LAS VEGAS - 29 Oct 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the winners of its annual IBM Information On Demand Client Innovation Awards, recognizing IBM customers that have taken advantage of trusted information and analytics to deliver smarter business decisions.

Chosen from an extensive list of nominations worldwide, winners were selected in multiple categories by a panel of industry thought leaders and IBM executives. Award recipients were honored during a special client luncheon at the IBM Global Information On Demand Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.  

“To survive in a world in which margins for error have never been smaller, businesses must find a way to turn their information into a strategic driver for innovation and competitive differentiation,” said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM Software Group. “IBM applauds all award recipients who have clearly demonstrated how to best capitalize on technology to deliver exceptional solutions that solve real business problems.”  

The City of New York was granted the Top IOD Solution, for its Health and Human Services-Connect initiative. HHS-Connect will link more than a dozen New York City agencies so that caseworkers are able to securely share client information, thus dedicating more face-to-face time with their clients instead of chasing or managing paperwork. HHS-Connect promises to fundamentally change how the City provides health and human services by ensuring holistic and integrated services that wrap around a family, delivering a more complete understanding of the clients’ needs that will ultimately lead to better client care.  

Alameda County (California) Social Services Agency and Hrafn were honored in the Outstanding Smarter Planet Solutions category. Alameda Social Services Agency is using IBM analytics to provide caseworkers a consolidated picture of all the benefits a client is receiving across six different social services programs. Fraud detection and validation work that previously took four to six months is now happening in a matter of minutes, helping the County direct funding and resources to where they are needed the most. In total, this initiative has saved over $11 million in taxpayer dollars.

Working with IBM, Hrafn designed and built a smart sensor infrastructure for the Nordics’ first track-and-trace service, which – by enabling manufacturers and grocery retailers to view the complete history of a food product – has helped significantly speed response-times to potential food contamination recalls. The system also helps manufacturers and supermarkets improve the responsiveness of the supply chain and quickly adapt to changing consumer buying patterns.  

In the category of Outstanding Information Agenda Solution, IBMacknowledged Rooms To Go, the largest independent furniture company in the United States. Rooms To Go collaborated with IBM in developing an Information Agenda strategy that would help maximize sales and profitability. Tapping IBM business analytics technology, Rooms To Go management can now access comprehensive reports that more readily and easily identify shopper buying patterns, enabling staff to optimize floor planning. It also reduced advertising costs by helping marketing staff better target promotions to most likely buyers. 

IBM also presented a series of Best IODAwards, recognizingcustomers that have exhibited extreme innovation in using IBM Information Management technology to gain significant business or organizational benefits. Winners included: 

• Best Solution for Business Intelligence – Martin’s Point, a not-for-profit regional health care provider based in northern New England. In addition to improving information access and expediting reporting, Martin’s Point use of IBM Cognos BI has helped support improved care. Today, managers can produce clinical profiles of patients and alert member physicians about potential gaps in care.   

• Best Solution for Performance Management – Qualcomm Incorporated., the world’s leading provider of wireless chipset technology. By implementing IBM Cognos performance management solutions, the company now benefits from fully integrated planning and forecasting that enables management to more efficiently plan and oversee cross-departmental strategies.  

• Best Overall Data Management Solution – Faurecia, a world-leading provider of engineering solutions and automotive parts. With up to 800 distinct users per day connected on a database, Faurecia required a powerful and reliable data management solution for its Matrix One Product Data Management and SAP applications. Working with IBM, Faurecia successfully migrated to an IBM DB2 environment, where today the company benefits from increased response times and strong performance, particularly when the system is encountering peak usage.  

• Best Enterprise Content Management Solution – Moody’s Investors Service, for its Moody’s Banking Financial Metrics (Banking FM) application. Tapping into IBM enterprise content management technology, Banking FM offers this leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis a system that best facilitates banking peer comparisons, enhances portfolio monitoring capabilities with significantly reduced manual input, and delivers more transparent and consistent interactions with issuers and investors.   

• InfoSphere Award of Excellence – LG Electronics (LGE), a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances. Working with IBM Global Business Services and leveraging Infosphere technology, LGE designed and implemented a new data warehouse system that enabled stronger decision making based on trusted information; reduced global financial consolidation efforts from 14 days to 7 days; and delivered more effective inventory control with one single global model/parts/master concept.   

• InfoSphere Innovation Award – University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Using IBM InfoSphere Streams, UOIT is conducting a first-of-a-kind research project designed to help doctors detect subtle changes in the condition of critically ill premature babies. IBM software analyzes a constant stream of biomedical data, such as heart rate and respiration, along with environmental data gathered from advanced sensors and more traditional monitoring equipment on and around the babies. In near-real-time, data analysis insights will be fed back to health-care professionals so they can predict potential changes in an infant’s condition with greater accuracy and intervene more quickly.   

For information on the IBM IOD Global Conference visit: http://www.ibm.com/informationondemand 

For more information on IBM Information Management offerings, please visit: http/www-01.ibm.com/software/data/ 

For more information: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/25581.wss 

Twitter: #IOD2009 

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IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 11:02 am and is filed under News.

LAS VEGAS - 29 Oct 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the winners of its annual IBM Information On Demand Client Innovation Awards, recognizing IBM customers that have taken advantage of trusted information and analytics to deliver smarter business decisions.

Chosen from an extensive list of nominations worldwide, winners were selected in multiple categories by a panel of industry thought leaders and IBM executives. Award recipients were honored during a special client luncheon at the IBM Global Information On Demand Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, October 28, 2009.  

“To survive in a world in which margins for error have never been smaller, businesses must find a way to turn their information into a strategic driver for innovation and competitive differentiation,” said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM Software Group. “IBM applauds all award recipients who have clearly demonstrated how to best capitalize on technology to deliver exceptional solutions that solve real business problems.”  

The City of New York was granted the Top IOD Solution, for its Health and Human Services-Connect initiative. HHS-Connect will link more than a dozen New York City agencies so that caseworkers are able to securely share client information, thus dedicating more face-to-face time with their clients instead of chasing or managing paperwork. HHS-Connect promises to fundamentally change how the City provides health and human services by ensuring holistic and integrated services that wrap around a family, delivering a more complete understanding of the clients’ needs that will ultimately lead to better client care.  

