Altaworks Unveils Panorama 2.0; Signs Partnership with Kadiri.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 Latest Version Includes New Performance Views, Open Reporting Schema, Expanded Monitoring Coverage and Software Development Kit Altaworks Corporation, (www.altaworks.com), the leading developer of Web enterprise performance management software, today announced a major new version of its flagship software, Panorama 2.0, as well as the signing of a partnership with independent software vendor Kadiri, the leading provider of Enterprise Compensation Management solutions. Altaworks Panorama 2.0 includes several important enhancements that help companies reduce the time and cost of maximizing web enterprise performance. Kadiri plans to utilize Panorama 2.0 in two ways. First, it will offer Panorama as the foundation for a performance monitoring service The general surveillance of known air traffic movements by reference to a radar scope presentation or other means, for the purpose of passing advisory information concerning conflicting traffic or providing navigational assistance. for customers of its Web-based Kadiri TotalComp(TM) application. Kadiri TotalComp simplifies compensation planning, including salary, variable pay and stock by integrating employee information, analytical tools, expert knowledge and situation-specific guidance. Second, Kadiri will use Panorama internally during the testing and tuning phases of its development lifecycle. "The entire process of developing, testing and supporting our Kadiri TotalComp(TM) solution demands a Web enterprise performance management solution that simplifies the complex task of performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. enterprise systems," said Desmond Whitt, Director of Technical Services at Kadiri. "Altaworks Panorama 2.0 enables Kadiri to proactively maximize the performance of our solutions by discovering and displaying cross-tier performance characteristics during development and testing. Using Panorama as a Kadiri performance option also allows us to proactively help our customers manage their complex systems instead of just delivering another n-tiered application." "Altaworks Panorama was purpose-built to provide real-time and historical visibility into the performance of transactions and applications across the entire Web enterprise," said Stephen McCalmont, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Chairman of the Board at Altaworks. "Over the past year, we have listened to and learned a tremendous amount from our customers and prospects and are pleased to deliver strong enhancements in Panorama 2.0 that incorporate their suggestions and direction. Panorama 2.0 represents a significant leap forward in bringing more intuitive, intelligent and efficient performance management to Web enterprises." Through an automated, intelligent and integrated architecture, Panorama monitors and analyzes transactions, applications, systems, components and processes across the Web enterprise with the goal of turning raw performance data into real, actionable Giving sufficient legal grounds for a lawsuit; giving rise to a Cause of Action. An act, event, or occurrence is said to be actionable when there are legal grounds for basing a lawsuit on it. answers. New features in Panorama 2.0 build upon the product's strength in real-time and historical data correlation and continue to assist companies in easily monitoring and analyzing performance across all the tiers of a Web enterprise. Key new features and benefits include: -- Faster problem diagnosis via new "topn" and "deviation" performance views - Panorama 2.0's new performance views show resources and components across the entire Web enterprise with the highest performance values and those that are deviating the most from normal behavior. These new "topn" and "deviation" views complement Panorama's correlation technology and save IT operations personnel troubleshooting time, cost and resources by sifting through thousands of performance metrics in order to identify prioritized, intelligent starting points for uncovering real-time and historical performance patterns. -- Improved cross-organizational communication and collaboration with new reporting schema - With the 2.0 release, Panorama continues to assist companies in boosting the communication and collaboration of their organizations by enabling all performance information to be accessed via an open, published reporting schema. The new schema enables organizations to easily share Panorama's historical performance information, create customized reports and utilize common tools such as Crystal Reports and Microsoft Excel. -- Increased breadth of monitoring with addition of new data adapters and software development kit (SDK) - Altaworks increases its leadership in consolidating and analyzing performance data across all the tiers of distributed applications by including in the 2.0 release new support for Tomcat and AIX 5L and an update to the Oracle database data adapter that includes support for the Oracle 9i database. Panorama 2.0 also includes a new SDK. Designed primarily for use in conjunction with an Altaworks professional services engagement, the SDK enables the development of custom data adapters that can capture performance data from virtually any target including packaged software, custom and legacy applications and third party or service provider solutions. About Kadiri Kadiri Inc. is the leading provider of Enterprise Compensation Management solutions. The company's Kadiri TotalComp(TM) solution simplifies compensation planning, including salary, variable pay and stock by integrating employee information, analytics, expert knowledge and situation-specific guidance. Kadiri TotalComp significantly shortens compensation planning cycles by enabling line managers to make informed decisions at their desktop. Highly functional and easy to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. , Kadiri TotalComp is revolutionizing the way companies manage total compensation. Customers include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. 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Kadiri is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Burlingame, Calif., and can be contacted at (877) 642-2299 or www.kadiri.com About Altaworks Corporation Headquartered in Nashua, NH, Altaworks is a leading developer of performance and availability management software for distributed Web enterprises such as those built on IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere(R) (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM), BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. (R) (Nasdaq:BEAS) and Oracle9iAS (Nasdaq:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ). The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Altaworks Panorama, monitors actual, live transaction response times and correlates these key indicators with the probable causes Apparent facts discovered through logical inquiry that would lead a reasonably intelligent and prudent person to believe that an accused person has committed a crime, thereby warranting his or her prosecution, or that a Cause of Action has accrued, justifying a civil lawsuit. of performance problems, giving companies unprecedented visibility into the health of systems and applications to avoid transaction slowdowns that can lead to lost business. Founded in late 1999, Altaworks is backed by strategic financial partners St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Venture Capital, Prism Venture Partners and YankeeTek Ventures, and has raised more than $35 million in funding Note: Altaworks and Altaworks Panorama are trademarks of Altaworks Corporation. The names of companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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