Heroix eQ Management Suite Aligns IT Application Performance with Business Goals
Business-based displays, enhanced reporting, and automated auditing eliminate guesswork, speed problem resolution, and increase operational efficiency
NEWTON, Mass. – June 7, 2004 – Heroix Corporation, a leading provider of application performance management software, today announced the availability of the latest release of its award-winning Heroix eQ Management Suite. By providing intelligent, actionable IT performance data, Heroix eQ V3 helps IT organizations make better decisions, eliminate guesswork, and focus personnel on the IT problems that matter most to their business.
Central to the new release is the ability to present IT performance and operational information from a business perspective using the product’s Line of Business Views. Line of Business Views allow users to group relevant application, server, and infrastructure components based upon the specific business activities they support – enabling a true understanding of the performance issues and how they will affect the business. Color-coded icons show exactly which business activities are affected by performance or availability issues, making it much easier for IT staff to detect, correlate and correct performance problems before they impact the business. The new release also includes expanded reporting, graphing and monitoring capabilities, and enhanced scalability.
“Our Lawson ERP system is the nerve center of our business,” said Gordon Arbesman, Network Administrator at Worker Benefit Plans of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), an administrator of health care and other benefits for 50,800 LCMS church, university, and school workers and their families. “Heroix eQ gives us better control over the Lawson application -- and our business -- by providing a centralized means for monitoring and managing all IT aspects of our most critical business application. The product’s automated log file keyword search capability alone helps save us over 500 hours annually. By eliminating many time consuming tasks, Heroix eQ frees us up to focus on more strategic business issues.”
“Heroix eQ is right on track,” said Jasmine Noel of Ptak & Noel Associates. “The product’s ability to bridge the gap between business strategy and day to day IT operations provides a huge gain for today’s strapped IT departments. Heroix eQ's Line of Business Views allow administrators to see beyond individual technology silos – enabling better management of the business system as a whole. Key personnel across the organization – system/network administrators, DBAs, application managers, business line managers – no longer need to waste their time trying to decipher what the problems are, who needs to know, what impact they will have on the business, or what corrective measures need to be taken. With Heroix eQ this information is immediately available and easy to spot.”
“We promise our customers superior value for their investment,” said Rick Lane, President, Heroix Corporation. “Heroix eQ V3 delivers on that promise by helping IT staff solve problems quicker and more efficiently, and by improving the quality and presentation of data needed by IT staff and management alike.”
Expanded reporting and graphing capabilities include a “top resources” reporting feature that helps IT personnel quickly identify heavy resource usage at the application, server, or user level. Additionally, V3 includes automated archiving, reporting and graphing of custom application data, on-demand web-based reporting and graphing, trend analysis on all supported platforms, and granular multi-processor reporting. Heroix eQ V3 also adds fully integrated agentless monitoring of Windows servers.
Scalability enhancements include background task execution and the ability to avoid repetitive management tasks by combining them. The latest release also supports security best practices by automatically logging all changes made in the Heroix eQ Web Interface, thereby enabling organizations to audit actions taken by IT personnel. Fully integrated, role-based security regulates access to Line of Business Views as well as to individual monitoring, reporting, graphing, and management tasks.
The Heroix eQ Suite operates on multiple platforms, including Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Tru64), Linux, Windows Server (Windows NT/2000/2003), Novell Netware, and OpenVMS, and covers packaged and custom applications, database systems, messaging platforms, Web servers, operating systems, and IT infrastructure components.
Availability and Pricing
Heroix eQ Management Suite V3 is available immediately. Pricing begins at $1,995 USD for the Management Console (including Line of Business Views), and $395 USD per monitored system.
About Heroix
Heroix delivers award-winning software products that help organizations optimize the availability and performance of applications, databases, systems, and IT infrastructure running across multiple platforms. For more information, visit http://www.heroix.com.