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Boole & Babbage Announces COMMAND/POST 4; Extends Service Level Management Leadership.


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:BOOL), a leader in service level management for diinteroperability with leading frameworks, enablformation to more users throughout their organization; a streamlined administration interface for easier and faster deployment; and new Power Modules for more out-of-the-box functionality and extended application management reach.

NEW FEATURES OF COMMAND/POST 4

Connectivity

Adding to its existing interoperability with best-of-breed solutions, COMMAND/POST 4 features two new product options, connect TEC and connect IT/Operations for interoperability with the Tivoli TME See Tivoli Systems Management Software.  10 and HP OpenView HP OpenView was a Hewlett Packard product range consisting of an extensive portfolio of network and systems management products. In 2007 the entire HP OpenView portfolio was rebranded under the strengthened HP Software name.  frameworks, plus an enhanced release of connect NNM NNM Network Node Manager
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These solutions offer a quick, out-of-the-box approach to implementing bi-directional connectivity between COMMAND/POST and complementary framework products. They allow customers to leverage investments they have made in frameworks by enabling users to create COMMAND/POST customized, business process views and extend the reach the framework solutions for true end-to-end service level management. COMMAND/POST 4 serves as a master integrator, consolidating standard and non-standard systems, networks, devices and even multiple frameworks to a central management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. .

"COMMAND/POST 4 is integrated with Tivoli's TEC to give us the capability to filter framework alerts and provide a consolidated end-to-end view of out enterprise," said Andy Dudley, Head of the Technical Group at Barclays Bank. "The connect TEC product option has really tightened the relationship between the Tivoli's TEC and COMMAND/POST."

Global Distribution of Service Level Management

COMMAND/POST 4 offers a broader choice of client platforms for the COMMAND/POST Explorer desktop interface, including UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
; Windows 95, 98 and NT; and the ease and simplicity of true interactive Web support via the Microsoft or Netscape browsers. With this added flexibility, service level information is easily and economically distributed to the desktops of all authorized corporate personnel, empowering senior management and end users to monitor service levels.

Ease and Speed of Installation

The revised administration interface enhances the ease and speed of set-up, taking less than one hour to install and less than one day to set-up. "The COMMAND/POST solution was already the product of choice for many Fortune 1000 companies because it is fast and easy to deploy," said Steve Foote of the Hurwitz Group. "With the release of COMMAND/POST 4, Boole & Babbage has succeeded in raising the bar even higher."

New Power Modules

The new Power Modules offer comprehensive out-of-the-box application management. With the release of COMMAND/POST 4, Power Modules for R/3, OS/400 and Oracle are now available along with existing Power Modules for UNIX, NT, NetWare, OS/2 and MQSeries. (For more details on COMMAND/POST Power Modules see the accompanying "Boole & Babbage Broadens Out-of-Box Management with New Power Modules' press release.) The Power Modules help users create true business process views by monitoring an application as well as its dependent systems and subsystems.

NT Migration

COMMAND/POST 4 introduces a mid-level management console written on the Windows NT platform, continuing the progression of the company's direction to Windows NT. With thisapplications according to availability expectatiting director for client/server products at Boole & Babbage. "With its unique 'connect to anything' approach, COMMAND/POST is a real-world problem-solver, already at work in hundreds of highly complex IT infrastructures, from mainframes munications companies and eight of the top 10 commercial banks use COMMAND/POST to manage service levels thrMAND/POST can work independently of any framewobility of COMMAND/POST include proactive management of legacy & distributed systems; optimization of the help-desk trouble ticket process; integration of legacy management with standards-based networked applications; and automation of theevel management for distributed systems. Its Entage set of solutions is currently used by largee levels and reduce IT management costs. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest independent software Corporate headquarters are located in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information, visit us on the Web at wwwHWP) Premier Partner, and 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)  (NYSE NYSE

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