Alameda County (California) Social Services Agency and Hrafn were honored in the Outstanding Smarter Planet Solutions category. Alameda Social Services Agency is using IBM analytics to provide caseworkers a consolidated picture of all the benefits a client is receiving across six different social services programs. Fraud detection and validation work that previously took four to six months is now happening in a matter of minutes, helping the County direct funding and resources to where they are needed the most. In total, this initiative has saved over $11 million in taxpayer dollars.

Working with IBM, Hrafn designed and built a smart sensor infrastructure for the Nordics’ first track-and-trace service, which – by enabling manufacturers and grocery retailers to view the complete history of a food product – has helped significantly speed response-times to potential food contamination recalls. The system also helps manufacturers and supermarkets improve the responsiveness of the supply chain and quickly adapt to changing consumer buying patterns.  

In the category of Outstanding Information Agenda Solution, IBMacknowledged Rooms To Go, the largest independent furniture company in the United States. Rooms To Go collaborated with IBM in developing an Information Agenda strategy that would help maximize sales and profitability. Tapping IBM business analytics technology, Rooms To Go management can now access comprehensive reports that more readily and easily identify shopper buying patterns, enabling staff to optimize floor planning. It also reduced advertising costs by helping marketing staff better target promotions to most likely buyers. 

IBM also presented a series of Best IODAwards, recognizingcustomers that have exhibited extreme innovation in using IBM Information Management technology to gain significant business or organizational benefits. Winners included: 

• Best Solution for Business Intelligence – Martin’s Point, a not-for-profit regional health care provider based in northern New England. In addition to improving information access and expediting reporting, Martin’s Point use of IBM Cognos BI has helped support improved care. Today, managers can produce clinical profiles of patients and alert member physicians about potential gaps in care.   

• Best Solution for Performance Management – Qualcomm Incorporated., the world’s leading provider of wireless chipset technology. By implementing IBM Cognos performance management solutions, the company now benefits from fully integrated planning and forecasting that enables management to more efficiently plan and oversee cross-departmental strategies.  

• Best Overall Data Management Solution – Faurecia, a world-leading provider of engineering solutions and automotive parts. With up to 800 distinct users per day connected on a database, Faurecia required a powerful and reliable data management solution for its Matrix One Product Data Management and SAP applications. Working with IBM, Faurecia successfully migrated to an IBM DB2 environment, where today the company benefits from increased response times and strong performance, particularly when the system is encountering peak usage.  

• Best Enterprise Content Management Solution – Moody’s Investors Service, for its Moody’s Banking Financial Metrics (Banking FM) application. Tapping into IBM enterprise content management technology, Banking FM offers this leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis a system that best facilitates banking peer comparisons, enhances portfolio monitoring capabilities with significantly reduced manual input, and delivers more transparent and consistent interactions with issuers and investors.   

• InfoSphere Award of Excellence – LG Electronics (LGE), a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, mobile communications and home appliances. Working with IBM Global Business Services and leveraging Infosphere technology, LGE designed and implemented a new data warehouse system that enabled stronger decision making based on trusted information; reduced global financial consolidation efforts from 14 days to 7 days; and delivered more effective inventory control with one single global model/parts/master concept.   

• InfoSphere Innovation Award – University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Using IBM InfoSphere Streams, UOIT is conducting a first-of-a-kind research project designed to help doctors detect subtle changes in the condition of critically ill premature babies. IBM software analyzes a constant stream of biomedical data, such as heart rate and respiration, along with environmental data gathered from advanced sensors and more traditional monitoring equipment on and around the babies. In near-real-time, data analysis insights will be fed back to health-care professionals so they can predict potential changes in an infant’s condition with greater accuracy and intervene more quickly.   

For information on the IBM IOD Global Conference visit: http://www.ibm.com/informationondemand 

For more information on IBM Information Management offerings, please visit: http/www-01.ibm.com/software/data/ 

For more information: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/presskit/25581.wss 

Twitter: #IOD2009 

IBM Analytics: IBM Business Analytics & Optimization Press Kit, and You Tube: “Analytics: How it Works“ 

IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 11:02 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

Enables Clients to Analyze Unstructured and Structured Information, Reduce Costs and Make Smarter Business Decisions

LAS VEGAS - 27 Oct 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new business analytics offerings designed to help clients better manage and control their unstructured and structured data in a unified manner,while providing valuable insight into their content across the enterprise.

The volume of unstructured data found on Web sites and social networking sites, in digital files, WebSphere Portal, Microsoft SharePoint, databases and customer comments, is increasing exponentially. Typically, organizations manage this unstructured information separately from their structured data found in applications and databases. By compiling and analyzing both structured and unstructured information, organizations can garner business insights from unlimited volumes of text from e-mails, documents, blogs, wikis and websites and change the way they do business. 

IBM’s new offerings provide clients with the ability to access, assess and analyze unstructured information that can be found inside and outside their organization. The analytic offerings allow business users to find and gain insight from virtually any type of content – in any format – by extracting, sorting, filtering and categorizing key information and making the content relevant so organizations can more effectively make market-driven business decisions. 

For example, it is critical for healthcare insurers to have insight into patient records to provide more cost-effective coverage and better quality care. Using content analytics, payers can analyze treatment records of thousands of patients, enabling them to identify the providers that provide the best approach to patient care and define the most cost-effective protocols to provide better overall patient care. 

“Our clients realize that in today’s competitive landscape, they need to have better insight into all their information so they can act quickly and make the right decisions,” said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM Software Group. “With the strength and breadth of our business analytics technology and expertise, IBM is helping clients combine, manage and useunstructured and structured data to drive innovation.” 

The offerings IBM is introducing today deliver new business visibility and understanding from the content and context of unstructured information, helping clients turn unstructured content, such as e-mails, documents, and web pages, into relevant business information. The offerings include: 

• IBM Cognos Content Analytics: This new offering allows organizations to discover, refine and deliver new insights by analyzing unstructured enterprise content alongside structured data. Through focused navigation, users can identify trends and patterns and proactively detect anomalies for improved decision making.  

