Opalis Announces Successful 2006 Results; Company is Well Positioned in the Rapidly Growing IT Process Automation Market.Customer Base Increased to More than 800 Worldwide, Revenues Rose Over 75% among Highlights of Record 2006 TORONTO -- Opalis Software, Inc., the leading provider of Run Book Automation (RBA RBA Rare Bird Alert RBA Reserve Bank of Australia RBA Run Book Automation RBA Rochester Business Alliance RBA Rights-Based Approach RBA Royal Brunei Airlines (ICAO code) RBA Relative Byte Address RBA relative binding affinity ) software that orchestrates, integrates, and automates IT operational processes, today announced record-breaking growth in 2006, with its customer base increasing to more than 800 companies worldwide and revenues rising by nearly triple digits. With new executive appointments, key industry partnerships, and solutions-based templates for IT process automation, Opalis is poised for accelerated growth in 2007. Opalis' RBA software provides the orchestration orchestration Art of choosing which instruments to use for a given piece of music. The sections of the orchestra historically were separate ensembles: the stringed instruments for indoors, the woodwind instruments for outdoors, the horns for hunting, and trumpets and drums , integration, and automation of operational processes across multiple data, departmental, and application silos. This is achieved through Opalis' extensive out-of-the-box process templates and integration for leading systems management vendors, and its script/code-free workflow that incorporates the people, process, and technologies involved in operational procedures The detailed methods by which headquarters and units carry out their operational tasks. . In 2006, Opalis brought on a new CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , as well as a number of seasoned industry experts to support its rapidly growing sales, marketing, and business development organizations globally. Todd DeLaughter was announced CEO -- Todd joined the company after serving as general manager for HP's OpenView business unit; Mike Tindal was named VP of marketing; Thomas Siegel joined the company as VP of worldwide sales; and Yale Tankus joined the company as VP of strategy and business development. "Automating the IT management process remains a key objective for IT executives focused on driving the cost and complexity out of IT operations," reported David Williams David Williams is the name of: Musicians
Opalis begins 2007 with huge momentum and strong customer demand for the Opalis Integration Server version 5.3, which was released in 2006 and has already been adopted and implemented by over 250 customers worldwide. This new version of Opalis' flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. uniquely automates and orchestrates IT operational processes across multiple IT silos, such as incident, problem, configuration and change management systems - all from a single console. The result is a solution that is easily and quickly implemented, and provides IT with out-of-the box solutions-based workflow process templates and best practices that automate processes in the most critical areas of IT operations, as outlined by ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). . Throughout 2006, Opalis significantly expanded collaboration with market leading systems management tools used in today's enterprise data centers, including BMC (BMC Software, Inc., Houston, TX, www.bmc.com) A leading supplier of software that supports and improves the availability, performance, and recovery of applications in complex computing environments. , 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) Tivoli, Microsoft, and VMWare. The company also continues to expand reseller channel in both Europe and 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. . "We had an incredible second half and our 2006 results directly reflect this," said Todd DeLaughter, CEO and president. "Opalis, alongside our resellers worldwide, are successfully addressing the growing demand from public and private sector organizations for proven solutions that help meet their challenges to increase IT efficiency and compliance, improve security and reliability, and reduce costs across complex, large-scale and distributed IT infrastructures. We distinguished ourselves with the release of our next-generation technology that can be rapidly implemented to immediately deliver value for the organization, while at the same time enabling faster adoption of ITIL compliant processes. We're certainly excited about our prospects for the future and look forward to even more success." About Opalis Software, Inc. Opalis Software, Inc., founded in 1999 and headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, is the leading provider of Run Book Automation software that orchestrates, integrates, and automates IT operational processes. With Opalis, IT organizations can reduce costs, improve service delivery, and ensure compliance through repeatable, reliable and standardized best practices. With more than 800 customers around the globe, including Toyota, Woolworths, Johnson & Johnson, British Telecom The telephone and communications carrier that provides services in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It used to be a division of the British Post Office, but was privatized in 1984 under Margaret Thatcher's administration. , and the Bank of New York The Bank of New York, abbrieviated to BNY, was a global financial services company that existed until its merger with the Mellon Financial Corporation on July 2, 2007.[1] The bank now continues under the new name of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation. , and the most comprehensive set of integrations with leading service management tools, Opalis integrates into any system, process, or application and standardizes them into ITIL best practices. For more information on Opalis, please visit www.opalis.com. |
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