Tuesday 07 September 2010
Assessment Based on Review of Select Group of Key Companies in the B2B Service MarketPHOENIX– Independent analyst firm Forrester Research, Inc. positioned Axway as a Leader in the“The Forrester Wave™: B2B Service Providers,Forrester Research evaluated Axway’s strengths and weaknesses along with 11 other B2B service providers. “The Forrester Wave™: B2B Service Providers” report indicated: “Axway scored well due to the multiple delivery options that it supports and extensive managed service offerings.”Available as on-premise software and through hosted and managed services, Axway’s business-to-business solutions enable companies to manage delivery cycles, increase end-to-end visibility, protect sensitive data in motion, and manage large and diffuse trading partner communities. Axway’s comprehensive business-to-business integration (B2Bi) solutions include services for electronic data interchange (EDI) translation, secure B2B communications, managed file transfer (MFT), visibility and analytics, application integration, support for multi-enterprise collaboration interactions and community management.Community management poses a myriad of challenges, including security, efficiency, visibility and integration. Depending on an organization’s size, industry or strategy, the company can configure its B2B infrastructure in a variety of ways, including on-premise or hosted options.Axway’s B2B solutions feature trading partner and community management, internal and back-end integration, plus message tracking and secure support for standard messaging and business protocols. Moreover, Axway has developed a comprehensive set of tools and methods, as well as a dedicated center, to help customers with their community on-ramping. In addition, Axway’s partnerships with Atos Origin, HP and Wipro, as well as its own managed services and integration offerings, round out the company’s comprehensive B2B offering.Meeting the most stringent service level agreements (SLAs), both in terms of service availability and support availability, allows Axway’s B2B services to be more competitive in the market. Axway has developed flexible pricing policies that take into account the service level required by the customer.“We believe being positioned as a leader in ‘The Forrester Wave™: B2B Service Providers, report is representative of our dedication to innovation in the B2B infrastructure market,” said Dave Bennett, chief technology officer, Axway. “Our hybrid delivery model allows us to provide our customers with a strong set of business solutions to efficiently and securely conduct business interactions across their networks of trading partners.”To learn more about Axway’s B2B solutions, Axway is the Business Interaction Networks company — the only provider in the market today to manage, run, secure, and monitor all of your business interactions, including email, files, messaging, services, events, and processes. Serving over 11,000 organizations in more than 100 countries, Axway facilitates the multi-enterprise transactions, processes and integration that accelerate business by eliminating the barriers between vendors, customers, departments, partners and suppliers. Axway’s comprehensive offerings include business-to-business integration, managed file transfer, secure email, business activity monitoring, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architecture, business process management, track & trace and identity validation solutions. Axway provides professional and managed services, as well as cloud computing and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings. Headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, Axway’s global presence spans 20 countries.
a nationwide leader in alternative payment processing services, today launched the latest version of its online transaction processing system. This upgrade, which includes a new merchant alert module, is the first of many to come in a suite of analytical data available to merchants.
By letting consumers charge recurring monthly fees such as Internet access to their phone bill, ILD Teleservices’ flagship Bill to Phone service enables merchants to capture more prospects with an alternative payment method (APM).Merchants who process phone-billed charges with ILD Teleservices can access a hosted billing and collections management tool (www.ildbnc.com), which combines alternative payment technology and billing analytics. This latest system enhancement — accessible from the merchant dashboard — uses historical performance data and trending to improve ILD’s merchants’ returns.
“As demand grows for alternative payment methods and as the list of phone-bill approved services multiplies, developing tools to manage data and improve results for merchants is an ILD priority,” said Dennis Stoutenburgh, ILD President and COO. “We realize that all sendback files are not the same, so these new risk segmentation capabilities provide increased visibility into critical business trends and enable quick corrective action prior to processing to limit a merchants exposure.”
