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Vision Suite Enterprise Edition from Vision Solutions offers support for all the advanced functions in the latest version of IBM's OS/400, V5R2. Vision Solutions is focused on providing its customers with leading-edge technology for the iSeries and beyond. The company began testing Vision Suite with OS/400 V5R2 in July. Not only has Vision Solutions successfully completed testing of its advanced replication and clustering capabilities, but it has successfully tested the new switch-disk technology, validating the compatibility of its solution with V5R2. Some of the new OS/400 V5R2 features supported by Vision Suite Enterprise Edition are greater ease-of- use, enhanced performance and heightened data integrity.

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Epiphany Service 6 from E.piphany, Inc. has optimized its family of multi-channel customer service applications. E.piphany Service 6 for IBM's WebSphere Application Server and IBM's WebSphere MQ product enables companies to maximize customer satisfaction across all channels of communication, leveraging E.piphany's real-time decisioning, intelligent navigation, and interactive dialogs to make agents and customer self-service more effective. E.piphany's J2EE architecture provides rapid implementation, integration and adaptability for a low total cost of ownership. As a result of a recent global agreement between the two companies, IBM will provide integration services for E.piphany's entire suite of CRM applications, which will be optimized for IBM's J2EE-based WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere MQ, AIX operating system and DB2 database software platforms.

www.epiphany.com/

NeuralWorks Predict 3.0 from NeuralWare is an integrated, state-of-the-art platform for rapidly creating and deploying prediction and classification models for business intelligence applications. Predict combines neural network technology with genetic algorithms, statistics and fuzzy logic to automatically find optimal or near-optimal solutions for a wide range of problems. Predict incorporates years of modeling and analysis experience gained from working with customers faced with a wide variety of data mining, analysis and interpretation problems. Predict 3.0 represents a complete upgrade of its intuitive user interface. All command and parameter views follow a property page paradigm, with related features and functions collected in easily identified pages. Also new in Predict 3.0 is a Kohonen Self Organizing Map (SOM) that allows development of sophisticated models that group data records sharing similar trends or patterns. A Japanese version of Predict 3.0 is currently available, and other localized versions are already in the works.

http://www.neuralware.com/

< Crystal Reports 9 from Crystal Decisions is a flexible technology for enterprise-level report creation and integration requirements. Developers can now store, share and re-use existing reporting components and integrate reports directly into Java, .NET and COM applications. Crystal Reports 9 addresses key requirements in the developer and information technology (IT) community: the need for improved productivity and high efficiency in report creation, the need for tight integration of reporting into enterprise Web applications and the need for dynamic end-user access, interaction and modification.

http://www.dmreview.com/www.crystaldecisions.com

Sypherlink: Harvester from Sypherlink is a new technology that enables multiple data sources to appear as a single virtual database. Harvester applies advanced heuristics to reduce the amount of resources and domain expertise required and automates many of the manual tasks necessary today, thus resulting in significant savings of both time and money. Once Harvester automatically identifies the inter- and intra- database relationships, users can utilize the output as a virtually centralized, ODBC-compliant database. Additionally, the "maps" created can be easily compiled so that existing electronic data interchange (EDI) and enterprise application integration (EAI) tools can be used for the translation, transformation and communication requirements.

Sypherlink: Assistant from Sypherlink is a turnkey browser-based software application that enables organizations to effectively and cost-efficiently comply with the complex requirements of the Federal HIPAA Privacy Regulations. By utilizing Assistant, organizations are able to appropriately manage consents, authorizations and business agreements while complying with the "minimum necessary," disclosure reporting and auditing requirements of HIPAA.

http://www.sypherlink.com/

Sun Microsystems, Inc.’s SunPlex environment for Oracle9i Real Application Clusters, Oracle’s next generation cluster technology, will provide customers with: greater performance and scalability; reduced time and effort installing and upgrading each node; real-time access to the database from any node; virtually linear scalability; and enhanced failover services. It is designed to deliver the highest level of availability for customers and application services. Through the use of Sun's Remote Shared Memory (RSM) technology and high-bandwidth low- latency interconnects, Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is optimized for superior application communication across the nodes in a cluster. Oracle9i Real Application Clusters is the first software to integrate with Sun's RSM Application Programming Interface (RSMAPI) messaging model. Sun Cluster 3.0 software with Oracle9i Real Application Clusters provides customers with higher utilization of cluster resources.

