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CISCO’S WORKLOAD AUTOMATION SOLUTION INCORPORATES ADVANCED PREDICTIVE AND HISTORICAL ANALYTICS TO ENHANCE AND EXTEND DECISION MAKING FOR ENTERPRISE–WIDE BUSINESS PROCESSING, November 1, 2011 —
Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Business Unit and Terma Software Labs Inc today announced the integration of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS Workload Analytics. The combined solution will enable users of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler to further align their workload processing environments with the needs of the business by leveraging JAWS to visualize workload performance as it relates to Service Level Agreements (SLA’s). In addition, users will be able to dramatically reduce business processing risks by taking advantage of predictive analytics to understand future performance, enabling a highly proactive workload processing environment.
“In speaking with many users of workload automation solutions, we continue to hear a need for better understanding and efficient management of workload performance.” said Torsten Volk, Senior Analyst at Enterprise Management Associates. “Tidal Enterprise Scheduler is at the heart of Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Strategy. JAWS will extend the functionality adding a layer of sophisticated analytics to ensure on-time SLA driven job completion.”
Workload Automation is a key enabler to business success in today’s enterprise. As data center complexity grows, SLA delivery times shorten and business demands becomes more event-driven, the need to automate is imperative. However, only automation with historic and real-time environmental visibility can produce the requisite infrastructure awareness necessary to ensure business processes complete in accordance with defined SLAs. Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler users will benefit from the following functionality in JAWS:
- Performance Intelligence (Predictive, Real Time, Historical, Business)
- SLA Assurance
- Critical Path Visualization
- Machine & Resource Correlation
- Flexible Reporting
“Extra Technology has been a long time partner and technology subject matter expert for both Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS”, said Mark Mannion, Managing Director of Extra Technology Limited. “Our Cisco workload automation customers have been asking for extended analytics, prediction, and SLA awareness to enable them to better manage workload performance. JAWS is a very mature, feature rich solution, and a perfect fit for their needs.”
To learn more about the integrated solution of Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler and JAWS Workload Analytics we encourage you to view this short video. For further information or to request a live demonstration please contact your Cisco account team or email us at intelligentautomation@cisco.com.
About Terma Software Labs
Terma Software Labs is focused on providing Workload Automation Analytics, Workload Automation Aggregation, and a true Workload Automation Broker, bridging the gap between workload environments and the emerging technology markets of Business Service Management, Virtualization, and Data Center Automation. For more information, visit us at www.termalabs.com.
About Cisco
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate. Information about Cisco can be found at www.cisco.com. For ongoing news, please go to http://newsroom.cisco.com. For more information about Cisco’s advanced workload automation solution and other Intelligent Automation product and services visit www.cisco.com/IntelligentAutomation.
BOULDER, CO, October 26, 2011 —
Terma Software Labs was recently honored by being ranked #64 on the 2011 Technology 200 list. The list is ranked based on the highest percentage revenue growth from 2008 to 2010. More than 600 companies applied, all of whom are based in the United States, are private, and earned over $500,000 in revenues in the year 2010. Terma's percentage growth came in at 118%, which was tops in the State of Colorado. In addition, Terma's growth contributed to an average growth of 72% for both the Denver Metro and the State of Colorado. Please visit VentureBeat to learn more.
LAS VEGAS, October 6, 2011 —
Jennifer Chisik, CTO for Terma Software Labs, will host an open forum discussion about the new features and functionality recently added to JAWS, as well as demonstrating our newest integrations. We would also like to take advantage of this time to get your feedback on our proposed product roadmap for the upcoming year. We have a lot of ideas for how we think you can benefit from the power of JAWS Analytics and we would greatly benefit from you helping us prioritize what is most important to you. This session is open to both current and potential JAWS customers.
The session will take place on Monday November 14th from 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM. You can add this session to your agenda via www.caworld.com and search for session VS014SN.
HOSTED BY EXTRA TECHNOLOGY, September 21, 2011 —
AutoSys UK User Group Chairman (and Extra Technology's CA Practice Manager) Antony Askew is hosting the 2011 AutoSys UK User Group Meeting at the Grange St Paul's Hotel in London on 6 October 2011. Terma's Max Schwartz will be presenting the topic of "Leveraging JAWS for your AutoSys R11 Migration". To register for this event, please visit Linkedin. Space is limited, reserve your seat today!
If for some reason you are unable to attend in person, you can learn more about this pwerful use case by visiting http://termalabs.com/products/ca-workload-automation-ae.html.