By acting on this data prior to billing, merchants can quickly correct potential chargeback issues and improve the overall return on their marketing investment. The new release of ILD Teleservices billing and collections management tool also includes new service type classification enhancements for the digital industry.
About ILD Teleservices
ILD Teleservices is a leader in the alternative payment processing industry providing a convenient, simple and secure bill-to-phone payment alternative that allows consumers to purchase products and services online or over the phone by directly charging their phone bill, without disclosing personal financial data to each business. The rapidly growing ILD Teleservices network enables merchants to attract a new market of customers with an effortless payment experience and affords consumers to shop online without using a credit card. ILD Teleservices turnkey payment platform is tailored specifically for digital merchants and communications providers offering online content, long distance and collect calling, web hosting, Internet access, and certain other communications related services.
ILD Teleservices has partnered with more than 150 merchants to offer bill to phone payment services, a safe and convenient payment experience and its network includes more than 1,400 Local Exchange Carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, Qwest, Embarq and more. Millions of consumers and businesses rely on the safety and convenience of ILD Teleservices payment solutions when shopping online and over the phone.
Founded in 1996, ILD Teleservices is a division of ILD Telecommunications, Inc. (www.ildtelecom.com) headquartered in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida with additional offices in San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale and Atlanta. For more information, visit http://www.ildteleservices.com.
a leading global provider of managed IT infrastructure services, today announced the addition of NetWitness NextGen? to the range of managed security services offered to the company?s Enterprise Cloud? customers. NetWitness NextGen provides Terremark?s customers critical, proactive intelligence and analytics regarding the most advanced network threats, and enables Terremark?s security teams to shorten the risk exposure windows for customers dealing with sophisticated malware, data leakage, and other unauthorized internal and external communications.
?NetWitness is honored to be working closely with Terremark to provide advanced protection for its customers in the public and private sectors,? said Amit Yoran, CEO of NetWitness Corporation. ?As government and commercial organizations move to cloud computing and managed security operations centers, the combination of Terremark?s enhanced security solutions with the unique analytics and threat intelligence provided by NetWitness NextGen provides a force multiplier to reduce the risk associated with network threats.?NetWitness NextGen provides Terremark customers with leading-edge network security monitoring visibility and the ability to manage the advanced persistent threats faced by many organizations today. Based upon a dedicated and extensible full-packet capture and session-analysis infrastructure, NextGen performs both rules-based and interactive session analysis across the entire protocol stack, up to and including content and the application layer. It is designed for enterprises to address concurrent problems of insider threat management, data leakage protection, compliance verification, network e-discovery, and designer malware and zero-day detection.
Terremark offers a full suite of advanced managed security services delivered by its industry-leading Secure Information Services team. These services include application firewall management, network intrusion prevention (NIPS), netflow analysis and active DDOS reporting, and full packet capture and session analysis. All security services are delivered with an integrated, systematic approach to defend and protect the customer?s business processes and information assets.
?Within enterprises and Federal government agencies, security in the ?cloud? is a primary concern and protecting customers against network threats is vital to the overall security of any cloud infrastructure,? said Christopher Day, Terremark?s Chief Security Architect. ?Terremark?s recognized team of security experts combine their vast experience and knowledge in dealing with today?s most sophisticated cyberthreats with leading technologies like NextGen to allow customers across our stack of services a way to proactively identify, detect, and mitigate security problems.?About Terremark Worldwide, Inc.Terremark Worldwide (NASDAQ:TMRK) is a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services delivered on the industry?s most robust and advanced technology platform. Leveraging data centers in the United States, Europe and Latin America with access to massive and diverse network connectivity, Terremark delivers government and enterprise customers a comprehensive suite of managed solutions including managed hosting, colocation, disaster recovery, security and cloud computing services. Terremark?s Enterprise Cloud computing architecture delivers the agility, scale and economic benefits of cloud computing to mission-critical enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and its DigitalOps® service platform combines end-to-end systems management workflow with a comprehensive customer portal. More information about Terremark Worldwide can be found at
There are plenty of Enterprise Architects who see the connection between Business Process Management and Service-Oriented Architecture initiatives, and who have pulled them together into “BPM enabled by SOA” efforts. This synergy, however, is not automatic, and requires some hard work…Hardware Scaling in the Cloud By Treff LaPlante The main topic of this week and the most fundamental component of the cloud is infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This component refers to all the elements of delivering a Web-based service including servers, Internet connectivity, transport routing and sometimes higher-level function…By Dana Gardner The Open Group is leading some of the top efforts to make cloud benefits apply to mission critical IT. To learn more about the venerable group’s efforts I recently interviewed Allen Brown, president and CEO. Standards and open access are increasingly important to users of cloud-based s..
