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Landmark Systems Corporation to Provide Comprehensive Performance Management for Sybase System 11

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Landmark Systems Corporation has announced that its PerformanceWorks solution will provide comprehensive performance management support for Sybase, Inc.'s new System 11 database software. This partnership demonstrates Landmark's commitment to serving its customers' needs and its value placed on its partnership with Sybase. The PerformanceWorks suite offers end-to-end application performance management for large-scale, business-critical client/server applications, allowing systems and database administrators to troubleshoot slow application response time, analyze historical performance trends, and do capacity planning.

Key Takeaways:

  • PerformanceWorks provides comprehensive performance management support for Sybase System 11, allowing systems and database administrators to troubleshoot slow application response time, analyze historical performance trends, and do capacity planning.
  • The PerformanceWorks suite uses intelligent software agents to automatically gather performance data from a client/server application's pressure points, including CPU, memory, I/O, disk, workload, space, operating system, Network File System, and network.
  • The Open Data Access module provides access to data via SQL and the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) interface, allowing the use of hundreds of reporting tools such as Microsoft Excel, SAS/Access, and Cognos' Impromptu.
  • Software interfaces provide complete integration with data from management platforms such as IBM's NetView for AIX, HP's OpenView, Sun's Solstice, and Tivoli's TME.
  • Landmark's client/server product suite supports AIX, HP-UX, SunOS, Sun Solaris, Sybase SQL Server, and CICS for AIX, with mainframe products including monitors for MVS, VSE, CICS, VTAM, and DB2.
  • Landmark has more than 7,000 customer sites in 70 countries worldwide.

Statistics:

  • Sybase System 11 supports dozens or hundreds of servers with equal use case.
  • PerformanceWorks supports over 100 popular reporting tools, including Microsoft Excel, SAS/Access, and Cognos' Impromptu.
  • Landmark's PerformanceWorks suite offers five applications for recasting performance information gathered by SmartAgents for real-time monitoring, historical reporting, forecasting, and budgeting, and capacity planning and modeling.
  • Landmark has more than 7,000 customer sites globally, with a presence in 70 countries.

Sources:

  • "Landmark Systems Corporation to provide Sybase System 11 Performance Management". _PRNewswire_, October 30, 1995.
  • Landmark Systems Corporation, "PerformanceWorks: A Solution for Managing Client/Server Applications", _Landmark Systems Corporation brochure_, 1995.
  • Landmark Systems Corporation, "Product Overview", _Landmark Systems Corporation website_, 1995.

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