September 20, 2011
September 29 Webcast: Analytical Approach to Managing Workload Performance
Share This ▸FEATURING THE CAPITAL GROUP, September 20, 2011 —
Please join us on Thursday, September 29th at 12:00 EST as we dive head first into the many benefits of workload analytics and see how predictive analytics can evolve your daily workload management practices to be proactive and less reactive to ensuring workloads complete in accordance with business driven SLA’s. The webinar will feature current JAWS user Tom Mills from Capital Group company alongside Garret Cole from Terma Software Labs. Sign up for the September 29th webinar today!
JOBSTREAM ANALYSIS & OPTIMIZATION, July 12, 2011 —
In this one hour webinar, we will take a deeper dive into the jobstream to explore jobstream creation, editing, monitoring, alerting and more. Also included will be tips and tricks for analyzing JAWS gantt-charts, identifying inefficiencies, and advanced jobstream optimization.To register, please click on your preferred date and time below. Once you have completed the registration you will see a "Registration Confirmed" message and will receive a confirmation email.
117% GROWTH FROM 2008 TO 2010, June 29, 2011 —
For the first time in Terma Software Labs history, the company has been ranked on the Mercury 100 Fastest Growing Companies List. This years report compiled by the Boulder County Business Report looked at annual revenue in 2008 as compared to 2010. Terma's record growth of 117.91% was good enough to land in the Top 10 at #9.
CUSTOMIZABLE REPORTING, June 20, 2011 —
Our fourth webinar will feature Pete Deuel, Sr. Technology Analyst from Goldman Sachs. In this webinar, Pete will take you on a "day in the life" guided tour of the many capabilities JAWS has to offer with highly customizable reporting via use cases from one of the most demanding workload automation environments in the world. Specific functiionality to be highlighted:
- Overview of reporting using Jobstream summary
- Quick view of critical path stability from jobstream detail
- Trending by critical path history
- Trending by job run history
- Troubleshooting pervasive agent issues using termination status report
- Infrastructure management and processing load report
To register, please select the link next to your preferred date and time below. Once you have completed the registration you will see a "Registration Confirmed" message and will receive a confirmation email.
- Thursday June 23, 9:00am MDT Click here to register
- Wednesday June 29, 2:00pm MDT Click here to register
ACCELERATE YOUR MIGRATION TO AUTOSYS R11 WITH CONFIDENCE, May 16, 2011 —
If you are in the midst of or will soon begin a migration to AutoSys r11 you are in the perfect position to leverage JAWS’ workload analytics and visibility to ensure your upgrade is smooth and successful.
In this webinar we’ll share some of the ways our customers have leveraged JAWS during their upgrade. Take this opportunity to learn how JAWS can bring value beyond its day-to-day use to reduce the risk and increase the efficiency of your r11 migration.
To register, please select the link next to your preferred date and time below. Once you have completed your registration you will see a “Registration Confirmed” message and receive a confirmation email.
• Thursday, May 19, 9:00am MDT Click here to register
• Wednesday, May 25, 2:00pm MDT Click here to register
Future Topics
• Introduction to JAWS Reporting
• SLA Management and Alerting
• Jobstream Analysis and Optimization
• WCC Integration with JAWS
GETTING STARTED WITH JAWS, April 14, 2011 —
The second installment in the JAWS webinar series, Getting Started with JAWS, moves from covering core concepts in the product to highlighting their practice. Correctly leveraging JAWS functionality such as loading schedulers, creating jobstreams and using business area filtering will help you get the most out of your investment in JAWS' Workload Analytics.
Topics covered will include:
• Adding Schedulers
• Using Business Areas
• Creating Jobstreams
• Configuring Late/Alert Criteria
To register, please select the link next to your preferred date and time below. Once you have completed your registration you will see a “Registration Confirmed” message and receive a confirmation email.
• Wednesday, April 20, 9:00am MST Click here to register
• Thursday, April 28, 2:00pm MST Click here to register
Included below is a quick preview of upcoming webinars. If you would like to request a webinar topic, please let us know.
• Webinar #3: Leveraging JAWS for your r11 Migration (May)
• Webinar #4 Introduction to JAWS Reporting (June)
• SLA Management and Alerting
• Jobstream Analysis and Optimization
• WCC Integration with JAWS
INTRODUCTION TO JAWS, March 9, 2011 —
Terma Software Labs is pleased to announce our new JAWS Webinar Series. As a free service to our customers, we will address common topics of interest and frequently asked questions in focused webinar sessions. If you are interested in furthering your knowledge of JAWS’ functionality, this series is designed for you.