Twenty Lines or Less #29 By Colin WalkerWhat could you do with your code in 20 Lines or Less? That’s the question I ask (almost) every week for the devcentral community, and every week I go looking to find cool new examples that show just how flexible and powerful iRules can…Enterprise Architecture, TOGAF and Solution Architects
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I recently had the less-than-entertaining experience of a series of emails exchanged with a customer (manager level) on how to measure the “perceived user experience of throughput” through one of our nodes in their network. Since this node is one of many – very many &…
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By Lori MacVittieLeveraging Java EE and dynamic infrastructure to enable a shared resource, on-demand scalable infrastructure – without server virtualizationMany pundits and experts allude to architectures that are cloud-like in their ability to provide on-demand scalability but do…Keep Your SOA and BPM Initiatives SeparateBy JP Morgenthal
This entanglement of SOA and BPM into a single effort is fraught with problems and failure. Each initiative should be undertaken separately and with definitive goals that do not list each other as one of the outcomes.JDev 11gR1 – af:tree mashup – Using Hierarchical Tables and Drag-n-DropBy Chris Muir This blog post demonstrates creating an ADF Faces RC af:tree component that sources its data from a hierarchical database table, and supports drag n drop of the nodes.
Both these topics have been discussed and demonstrated by other excellent bloggers, the core of this post i…
Cloud Changes How But Not What
By Lori MacVittieCloud changes how we deliver applications but we’re still delivering applications
With all the hype around cloud it’s easy to get caught up in deployment models and architectures and how much money it is/is not going to Aug. 27, 2009 04:45 PM EDT Reads: 484
Business Agility as an Emergent Property of SOA
By Jason BloombergIn the SOA context, we focus on building and maintaining the Business Service abstraction, which supports inherently unpredictable behavior as the business composes Services to support fundamentally dynamic business processes. Essentially, with SOA we’re building for change, while with…
Installing and Setting up BlazeDS in JBoss AS 5
By Shashank TiwariIn this article I will illustrate how you could install and setup BlazeDS in a JBoss AS 5 application server instance. A number of new developers have difficulty installing and setting up BlazeDS in JBoss. I hope this article will provide answers to their questions and also help all th…Living with Plugins By Jennifer Moebius
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By Lori MacVittieSimultaneously one of the best use-cases for cloud as well as the worst. What’s IT to do?David Linthicum, Got Middleware? Got ESBs? Take This Survey, PleaseBy Dana Gardner
I’m hoping that you users and specifiers of enterprise software middleware, SOA infrastructure, integration middleware, and enterprise service buses (ESBs) will take 5 minutes and fill out my BriefingsDirect survey. We’ll share the results via this blog in a few weeks.
