AdventNet Debuts Software for Measuring Business Impact
of Technology Infrastructure Performance
Pleasanton, California, October 2, 2002
AdventNet, the leading provider of standards-based J2EE management
solutions, today introduced ManageEngine Suite 5, the first
and only software framework that allows customers using the
Java Management Extensions (JMX) standard to track the business
impact of application performance. Now, IT departments can
better manage Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) infrastructures,
while simultaneously - and actively - driving business results.
ManageEngine Suite, which was the first management framework
to be certified by Sun Microsystems for use of JMX technology,
works with popular management consoles from CA, BMC, HPand
IBM Tivoli.
Gartner Dataquest1 estimates the Application Server
market will grow 22% annually to reach $3.2 billion by 2006.
The wide adoption of J2EE Applications Servers for IT applications
is driving a need for J2EE application management. According
to Cameron Haight, Research Director at Gartner Group, "Large
enterprises using mission-critical software are checking application
server management solutions much more carefully to ensure
they can maintain high degrees of performance and availability.
The good news is that building management into applications
is not as difficult as it once was. For application server
environments, the Java Management Extensions (JMX) specification
is available for adding manageability to Java-based application
servers."
"At AdventNet, we believe it is long past time to make
infrastructure accountable for how it impacts business performance,"
said AdventNet's CTO, Dr. Tony Thomas. "We are leading
the industry effort to provide management tools powered by
the JMX framework, starting with application and systems management.
We've taken this process to its natural next step by allowing
IT managers to expose the business attributes that are contained
within applications and measure the effects."
Mark D. Carlson, VP, Technology at Nexstar Financial Corporation,
a provider of mortgage outsourcing solutions for many of the
nation's top lenders, as well as a leader in providing corporate
and relocation mortgage programs, added, "Our vision
is to create - and to use - the best technology to make the
home finance process simple, fast, and efficient. We evaluated
AdventNet ManageEngine and found its functionality, ease of
use, and automation to be a great fit with our needs. The
strong support AdventNet provided was a major part of our
decision to select their product."
About ManageEngine Suite 5
ManageEngine Suite 5 automates instrumentation for the management
of business applications, provides automated tools to build
custom consoles, and integrates with existing management consoles.
In the past, the process of exposing application attributes
(e.g., response time) or functions to be managed required
significant time, effort and knowledge. Now, developers can
graphically pick attributes (usually represented as Enterprise
JavaBeans components) to monitor and measure, creating rules
for when IT or even business managers are alerted to kinks
in the system. No additional code needs to be written.
As an illustration, the IT manager in charge of a call center
may use instrumentation to track staff efficiency in each
step of the customer service process using the application.
This may include, for instance, tracking use of a knowledge
base by staff and how it measurably speeds up customer service.
There are three components to ManageEngine Suite:
JMX Studio: Auto-instruments for application performance
and business-level management.
Console Builder: Auto-generates consoles that integrate
with existing management consoles.
Applications Manager: An integrated console for systems,
middleware and custom applications.
About AdventNet
AdventNet's products enable customized management for networks,
systems, and applications. For enterprise IT applications,
they fill the gap between infrastructure performance and business
performance. To accomplish this, the firm makes a software
suite called ManageEngine which, unlike diagnostic or performance
tuning tools, uses Sun's JMX framework to collect J2EE application
performance statistics covering both system (e.g., transactional
throughput) and business attributes (e.g., customers served,
revenue generated). The firm sells ManageEngine Suite to independent
software vendors and system architects who are responsible
for IT infrastructures. AdventNet is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA with offices in NJ, NH, India, UK, China and Japan.
It has a well-trained partner base around the globe and thousands of customers world-wide. For more information
call (925) 924-9500 or visit www.adventnet.com.
CONTACT:
Sunil Tara, Marketing Communications
AdventNet, Inc.
925-251-3781 sunil@adventnet.com