• IBM plans toexpand the IBM Cognos Content Analytics family to include new solutions targeted at specific industries and business requirements. One solution currently being previewed centers around insight into consumer sentiment. This solution will be designed to help packaged goods companies gain a better understanding of what the market is saying about their brands on the “cloud” in blogs, wikis and media Web sites.   

• IBM InfoSphere Content Assessment: Using content analytics, this new offering helps organizations rapidly assess unmanaged content to identify high-risk and valued content such as corporate records that need to be secured, retained and managed throughout its lifespan. The software simultaneously detects unnecessary content eligible for decommissioning, creating the opportunity to dramatically reduce production system burdens and associated storage requirements.

Bridging Content into Master Data Management  

One of the most vexing problems in master data management (MDM) is completing master data records with important unstructured information such as scanned documents and e-mail correspondence. To help clients address this challenge, IBM MDM software now enables clients to incorporate unstructured information into their single view of customer or product solutions. Organizations can now deliver a more complete version of trusted information to improve customer service and make better business decisions.

The new InfoSphere Master Content for InfoSphere Master Data Management Server, for example, can help a financial services provider incorporate trusted content such as birth certificates, drivers’ licenses, and credit reports into master customer records. Too often, different departments operate individually, requesting and collecting the same information from their customers. The financial services provider for a new business transaction such as a major funds withdrawal, will now have a more comprehensive, single view of a customer. Trusted content, linked to the master record improves information quality and provides rapid access to the right information.

Similarly, a consumer electronics retailer using the new version of InfoSphere MDM Server for Product Information Management can incorporate photos and manuals for each individual product into their MDM system so that information can be found alongside other product data. Greater consistency of information and the ease of accessing a single version of all product information can help improve business results by delivering a better customer experience while improving operational efficiency. 

For more information on IBM Information Management offerings, please visit: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/ 

For more information: www.ibm.com/press/informationondemand 

Twitter: #IOD2009 

IBM Analytics: IBM Business Analytics & Optimization Press Kit, and You Tube: Analytics: How it Works“ 

IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Contact Information

IBM

One Orchard Road
Armonk, NY, 10504
USA

toll-free: 888.SHOP.IBM
www.ibm.com

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:39 am and is filed under News.

LAS VEGAS - 27 Oct 2009: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced new business analytics offerings designed to help clients better manage and control their unstructured and structured data in a unified manner,while providing valuable insight into their content across the enterprise.

The volume of unstructured data found on Web sites and social networking sites, in digital files, WebSphere Portal, Microsoft SharePoint, databases and customer comments, is increasing exponentially. Typically, organizations manage this unstructured information separately from their structured data found in applications and databases. By compiling and analyzing both structured and unstructured information, organizations can garner business insights from unlimited volumes of text from e-mails, documents, blogs, wikis and websites and change the way they do business. 

IBM’s new offerings provide clients with the ability to access, assess and analyze unstructured information that can be found inside and outside their organization. The analytic offerings allow business users to find and gain insight from virtually any type of content – in any format – by extracting, sorting, filtering and categorizing key information and making the content relevant so organizations can more effectively make market-driven business decisions. 

For example, it is critical for healthcare insurers to have insight into patient records to provide more cost-effective coverage and better quality care. Using content analytics, payers can analyze treatment records of thousands of patients, enabling them to identify the providers that provide the best approach to patient care and define the most cost-effective protocols to provide better overall patient care. 

“Our clients realize that in today’s competitive landscape, they need to have better insight into all their information so they can act quickly and make the right decisions,” said Ambuj Goyal, general manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM Software Group. “With the strength and breadth of our business analytics technology and expertise, IBM is helping clients combine, manage and useunstructured and structured data to drive innovation.” 

The offerings IBM is introducing today deliver new business visibility and understanding from the content and context of unstructured information, helping clients turn unstructured content, such as e-mails, documents, and web pages, into relevant business information. The offerings include: 

• IBM Cognos Content Analytics: This new offering allows organizations to discover, refine and deliver new insights by analyzing unstructured enterprise content alongside structured data. Through focused navigation, users can identify trends and patterns and proactively detect anomalies for improved decision making.  

• IBM plans toexpand the IBM Cognos Content Analytics family to include new solutions targeted at specific industries and business requirements. One solution currently being previewed centers around insight into consumer sentiment. This solution will be designed to help packaged goods companies gain a better understanding of what the market is saying about their brands on the “cloud” in blogs, wikis and media Web sites.   

• IBM InfoSphere Content Assessment: Using content analytics, this new offering helps organizations rapidly assess unmanaged content to identify high-risk and valued content such as corporate records that need to be secured, retained and managed throughout its lifespan. The software simultaneously detects unnecessary content eligible for decommissioning, creating the opportunity to dramatically reduce production system burdens and associated storage requirements.

Bridging Content into Master Data Management  

One of the most vexing problems in master data management (MDM) is completing master data records with important unstructured information such as scanned documents and e-mail correspondence. To help clients address this challenge, IBM MDM software now enables clients to incorporate unstructured information into their single view of customer or product solutions. Organizations can now deliver a more complete version of trusted information to improve customer service and make better business decisions.

The new InfoSphere Master Content for InfoSphere Master Data Management Server, for example, can help a financial services provider incorporate trusted content such as birth certificates, drivers’ licenses, and credit reports into master customer records. Too often, different departments operate individually, requesting and collecting the same information from their customers. The financial services provider for a new business transaction such as a major funds withdrawal, will now have a more comprehensive, single view of a customer. Trusted content, linked to the master record improves information quality and provides rapid access to the right information.

Similarly, a consumer electronics retailer using the new version of InfoSphere MDM Server for Product Information Management can incorporate photos and manuals for each individual product into their MDM system so that information can be found alongside other product data. Greater consistency of information and the ease of accessing a single version of all product information can help improve business results by delivering a better customer experience while improving operational efficiency. 