US DoD Chief Security Officer on Cybersecurity Priorities
By Kevin JacksonIn a Federal Executive Forum interview, Robert Lentz, Chief Security Officer for the US Department of Defense, highlighted the departments cybersecurity priorities. Mr. Lentz is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Identity and Information Assurance (CI&IA) in the Offic…DHS Asst. Secretary Addresses Cybersecurity PrioritiesBy Kevin JacksonGreg Schaffer, Assistant Secretary for CyberSecurity & Communications for the US Department of Homeland Security, sees Trusted Internet Connections, EINSTEIN, and front line defense of the nation’s networks as top cybersecurity priorities for the department. His views were shared durin…
SoapUI for Web Service TestingBy Chris MuirA popular tool for web service testing is SoapUI. The following blog post describes how to use it for testing a simple web service, as well as setting up a series of tests and even load/stress testing. Without a doubt similar documentation is available on the SoapUI website; my post gi…
A Formula for Quantifying Productivity of Web Applications
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By Jason BloombergWhile purchasing an ESB too early in a SOA project does substantially increase your risk of failure, all is not lost. After all, you’re not alone; this mistake is one of the most prevalent SOA snafus in IT shops around the world today, and not all of those projects end up as failures. …US Interior Department IT Infrastructure Vision
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By JP MorgenthalSo, in this morning’s email I received a notification from ActiveVOS that their CTO is a primary contributor to a new book recently released on Service Component Architecture (SCA). Having just recently completed a full investigation into SCA, two things jumped out at me: 1) SCA is he…Cloud Governance: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed…By Jason Bloomberg
Cloud availability. Cloud security. Erosion of data integrity. Data replication and consistency issues. Potential loss of privacy. Lack of auditing and logging visibility. Potential for regulatory violations. Application sprawl & dependencies. Inappropriate usage of Services. Difficult…TIBCO Searching for Its New Identity Between SOA, Web 2.0, and Cloud ComputingBy Pat RomanskiThe SD Times 100 recognizes companies, organizations and individuals that “set the agenda” for software managers, developers, and the industry through leadership and innovation. “We took into account each company’s leadership, innovation, reputation and the news the company generated i…
Fortune 500 Finds a Secret Weapon in SaaS-based Contact Centers
By Vincent Deschamps
From a business standpoint, software as a service (SaaS) is all about operating vs. capital cost and rapid time-to-value. Fortune 500 enterprise companies can no longer afford to make steep, up-front investments in software integration, hardware and staff; and then wait from 12 months …
What’s in a Cloud, Anyway?
By Don MacVittie
Funny thing about the hype-cycle surrounding cloud, it just doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Indeed, some are clinging to it like it was their long lost child – it in this case being the hype cycle, not the concept of cloud.
But seriously, lets consider exactly what…
Log Search As-a-Service Arrives
By Dana Gardner
I was impressed with Paglo when they first came out, and the additional services — now extending to capture and search of expansive sets of IT assets and other metadata on their performance — makes it a powerful tool for the cloud era.
Five Keys to an Awesome M&A
By Rebel Brown
In the interest of balance, today I’m waxing on about the awesome opportunities presented by M&As – and some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way to help things go a bit more smoothly. M&As are one of the most powerful opportunities for a Phoenix to rise; stronger, brighter, ready…
Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware LiveBlogging and News Analysis
By Miko Matsumura
So what does this say about Oracle’s strategy for forming SNORKEL, the Sun acquisition? Well, at the risk of reductio ad absurdum, having bought BEA and Sun, Larry Ellison sees Java as the new SQL
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Launched
By Dave Chappell
Today is the day we officially launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. The major areas of investment have been the completion of the integration between Oracle and BEA products into unified suites. This matches to the month the schedule that we had committed to publicly when announcing t…
Oracle Adds Zest to SQL Developer with Standalone Data Modeling Tool
By Dana Gardner
The whole SQL databases and associated tools and modeling ecosystem is ripe for tumult. My best guess is that Oracle’s pending Sun Microsystems purchase will provide offense via MySQL, and the associated community, to target the Microsoft SQL Server franchise.
Looking for SOA in All the Wrong Places?
