Bristol Technology Partners With SerCon, an IBM Global Services Company for Cooperative Marketing.Business/Technology Editors DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Increases Bristol's Presence in German MQSeries Market, Provides SerCon With Revolutionary Solution For Their Customers (www.bristol.com) -- Bristol Technology(R) today announced a Co-operative Marketing Partnership with SerCon GmbH, 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 NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :IBM) Global Services Company and leading MQSeries services organization in Germany. Bristol and SerCon have joined forces to help companies increase the reliability and performance of their e-business systems. SerCon will introduce Bristol's eSleuth(TM) transaction analysis software to their customers through their training and services. SerCon offers a complete spectrum of services ranging from strategy consultation to implementation, maintenance and training. SerCon works with many of the major German IT organizations. "Partnering with such a successful, established organization like SerCon will dramatically increase eSleuth's market adoption," said Chane Cullens, Bristol's President. "The partnership works because Bristol and SerCon share the goal of helping companies get productive with MQSeries faster, deploy their applications quicker, and maintain and improve the quality of their e-business systems. SerCon's great services reputation with the addition of the eSleuth software will be a great combination for these customers." "Bristol's eSleuth is a new approach to transaction analysis," said Till Flassak, Leiter Bereich SerCon. "We foresee fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. our customers making use of eSleuth in their development and production environments to improve the reliability and performance of their MQSeries systems. eSleuth will be a great compliment to our MQSeries-based services." eSleuth eSleuth is the first software solution to provide companies with a global view of their e-business transactions, dramatically improving the quality, performance, and reliability of e-business systems. This unique insight enables companies to visually cut through system complexity and pinpoint information flow failures and performance bottlenecks. By analyzing the flow of information throughout IBM MQSeries-based systems, eSleuth helps ensure that e-business information gets to the right place, at the right time, with the right content. eSleuth consists of a central Analyzer analyzer /ana·ly·zer/ (an´ah-li?zer) 1. a Nicol prism attached to a polarizing apparatus which extinguishes the ray of light polarized by the polarizer. 2. and eSensors installed on each host in the e-business system. The eSleuth Analyzer is an intuitive Windows NT-based program that collects, correlates, and graphically presents e-business events. eSensors are lightweight, unobtrusive software components that collect information about each MQSeries API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. call and forward this information to the Analyzer. No application software changes are required. About SerCon SerCon is an German IT consultancy with 1800 employees and has a decentralized de·cen·tral·ize v. de·cen·tral·ized, de·cen·tral·iz·ing, de·cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities. organization as well as decentralized spheres of responsibility. The wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of IBM has it headquarters in Boblingen near Stuttgart. Operative business is handled in more than 26 branch offices throughout Germany. Thus, SerCon's services are distinguished by short reaction times, flexibility and proximity to the customer. Thanks to low administrative cost administrative cost Managed care A cost incurred by the 'business' end of a health care facility or university–eg, staffing and personnel costs, nursing home and hospital administration, insurance, and overhead expenses. Cf Indirect costs. as the result of lean management practiced successfully from the very onset in the individual offices and branches as well as short travel times and distances, SerCon is able to make its services in all areas of IT consulting available to its customers with a particularly good price/performance ratio In economics and engineering, the price/performance ratio refers to a product's ability to deliver performance, of any sort, for its price. For instance, if you have a whole day to travel 100 km, spending $50 to do the journey in two hours is a better price/performance ratio than . Our specialist IT personnel consists mainly (around 90 percent) of trained university or college graduates. SerCon sees itself as an all-round company that has special competence in six core areas, namely: company management solutions, systems management, Microsoft services, e-business, document and workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. management and object-oriented software development. For more information on SerCon, visit: www.sercon.de About Bristol Technology Headquartered in Danbury, Conn., Bristol Technology Inc. delivers software development solutions that make eBusiness work. Providing award-winning multi-platform application development tools since 1991, Bristol has proven expertise in cross-platform product development for Windows, 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). , Linux, Open 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. , and OS/390. This expertise provides a strong foundation for eBusiness infrastructure products targeted at enterprise application developers. Bristol's eBusiness products result in increased developer productivity, reduced edevelopment resource requirements The components of a system that are required by software or hardware. It refers to resources that have finite limits such as memory and disk. In a PC, it may also refer to the resources required to install a new peripheral device, namely IRQs, DMA channels, I/O addresses and memory , faster application development schedules, and improved product quality. The company has a European subsidiary in Amersfoort, The Netherlands, and a development center in Bangalore, India. Bristol Technology is also an IBM Business Partner. Copyright (c) 2000 Bristol Technology Inc. Bristol Technology is a registered trademark and eSleuth is a trademark of Bristol Technology Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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