For more information on IBM Information Management offerings, please visit: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/ 

For more information: www.ibm.com/press/informationondemand 

Twitter: #IOD2009 

IBM Analytics: IBM Business Analytics & Optimization Press Kit, and You Tube: Analytics: How it Works“ 

IBM and the IBM logo are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States, or other countries, or both. All other names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:38 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

Solution Supports IBM’s New Smart Archive Strategy

BOSTON, Mass. - 06 Oct 2009: At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled plans for a new Smart Business System called IBM Information Archive, a universal archiving repository for all types of content that addresses the complete information retention needs of midsize and enterprise clients faced with managing an increasing volume of information.

With key contributions from IBM Research, System Storage and Tivoli, IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s expertise in designing systems to address clients’ needs by combining fast accessible disk with low-cost tape within a single archive pool to enable businesses to deploy an archive strategy that minimizes total cost of ownership over the life of the archived information.  It also incorporates deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage capacity and improve productivity.  

Its architecture brings together IBM’s General Parallel File System technology, Tivoli Storage Manager and patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection to offer a high performance, high scalability, and secure platform that can be accessed in a private Cloud computing environment, even if the data is stored on tape media. 

The need for archiving information is on the rise, driven by data growth, regulatory compliance, legal discovery and data protection. With ever-increasing requirements surrounding the long-term retention of information, organizations are looking for advanced archiving technologies to manage information throughout its lifecycle. 

The IBM Information Archive is designed for archiving a broad range of electronic based records, including e-mail, digital images, databases, applications, instant messages, account records, contracts or insurance claim documents, and other types of storage records. Information Archive will also be supported by a number of IBM software applications for email, content, data and report archiving including IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, IBM Content Collector and other Enterprise Content Management offerings.

Information Archive is also the first data retention solution to offer a choice of data protection levels to meet multiple archiving requirements.  Three customizable archive collections can be created within a single system and each collection can be configured with different retention policies and protection levels to meet specific retention needs, including business, legal, or regulatory.  In addition, multiple access methods using industry-standard protocols provide quick and easy deployment of the solution.  

“In today’s dynamically changing environment, businesses are faced with managing a data juggernaut, and archiving that information and doing it cost effectively is a challenge,” says Al Zollar, general manager, IBM Tivoli Software. “The IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s strengths in software, disk and tape to deliver a solution that will help clients manage their information infrastructure needs.” 

IBM Information Archive is the first offering announced as part of IBM’s unified archiving strategy, IBM Smart Archive.  This comprehensive approach combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities and is designed to help clients to extract value and gain new intelligence from the vast amounts of information by collecting, organizing, analyzing, trusting and leveraging that information.  Beginning with IBM Information Archive, IBM’s Smart Archive offerings will deliver a comprehensive set of archiving solutions in a unified and integrated strategy that maximizes customer value.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/archive/

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:33 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

Solution Supports IBM’s New Smart Archive Strategy

BOSTON, Mass. - 06 Oct 2009: At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled plans for a new Smart Business System called IBM Information Archive, a universal archiving repository for all types of content that addresses the complete information retention needs of midsize and enterprise clients faced with managing an increasing volume of information.

With key contributions from IBM Research, System Storage and Tivoli, IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s expertise in designing systems to address clients’ needs by combining fast accessible disk with low-cost tape within a single archive pool to enable businesses to deploy an archive strategy that minimizes total cost of ownership over the life of the archived information.  It also incorporates deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage capacity and improve productivity.  

Its architecture brings together IBM’s General Parallel File System technology, Tivoli Storage Manager and patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection to offer a high performance, high scalability, and secure platform that can be accessed in a private Cloud computing environment, even if the data is stored on tape media. 

The need for archiving information is on the rise, driven by data growth, regulatory compliance, legal discovery and data protection. With ever-increasing requirements surrounding the long-term retention of information, organizations are looking for advanced archiving technologies to manage information throughout its lifecycle. 

The IBM Information Archive is designed for archiving a broad range of electronic based records, including e-mail, digital images, databases, applications, instant messages, account records, contracts or insurance claim documents, and other types of storage records. Information Archive will also be supported by a number of IBM software applications for email, content, data and report archiving including IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, IBM Content Collector and other Enterprise Content Management offerings.

Information Archive is also the first data retention solution to offer a choice of data protection levels to meet multiple archiving requirements.  Three customizable archive collections can be created within a single system and each collection can be configured with different retention policies and protection levels to meet specific retention needs, including business, legal, or regulatory.  In addition, multiple access methods using industry-standard protocols provide quick and easy deployment of the solution.  

“In today’s dynamically changing environment, businesses are faced with managing a data juggernaut, and archiving that information and doing it cost effectively is a challenge,” says Al Zollar, general manager, IBM Tivoli Software. “The IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s strengths in software, disk and tape to deliver a solution that will help clients manage their information infrastructure needs.” 

IBM Information Archive is the first offering announced as part of IBM’s unified archiving strategy, IBM Smart Archive.  This comprehensive approach combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities and is designed to help clients to extract value and gain new intelligence from the vast amounts of information by collecting, organizing, analyzing, trusting and leveraging that information.  Beginning with IBM Information Archive, IBM’s Smart Archive offerings will deliver a comprehensive set of archiving solutions in a unified and integrated strategy that maximizes customer value.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/archive/

Contact Information

IBM

One Orchard Road
Armonk, NY, 10504
USA

toll-free: 888.SHOP.IBM
www.ibm.com

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:32 am and is filed under News.

Solution Supports IBM’s New Smart Archive Strategy

BOSTON, Mass. - 06 Oct 2009: At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled plans for a new Smart Business System called IBM Information Archive, a universal archiving repository for all types of content that addresses the complete information retention needs of midsize and enterprise clients faced with managing an increasing volume of information.

With key contributions from IBM Research, System Storage and Tivoli, IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s expertise in designing systems to address clients’ needs by combining fast accessible disk with low-cost tape within a single archive pool to enable businesses to deploy an archive strategy that minimizes total cost of ownership over the life of the archived information.  It also incorporates deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage capacity and improve productivity.  

