Borland Expands Leadership in J2EE Application Performance Optimization, from Development Now Through Testing and Production
Borland(R) Optimizeit(TM) ServerTrace 3 Helps Eliminate Business Risks and Time-to-Resolution of Business-Threatening J2EE Application Performance Hazards
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2004--
Borland Software (Nasdaq:BORL) today announced the release of Borland(R) Optimizeit(TM) ServerTrace 3, a performance optimization and management solution for the J2EE(TM) platform and its Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) environments, designed to reduce the business risks and costs associated with poorly performing business applications and downtime. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3, the performance testing element in the Borland(R) Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) cross-platform portfolio of solutions, enables teams to optimize software performance from development, testing and now into production, ultimately helping enterprises to create better software, faster.
"Application outages due to poor J2EE application quality and performance pose a tremendous business risk," said George Paolini, vice president and general manager of developer tools at Borland. "Adoption of SOAs further heightens the need to manage application performance as often external dependencies are involved. Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 is designed to help ensure optimal J2EE performance by addressing these types of needs from development through production while offering excellent team collaboration in every phase of the lifecycle."
Collaboration within IT teams is extremely important for any business application. This is especially true when developers, quality assurance personnel and application administrators must work together to detect, capture, share, diagnose and resolve application performance issues swiftly and accurately. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 provides valuable capabilities that enhance team collaboration across the lifecycle and offers the critical information needed by all roles involved in the application performance management process.
"Application performance management is rapidly evolving from simple aggregate response monitoring to leveraging a deeper understanding of internal application structure and behavior," stated Glenn O'Donnell, program director at META Group, a leading provider of information technology research, advisory services and strategic consulting. "As this trend continues, it is becoming clear that optimum solutions must span the traditional gap between development and operations. Without such organizational and technological cooperation, growing complexity will soon cripple attempts to foster business value."
In addition to team collaboration capabilities, Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 also includes:
-- Performance management for web services applications using the J2EE platform
-- Enhanced J2EE performance problem diagnostics for pre-deployment testing
-- A new production edition that allows operations teams to capture critical application performance problems on-demand to minimize application downtime and accelerate time-to-resolution
Peace Software, a utility Customer Information System (CIS) software company with offices across the globe, uses Optimizeit ServerTrace to fine tune the software Peace delivers to millions of customers worldwide, including Fortune 100 companies.
"Optimizeit ServerTrace removes the mysteries of J2EE performance testing," said Lex Miller, senior tools engineer at Peace Software. "It's common for there to be a degree of 'fog' when pinpointing performance issues, but with Optimizeit ServerTrace reaching through the Java to where it touches the database, all our experts can see the same issues."
What's New in Borland Optimizeit ServerTrace 3
-- Reduces performance hazards in pre-production testing: The updated Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 Test Edition helps reduce the risk of under-performing J2EE applications by pinpointing performance bottlenecks quickly and easily during pre-deployment testing. Integration with third-party load testing tools, such as Empirix(TM) e-Load(R), Mercury LoadRunner(R) and Segue(R) SilkPerformer(R), helps to quickly and accurately diagnose the root cause of performance problems that surface under load. The powerful diagnostic capabilities of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 deliver specific information to test teams about where time and resources are spent and where problems lie. The product also offers additional new performance analysis capabilities including analysis for legacy system connections, advanced JSP and Struts usage and Memory usage.
-- Quickly helps diagnose unexpected performance problems in production: The new Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 Production Edition's hibernate mode, Transaction Tracer, captures on-demand, live performance diagnostics information exactly when an application problem occurs. It delivers this information in a format that can be shared easily between operations, QA and development teams for fast time-to-resolution. This helps minimize business downtime and disruption. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 integrates with production monitoring frameworks such as HP(R) OpenView(R) through SNMP and JMX standard protocols. This integration can alert operations professionals when application performance levels drop, increasing the value of their existing monitoring investments.
-- Integrates with Borland ALM: Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 tightly integrates with Borland(R) StarTeam(R), the manage element of the Borland ALM solution, to provide comprehensive problem-tracking to ensure that problems are prioritized, assigned and tracked efficiently. It also integrates with the Borland(R) Optimizeit(TM) Enterprise Suite(R) to enable consistent methodology and collaborative performance management linking back with developers.
-- Supports J2EE-based SOA applications: Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 tracks and analyzes SOA-based web services transactions across the distributed J2EE environment, making it easier to optimize response times and maintain acceptable application availability across SOA environments. The new SOA view tracks AXIS/SOAP and JAX-RPC web services transactions so users can see how much time each request takes as it flows between SOA applications and web services providers. An enhanced Progress Tracker capability tracks further performance trends over time.
Availability
Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 is scheduled to be available in August 2004, but is available for pre-orders now. Optimizeit ServerTrace 3 integrates with all leading J2EE application servers and supports the Windows(R), Solaris(TM), Linux(R), IBM(R) AIX(R) and HP-UX(R) operating systems. For more information or to place an order, please visit www.borland.com/opt_servertrace/.
About Borland
Borland Software Corp. is a world leader in platform independent software development and deployment solutions designed to accelerate the entire application development lifecycle. By connecting managers, testers, designers, developers, and implementers in real time, Borland enables enterprises worldwide to define and sustain their competitive advantage. For more information, visit: http://www.borland.com or for the Borland Developer Network, please visit http://bdn.borland.com. All Borland brands and products are trademarks or registered trademarks of Borland Software Corp. in the United States and other countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
Safe Harbor Statement
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the U.S. Federal Securities Laws, including the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements may relate to, but are not limited to, the projected acceptance by existing or potential customers of new technologies and the potential features of Optimizeit ServerTrace 3, or benefits to be derived therefrom. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations that involve a number of uncertainties and risks that may cause actual events or results to differ materially. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially include, among others, the following: rapid technological change that can adversely affect the demand for Borland products, shifts in customer demand, delays in actions or announcements by competitors, and software errors. These and other risks may be detailed from time to time in Borland periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to, its latest Annual Report on Form 10-K and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, copies of which may be obtained from www.sec.gov. Borland is under no obligation to (and expressly disclaims any such obligation to) update or alter its forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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