AQM Solutions Launches TriTune(TM) 4.0.00, the New Solution for Mainframe Performance Tuning.

BOSTON -- Available from September 12, 2006, AQM Solutions' TriTune is based on technology by BMC Software and is already being used by large corporations worldwide.

AQM Solutions, a TRILOGexpert company, announces the launch of TriTune(TM) 4.0.00 a new generation of software for Application Performance Management. Based on established technology created by BMC Software, the new product will replace BMC's InTune(TM) and provide organizations with the ability to dramatically reduce IT costs by increasing mainframe application efficiency and performance.

"In early 2005, AQM Solutions assumed responsibility for the development of the next generation of InTune, and as a result the new TriTune solution delivers new and enhanced functionality and improved product quality to InTune customers", says Osman Aykut, chief technology officer of TRILOGexpert and Director of AQM Solutions, Inc.

TriTune pinpoints application execution delays and presents an in-depth performance profile through an easy-to-use, interactive interface. The software provides detailed delay and execution metrics that let analysts quickly improve the performance of all mainframe applications.

The new version provides visibility into distributed technologies that leverage z/OS resources including Java on Websphere/zOS and DB2 Distributed Data Facility. As companies continue to deploy distributed applications that access DB2 data on the mainframe, it is increasingly important to gain insight into how these applications consume and/or misuse valuable DB2 resources. TriTune also provides in-depth performance metrics on DB2 resources used to service distributed applications and provides detailed information on individual SQL statements that generate heaviest demands for those resources. This helps mainframe performance specialists and applications developers quickly and easily solve performance problems in this complicated environment.

"TRILOGexpert and AQM Solutions have been providing management solutions to Fortune 1000 companies for over 15 years. They have a proven strategy for demonstrating and implementing innovative solutions and have been a strong partner of ours for more than five years," says Jonathan Adams, VP-MAINVIEW, BMC. "The new functionality and even higher quality standards built into TriTune 4.0.00 create a logical migration path for users of InTune who are looking to move toward a comprehensive automated AQM solution."

The solution also offers powerful features such as content-sensitive online help, support for key subsystems and languages, and complete interactive functionality in one package.

"We are pleased to bring a more powerful and user-friendly software for in-depth application performance analysis to existing and future customers," says Osman Aykut, chief technology officer of TRILOGexpert and Director of AQM Solutions, Inc. "TriTune helps performance engineers, technical analysts, and applications development teams identify and isolate inefficient processes faster and more easily than traditional manual application performance analysis products."

Automated Application Quality Management

TriTune has been specifically designed to seamlessly integrate into the Automated Application Quality Management Package, creating the most advanced software technology for measuring, analyzing and tuning mainframe applications. TriTune(TM) pinpoints system, database, I/O, and application performance delays through an advanced interactive interface that reveals opportunities to optimize batch or online applications that use CICS, DB2, IMS, COBOL, PL/I, JAVA, Adabas/Natural, and other dominant mainframe technologies.

The combination with APC maximizes the benefits of TriTune by offering the highest degree of automation possible and eliminating over 90% of manual efforts. Tuning opportunities are presented automatically which can save companies millions of dollars. Together with APC, TriTune is now the market's most powerful performance tuning solution.

For a limited time (through March 31, 2007) existing InTune customers that sign up for TriTune will receive the Automation Component APC for TriTune for free usage for six months. As an additional bonus, those customers will receive free email and telephone support and free maintenance for the trial period.

About AQM Solutions

AQM Solutions (a TRILOGexpert company), is the application quality and performance management company that provides automated performance tuning and resource optimization to Fortune 1000 companies. With AQM Solutions' offering, mainframe companies can decrease their IT operating costs significantly.

Since 1990 TRILOGexpert has helped its clients save time and money through its products that automatically identify, initiate, measure and report on applications so that they can be tuned for optimal application efficiency and performance. Unlike performance management tools that focus on one application instance or execution, AQM Solutions combines process automation with in depth-application performance analysis so customers can proactively optimize the performance throughout the application lifecycle. By using AQM Solutions' products, enterprises can reduce the amount of time they spend on manual tuning by over 90%, costly hardware and software upgrades can be deferred or avoided. AQM Solutions' services are invaluable to enterprises that rely on mainframes to manage their IT tasks. Clients in the US and Europe include: AUDI, AXA, BMW, EDS, Guardian, Swisscom IT Services, UBS, Volkswagen, Walmart, and Zurich.