Its architecture brings together IBM’s General Parallel File System technology, Tivoli Storage Manager and patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection to offer a high performance, high scalability, and secure platform that can be accessed in a private Cloud computing environment, even if the data is stored on tape media. 

The need for archiving information is on the rise, driven by data growth, regulatory compliance, legal discovery and data protection. With ever-increasing requirements surrounding the long-term retention of information, organizations are looking for advanced archiving technologies to manage information throughout its lifecycle. 

The IBM Information Archive is designed for archiving a broad range of electronic based records, including e-mail, digital images, databases, applications, instant messages, account records, contracts or insurance claim documents, and other types of storage records. Information Archive will also be supported by a number of IBM software applications for email, content, data and report archiving including IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, IBM Content Collector and other Enterprise Content Management offerings.

Information Archive is also the first data retention solution to offer a choice of data protection levels to meet multiple archiving requirements.  Three customizable archive collections can be created within a single system and each collection can be configured with different retention policies and protection levels to meet specific retention needs, including business, legal, or regulatory.  In addition, multiple access methods using industry-standard protocols provide quick and easy deployment of the solution.  

“In today’s dynamically changing environment, businesses are faced with managing a data juggernaut, and archiving that information and doing it cost effectively is a challenge,” says Al Zollar, general manager, IBM Tivoli Software. “The IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s strengths in software, disk and tape to deliver a solution that will help clients manage their information infrastructure needs.” 

IBM Information Archive is the first offering announced as part of IBM’s unified archiving strategy, IBM Smart Archive.  This comprehensive approach combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities and is designed to help clients to extract value and gain new intelligence from the vast amounts of information by collecting, organizing, analyzing, trusting and leveraging that information.  Beginning with IBM Information Archive, IBM’s Smart Archive offerings will deliver a comprehensive set of archiving solutions in a unified and integrated strategy that maximizes customer value.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/archive/

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:32 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

BOSTON, Mass. - 06 Oct 2009: At its Information Infrastructure Analyst Summit today, IBM (NYSE: IBM) unveiled plans for a new Smart Business System called IBM Information Archive, a universal archiving repository for all types of content that addresses the complete information retention needs of midsize and enterprise clients faced with managing an increasing volume of information.

With key contributions from IBM Research, System Storage and Tivoli, IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s expertise in designing systems to address clients’ needs by combining fast accessible disk with low-cost tape within a single archive pool to enable businesses to deploy an archive strategy that minimizes total cost of ownership over the life of the archived information.  It also incorporates deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage capacity and improve productivity.  

Its architecture brings together IBM’s General Parallel File System technology, Tivoli Storage Manager and patent-pending Enhanced Tamper Protection to offer a high performance, high scalability, and secure platform that can be accessed in a private Cloud computing environment, even if the data is stored on tape media. 

The need for archiving information is on the rise, driven by data growth, regulatory compliance, legal discovery and data protection. With ever-increasing requirements surrounding the long-term retention of information, organizations are looking for advanced archiving technologies to manage information throughout its lifecycle. 

The IBM Information Archive is designed for archiving a broad range of electronic based records, including e-mail, digital images, databases, applications, instant messages, account records, contracts or insurance claim documents, and other types of storage records. Information Archive will also be supported by a number of IBM software applications for email, content, data and report archiving including IBM Optim Data Growth Solution, IBM Content Collector and other Enterprise Content Management offerings.

Information Archive is also the first data retention solution to offer a choice of data protection levels to meet multiple archiving requirements.  Three customizable archive collections can be created within a single system and each collection can be configured with different retention policies and protection levels to meet specific retention needs, including business, legal, or regulatory.  In addition, multiple access methods using industry-standard protocols provide quick and easy deployment of the solution.  

“In today’s dynamically changing environment, businesses are faced with managing a data juggernaut, and archiving that information and doing it cost effectively is a challenge,” says Al Zollar, general manager, IBM Tivoli Software. “The IBM Information Archive leverages IBM’s strengths in software, disk and tape to deliver a solution that will help clients manage their information infrastructure needs.” 

IBM Information Archive is the first offering announced as part of IBM’s unified archiving strategy, IBM Smart Archive.  This comprehensive approach combines IBM software, systems and service capabilities and is designed to help clients to extract value and gain new intelligence from the vast amounts of information by collecting, organizing, analyzing, trusting and leveraging that information.  Beginning with IBM Information Archive, IBM’s Smart Archive offerings will deliver a comprehensive set of archiving solutions in a unified and integrated strategy that maximizes customer value.

For more information, visit www.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/archive/

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IBM today announced plans to sell IBM’s WW U2 Data Servers and Tools assets to Rocket Software. As a global software development company, Rocket Software’s R&D platform will enable us to better focus our efforts on developing U2 products that help you grow your business. As valued customers, you understand that our dynamic data record store, Web services capabilities and low total cost of ownership make UniVerse and UniData the right products for building flexible solutions that can capture new markets.

This change in ownership is intended to benefit U2 products, customers and business partners and will not affect your current relationship with the U2 business. We will strive to make the change as seamless as possible. I will continue to lead the business with my existing management team.

The people with whom you have been working will continue to be your primary contacts. The number you call for Product Support remains the same. No pricing changes are planned, our email will continue to work until we move to a new company network, and we will make sure you know how to contact us throughout that process. Most importantly, the development team will remain focused on the existing product delivery schedule.

We will provide you with as much information as possible as the transition progresses. Many of you have been our customers since the days of Unidata and Vmark, and have seen the succession through Ardent, Informix and IBM. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with you as our new company extends our reputation as the best software infrastructure provider for easily customizable, high transaction, zero administration web applications.

Thank you for your continued use of UniData or UniVerse. It’s going to be an exciting time for our current and future customers!

Contact Information

IBM

One Orchard Road
Armonk, NY, 10504
USA

toll-free: 888.SHOP.IBM
www.ibm.com

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am and is filed under News.

