DFAS application performance management program lowers short- and long-term application costs.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 1995--Programart Corporation today announced that it is assisting the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) with an application performance management program that facilitates their application consolidation efforts, reduces fee-for-service costs, and improves end-user service. The program has already identified more than $3.3 million in potential fee-for-service savings and is expected to yield millions of dollars more.

Under the terms of the $531,000 contract, Programart is providing DFAS with software and professional services for a program called MAP that manages application performance. By increasing the capacity of applications to process larger workloads within fixed processing schedules, the program helps DFAS consolidate hundreds of applications running at Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) production centers into a select few standard applications. The program is jointly sponsored by DFAS and DISA Western Hemisphere Operations as part of a service improvement program.

"The results of the MAP program are outstanding," says Robert E. Burke, DFAS deputy director for information management. "We are already achieving significant savings in fee-for-service charges while improving end-user service. We have implemented changes that will cut hundreds of hours from batch run times, enabling consolidated applications to process larger workloads as we consolidate and eliminate redundant applications."

"We are pleased that the MAP program is helping DFAS meet its objectives for lowering computing costs and improving end-user service," states Thomas Graves, Programart's DoD program manager. "Through this process improvement program, DFAS and DISA together are helping the DoD become more cost effective and efficient. As DFAS institutionalizes the MAP program, it will help them engineer efficiency and responsiveness into their applications as they are built and maintained."

To implement the MAP program, DFAS is using Programart's STROBE and APMPOWER application performance management systems. The company consults with DFAS on its business objectives; analyzes application performance; trains DFAS staff members on how to use STROBE and APMPOWER; and assesses, in coordination with DFAS software developers, how MAP practices can improve the software process.

MAP is based on a Programart-originated discipline for developing efficient, responsive applications, and maintaining high standards of application performance across the application life cycle. Called application performance management (APM), it ensures that each group within an IS organization views application efficiency and responsiveness as essential to the products they deliver and support.

Based in Arlington, Va., DFAS manages all of the Defense Department's civilian and military payroll and accounting systems. Its Financial Systems Organization develops and maintains its financial applications.

Programart Corporation, based in Cambridge, Mass., develops, markets and supports application performance management software products and services, enabling more than 1,100 sites worldwide to effectively manage the performance of their mission-critical applications.

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APMPOWER and STROBE are registered trademarks and APM is a service mark of Programart Corporation

CONTACT: Programart Corporation

Leslie Scott-Lysan, 617/498-4045