Boole & Babbage launches InTune; New performance analyzer improves application efficiency and stretches mainframe resources.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)--July 17, 1995--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 enterprise automation solutions 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 InTune, a new product that analyzes internal MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. application program performance and pinpoints legacy code efficiency problems. Using online hierarchical panels, InTune gives performance analysts a unique interactive look at application program performance by stepping through the entire application and determining where delays are present. InTune eliminates the need to correlate information from multiple reports to identify application delays by presenting the answers on a user's screen. "Until now, analysts needing to perform application performance analysis have been restrained by using old-technology batch-oriented tools," said Mike Bunyard, senior marketing director of large systems at Boole & Babbage. "By giving analysts an easy way to identify resource-hungry programs and resolve code efficiency problems, InTune results in direct cost savings and productivity gains." In keeping with corporate mandates to cut IT costs, InTune allows an organization to fine tune applications in production, in test or under development, and thereby achieve significant reductions in CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. resource usage. In addition to direct cost savings, this optimized application efficiency results in increased workload capacity for existing mainframe resources, allowing an organization to handle more batch processing (1) Performing a particular operation automatically on a group of files all at once rather than manually opening, editing and saving one file at a time. For example, graphics software that converts a selection of images from one format to another would be a batch processing utility. in a shorter timeframe. "InTune gives you a picture of how your program is operating and where your program is utilizing CPU resources," said Gene Kent, Director of Systems Design for Illinois-based Direct Marketing, a multi-million dollar data processing data processing or information processing, operations (e.g., handling, merging, sorting, and computing) performed upon data in accordance with strictly defined procedures, such as recording and summarizing the financial transactions of a service bureau for direct mail companies. "It gives me a graphical view of the program -- by module -- of system performance. InTune has helped us optimize application performance by pointing out logic errors in our modules and systems, as well as pinpointing inefficient coding." Availability and Pricing InTune is available now and pricing starts at $28,300. Boole & Babbage is the worldwide leader in enterprise automation software for distributed systems. The company is committed to supporting open systems and the growing client/server market to help IS organizations reduce costs and increase systems availability. Boole & Babbage maintains strategic alliances with Hewlett-Packard, 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) and other industry leaders to ensure its customers the most powerful, efficient solutions. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage sells more than 40 products in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. For more information, contact Boole & Babbage at 800/544-2152. -0- Note to Editors: Boole & Babbage is a registered trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. InTune is a trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc. Shelly Gordon, 408/526-3430 email: sgordon@boole.com |
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