IBM today announced plans to sell IBM’s WW U2 Data Servers and Tools assets to Rocket Software. As a global software development company, Rocket Software’s R&D platform will enable us to better focus our efforts on developing U2 products that help you grow your business. As valued customers, you understand that our dynamic data record store, Web services capabilities and low total cost of ownership make UniVerse and UniData the right products for building flexible solutions that can capture new markets.

This change in ownership is intended to benefit U2 products, customers and business partners and will not affect your current relationship with the U2 business. We will strive to make the change as seamless as possible. I will continue to lead the business with my existing management team.

The people with whom you have been working will continue to be your primary contacts. The number you call for Product Support remains the same. No pricing changes are planned, our email will continue to work until we move to a new company network, and we will make sure you know how to contact us throughout that process. Most importantly, the development team will remain focused on the existing product delivery schedule.

We will provide you with as much information as possible as the transition progresses. Many of you have been our customers since the days of Unidata and Vmark, and have seen the succession through Ardent, Informix and IBM. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with you as our new company extends our reputation as the best software infrastructure provider for easily customizable, high transaction, zero administration web applications.

Thank you for your continued use of UniData or UniVerse. It’s going to be an exciting time for our current and future customers!

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:26 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

IBM today announced plans to sell IBM’s WW U2 Data Servers and Tools assets to Rocket Software. As a global software development company, Rocket Software’s R&D platform will enable us to better focus our efforts on developing U2 products that help you grow your business. As valued customers, you understand that our dynamic data record store, Web services capabilities and low total cost of ownership make UniVerse and UniData the right products for building flexible solutions that can capture new markets.

This change in ownership is intended to benefit U2 products, customers and business partners and will not affect your current relationship with the U2 business. We will strive to make the change as seamless as possible. I will continue to lead the business with my existing management team.

The people with whom you have been working will continue to be your primary contacts. The number you call for Product Support remains the same. No pricing changes are planned, our email will continue to work until we move to a new company network, and we will make sure you know how to contact us throughout that process. Most importantly, the development team will remain focused on the existing product delivery schedule.

We will provide you with as much information as possible as the transition progresses. Many of you have been our customers since the days of Unidata and Vmark, and have seen the succession through Ardent, Informix and IBM. We look forward to continuing our strong relationship with you as our new company extends our reputation as the best software infrastructure provider for easily customizable, high transaction, zero administration web applications.

Thank you for your continued use of UniData or UniVerse. It’s going to be an exciting time for our current and future customers!

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New DB2 Feature Sets the Bar for System Performance on More than 100 IBM Power Systems

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM ( IBM) today announced a new software technology called DB2 pureScale, running on IBM Power Systems, that helps clients increase their database transaction capacity while reducing the risk and cost of growing their IT systems.

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Jointly developed by the IBM Toronto Software Lab and Power Systems Lab in Austin, TX, the new DB2 feature delivers the continuous availability and virtually unlimited computing power required to meet growing business demands. The design of pureScale, based on the architecture and 15 years of proven experience of DB2 on System z, reflects the strengths of IBM software technology optimized for Power Systems.

As the amount of data continues to grow, industry segments are poised to take advantage of IBM’s economical and efficient approach to scaling capacity — without forcing customers to overspend on excess hardware and software. With pureScale, companies can now buy only what they need to handle increasing amounts of data by simply adding servers to their DB2 pureScale systems. DB2 also offers the flexibility of adding and removing capacity with the option of paying for only the days clients need the additional software to handle peak workloads.

Industries Generating New Levels of Intelligence Require More Capacity

An explosion of data in almost every industry is making it more challenging than ever for customers to handle large volume of transactions. In the energy industry, for example, utility companies are equipping homes and businesses with smart meters to read how much power is being used, while food retailers are tagging food items with radio-frequency ID chips to more efficiently manage inventory control. In addition, electronic medical records for healthcare are requiring entirely new levels of transaction processing, with federal laws specifying ever-more-stringent security; while telecommunications firms are providing composite and consolidated content to their customers’ mobile devices.

In a system performance test with more than 100 Power servers, DB2 pureScale achieved a total system productivity of more than 80%. In comparison, competitive offerings have only demonstrated 60% system productivity with less than half the number of servers. In fact, with 64 servers, DB2 pureScale generated a system productivity of more than 90%. These scaling results set the bar for economical database system growth.

By incorporating new PowerHA pureScale technology, DB2 pureScale dramatically reduces the amount of communications required within the system – resulting in significantly less computing power wasted on overhead.

“Clients are constantly fighting a battle of IT economics and increasingly choosing DB2 and Power to help reduce the costs of managing their growing business data,” said Arvind Krishna, general manager, IBM Information Management. “DB2 pureScale on Power Systems helps clients grow their IT infrastructure more reliably and economically than ever before to meet today’s business needs. This addition to the IBM portfolio complements DB2 on System z, the only platform that provides greater scalability and availability and which remains the undisputed leader in database systems.”

“Businesses today place their trust in an underlying IT infrastructure to reliably run their applications,” said Ross Mauri, general manager, IBM Power Systems. “DB2 on Power Systems delivers proven technology that provides scalable, predictable and consistent performance for our clients. The PowerHA pureScale technology enhances this capability to deliver continuous availability and exceptional horizontal scalability to DB2 pureScale.”

Capacity growth achieved with DB2 pureScale does not require changes to applications or database tuning. This application transparency reduces risk and cost as clients grow computing power without service interruption. It also complements the capability delivered in DB2 9.7, which enables applications originally written for other database software, such as Oracle Database, to enjoy the benefits of DB2 with little or no changes.

DB2 pureScale will initially be available on Power 550 Express and Power 595 systems in December.

For more information, please visit ibm.com/DB2/pureScale.

Contact Information

IBM

One Orchard Road
Armonk, NY, 10504
USA

toll-free: 888.SHOP.IBM
www.ibm.com

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:21 am and is filed under News.

New DB2 Feature Sets the Bar for System Performance on More than 100 IBM Power Systems

ARMONK, N.Y., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — IBM ( IBM) today announced a new software technology called DB2 pureScale, running on IBM Power Systems, that helps clients increase their database transaction capacity while reducing the risk and cost of growing their IT systems.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090416/IBMLOGO)

Jointly developed by the IBM Toronto Software Lab and Power Systems Lab in Austin, TX, the new DB2 feature delivers the continuous availability and virtually unlimited computing power required to meet growing business demands. The design of pureScale, based on the architecture and 15 years of proven experience of DB2 on System z, reflects the strengths of IBM software technology optimized for Power Systems.