By Roman Stanek
Systinet’s founding CTO and my friend Anne Thomas Manes pronounced the demise of SOA a few weeks ago. Honestly, SOA lost its meaning for me on the day when good, old Solaris became the “SOA operating system”. But is SOA dead or not? I don’t believe so but I think that Anne and others a…
SOA – A Business Agility Strategy
By Richard Soley
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a business agility strategy. Repeat after me: Business. Agility. Strategy. There are so many technology-focused definitions of SOA floating around that it’s difficult to remember that simple fact. SOA is focused on recognizing, precisely defining,…
Is SOA Dead, Doomed, or Misnamed?
By John MichelsenMany in the media are already calling on the demise of SOA and saying that it’s just a passing phase, or it’s really just a rebrand of the EAI space, or that it will be segmented only to certain integration-type challenges. We have a bit of a different take. The term SOA will go away o…
Fasthosts Internet Ltd, a leading web hosting provider and domain name registrar, today reported a marked increase in the number of .ORG domains registered by non-profit organisations during the past year. The domain suffix has out-grown in percentage terms many other non business top-level domain suffixes, indicating an increase in the number of non-profit and charitable projects being launched in the first half of 2009. The unique growth lends weight to the theory that many such organisations have initiated or grown web-based projects in response to the global recession. The .ORG domain name is the domain of choice for organisations dedicated to serving the public interest. Data from Fasthosts, one of the UK’s largest domain name registrars, shows that .ORG registrations made by its customers grew by 27% compared to the same period in 2008. The domain has seen the highest demand over all other non-business domains. Whilst domain success can often be skewed by short-term price promotions, the growth of .ORG comprises like for like growth over the 12 month period. As many UK charities have reported falls in donation income since the economy slowed down, such growth in .ORG domain registrations may suggest that non-profit bodies have stepped up investment in the internet. Web solutions now offer such groups extremely cost effective and scalable channels for gathering support and participation for causes, and taking donations directly from a website.
Steve Holford, CMO Fasthosts Internet Ltd, said: “It is pleasing to note the growth of the .ORG community and witness the remarkable difference that the web can deliver to non-profit organisations. In challenging economic times, such groups are wise to leverage the efficiencies and visibility that online projects can offer.”
Holford added: “Just as the recession has led UK businesses to step up ecommerce efforts, the Internet is the right logical step for non-profit groups to broaden their reach and safeguard their revenues.”
iT4Communities, a Fasthosts customer, is a charity that runs a large UK-wide network of IT volunteers who support hundreds of charity IT projects a year. They have seen a steady increase in requests for volunteer help with websites for small charities year on year. It remains the largest area of request for help as charities strive for a good website that helps them reduce costs and attract more support.
Anne Stafford, Programme Manager for iT4Communities, said: “Charities are relishing the benefits of websites with a CMS, making it cost effective to update their information and easier for volunteers to help as building a good site can take much less time”.
Affordable and easy to use web solutions have played a key role in accelerating online growth for the charity, non profit and social activism sectors. Nowadays, ‘turn-key’ website solutions from providers such as Fasthosts mean that smaller groups can create a web presence themselves and communicate and collaborate online within minutes. Fasthosts is a leading provider for shared and dedicated web hosting and business-class email solutions, and is the UK market leader for reseller web hosting. About Fasthosts Fasthosts is the UK’s number one web hosting company. Based in the UK and operating 24×7 from their dedicated UK data centres, Fasthosts keeps over 1 million domains running smoothly and ensures over 6 million emails are delivered safely each day. All Fasthosts services can be self-managed through the award winning Fasthosts web-based control panel that provides customers with unparalleled online control, enabling them to manage hosted services including domain registrations, shared web hosting, business-class email, dedicated servers, software-as-a-service, internet merchant accounts and unlimited broadband. Fasthosts’ highly successful reseller channel has recently been rated Number 1 for reseller hosting by industry portal Web Host Directory.
