DYS Analytics Ships New Version of Email CONTROL! for Microsoft Exchange (ECX).Helps Midsize Firms Best Manage Their Messaging Infrastructure; Alerts on Email Performance Issues, Speeds Problem Resolution WALTHAM, Mass. -- DYS dys Days DYS Dystonia DYS Do You See? DYS Division of Youth Services DYS Familial Dysautonomia DYS District Youth Secretary Analytics, Inc., whose innovative products and services manage today's top messaging platforms, announced that it has shipped a new version of its award-winning Email CONTROL! for Exchange software. Adding major new unique features that continually measure the real-time health of the entire messaging system Software that provides an electronic mail delivery system. It is made up of the following functional components, which may be packaged together or independently. Mail User Agent from the end-user's perspective, ECX ECX European Climate Exchange ECX E-Commerce Exchange ECX eCatalog XML ECX Extended Count Register ECX Electronically Controlled Telephone Exchange ECX Extrusion-Cast Explosive (fine-grain) ECX Experimental Concentration - Percent is the first Exchange management solution that combines sophisticated usage analysis with real-time alerts. ECX provides IT staff with critical information needed to ensure high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. , email policy compliance and potential email misuse identification. With worldwide daily email traffic up 26 percent in Q1 2006 since the prior quarter1, organizations are struggling to keep their messaging systems performing well. ECX helps organizations quickly assess how email is performing, who is using the system, and how it is being used. The product delivers both real-time and historical views of Exchange messaging traffic - information that is not provided by Exchange. Deployed easily, without the need to install agents or software any Exchange server, ECX quickly helps resolve operational issues - while providing the needed insight for strategic initiatives such as platform upgrades/migrations and server consolidations. "My Exchange network has quadrupled in size in the past 18 months. Being able to see - at a glance - how Exchange is performing is essential to assuring acceptable email performance between our office and 18 remote locations on our network to date," said Brandon McHenry, systems administrator for the State of Mississippi's North Mississippi Regional Center, a unit of the Department of Mental Health. "There's no way I could ever do this with the tools provided in the base platform. The sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the reports and alerts in the new ECX software is great, and I was proficient at working with the software within the first week. It gives me the metrics to know where our email usage has been, and where it's going, so I can get a grip on our exponential email growth." ECX also helps firms with seemingly mundane email issues, such as the ECX customer whose technician accidentally unplugged a network connection. The ECX HealthTrack feature flagged the problem and the cable was reconnected before a single user noticed Internet email had stopped flowing. Another ECX customer benefits by establishing one aspect of SOX compliancy com·pli·an·cy n. Compliance. Noun 1. compliancy - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others complaisance, obligingness, compliance, deference - confirming that employees in corporate finance positions, who have left the company, have their mailbox truly removed. New HealthTrack Feature The new ECX version includes HealthTrack[TM] - an innovative testing feature that measures the health of the entire messaging system from the end-user's perspective - based on delivery times and performance. Unlike SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. and MOM -based products - HealthTrack measures end-to-end message delivery times for its automatically generated probe emails. If probes are delivered late or not at all, HealthTrack issues alerts. This allows the admin to immediately know when something has gone awry, and immediately correct it - like the unplugged cable example above. In addition, the HealthTrack feature graphically displays how email is routed throughout the network and highlights the location of email trouble-spots in real time - so Exchange managers can take immediate and focused steps to repair the network. As with earlier versions, ECX provides a rich set of graphical analysis features and reporting templates from information stored deep inside the server. With ECX, IT staff readily gain the insight they need to: * Speed Help-Desk Resolution * Confirm Server Real-time Status, Balance Server Loads * Cleanup Mailboxes * Create and enforce email policies * Confirm Service Level Compliance * Enhance security * Budget for capacity ECX is sold through DYS' direct sales staff and with this release is now available for sale via Web download. Prices start at $199 for 100 users and increase with Exchange user count. "The unexpected happens all the time, yet IT staffs are expected to keep Exchange systems always up and running," said Andrew Wolff, vice president of products at DYS Analytics. "ECX is an elegant and affordable solution that empowers IT staffs to efficiently ensure continual email performance." About DYS Analytics DYS Analytics provides innovative products and services that manage today's top messaging platforms. DYS lets IT staff regain control of their Microsoft Exchange Messaging and groupware software for Windows from Microsoft. Exchange Server is an Internet-compliant e-mail system that runs under Windows NT/2000 and Windows Server 2003. It can be accessed by Web browsers, the Exchange client, versions of Outlook and the earlier Windows Inbox. , 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) Notes Domino, IBM Lotus Sametime Lotus Sametime is an enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing application sold by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus Sametime provides enterprise instant messaging functionality, presence information, and web conferencing. and IBM Lotus Quickplace IBM Lotus QuickPlace is a proprietary Web-based collaborative software application distributed by the Lotus Software division of IBM. Lotus QuickPlace is a self-service Web tool that provides non-technical professionals the ability to easily create a browser-accessible workspace to networks. Using CONTROL!, administration costs are slashed, service quality is improved, user policies are created and enforced, security improved and delivery issues resolved. DYS customers are large and small, global and local, including such firms as JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM TYO: 8634 ) is one of the oldest financial services firms in the world. The company, headquartered in New York City, is one of the leaders in investment banking, financial services, asset and wealth management and private equity. With assets of $1. , HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) , Bank One, ABN AMRO Bank, Zurich Financial Services Zurich Financial Services Group is a major financial services group based in Zurich, Switzerland. Global operations North America The US consumer market is served primarily by Farmers Insurance Group the third largest personal lines property & casualty insurance , IBM, CSC, Henkel, Novartis, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Schering, Linde Gas and GlaxoSmithKline. For more information, visit http://www.dysanalytics.com. DYS Analytics, CONTROL!, Email CONTROL!, CONTROL Guardian, CONTROL! OnDemand, Efficiencize and the DYS logo are trademarks of DYS Analytics, Inc. IBM, Lotus, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Quickplace, and Lotus Notes are registered trademarks. Notes and Domino are trademarks of IBM. All trademarks, trade names, service marks, and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 1 Radicati Group, "Market Numbers Summary Update, Q1 2006," (May 9, 2006) as cited at www.tekrati.com. |
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