As the amount of data continues to grow, industry segments are poised to take advantage of IBM’s economical and efficient approach to scaling capacity — without forcing customers to overspend on excess hardware and software. With pureScale, companies can now buy only what they need to handle increasing amounts of data by simply adding servers to their DB2 pureScale systems. DB2 also offers the flexibility of adding and removing capacity with the option of paying for only the days clients need the additional software to handle peak workloads.

Industries Generating New Levels of Intelligence Require More Capacity

An explosion of data in almost every industry is making it more challenging than ever for customers to handle large volume of transactions. In the energy industry, for example, utility companies are equipping homes and businesses with smart meters to read how much power is being used, while food retailers are tagging food items with radio-frequency ID chips to more efficiently manage inventory control. In addition, electronic medical records for healthcare are requiring entirely new levels of transaction processing, with federal laws specifying ever-more-stringent security; while telecommunications firms are providing composite and consolidated content to their customers’ mobile devices.

In a system performance test with more than 100 Power servers, DB2 pureScale achieved a total system productivity of more than 80%. In comparison, competitive offerings have only demonstrated 60% system productivity with less than half the number of servers. In fact, with 64 servers, DB2 pureScale generated a system productivity of more than 90%. These scaling results set the bar for economical database system growth.

By incorporating new PowerHA pureScale technology, DB2 pureScale dramatically reduces the amount of communications required within the system – resulting in significantly less computing power wasted on overhead.

“Clients are constantly fighting a battle of IT economics and increasingly choosing DB2 and Power to help reduce the costs of managing their growing business data,” said Arvind Krishna, general manager, IBM Information Management. “DB2 pureScale on Power Systems helps clients grow their IT infrastructure more reliably and economically than ever before to meet today’s business needs. This addition to the IBM portfolio complements DB2 on System z, the only platform that provides greater scalability and availability and which remains the undisputed leader in database systems.”

“Businesses today place their trust in an underlying IT infrastructure to reliably run their applications,” said Ross Mauri, general manager, IBM Power Systems. “DB2 on Power Systems delivers proven technology that provides scalable, predictable and consistent performance for our clients. The PowerHA pureScale technology enhances this capability to deliver continuous availability and exceptional horizontal scalability to DB2 pureScale.”

Capacity growth achieved with DB2 pureScale does not require changes to applications or database tuning. This application transparency reduces risk and cost as clients grow computing power without service interruption. It also complements the capability delivered in DB2 9.7, which enables applications originally written for other database software, such as Oracle Database, to enjoy the benefits of DB2 with little or no changes.

DB2 pureScale will initially be available on Power 550 Express and Power 595 systems in December.

For more information, please visit ibm.com/DB2/pureScale.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:20 am and is filed under Uncategorized.

FRANLIN LAKES, NJ – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated Direct Computer Resources, Inc.’s flagship data masking software, DataVantage Global®, as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology of proven effectiveness and with confidence of repeatability.

The DataVantage Global technology offers a single, scalable multi-tier, enterprise-wide, easy-to-learn-and-use software solution that implements and supports the sharing of information at arbitrary levels of security through advanced data masking and obfuscation techniques.

Typical usages include protecting private and confidential sub-sets of production data for application development and testing purposes and generating data sets for analysis by third parties. The product also protects and secures production information used in-house through its MLS (Multi-Level Security) feature and assures that business operation integrity can continue in environments with data at mixed security levels. This unique feature helps protect companies from the accidental or criminal use of its sensitive data by internal or third-party users, rendering lost or stolen data virtually useless for nefarious purposes. Leading industry analysts have reported that more than 70 percent of data breaches are attributable to trusted internal sources or consultants, most frequently through sheer negligence.

This patented, ISO 9001/ISO 27001 independently-tested software enables organizations in all industries as well as the government to comply with regulatory standards as well as internal policies related to data sharing and compliance, while maintaining the integrity of the data for scalable use in applications throughout and external to an enterprise. The product is currently deployed in production for several DCR clients.

About Direct Computer Resources, Inc.

Direct Computer Resources, Inc. has served hundreds of Fortune 500 companies internationally for more than 30 years. During the late 1970’s, DCR’s principals pioneered the application development testing and data management market with its DataVantage for IMS product, later encompassing the entire z/OS spectrum including DB2 and VSAM. With DataVantage Global, DCR has become a market leader in cyber security for industry and government with its single product, enterprise-wide solution for the protection of sensitive information.

Contact Information

Direct Computer Resources, Inc.

120 Elbert Street
Franklin Lakes, NJ, 07417
USA

tele: 631.673.0077
toll-free: 800.501.1502
fax: 631.912.9029
wvitiello@datavantage.com
www.DataVantage.com

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 10:55 am and is filed under News.

FRANLIN LAKES, NJ – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security designated Direct Computer Resources, Inc.’s flagship data masking software, DataVantage Global®, as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology of proven effectiveness and with confidence of repeatability.

The DataVantage Global technology offers a single, scalable multi-tier, enterprise-wide, easy-to-learn-and-use software solution that implements and supports the sharing of information at arbitrary levels of security through advanced data masking and obfuscation techniques.

Typical usages include protecting private and confidential sub-sets of production data for application development and testing purposes and generating data sets for analysis by third parties. The product also protects and secures production information used in-house through its MLS (Multi-Level Security) feature and assures that business operation integrity can continue in environments with data at mixed security levels. This unique feature helps protect companies from the accidental or criminal use of its sensitive data by internal or third-party users, rendering lost or stolen data virtually useless for nefarious purposes. Leading industry analysts have reported that more than 70 percent of data breaches are attributable to trusted internal sources or consultants, most frequently through sheer negligence.

