which service providers (ISPs, CSPs and MSPs) manage and understand their operational systems. Ontology’s OSS/CAD is at the forefront of applying ontologies and semantics to deliver a breakthrough approach by reinterpreting business, operational and infrastructural data as a single, virtual Unified Service Model.

Based in London, Ontology was founded in 2006 by Benedict Enweani and Leo Zancani and is privately owned. Investors in Ontology include Celtic House Venture Partners and Eden Ventures, whose proven track record of early stage investment successes include Cramer Systems, Apertio, nCipher and Ubiquity.

For more information, please visit www.ontology.com

Press Contact: Nick Gregory nick.gregory {at} ontology(.)com +44 7966 841688.

About QinetiQ

QinetiQ (pronounced “kinetic”) is a leading international defence and security technology company with over 8,000 employees in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Australasia) and more than 5,500 in North America. QinetiQ’s vision is to be the world’s leading provider of defence and security based technology solutions and services. In February 2006, QinetiQ Group plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange and joined the FTSE250 in June 2006. In the year to 31 March 2008, QinetiQ delivered a 19 per cent increase in revenue to £1,366m, including organic growth of 8.6 per cent, and a 20 per cent increase in underlying operating profit to £127m.

For more information contact:

Douglas Millard in the QinetiQ Press Office on –

Tel: +44 (0) 1252 39 4611 / 3500

Email: DMillard {at} QinetiQ(.)com / PressOffice {at} QinetiQ(.)com