Monitis’ on-demand cloud monitoring service is now enhanced through Amazon S3 monitoring. This new ability, Monitis S3 Monitoring, lets customers independently monitor their S3 usage and storage, and notifies customers when they reach prescribed thresholds. Monitis thus provides its customers with greater access and control over the cloud infrastructure.The Simple Storage Service, or S3, is an online storage service offered by Amazon’s Web Services division. Amazon S3 uses a simple web interface to provide unlimited data storage. This was the first web service that Amazon offered to the public, first in the United States in March 2006 and then in Europe in November 2007. Amazon has charged users monthly by the gigabyte, with additional charge for each get or put request and for bandwidth used to send and receive stored data. There are an estimated 52 billion objects stored on Amazon S3 as of March 2009. S3 also includes image and web hosting and a back-up for its storage.Monitis already provides EC2 monitoring, and now adds S3 storage service monitoring as well. This gives Monitis the ability to show its users graphical displays illustrating the number of objects in each virtual folder (known as buckets), their total size, the number of virtual folders, and the number of objects in each bucket etc. Users can set notification rules for each metric that Monitis monitors. They can choose to be notified by Twitter, instant messaging,SMS, and/or email when any threshold is reached.Monitis is an independent service that can be used by business administrators and IT managers to monitor and exercise control over their Amazon cloud usage. Cloud computing customers do not typically own the physical assets that store their software. Instead, cloud computing customers usually pay for only what they use, and enjoy the cloud resource as a service. Cloud customers need more visibility into the cloud than other service users, to make sure that their software is running properly. The Monitis cloud monitoring system allows customers this transparency, giving users management and monitoring capabilities comparable to those enjoyed with in-house systems.
According to Hovhannes Avoyan, CEO of Monitis, “On-demand cloud computing is at high demand now and needs for cloud monitoring are explicit. We cannot ignore the request and we provide fast, easy, affordable tool to address these needs”. Users who sign up for Monitis receive access to Monitis Cloud, which is a web-centric on-demand software that does not require any downloads. This is a service beneficial to those who provide IT services, and businesses ranging from small to enterprise-level.
Monitis Performance Monitor is industry leading comprehensive, affordable, scalable, fault and performance management platform. Monitis Performance Monitor monitors, collects and analyzes information from websites, servers, routers, switches, VoIP devices, DNS, databases, processes and any other IP devices providing users with a comprehensive view of their system health. Open sourced Monitis plug-in with powerful API’s allow users to extend Monitis powerful monitoring and management capabilities. Users can be assured of always on reliable service as Monitis Performance Monitor is deployed across the world providing resilient service.Monitis is a leading provider of affordable performance monitoring and management solution. More than 50,000 customers spanning small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and education institutions have chosen Monitis to reduce system downtime, improve IT administrator productivity, and reduce operational expenditure. Monitis is radically changing system monitoring and management landscape by providing easy to use, affordable, flexible (deployment configurations include: shared, internal cloud and external cloud), and simple to manage SaaS performance monitoring and management solution.
BOSTON, Mass. and Melbourne, Australia — OpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N) company and a leading provider of cloud computing professional services automation (PSA) and Services Resource Planning (SRP) software, today announced that it has partnered with AIPEX to resell, and support OpenAir solutions in Australia. This partnership is expected to help bring the industry’s leading PSA and SRP solution to Australian companies, enabling them to manage their projects, resources, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing processes in the cloud. Recently OpenAir announced a number of customer wins in Asia Pacific that included AIPEX, Waugh Infrastructure Management, Fronde, and Matsco Solutions.
Partnering with OpenAir gives AIPEX an immediate presence in the rapidly expanding cloud-based PSA industry, as well as the rights to sell and service the premier PSA solution for mid-sized and enterprise companies. Leveraging its local presence and expertise in the enterprise services market, AIPEX consultants can now specialize in promoting OpenAir solutions to key Australian companies.
