Lattix LDM Named Winner of the 16th Annual Software Development JOLT Product Excellence Awards for Design Tools & Modeling


ANDOVER, MA-March 21, 2006-Lattix, Inc., the provider of innovative software architecture management solutions, today announced that Software Development magazine has chosen Lattix LDM as the winner of the JOLT Product Excellence Award in the "Design Tools and Modeling" category for this year's coveted Jolt Awards. Lattix LDM was awarded by a team of Software Development
editors, columnists and industry gurus who felt that Lattix LDM 'jolted' the industry with its innovative approach to managing software architecture.

"Whenever we come across a new head-slapper product that we feel developers should be including into their developer toolchest, we're doubly excited," says Rosalyn Lum, technical editor for Dr. Dobb's Journal. "Lattix LDM is one of those jewels. As one judge says, "This is a product I want to use. It's got a very nice approach to actually measuring and visualizing the coupling and cohesion of a large system's architecture. It also lets you modify the subsystems and packages so that you can improve the robustness. Absolutely +1."

"On behalf of Lattix, I'd like to thank the JOLT judges for recognizing the power and potential of this new approach," said Neeraj Sangal, co-founder and president. "The Lightweight Dependency Model approach will have profound implications on how software systems are designed, developed and
maintained."

Lattix has pioneered an approach that uses system interdependencies to create an accurate blueprint of large, mission-critical software systems. Lattix LDM is the first product to use a dependency-structure matrix for a highly compact and scaleable representation of an entire system. With the LDM approach, architects and developers can analyze their architecture in detail, quickly identify issues and opportunities for improvement, and then specify design rules to formalize and communicate that architecture to the entire development organization.

Lattix LDM enables companies to improve and maintain quality, enhance testability, lower costs through more effective development and manage risks by understanding the impact of proposed changes.

About Lattix
Lattix is the leader of software architecture management solutions that deliver higher software quality and lower risk throughout the application lifecycle. Lattix LDM provides a new lightweight approach of utilizing dependency models for automated analysis and enforcement of architectures.
Lattix is located in Andover, MA. More information about Lattix can be found at www.lattix.com.

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