This patented, ISO 9001/ISO 27001 independently-tested software enables organizations in all industries as well as the government to comply with regulatory standards as well as internal policies related to data sharing and compliance, while maintaining the integrity of the data for scalable use in applications throughout and external to an enterprise. The product is currently deployed in production for several DCR clients.

About Direct Computer Resources, Inc.

Direct Computer Resources, Inc. has served hundreds of Fortune 500 companies internationally for more than 30 years. During the late 1970’s, DCR’s principals pioneered the application development testing and data management market with its DataVantage for IMS product, later encompassing the entire z/OS spectrum including DB2 and VSAM. With DataVantage Global, DCR has become a market leader in cyber security for industry and government with its single product, enterprise-wide solution for the protection of sensitive information.

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Fig.1: Custom Proxies Enable Meaningful Test Scripts to Be Recorded Users judge your software by its user interface, as their primary touch point it must be intuitive and error free, so ensuring a positive user experience requires extensive testing. Initially, many organizations rely upon manual spot checks of the performance and usability of their user interfaces, but find that such checks are unreliable. Ad hoc checks are often subjective, cover a small functional area and are hard to repeat with consistency. Even when formal test case specifications are drafted and followed precisely, manual testing efforts grow timeconsuming and expensive. Enterprises like yours have increasingly recognized the crucial importance of their user experience and having a systematic testing program in place, which was one factor leading Infragistics to collaborate with IBM to offer TestAdvantage for Windows Forms (for IBM Rational Functional Tester). How Automated Testing Works IBM Rational Functional Tester is a leading tool for Quality Assurance teams validating proper application behavior, including in the user interface. One of its main features is the ability to replay test scripts that a test engineer will write to carry out a sequence of steps. These test scripts can include sophisticated logic and control flow. In addition to replaying scripts, you can also record an interactive session in which a user’s actions are transcribed into script statements. Very often, a test engineer will record a session using the application and they can then customize the logic of the test script. Like many testing environments, Rational Functional Tester has objects (“proxies”) in its scripting language representing generic UI controls, but its knowledge of them is limited. When a user mouse clicks a certain spot in a control, the mouse coordinates can be retained and transcribed into the test script but often the meaning is lost. Recorded test scripts of the user interface can also be highly brittle, because these coordinates may depend on a particular layout and positioning of controls on the screen at the time the script was recorded. The Difference Knowledge Makes Now suppose you had custom proxies with privileged knowledge about the UI control they represent? The mouse click isn’t just on a spot anymore, but the column header of a table triggering its data to be sorted. There is no problem if the form is moved, because the mouse click remains targeted on the table’s column header rather than the old (X,Y) coordinates. When the test engineer examines a lengthy test script after recording, the action becomes much more meaningful. TestAdvantage supplies custom proxies for all of the UI controls in Infragistics’ NetAdvantage for Windows Forms toolset. These proxies extend upon the proven testing foundation of IBM Rational Functional Tester, and enable Quality Assurance teams to rapidly and effectively test their user interfaces that are powered by NetAdvantage for Windows Forms. Each proxy has special knowledge about its control’s features and underlying object model, enabling test engineers to rapidly record and replay much more robust and effective test scripts than previously possible. Made for Rational Functional Tester TestAdvantage integrates seamlessly into Rational Functional Tester, in fact it has earned IBM’s Ready for Rational Software designation which validates its compatibility. Test engineers versed in Rational Function Tester can utilize some of its dynamic features such as: Data-driven testing Verification points Java or VB scripting Fig.2: Verification Points Are as Finely Grained as the Control APIs Data-driven testing enables the test engineer to supply large amounts of data that can then be used to drive testing. It is ideal when testing complex data entry scenarios in the user interface, such as entering insurance records or purchase orders into a multi-field form or grid control. It can also be used to achieve broad coverage of an application’s functionality, including diverse boundary cases. You can also see in the screen shot how the verification points exposed by the TestAdvantage custom proxies span the object model of NetAdvantage for Windows Forms controls, covering properties deep within its grid and ribbon controls. Test cases can be thoroughly written and made as finegrained as the application had been coded in the first place, greatly empowering an organization’s Quality Assurance team. Infragistics developed these custom proxies to work specifically with Rational Functional Tester, so they fulfill the contract expected of a proxy object and are completely encapsulated. Test engineers can access them using test scripts developed in either Rational Functional Tester’s VB or Java-like scripting environments, whichever scripting language they prefer. The exposed capabilities are the same. Of course, development teams can spend precious development cycles writing their own custom proxies and wrappers that extend Rational Functional Tester, but it would be costly in both time and resources before the full benefit can be seen. It would also probably yield less than perfect results, due to the complexity of integrating the complete functionality of an automated testing tool with a full-featured control toolset like NetAdvantage for Windows Forms. TestAdvantage enables organizations to immediately benefit from systematic, automated UI testing without having to make a large up-front investments in writing their own custom tools. Regression Testing Made Feasible Software changes always risk introducing new defects, so it is a best practice to regularly repeat tests with the goal of ensuring a change in one part of the application hasn’t inadvertantly caused an error to occur in a part of the application already tested.Manual test practices made running regression tests as costly as running tests the first time around, so often regression testing was a luxury that couldn’t be afforded. Manual test practices made running regression tests as costly as running tests the first time around, so often regression testing was a luxury that couldn’t be afforded. Releases Made With Confidence TestAdvantage significantly improves the performance of Quality Assurance teams with its seamless integration, special knowledge of NetAdvantage for Windows Forms controls, and effective test scripts. It enables test engineers to run more tests in less time for greater test coverage and productivity, maximizing the time they spend testing versus time spent troubleshooting scripts. Organizations that systematically automate their user interface testing know with confidence that the user experience of the software they release is high-quality. TestAdvantage Resources: For more detailed product information, brochure, technical support, and pricing please visit: infragistics.com/TA-IBM A fully featured trial version of TestAdvantage for Windows Forms (for IBM Rational Functional Tester) is available. Copyright 1996-2008 Infagistics, Inc. All rights reserved. Infragistics and the Infragistics logo are registered trademarks of Infragistics, Inc. TestAdvantage is a trademark of Infragistics, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the respective property of their owners.

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