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[March 22, 2004]
Candle Introduces PathWAI Performance Tuning and Management Solutions for WebSphere Business Integration
EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Candle Corporation, a leading enterprise infrastructure management provider, today announced two new PathWAI(TM) solutions that provide the first management support for all IBM WebSphere integration brokers, including the new WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5.0. PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers V120 is a performance tuning and analytical tool that provides a high level of broker and message flow performance. Additionally, PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration offers a single integrated view of an entire IBM message broker and WebSphere MQ environment.
The new Candle offerings provide greater visibility into performance across an entire application or broker environment, enabling users to attain higher levels of process efficiencies and availability. WebSphere brokers function as communication hubs to transform and route data. Brokers, for example, provide a consistent interface for applications that access data from multiple systems and have different connectivity and interface requirements. The WebSphere brokers identify new and updated events, translate the data into the appropriate format for each system and ensure that the messages are distributed immediately.
The new PathWAI solutions build on Candle's market leadership in broker management. PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers has a 36-percent worldwide market share for WebSphere Business Integration management*. Candle also has a dominant 65-percent global market share for WebSphere MQ management*.
Our customers require real-time banking services and the capability to access their account information through any channel -- Web, call center, ATM or branch, said Anthony Massaro, senior vice president, director of Enterprise Technology Services, Citizens Bank. We use IBM WebSphere brokers to pull information from multiple systems to supply customers with the information they have requested. Candle's PathWAI tools provide the monitoring required to keep our systems highly available and the information readily accessible to our customers.
PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers V120
New PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers features enable users to:
-- Gain granular visibility into broker performance, which enables them
to quickly identify and eliminate performance slowdowns using unique
flow and subflow monitoring. In tuning and testing, this capability
helps developers quickly identify potential problem areas and
determine the impact of code changes at all levels of the
environment. In production, visibility into subflows can expedite
problem identification and resolution.
-- Leverage IBM's latest broker advances immediately via support for
WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker V5.0. Further, Candle
support for all IBM brokers enables organizations to optimize their
existing WebSphere investments today and migrate to new broker
technologies in the future.
-- Access 24 expanded workspaces to quickly view broker information,
such as CPU resource consumption, and tune message flows accordingly.
The increasing number of technology protocols is transforming the enterprise into a Tower of Babel, making it difficult for systems to communicate with one another, said Sue Eustis, senior analyst, WinterGreen Research, Inc. Although brokers can break down the walls of data incompatibility, the message flows connecting one system to another must be mapped carefully to avoid a performance or availability disaster. Organizations should consider solutions from Candle and other providers in order to both harmonize and optimize broker capabilities in development and deployment.
PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration
PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration enables users to manage an entire IBM broker and middleware infrastructure, as well as operating systems and databases, from a single console. The package allows users to relate WebSphere broker and WebSphere MQ performance and availability to line-of-business performance. PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration enables organizations to quickly drill down from a business view to diagnose and eliminate potential performance issues.
PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration views can track performance by geography and other business parameters. Further, PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration features labor-saving automation capabilities that help organizations adjust systems settings dynamically to maintain a high level of performance.
As organizations become increasingly sophisticated in delivering information to customers and partners, brokers become the focal point for important activities, such as providing real-time account updates and inventory changes, said David Caddis, vice president, Application Infrastructure Management, Candle Corporation. The PathWAI solutions for WebSphere integration brokers provide the metrics and best practices for users to maximize the full value of their enterprise application integration and e-business investments.
Pricing and Availability
PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers and PathWAI Dashboard for WebSphere Business Integration are available immediately on Microsoft Windows, AIX, OS/390, z/OS, HP-UX, Linux on Intel platforms and Sun Solaris. Pricing for PathWAI XE for WebSphere Integration Brokers begins at $4,000 per processor. The Dashboard Edition is available starting at $35,200, which includes installation and training services.
About Candle Corporation
Candle Corporation provides solutions to manage and optimize business- critical information technology infrastructures, systems and applications. Working across multiple enterprise IT environments, Candle's offerings empower customers to track and maximize the business return associated with IT investments. More than 3,000 of the world's largest companies use Candle products and consulting services, including 73 percent of the Global 100. With more than 5,000 customer sites in 60 countries, Candle is one of the world's largest independent software and services companies. Candle is headquartered in El Segundo, California. For more information, visit http://www.candle.com/ .
* WinterGreen Research, Inc. Message Oriented Middleware (MOM)
Opportunities, Strategies, and Forecasts, 2003 to 2008.
Candle, the Candle logo, the Candle flame design and PathWAI are registered trademarks or trademarks of Candle Corporation. AIX, HP-UX and SunOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Sun Microsystems Inc., respectively. DB2, MQSeries and WebSphere are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. Other product names and terms in this document may be trademarks of their respective companies.
Candle Corporation
CONTACT: Barry Sulpor of Candle Corporation, +1-310-727-4171,barry_sulpor@candle.com; or Stephen W.T. O'Keeffe of O'Keeffe & Company, Inc.,+1-703-883-9000, ext. 111, sokeeffe@okco.com
Web site: http://www.candle.com/
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