www.sun.com/

PerfMan for UNIX Modeling Suite and PerfMan for Windows Modeling Suite from Information Systems Manager, Inc. help organizations significantly reduce business risk and improve the availability of critical applications. Both suites allow users to plan and model the impact of business changes across their entire environment before changes are implemented. By modeling proposed server changes, disk storage consolidations, workload changes and server processor upgrades, information technology (IT) organizations can eliminate potential business outages, calculate potential software costs and ensure that service levels will be met. When used in conjunction with other PerfMan products for the OS/390, z/OS and storage platforms, PerfMan’s modeling suites for UNIX and Windows provide an enterprise-wide view that help to significantly reduce the risk of changes to highly interconnected IT environments.

http://www.perfman.com/

Open File Manager v8.1 from St. Bernard Software, Inc. is an open file backup solution for Novell NetWare 6 and Novell Storage Services (NSS) 3.0. Open File Manager provides organizations with a vital tool for ensuring 24x7 protection of critical files and is part of any disaster recovery strategy requiring the most complete and accurate backup and restoration capabilities. St. Bernard is the first to support open file backup for the NSS 3.0 high performance storage and access system, which represents a significant technological advance in the management, storage and retrieval of extremely large data files, including single file size of up to eight terabytes. Using Open File Manager v8.1, businesses running NSS 3.0 or Legacy File System (LFS) on Netware 6 can be assured that the backup procedures for high-capacity, heterogeneous storage systems will not be compromised due to skipped or in-use files.

http://www.stbernard.com/

NeoCore XML Information Management System (XMS), version 2.6, from NeoCore Inc. is a self-constructing native XML database that dramatically reduces the cost and time to market for dynamic business applications. This release includes an optimized standalone server architecture, substantial support of XQuery and the option for a Solaris 64- bit platform. This is the first XML database to be commercially viable for delivering mainstream applications leveraging XML. NeoCore XMS 2.6 leverages the natural characteristics of XML and couples that with the company’s patented digital pattern processing (DPP) technology to enable a faster and simpler development capability to meet the demands of businesses with rapidly changing information requirements and the need to support varied – even heterogeneous – data sets.

http://www.neocore.com/

CNT's UltraNet Edge Storage Router is the only storage networking platform that supports EMC’s MirrorView remote replication software for EMC's CLARiiON systems. The UltraNet Edge Storage Router extends MirrorView to allow reliable, proven data mirroring over longer distances across less expensive, readily available internet protocol (IP) networks. CNT's UltraNet Edge Storage Router's intelligent, fault-tolerant architecture includes data compression to dramatically reduce the cost of bandwidth and patent-pending technology to ensure data consistency. This new offering makes disaster recovery and business continuity solutions affordable enterprise-wide by leveraging new technologies from both CNT and EMC along with cost effective internet protocol (IP) networks.

http://www.cnt.com/

CosmoCall Universe from CosmoCom Inc. enables insourcing and co-sourcing service options with a cost-effective, pay-per-use pricing model on CosmoCom’s all-internet protocol (IP) contact center platform. The outsourcing solutions allow agents to access flexible services that were previously only available at a premium cost. An outsourcer can provide full infrastructure and support services while offering customers the option to house all or part of the contact center operation within their own premises. This procedure, also called insourcing, addresses quality and control concerns some customers may have for sensitive operations. Co-sourcing is a solution for two-tier customer care service that leverages an outsourcer’s customer care services but is supplemented by the customer’s on-site contact center. Calls can be distributed to either the customer’s staff or the outsourcer’s agents according to call type, skill requirement, shift or any combination of criteria.

http://www.cosmocom.com/