Furthermore, as a current customer of OpenAir, AIPEX has first-hand product knowledge of the OpenAir suite and how it can help services businesses improve utilization and project margins while reducing overhead costs. AIPEX leverages OpenAir as the core component of their SRP solutions. With NetSuite CRM integrated on the front end and NetSuite Financials on the back end, AIPEX runs its core business in the cloud, leveraging automated workflows to reduce errors and manual processes.The partnership between AIPEX and OpenAir has a great deal of synergy” said Morris Panner, CEO at OpenAir. “By bringing together two companies with proven expertise in the enterprise market, the power of PSA and SRP can now be extended even further into the Australian services industry. I am excited to see what we are able to accomplish together”
“AIPEX has worked on many projects in major enterprises in Australia and we see a great need for better visibility, transparency and control of project resources and costs” said Trevor Townsend, Director at AIPEX. “OpenAir allows companies to gain a firm grasp of their resource planning and forecast needs; leading to higher utilization rates, reduced costs, and ultimately, more effective outcomes for their projects.To kick off the partnership, AIPEX will host a breakfast seminar on 1st September 2009 at the Crown Complex in Melbourne. Entitled Simplicity-Transparency-Scalability, the seminar will demonstrate how global businesses utilize OpenAir to optimize resource management and provide value added services to their customers. Specifically, Siemens PLM Software will discuss how OpenAir has enabled the company to automate its global resource management process by increasing utilization and improving delivery margins. For more information, AIPEX provides clients with expert services and solutions that assist them in improving their business through information technology investments. AIPEX’s expertise is its most valuable asset; it is what is required to improve business processes and ultimately business performance. Formed in 2000, AIPEX has over 60 consultants and has offices in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. AIPEX delivers quality services by developing its service capacity and capability in line with forward technology trends and its clients’ requirement, focusing on staying ahead and reacting swiftly to market demands and aligning itself with innovative partnersAbout OpenAir OpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. company, is a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) services automation software. Offering both professional services automation (PSA) and project portfolio management (PPM) solutions, OpenAir provides project-based organizations and firms the tools they need to grow their businesses quickly and profitably. Providing enterprise-level functionality for businesses of all sizes, OpenAir has more than 80,000 active users at over 650 world-class firms using the software to better capture billable time, manage projects and resources and bill customers. Coupled with a team of highly experienced consultants from some of the world’s leading services firms, OpenAir’s services automation solutions drive higher profits through improved utilization, visibility and data collection.
company and a leading provider of cloud computing professional services automation (PSA) and Services Resource Planning (SRP) software, today announced that it has partnered with AIPEX to resell, and support OpenAir solutions in Australia. This partnership is expected to help bring the industry’s leading PSA and SRP solution to Australian companies, enabling them to manage their projects, resources, time and expense tracking, and billing and invoicing processes in the cloud. Recently OpenAir announced a number of customer wins in Asia Pacific that included AIPEX, Waugh Infrastructure Management, Fronde, and Matsco Solutions.Partnering with OpenAir gives AIPEX an immediate presence in the rapidly expanding cloud-based PSA industry, as well as the rights to sell and service the premier PSA solution for mid-sized and enterprise companies. Leveraging its local presence and expertise in the enterprise services market, AIPEX consultants can now specialize in promoting OpenAir solutions to key Australian companies.Furthermore, as a current customer of OpenAir, AIPEX has first-hand product knowledge of the OpenAir suite and how it can help services businesses improve utilization and project margins while reducing overhead costs. AIPEX leverages OpenAir as the core component of their SRP solutions. With NetSuite CRM integrated on the front end and NetSuite Financials on the back end, AIPEX runs its core business in the cloud, leveraging automated workflows to reduce errors and manual processes.”The partnership between AIPEX and OpenAir has a great deal of synergy” said Morris Panner, CEO at OpenAir. “By bringing together two companies with proven expertise in the enterprise market, the power of PSA and SRP can now be extended even further into the Australian services industry. I am excited to see what we are able to accomplish together”"AIPEX has worked on many projects in major enterprises in Australia and we see a great need for better visibility, transparency