The webinars will be provided on a monthly basis. To accommodate different time zones and schedules, each webinar will be offered twice over the course of the month, with varied start times. At the beginning of each month we will send a notification including the topic, schedule and registration links.
The first installment in the series will be an overview session. This webinar will cover JAWS basics. Topics covered will include:
• Core JAWS Concepts
• Automated Jobstream Aggregation
• Business Area Filtering
• SLA and Alert Management
This session will also be an introduction to powerful JAWS functionality such as analyzing jobstream design to optimize your work flow, customizing reports to suit the needs of your business and your users, and leveraging our integrations to take control of your workload environment.
Whether JAWS is new to your IT center, or you are new to JAWS we’re excited to offer JAWS Overview as part of our free webinar series for our valued customers.
To register for a “JAWS Overview” webinar, select the link next to your preferred date and time in the list below. You will receive a confirmation email after completing your registration.
• Webinar 1: Thursday, March 17, 9:00am MST Click here to register
• Webinar 2: Wednesday, March 30, 2:00pm MST Click here to register
THE INTEGRATED SOLUTION OF JAWS AND OPSWISE AUTOMATION CENTER TO BE RESOLD BY STONEBRANCH, February 15, 2011 —
Terma Software Labs Inc and Stonebranch today announced a strategic alliance. The partnership enables Stonebranch to resell Terma’s market leading Workload Analytics solution, JAWS, with Stonebranch’s OpsWise Automation Center, the most modern job scheduler on the market. The combined solution will bring together the ease of use, cross platform support in a job scheduling engine that so many enterprises demand, combined with workload performance analytics to ensure business critical jobs complete on time, in accordance with their service level agreement (SLA).
“I’m excited to see two emerging companies in the workload automation space join forces to evolve this market,” said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President of Enterprise Management Associates. “OpsWise Automation Center earned the ’value leader’ award in our most recent WLA Radar Report and JAWS is a workload analytics solution that has quietly been managing workload performance for many Fortune 500 companies. The combination of Stonebranch’s cutting edge solution and the rich workload analytics from Terma will enable IT departments to have an end-to-end workload management solution in true service management context.”
With the majority of enterprise data still being managed via batch, companies have grown to become reliant upon job scheduling engines to support critical business services. As complexity and volume have increased, the need for automation has moved to the forefront. However, automation is only one piece to the puzzle. Without analytical based intelligence, inefficiencies could be automated into processes on a daily basis. Today’s enterprise needs a dynamic, cost effective, workload automation solution that scales to support environments that span from z/OS to distributed systems and even to cloud-based solutions, combined with analytical insight into business, predictive, real-time, and historical performance.
“With the demand for workload analytics increasing, we embarked on executing our workload aggregation strategy to be able to provide to more companies”, added Walter Goodwin, CEO of Terma Software Labs. “The market response and analyst validation made the decision to integrate with OpsWise Automation Center the obvious next step for us.”
The integrated solution is available immediately and those wishing to evaluate and purchase should contact Stonebranch directly. Stonebranch will also act as a reseller of JAWS for CA Workload AE (AutoSys Edition).
“We are excited to be able to continue building the most innovative and reliable workload automation portfolios,” said Wolfgang Bothe, CEO of Stonebranch. “Building upon the strong foundation of our independent agents and file transfer technologies, the recent merger with OpsWise, and now the integration and reseller partnership with Terma, Stonebranch has become an even more compelling and competitive Workload Automation solution.”
TERMA SEES 70% YEAR OVER YEAR REVENUE GROWTH FROM MARKET LEADING WORKLOAD ANALYTICS SOLUTION, February 2, 2011 —
Terma Software Labs, the market leader for Workload Analytics, reached many new milestones in 2010. Terma saw high demand from many new SMB and Enterprise customers. Growth from existing customers came via added capacity, and the expansion into leveraging workload analytics in pre-production environments to remedy job scheduling issues before going live. Three out of the four quarters saw record setting revenue culminating with a 70% growth compared to 2009. Since the company’s inception, over 5.5 million jobs are being managed by JAWS.
“I continue to be enthusiastic with the market response to our Workload Analytics solution, JAWS”, said Walter Goodwin, CEO of Terma Software Labs. “Job Scheduling platforms continue to evolve to powerful Workload Automation engines that represent a massive amount of enterprise’s business critical data. Users of these products need an analytic approach to ensure Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) are met. The ability to manage this complex data from a business, predictive, real-time, and historical perspective sets our technology apart from everyone else in the market.”
