Boole & Babbage Broadens Out-of-Box Service Level Management With New Power Modules for OS/400, Oracle; Enhancements for SAP R/3.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 3, 1998-- Agent-based Solutions Deliver Pre-configured, Automated Alarm Detection, Correction, Recovery; Accelerates Overall COMMAND/POST ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). Boole & Babbage Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :BOOL), a leader in service level management for distributed systems Distributed systems (computers) A distributed system consists of a collection of autonomous computers linked by a computer network and equipped with distributed system software. , today announced new COMMAND/POST Power Modules for OS/400 and Oracle, and an enhanced release of its R/3 Power Module, providing proactive, simplified management and automation of these prevalent technologies. With these products, Boole & Babbage continues its strategy of supporting the industry's broadest range of infrastructure technologies by expanding its Power Module solutions to reach even further across the spectrum of server platforms, middleware, databases and all types of applications (legacy, client/server and Web-based). The agent-driven Power Modules provide embedded alert management capabilities, robust event correlation Event Correlation is the processes involved with reducing a large number of incident alerts to a much smaller, more manageable number within automated monitoring and incident/problem management in a Support Management System. and multi-tiered automation that reduce the complexity and cost of managing distributed IT enterprises. Power Modules extend the capabilities of the central COMMAND/POST management console A terminal or workstation used to monitor and control a network. See Microsoft Management Console. , combining application management functions with the ability to manage all dependent systems and subsystems that could affect application service and availability. (For more information on COMMAND/POST, please see the accompanying press release "Boole & Babbage announces COMMAND/POST 4.") "With the new Power Module solutions, Boole & Babbage is advancing their leadership as a true end-to-end service level management provider," said Steve Foote of the Hurwitz Group. "The out-of-the-box functionality of the Power Modules make it easier and faster for their customers to achieve ROI." "No other single-vendor solution has the end-to-end reach that is achieved with the combined capabilities of COMMAND/POST and its associated Power Modules," said Gary Read, senior marketing director, client/server products at Boole & Babbage. "Using Power Modules, IT installations can achieve service level management with substantially shorter deployment cycles, greatly reduced need for customization, and significantly lowered cost of ownership." By continuously monitoring the state of the applicable servers and applications, Power Modules can determine if a critical application is meeting its service level objectives and initiate corrective actions when it is not. The Power Modules utilize a scalable, easily extensible architecture that allows users to manage distributed service level information from a central point of control. A key component in the Boole & Babbage Desired State Management initiative, Power Modules team with COMMAND/POST to deliver rapid return on investment (ROI) through measurable cost savings and availability improvements. Power Modules help to shield IT users from the complexities of the underlying infrastructures they manage, reducing labor and associated costs and improving systems availability for better bottom-line performance. The newly announced Power Modules join similar Boole & Babbage solutions for IBM's MQSeries, Microsoft's MSMQ See Microsoft Message Queue Server. , multiple versions of 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). and other enterprise operating systems such as Windows NT, NetWare and OS/2. Pricing and Availability COMMAND/POST Power Modules for SAP R/3, OS/400 and Oracle are available during Q3 '98. Price varies based on volume, platform and application type. Pricing for a single server starts at $750. Boole & Babbage Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in availability and service level management for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a management solution for the entire IT enterprise that encompass systems, applications, middleware, databases and Web technologies. The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by large manufacturing companies, domestic and international government agencies, the majority of the world's largest financial institutions, airlines, IT outsourcers and utilities to improve servicbbage is the oldest independent software vendore information, visit us on the Web at www.boole.com, or call 800/544-2152. Boole & Babbage Inc. is a Tivoli (NASDAQ:TVLI) premiere partner, a Hewlett-Packard (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ) premier partner, an 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:IBM) BESTeam Member, and a Microsoft (NASDAQ:MFST MFST Mobile Field Surgical Team MFST Mobile Forward Surgical Team (USAF) MFST Microbiologically Food Safety Tested MFST Mobile Freight Search Team (UK) ) Solutions Developer. Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage and COMMAND/POST are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage Inc. All other product names and trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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