ASG Delivers Advanced Workload Automation with ASG-Zena 2.0; Workload Management Solution Provides Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and OS/400 Automation.

NAPLES, Fla. & ORLANDO, Fla. -- ASG, an enterprise software and professional services provider to Global 5000 companies, announced today at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo the availability of ASG-Zena(TM) 2.0, a distributed workload management solution that extends ASG's Operations Management product family by providing customers with unrivaled process automation, integration and scheduling for enterprise applications and platforms, including Oracle(R), SAP(R), PeopleSoft(R) and OS/400(R).

"Many enterprises use diverse operating system platforms, diverse applications, such as ERP, homegrown and others from different vendors," said Milind Govekar, vice president and research director of Gartner, Inc. "Business processes now flow through different applications and platforms and have to cope with events. Thus to automate business processes, enterprises should examine the use of event-driven schedulers."

Supporting event-based scheduling as well as traditional date- and time-based scheduling methodologies, ASG-Zena features advanced Java(TM) architecture and intelligent design that provide users with a comprehensive solution for automating tasks, processes, events and schedules in their enterprise applications environments. ASG-Zena also integrates key business processes running on platforms such as UNIX(R), Linux, OS/400 and Windows(R).

"We have found ASG-Zena to work well for applications requiring a strong distributed scheduling and business automation solution," said Daryl Anderson, program manager for Information Technology Infrastructure at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL).

ASG Vice President of Product Management Jim Holland said, "ASG-Zena 2.0 is a robust, next-generation solution that facilitates end-to-end, integrated workload management across multiple operating environments. With features like exception-based management, a highly scalable architecture, fault-tolerance and role-based security, ASG-Zena enables operations management and application development organizations to work together and deliver unmatched workload automation for the real-time enterprise."

About ASG

Founded in 1986, ASG is a privately held global enterprise software and professional services firm that provides a full range of software solutions in the Metadata Management, Security Management, Applications Management, Operations Management, Information Management, Performance Management and Infrastructure Management arenas -- including business re-engineering, systems integration and systems development. ASG is headquartered in Naples, Florida, USA, with more than 45 offices serving the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia/Pacific. For more information, visit ASG at http://www.asg.com.

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