2010 Highlights:
- 3 out of 4 Record Quarters
- 70% Year over Year Revenue Growth
- 5.5 Million Business Critical Jobs Managed
- Expansion into Business Service Management (BSM) Market
- Integration with CA Workload Automation AE (AutoSys Engine) r11.3
- Continued Investment in R&D to Grow Staff by 30%
Looking Forward to 2011
2011 will see continued growth and expansion into new markets. Building upon the foundation of Terma’s Workload Analytics solution, the company plans to execute on its Workload Aggregation and Workload Broker strategies. Adding to the existing support for data across multi-version and heterogeneous computing environments, Terma will announce multi-vendor support.
“Enabling IT departments to take an analytical approach from all angles to manage workload data not only improves efficiency and reduces risk”, added Jennifer Chisik, CTO of Terma Software Labs “but it also provides the performance and capacity driven workload intelligence that users need to make decisions around resources (physical, virtual, cloud) needed to insure jobs complete on time.”
Bringing all these pieces together will foster evolutionary growth in a market that has emerged from batch management, to job scheduling, to Workload Automation, to the future of “Workload Governance”.
SUPPORT FOR AUTOSYS 11.3, SPECTRUM SERVICE ASSURANCE 2.5, NEW JOB TRENDING FUNCTIONALITY, December 14, 2010 —
Terma will host two one-hour webinars demonstrating the new features and functionality in JAWS v3.5. It is recommended that you have v3.5 downloaded prior to the webinar. Webinar schedule:
• Wednesday, Dec. 15, 10:00am MST
• Thursday, Dec. 16, 8:00am MST
To sign up, please reply to chrisanna@termalabs.com, with the following information:
• Which session would you like to attend?
• How many WebEx connections do you need? Please send the email addresses for each one.
SUPPORT FOR CA WORKLOAD AUTOMATION, CA SPECTRUM SERVICE ASSURANCE , NEW JOB TRENDING FUNCTIONALITY, MULTIPLE GUI ENHANCEMENTS, December 8, 2010 —
Terma Software Labs Inc., the leader in Workload Automation Analytics, today announced the release of JAWS 3.5. The major highlights of this release are centered on significant architectural changes to support CA Technologies upcoming product releases of CA Workload Automation and CA Spectrum Service Assurance. JAWS 3.5 also features a new Job Trending and Analysis capability, in addition to a number of customer requested GUI enhancements.
CA Workload Automation (formerly CA AutoSys Workload Automation), features a number of new architectural and function changes. The big change, as it relates to JAWS, is the addition of several dozen new job types. With the release of JAWS 3.5, JAWS offers complete and full support of all job types throughout the CA Workload Automation product.
“CA Technologies appreciates that JAWS has been designed to support the upcoming release of CA Workload Automation ,” said Jim Anderson, vice president of Product Management for Workload Automation, CA Technologies. “JAWS has been an integral component to our automation strategy. We’re glad to be able to provide a version of JAWS to customers currently testing our upcoming CA Workload Automation release.”
Building upon a previously announced solution to “Bridge The Gap Between Workload and Business Service Management (BSM)”, JAWS also now supports the CA Spectrum Service Assurance, powered by CA Technologies Unified Service Model.
“With more than 70% of corporate data flowing through the batch, customers need to understand how workload performance impacts critical business services,” added Jim Anderson. “Our CA Workload Automation and CA Spectrum Service Assurance solutions integrated with JAWS can help provide customers the visibility they’ve been looking for.”
JAWS 3.5 also features a New Job Trend and Analysis Reporting Capability. Users can now perform sophisticated trend analysis on job run history to easily determine which trends are real and important, and which ones are not. In addition, there are a number of other enhancements. Existing customers can access the full release by logging into their account at www.termalabs.com, where those familiar with Terma will notice a rebranding effort, starting with the new website.
“I’m really pleased with the strides we’re making as a company and with our technology,” said Walter Goodwin, CEO of Terma Software Labs. “This is the first of many positive announcements coming in the forthcoming year that will cement Terma’s position as the market leader for Workload Automation Analytics.”
TERMA SOFTWARE LABS ANNOUNCES INTEGRATION WITH CA SERVICE ASSURANCE , May 17, 2010 —
Terma Software Labs, the leader in innovative Business Driven Workload Automation solutions, today announced the integration of its JAWS workload automation product with CA Spectrum Service Assurance, the business service management product of the CA Service Assurance portfolio.
