, and National Retirement Plan Advisors Inc. Companies in the
Group offer a comprehensive portfolio of life insurance, annuity and equity
products to help individuals, families and businesses meet their financial
goals.
Altiris configuration management solutions differentiate the Altiris
offering from the rest of the market by helping customers execute problem
resolution tasks using embedded service desk tools for software delivery,
imaging, OS migration, PC backup and recovery, patch management and remote
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Altiris is a registered trademark of Altiris, Inc. The other company names or products mentioned are or may be
trademarks of their respective owners.

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expect adoption of these best practice methodologies will make our already
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services in a timely manner, and the institutionalization and maturity of
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(NYSE: KEA) is a premier business and
IT services firm.
To register for the complimentary webinar entitled, "Leveraging the CMDB:
Make the most out of your IT investments," please visit
http://www.

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About Keane
In business since 1965 , Keane, Inc. Keane delivers Application and Business Process Services to
help clients transform their business and IT operations to achieve
demonstrable, measurable and sustainable business benefit .keane. Altiris further supports release
management through integrated software packaging, preflight testing and
targeted software distribution.

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To support the engagement, Keane and National Life Group established
a Program Management Office that provides a structured, rigorous framework for
executive review, and project leadership and implementation. This achievement by both companies reflects our
shared commitment to optimizing business performance through IT excellence. 25 at 11 a.altiris.

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About the National Life Group
The National Life Group is a growing and diversified family of financial
service companies made up of its primary company, National Life Insurance
Company which was founded in Montpelier, Vt.
Keane, based in Boston, MA USA, delivers its services through an integrated
network of regional offices in the United States, Australia, Canada, India and
the United Kingdom , and via SEI CMMI Level 5 evaluated Advanced Development
Centers (ADCs) in Canada and India. 25
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IT organizations to easily manage , secure and service desktops, notebooks,
thin clients, handhelds, industry-standard servers, and heterogeneous software
including Windows, Linux and UNIX.

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Keane believes that
business and IT improvements are best realized by streamlining and optimizing
business and IT processes, implementing rigorous management disciplines and
fostering a culture of accountability through meaningful performance metrics. Altiris automates and simplifies IT
projects throughout the life of an asset to reduce the cost and complexity of
management.

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Management Company, the Sentinel Companies, Equity Services, Inc. For more information, visit http://www. and in
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This assessment certifies National Life Group has a high level of
quality consistently applied across its IT organization to improve operational
efficiency, lower costs and enhance performance.S.

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Keane provides application services for on-going maintenance and new IT
development with on-site teams at National Life Group's headquarters in
Montpelier, Vt., National
Financial Services Inc . Keane is a trusted
advisor and partner for its clients by solving real business issues through
the development and implementation of cost-effective, change-oriented,
industry-specific solutions .

Altiris to Deliver Live Product Demo of the Altiris(R) Centralized Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

EST and will
provide participants with a better understanding of how a centralized CMDB can
help optimize IT services while cutting costs and helping to improve IT
security management .

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CMM is an objective means for evaluating an organization's current IT
processes and establishing steps for improvement.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, Aug.

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"It is an impressive accomplishment for our Keane on-site staff to achieve
this major milestone right on schedule, and while also managing a very
demanding and important workload," said Greg Doremus, senior vice president ,
New Business and Customer Service at National Life Group. The Keane/National Life
Group team was reviewed by an independent assessor firm called ProcessWorks
Inc.

The webinar and live product demo will provide insights into:

* Optimizing the use of valuable resources through building and
maintaining integration points between data repositories, process
management, analysis, and execution tools
* Understanding the benefits of a single, centralized CMDB leveraged
across multiple organizations

The single CMDB is central to all Altiris management solutions, creating a
logical model of discoverable and non-discoverable assets through automated
discovery, continuous verification and status accounting.

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Keane and National Life Group Achieve CMM Level-3 Certification

Contact:
Margo Nison
Keane Public Relations
617-241-9200 x1272

Albie Jarvis
Porter Novelli
617-897-8200

About Altiris
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"They have provided
a methodology and approach that has helped us optimize IT performance.
According to Gary Klemens, Outsourcing director for Vermont at Keane, "Our
close partnership with National Life Group has enabled us to fast-track this
engagement to CMM Level-3. in the U.

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"This certification is the culmination of a year-long effort of training
and hard work," said Joel Conrad, chief information officer (CIO ) at National
Life Group. "Very few organizations have gone from Level 1 to Level 3 within
an 18 month timeframe. This accomplishment demonstrates the strategic
contribution IT is making in improving the agility and efficiency of our
company so we can better meet customer needs. Altiris to Provide Complimentary Webinar With Leading Industry Analyst on
Maximizing IT Investments With a CMDB

SALT LAKE CITY, Altiris, Inc.
(Nasdaq: ATRS), a pioneer of IT lifecycle management solutions that reduce the
total cost of owning IT resources, today announced that Gartner Research
director, Patricia Adams, and Altiris(R) asset management segment manager,
Dave Johnson, will conduct a complimentary webinar to discuss the benefits of
managing IT assets via a configuration management database (CMDB). The CMDB also
manages software versions within a definitive software library to help ensure
accurate software release management. Altiris client and mobile, server, security and IT asset
management solutions natively integrate via a common Web-based console and
repository.

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Strategic Outsourcing Initiative Delivers High-Quality Improvements in IT
Processes

BOSTON, Keane, Inc.altiris.

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Montpelier; Life Insurance Company of the Southwest of Dallas, Texas, and
American Guaranty + Trust Company of Wilmington , Delaware. Specifically, Keane delivers highly synergistic
service offerings, including Application Development + Integration,
Application Outsourcing and Business Process Outsourcing.m.m.

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(NYSE: KEA ), a leading
business and information technology (IT) outsourcing firm, today announced its
application management engagement at National Life Group has been assessed at
Level-3 of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity
Model (CMM). Information on Keane is available on the
Internet at http://www. The webinar will begin on Thursday, Aug. EST.

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