Ambeo Partners to Deliver World-Class eService; ASP Hosting Service Provides High Security and Availability to eBusiness.Business Editors ENGLEWOOD, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Ambeo (formerly Pine Cone pine cone Noun the woody seed case of a pine tree pine cone n → piña pine cone n → pomme f de pin Systems), a leading provider of eBusiness performance management services and technology, today announced the final stages of completion of its ASP model to support the company's new eService, (i)onwhy. The company has created a highly secure and robust site in which to host the activity and performance data it collects from its subscribers. The eService uses this data to deliver performance and activity reports and on-line consulting services via the web. "Ambeo formed strategic partnerships with a number of companies to create a best-of-breed ASP model," said Ed Skibbe, VP Marketing and Internet Services. "For example, the co-location site, with a reputation as a world-class data center, boasts its own fiber optic network that links directly to the three major internet backbones A group of communications networks managed by several commercial companies that provide the major high-speed links across the country. ISPs are either connected directly to these backbones or to a larger regional ISP that is connected to one. , and provides the capability to support international hosting. The host site is outfitted with comprehensive security measures Noun 1. security measures - measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" security , UPS power, emergency generators, and high-speed, reliable connectivity to their network." Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. was selected for their premier hardware and operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . As a strategic partner of the Sun Essentials Startup Program, Ambeo receives Gold Level Support (24x7) and hot swappable See hot swap. servers to ensure high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. of its (i)onwhy eService. 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) DB2/UDB was selected as the database for storing subscriber data. Through extensive performance testing Performance Testing covers a broad range of engineering or functional evaluations where a material, product, or system is not specified by detailed material or component specifications: Rather, emphasis is on the final measurable performance characteristics. and benchmarking at Ambeo's engineering laboratories, the company determined that its back-end analysis and reporting technology performs best on IBM DB2/UDB. Ambeo's collector technology seamlessly integrates with most major customer platforms. Ambeo chose BusinessObjects as its front-end reporting and analysis tool because it is easy to use, scalable, and the most commonly used e-business intelligence tool on the market. (i)onwhy consultants will use the full-client BusinessObjects(TM) and thin-client WebIntelligence(R) tools to analyze subscriber data and deliver timely performance and activity reports. "Ambeo's adoption of BusinessObjects and WebIntelligence for (i)onwhy gives its online consultants the industry's most advanced e-business intelligence solution," said Mark Tice, group vice president of global alliances at Business Objects. "The consultants will be able to quickly analyze the data and reach meaningful conclusions, enabling them to make skilled recommendations to their e-business customers." Stephen Elliot, Analyst for Gartner Group, added: "Internet infrastructure services that monitor eBusiness performance is a massive market opportunity. Service providers must recognize that increasing customer visibility into the technical infrastructure will improve customer loyalty and provide a competitive advantage. Internet Management functionality is the mission-critical next step." About Ambeo Ambeo, formerly Pine Cone Systems, was founded by Bill Inmon, the father of data warehousing. The company pioneered the concept of managing the data warehouse to improve performance and was first to market with a core set of products to capture detailed information about queries, users, and tables and columns. This technology has been enhanced for eBusiness environments, and today is available through (i)onwhy, a web-based eService, to help companies manage eBusiness performance. The company's growing customer list includes a number of Fortune 500 companies including Agilent Technologies, AT&T Wireless, Barclays Bank, Citicorp, Dial Corp., Federal Express, Hewlett-Packard, JP Morgan, Lucent Technologies, PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. Health Systems, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , and US WEST. For more information, see www.ambeo.com. Ambeo and (i)onwhy are trademarks of Ambeo, Inc. BUSINESSOBJECTS is a trademark of Business Objects SA. WEBINTELLIGENCE is a registered trademark of Business Objects SA. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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