Workload Automation, the evolution of batch management and job scheduling, has long been the enabler of processing large volumes of corporate data. Companies have grown to rely on the critical execution of Jobs to maintain the health of their daily business. Now more than ever IT departments are relying on technologies and processes that align their initiatives with the business services they support, in an automated fashion. With analyst data reporting that over 70% of corporate data flows through corporate batch, IT departments must have technology that correlates that data with business services, that is enabled to be governed by service level agreements (SLA), that encompasses predictive analytics to be proactive and not reactive, and most importantly agile in its ability to feed rich heuristics to the wealth of emerging technologies managing today’s Data Centers.
JAWS, from Terma Software Labs, is the industry’s first solution to bridge the gap from Workload Automation to Business Service Management (BSM). JAWS’ unique approach to managing workload by Jobstreams, correlated by Business Application, and managed by SLA, makes it the perfect bridge for this massive technology gap. Leveraging the standard Software Development Kit provided with the CA Spectrum Service Assurance product, Terma developed a connector and embedded a reconciliation layer into JAWS to make this technical integration feasible. CA Spectrum Service Assurance integrates real- time data from both CA Technologies and third-party infrastructure and application performance management tools to build business service models, analyze their quality, and investigate the root cause of problems that impact service or put them at risk.
“Terma has architected JAWS to fit into this Brave New World with a well-thought-out approach to capturing CI attributes and interdependencies in extensible fashion through its modeling,” said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “This suggests a broader role for Terma as higher levels of service impact information and automation will be increasingly needed to support more dynamic Cloud services and transaction-centric, real-time requirements for a growing variety of innovative business models.”
The emergence of Business Service Management technologies has done a lot to mature IT Management by bringing together various disciplines within enterprise infrastructure to manage according to business demands, but they have failed or turned a blind eye to one very important piece…workload.
“Workload ranks among the top components of services that must be proactively managed to ensure that IT is efficiently supporting business goals,” said Cliff Meltzer, corporate senior vice president and general manager, Service Assurance business unit, CA Technologies. “Terma JAWS adds deep and predictive understanding of workload to the CA Spectrum Service Assurance product’s end-to-end service modeling and risk analysis.”
For more information about the business value of using JAWS to bridge the gap between Workload Automation and Business Service Management, please download the free white paper authored by EMA titled ”What Terma Software Labs Can Teach the Industry about Business Service Management.
JAWS ENABLES INTELLIGENT BUSINESS DRIVEN WORKLOAD AUTOMATION FOR MORE THAN 4 MILLION AUTOSYS JOBS WORLDWIDE, February 1, 2010 —
Despite the global economic challenges of 2009, Terma was able to book the highest annual sales revenue since the company’s inception in 2004. This was achieved through the addition of new customers, subsequent sales to existing customers in need of expanding their capacity, and an ever growing demand to use JAWS in non–production environments. Additionally, 99% of existing customers have renewed maintenance agreements.
“I’m extremely proud of our efforts in 2009. Continuing to add new customers in this economy reflects strong market demand to increase IT efficiency, reduce risk, and better manage AutoSys environments from a mandated ‘business-driven’ perspective, which aligns IT to business service levels”, said Walter Goodwin, CEO of Terma Software Labs.
2009 Highlights:
- Record Annual Sales
- Q408 vs. Q409 Quarterly Growth 104%
- Surpassed 4 Million Jobs Managed Worldwide
- Continued Profitability
- Strengthened Partnership with CA
- Added 3 New Reseller/Service Provider Partners
Looking Forward to 2010
Terma is poised for continued growth in 2010 as JAWS continues to mature and meet the growing demands of Workload Automation. Be on the lookout for multiple new releases of Terma’s flagship product JAWS, in addition to entirely new products that will expand the value of JAWS beyond workload automation.
“We are currently in development on a release to support AutoSys 11.3, in addition to a new solution that will take advantage of the service driven workload intelligence and predictive analytics produced by JAWS”, said Jennifer Chisik, CTO of Terma Software Labs.
IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE, January 21, 2010 — Ability to configure a limit of days and jobs in the Job Run History report, using server parameters reportMaxJobs and reportMaxDays
Rounding down the percentage complete column of the monitoring panel for jobstreams that have not yet completed
JAWS v3.3.6 has been released and is now available for downloading from our website, http://www.termalabs.com. This release does not require a database schema upgrade. It contains enhancements and bug fixes only, including the following:
Ability to run the statistics generator and jammer services in parallel
For a full list of modifications, please refer to the release notes at Terma's website by clicking the “Log In” tab and logging in.
About Terma Software Labs
Terma is an industry leading developer of workload automation solutions that enable enterprises to reduce risk, improve efficiency, improve service levels, and align their workload environment to meet the demand of their business. For more information visit www.termalabs.com