Datawatch Visual/Productivity Portal for IBM WebSphere Enables Employee Self Help.LOWELL, Mass. -- New Datawatch Solution Demonstrates Commitment to Extend Value of 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) WebSphere Platform for IBM Partners and Customers Datawatch Corporation (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 : DWCH), a leading provider of report management, data transformation and service management solutions, today announced the general availability of Visual|Productivity Portal for IBM WebSphere, featuring employee self help. The portal market is exploding, with IT and human resource support functions by far accounting for the largest part. Visual|Productivity Portal will allow IBM partners to quickly and easily deliver the portal solutions their customers are asking for right now. Visual|Productivity Portal enables personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. self help for an organization's employees, dramatically reducing unnecessary phone calls, log entries and related processing. For IT, HR and Payroll managers, the product's "Manager's Portal" displays service requests by department and status, so each department views only what impacts its staff and resources. The end result is that enterprises save time and money otherwise devoted to labor-intensive telephone and email support. "We recently adopted IBM WebSphere Portal - Express as the platform for our corporate portal An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). . We knew that in order to realize its business benefits, we needed our employees and partners to find immediate value in the portal to ensure enterprise-wide adoption," said Bill Sammons Bill Sammon is senior White House correspondent for the Washington Examiner (having left the same position at The Washington Times in February 2006), a political analyst for Fox News Channel, and the author of four New York Times bestsellers: , director of Information Services See Information Systems. for the Hillman Hillman was a famous British automobile marque, manufactured by the Rootes Group. It was based in Ryton-on-Dunsmore, near Coventry, England, from 1907 to 1976. Before 1907 the company had built bicycles. Group, one of the largest providers of hardware-related products and related merchandising services to retail markets 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. . "Employee self help through the Visual|Productivity Portal is an ideal application with broad appeal to all employees, and it's allowed us to start realizing benefits throughout our business." "By leveraging existing IBM WebSphere infrastructures, Visual|Productivity Portal delivers real value to our customers by enabling employee self help," said Claude Reeves, vice president of Business Development at Datawatch. "In addition, this web-based employee self help framework can front-end any Call Center solution, including Datawatch's own award winning Visual|Help Desk. This reflects our corporate focus on working with IBM and its partners, and delivering further value to WebSphere customers." ABOUT DATAWATCH CORPORATION Datawatch Corporation helps organizations easily access, integrate, store, distribute and analyze information inside and outside the enterprise. From shared services shared services, n.pl the administrative, clinical, or other service functions that are common to two or more hospitals or their health care facilities and used jointly or cooperatively by them. and productivity portals to help desk and business problem management, Datawatch Corporation provides solutions that allow organizations to fully leverage their existing infrastructures to solve their business needs. Datawatch products are used in more than 20,000 companies, institutions and government agencies worldwide. The corporate address for Datawatch is 175 Cabot Street, Suite 503, Lowell, MA 01854-3633; telephone (978) 441-2200. More information on Datawatch and its solutions can be found at www.datawatch.com. FOR PRESS INFORMATION: Datawatch: Larry Bouchie, larry_bouchie@datawatch.com, 978-275-8264 |
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