Beyond Firefighting - Combined Forces Articulate Next Step in Evolution of Application Performance Management

BOSTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BEZ Systems, the leading provider of Proactive Performance Management (PPM) solutions, today announced a partnership with OraPub, Inc., a recognized leader of training and consulting for Oracle system performance. This partnership brings together two uniquely respected and cutting-edge proactive performance management companies: BEZ focuses on solutions and OraPub focuses on services and education.

Increasingly businesses cannot afford to wait and then react to service faults involving critical customer applications. This challenge has motivated innovators to look for proactive solutions which would give them the time and data they need to make better decisions to ensure service delivery. BEZ Systems and OraPub have been at the forefront of evolutionary solutions based on advanced analytics and modeling technologies.

Through OraPub's training, tools, and publications, BEZ customers gain a deeper understanding of predictive technology, how to better communicate their analyses, and an appreciation for the value BEZ has incorporated into their solution. For OraPub customers, BEZ solutions enable Oracle professionals to spend more time on analysis and less time on tasks such as data collection and cleansing. It's a natural complementary partnership.

"BEZ and OraPub share the same vision of using proactive management to ensure consistent, superior application performance," said Dan Haley, CEO and president of BEZ Systems. "Predicting when application performance will become unacceptable is not random guesswork. It can be predicted mathematically with accuracy."

"I've looked long and hard to find a performance prediction solution I felt comfortable informing my students and readers about. BEZ offers a breathtaking solution that is technically robust and amazingly easy to use," said Craig Shallahamer, founder and president of OraPub and author of the book Forecasting Oracle Performance ( http://resources.orapub.com/category_s/58.htm). "Theirs is the only focused solution that allows my students and clients to spend more time on analysis and less time on rudimentary forecasting tasks."

About OraPub, Inc.

OraPub is a training, consulting, and tools company focused exclusively on Oracle performance management. After co-founding Oracle's Core Technologies and System Performance Group, Craig Shallahamer left Oracle in 1998 to start OraPub, Inc. OraPub is the only Oracle-focused training and consulting company that offers both firefighting (diagnosis and resolution) and forecasting (capacity planning and predictive analysis) courses, as well as publications and tools. More than 10,000 DBAs in 23 countries on over 6 continents have benefited from OraPub's field-validated instruction.

About BEZ Systems

Since 1993, BEZ Systems has been offering innovative Proactive Performance Management (PPM) solutions that provide a line-of-business view of future application service delivery. These solutions allow IT managers to accurately profile application performance, compare "change and growth" alternatives, and forecast future requirements. Future performance predictions are an invaluable component of verifying that business objectives and performance goals can be met, thereby minimizing any shortfalls in service.

    Contact:
    John McHugh
    Vice President, Marketing
    BEZ Systems
    (617) 532-8803
    jmchugh@bez.com
    http://www.bez.com

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