advanced mobile device management solutions, today announced the release of the
Athena™ Add-In for the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007.
Odyssey Software’s flagship solution, Athena, is fully optimized for wireless operation
and designed to extend the Microsoft System Center family of solutions with enhanced
capabilities to manage, monitor and support Windows Mobile and Windows CE-based
devices remotely over any public or private IP-based network.

The Athena Add-In for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 gives you more
power over mobile devices than ever before. It captures and aggregates knowledge about
your mobile devices, the applications they are running and the networks they are
operation on. Athena gives you the power to distribute software and settings from a
central location. In addition, Athena provides a powerful set of interactive tools that let
help desk personnel remotely troubleshoot and fix problems immediately, or assist endusers
while utilizing true, live remote-control capabilities.

“The availability of our Athena Device Management Add-In for System Center
Configuration Manager 2007 is a major milestone for us,” said Mark Gentile, Odyssey
Software’s President and CEO. “It not only underscores our commitment to Microsoft
System Center platforms, the Add-In also demonstrates how Athena’s open and
extensible architecture supports direct integration with enterprise management systems
such as System Center Configuration Manager 2007.”

Athena integrates directly with System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and
leverages the System Center infrastructure. All Athena features are exposed directly from
the System Center Configuration Manager 2007 console. There is no need to launch a
proprietary console or deploy additional servers to access the powerful features of
Athena.

“System Center Configuration Manager 2007 provides customers with a comprehensive
solution for deploying and updating servers, desktops and mobile devices,” said Eric
Berg, director of product management for System Center at Microsoft Corp. “We are
pleased to be working with Odyssey Software and think the work they are doing to
extend the mobile device management capabilities of configuration manager for devices
running mission-critical line-of-business applications will deliver real value to our joint
customers.”

Athena provides broad device support for any mobile device running Microsoft Windows
Mobile and Windows Embedded CE, including consumer, rugged and Smartphone
devices.

Under Odyssey Software’s Support & Maintenance program, Athena customers pay no
additional licensing cost to upgrade from the Add-In for SMS 2003 to the Add-In for
System Center Configuration Manager 2007; providing a seamless path for licensing and
technical migration.