WALTHAM, MA and OTTAWA, ON - June 14, 2005 - Watchfire, a provider of software and services to manage the risks of doing business on the web, today announced it has acquired substantially all of the assets and intellectual property of COAST, an Ottawa-based provider of online quality and privacy compliance software. Watchfire has acquired COAST's entire product line, consisting of COAST Compliance Central, WebCentral and its desktop tool, COAST WebMaster.

Previous news - COAST Compliance Central launched.

Executives gain framework for reducing online risk

In direct response to market demand for better control over online risk, COAST Compliance Central delivers a platform that empowers management to enforce compliance by allowing organizations to discover, register, monitor and resolve online compliance violations from within a common environment. Together with COAST's online compliance management best practice, the company delivers an end-to-end framework for reducing risk and building trust online.

Previous news - COAST WebMaster Version 7.0 released.

Empowering Web Teams to Increase Efficiency while Improving Site Quality

Keeping pace with the evolving Web technology landscape and meeting customer demands, COAST WebMaster 7 empowers enterprise Web developers with a powerful new scanning engine for broader site coverage. The ability for WebMaster 7 to understand more file formats than ever before allows Web developers to pinpoint errors in today's large, complex Web sites and confidently monitor all their Web properties. In addition to supporting the latest Web technologies such as dynamic page content, COAST WebMaster 7 integrates with COAST Web Quality Central. This combination creates a powerful solution for total Web compliance management.

COAST WebMaster 7 continues to evolve to meet the increasing needs of enterprise Web developers. Feedback from beta customers has been extremely positive. One beta customer reported: "We've been a customer since version 2.0. The technology continues to meet our changing needs. WebMaster enables me to single-handedly take care of what has taken us up to four people to accomplish in the past." Beta customers included the US military, the government of Canada, and Fortune 2000 organizations.

Further WebMaster 7.0 product information

Previous news - Sane NetTracker Version 7.0 released.

The new version revolutionizes the administration of the diverse Web analytics needs found within an enterprise, and introduces new advanced custom reporting capabilities for both the enterprise's most sophisticated users and most casual users.

"No matter what your goal is--to simply measure your Web site traffic, to evolve your Web site into a more effective business channel, or to revolutionize your business using customer intelligence correlated from all channels--NetTracker will be an integral part of your success," said Jim Rose, CEO of Sane Solutions, LLC. "NetTracker provides easy, self-service access to Web site traffic data for every type of business user, and every business goal, across the enterprise."