NEW YORK, May 19, 2009 - Knoa® Software, the leading provider of end-user experience and performance management software, today announced that Knoa's Experience and Performance Manager (EPM), has been selected as winner of the 2009 Product Innovation Award by Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication. This is the second year that Knoa has been honored in the category of "End-User Experience Management."

Knoa EPM provides total monitoring coverage of end-user experience and behavior across the spectrum of enterprise applications. The award-winning software product monitors application execution from the perspective of the end-user, and provides precise metrics about the end-user experience as well as measurements on how effectively people execute when using enterprise applications. Knoa provides the most accurate metrics possible on application performance, and delivers an unprecedented level of visibility into the business performance achieved by the end-users.

"Innovation is clearly an important factor for success and can have the most impact on staying competitive, "says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Network Products Guide. "Leading-edge solutions such as Knoa’s Experience and Performance Manager are continuing to bring improvements to the enterprise in the areas of functionality, technical ability and ease-of-use. How end-users use applications is key to their overall success. Monitoring these functions as a whole should be on every IT department's agenda, to ensure maximum optimization of IT investment."

Knoa EPM is the first and only end-user management solution designed to optimize both application and end-user performance. Knoa EPM provides total end-user monitoring coverage for enterprise applications, such as SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Siebel CRM, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft Enterprise Suite, as well as many other application vendors and custom applications. Knoa EPM continues to break new ground by providing real end-user intelligence which enables essential incremental changes to the enterprise -- setting the bar higher for others in all areas of information technology.

"We are delighted to be selected for the Network Products Guide 2009 Innovation Awards for the second consecutive year," said Lori Wizdo, vice president, Marketing, Knoa Software. "The continued recognition is a testament to the value we bring to the industry as well as our customers and partners each day. IT executives continue to be under pressure to deliver results from current investment and to do more with less. Armed with the comprehensive metrics about application usage and end-user performance, decision makers can effectively target resources for maximum usage and optimal return on investment."

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About Knoa
Knoa® Software is leading the performance management industry with end-user experience management solutions that reach beyond infrastructure and application performance to monitor, measure and manage how end-users are utilizing the application to optimize business process execution. Knoa customers not only know if core enterprise applications are delivering an acceptable user experience, but also, if application users are executing key processes effectively and efficiently - the key to achieving business value and ROI. Knoa was recently selected by Gartner as a "Cool Vendor", for its capabilities in end-user experience and performance management and was listed as a Leader in the "Forrester Wave: Passive Agent End User Experience Monitoring". Knoa is headquartered in New York, NY. For more information about Knoa, please visit www.knoa.com.