and control of project resources and costs” said Trevor Townsend, Director at AIPEX. “OpenAir allows companies to gain a firm grasp of their resource planning and forecast needs; leading to higher utilization rates, reduced costs, and ultimately, more effective outcomes for their projects.To kick off the partnership, AIPEX will host a breakfast seminar on 1st September 2009 at the Crown Complex in Melbourne. Entitled Simplicity-Transparency-Scalability, the seminar will demonstrate how global businesses utilize OpenAir to optimize resource management and provide value added services to their customers. Specifically, Siemens PLM Software will discuss how OpenAir has enabled the company to automate its global resource management process by increasing utilization and improving delivery margins. For more information, AIPEX provides clients with expert services and solutions that assist them in improving their business through information technology investments. AIPEX’s expertise is its most valuable asset; it is what is required to improve business processes and ultimately business performance. Formed in 2000, AIPEX has over 60 consultants and has offices in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. AIPEX delivers quality services by developing its service capacity and capability in line with forward technology trends and its clients’ requirement, focusing on staying ahead and reacting swiftly to market demands and aligning itself with innovative partnersOpenAir, Inc., a NetSuite Inc. company, is a leading provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) services automation software. Offering both professional services automation (PSA) and project portfolio management (PPM) solutions, OpenAir provides project-based organizations and firms the tools they need to grow their businesses quickly and profitably. Providing enterprise-level functionality for businesses of all sizes, OpenAir has more than 80,000 active users at over 650 world-class firms using the software to better capture billable time, manage projects and resources and bill customers. Coupled with a team of highly experienced consultants from some of the world’s leading services firms, OpenAir’s services automation solutions drive higher profits through improved utilization, visibility and data collection
The Leading DDoS Solution Provider, IntruGuard today announced there is never a better time than now to protect web properties from DDoS attacks.Sunnyvale, CA,The Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, that took popular microblogging site offline recently, have been growing rapidly with the availability of open source tools and botnets around the world.The Leading DDoS Solution Provider, IntruGuard today announced there is never a better time than now to protect web properties from DDoS attacks.IntruGuard is widely deployed by some of the world’s leading web properties to protect their web sites from DDoS and botnet attacks. The appliance from IntruGuard ensures that legitimate users can access the sites while the botnet and DDoS attacks are blocked. Leading social networking websites around the world use IntruGuard to protect themselves. Most of these properties never declare openly that they use these appliances to further protect themselves.Most webhosting centers that don’t have our appliances don’t know how to deal with these attacks”, said IntruGuard’s co-founder and CTO, Hemant Jain. “Visibility and control over what’s happening is key to DDoS mitigation. Existing techniques have failed in protecting web properties at installations such as the leading microblogging site. Our appliances provide the ability to monitor and control beyond what’s available in today’s network security infrastructure.” commented Jain.Most network security engineers think that DDoS problems have been taken care of since they first appeared in 2000 against popular auction sites and leading search engines. That’s not so. The current commentedof attacks is smarter and harder to stop using existing solutions. Most operations managers depend on their webhost to take care of such attacks and the many leading webhosts surprisingly are not geared to handle them. Our appliances have been designed recently and they can withstand the onslaught and filter out such attacks and provide a clean pipe to the subsequent infrastucture such as firewalls, webservers and application servers. IntruGuard’s appliances are easy to deploy and configure and take less than few hours to install in a busy network” added Jain.IntruGuard’s products are available through resellers and distributors in some countries and directly in countries without resellers.Website managers can contact IntruGuard for further discussions on security infrastructure.IntruGuard is a leading supplier of Network Behavior Analysis Systems for e-tailers, social networking companies, Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, online commerce companies, Internet Gaming companies, Web Hosting Service Providers, Internet Service Providers, Internet Data Centers and Enterprise Data Centers. These NBA systems provide granular real time network traffic visibility and provide automatic protection against targeted Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
