Boole & Baggage Selected to Provide Kredietbank with End-to-End MQSeries Management.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)--Oct. 28, 1997--_ Command MQ Only Solution to Deliver a Single Integrated View of the Bank's Global Network, Including MQSeries Middleware Boole & Babbage, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOOL), the leader in service level management, today announced that its middleware management solution, Command MQ, has been chosen by one of Belgium's largest banks, Kredietbank. The bank will utilize Command MQ as the core of its distributed MQSeries management to ensure proactive monitoring, problem-solving and automated resolution across its more than 800 UNIX servers, three 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. and two Tandem mainframes. Through Command MQ, Kredietbank can capture the critical banking applications information which are key to delivering a high level of service to its personal and corporate telephone banking customers. "We evaluated other market-leading solutions but we chose Command MQ because it integrated easily into our existing environment," said Kris Vangeel, project manager at Kredietbank. "Command MQ was able to connect to all platforms in our enterprise while reducing complexity and management costs." Building on the strength of the Boole & Babbage Enterprise Automation technology, Command MQ provides Kredietbank with a single, end-to-end view of the availability and performance of its entire MQSeries network. The bank is also using Command MQ to integrate its resident management systems into one computing management paradigm. "We were already using MainView to automate subsystems such as DB2 and IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. on the mainframe systems," added Vangeel. "Now this solution is extended with Command MQ. We've also integrated Command MQ with our existing management software, HP-OPC for the 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). environment. This allows us to have a single integrated view of our global MQSeries network to ensure that it is always available to provide the flow between information systems." "As MQSeries extends its enterprise-wide reach, customers are discovering the need to proactively manage and automate their mission-critical applications," said Mike Bunyard, senior director of product marketing, Boole & Babbage. "We are pleased to help Kredietbank maintain its superior service levels with Command MQ end-to-end management." About Command MQ Command MQ is a fully integrated solution that manages the availability of IBM's MQSeries message-oriented middleware Message-oriented middleware comprises a category of inter-application communication software that generally relies on asynchronous message-passing as opposed to a request/response metaphor. , and its underlying enterprise infrastructure, with advanced automation, performance, configuration and administration capabilities. Through its flexible, scalable architecture, Command MQ complements varying customer requirements, offering multi-layered management from local "at-the-source" intelligent agents (power modules), to enterprise-wide 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 consolidation. In addition, Command MQ is able to manage thousands of elements, events and users concurrently. Today, Command MQ covers the broadest range of platforms, including MVS, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Sun Solaris, DEC VMS (1) (Virtual Memory System) A multiuser, multitasking, virtual memory operating system for the VAX series from Digital. VMS applications run on any VAX from the MicroVAX to the largest unit. See OpenVMS. , UNIX, AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , OS/400, OS/2 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . Easy-to-use, Command MQ offers proven packaged "out-of-the-box" solutions that are easily customized, providing the fastest implementation and 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). in the industry. About Kredietbank Kredietbank is involved in domestic, international and wholesale banking. In the field of domestic banking, Kredietbank strives to be a major, if not the leading, financial institution in its area of operations An operational area defined by the joint force commander for land and naval forces. Areas of operation do not typically encompass the entire operational area of the joint force commander, but should be large enough for component commanders to accomplish their missions and protect their . In the international field, the emphasis is both on expansion in Belgium's neighboring countries and increasingly also on geographical diversification into such growth poles as South East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Central Europe and the Maghreb countries. About Boole & Babbage Boole & Babbage is a worldwide leader in availability and service level management for distributed systems. Its Enterprise Automation product lines provide a flexible and scalable set of solutions for the entire IT enterprise including systems, applications, middleware, databases and Web technologies. The Boole & Babbage set of solutions is currently used by many Fortune 1000 companies to centralize all the IT operations into a coherent business view and reduce overall business costs. Founded in 1967, Boole & Babbage is the oldest independent software vendor in the systems management industry and today is a $190+ million company with 800 talented employees and 43 offices in 26 countries. 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 www.boole.com, or call 800/544-2152. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Boole & Babbage and MainView are registered trademarks of Boole & Babbage, Inc. Command is a trademark of Boole & Babbage, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Boole & Babbage, Inc. Press Contact US: Paula Contos Dunne, 408/526-3430 pdunne@boole.com http://www.boole.com or Press Contact Europe: Boole & Babbage Europe Jan Thijs van Wijngaarden, +49 2102 400 605 |
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