<A HREF="http://www.mvalent.com/newsandevents/pressrelease20050606.asp">mValent has joined the IBM Open Process Automation Library (OPAL) initiative,</A> designed to capture IT best practices and turn them into automation packages for automating manual, repetitive IT tasks. mValent's participation in the IBM OPAL initiative assures customers that mValent's technology can be used easily and efficiently to automate application configuration management within IBM's On Demand operating environment and recently announced IT Service Management offerings.