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Exhibitor Profiles

You can check out some of the latest IT products and developments at the Exhibition running alongside the EuroCMG Annual Conference in the Kenilworth Suite.

GOLD Stand - TeamQuest

TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps IT organizations consistently meet service levels while minimizing costs, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate capacity modeling and performance solutions. Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help improve IT service delivery while mitigating risks, allowing them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing infrastructure costs. TeamQuest software is especially well-suited for use in heterogeneous and virtualized computing environments.

TeamQuest software complements and supports ITIL best practices and BSM goals of managing IT from both the business and IT perspectives.

Pernilla Johansson,
Marketing Manager,
TeamQuest Corproation,
Box 1125,
405 23 Gothenburg,
Sweden,
Tel: + 46 (0) 31 80 95 00
Fax: + 46 (0) 31 80 65 50
Email: emea@teamquest.com
www.teamquest.com

SILVER Stand - Sysload Software

Sysload Software provides performance management software for the increasing demands of today's information systems. Unlike most vendors, Sysload Software focuses entirely on performance management and has gained an enviable reputation as the "Best of Breed" solution with over 500 customers, including Airbus, Aviva, Boeing, BNP Paribas, CGEY, Charles Schwab, Fujitsu-Siemens, Michelin, Renault and Sony.

Sysload allows you to take effective control of your IT infrastructure by providing real-time monitoring and expert diagnostics to drill-down to the root-cause of performance problems quickly and efficiently; analysing historical performance information to aid future planning of service and performance levels; and by providing enterprise-level reporting of your IT resource usage.

Amarjit Randhawa, Business Development Manager,
Sysload Software,
Lakeside House,
1 Furzeground Way,
Stockley Park,
Uxbridge,
UB11 1DB
Tel: + 44 (0) 208 622 3065
Fax: + 44 (0) 208 622 3200
Email: amarjit.randhawa@sysload.com
http://www.sysload.com

BRONZE Stand - Macro 4

Established in 1968, Macro 4 is a UK based global software solutions provider.

Macro 4 develops solutions that enhance mainframe Application Performance and Availability, increasing operational efficiency, delivering significant cost savings and assuring the reliability of mission-critical systems.

These solutions manage the complete application lifecycle, from program development, fault diagnosis and testing through to deployment in the live production environment. They enable organisations to make better use of their skilled resources to produce new applications that are not only delivered more efficiently; they are also delivered sooner a critical advantage in today's fast-changing business environment

David Chalmers
Macro4
The Orangery
Turners Hill Road
Worth, Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 4SS
Tel: +44 (0) 1293 872 050
Fax: +44 (0) 1293 872 001
Email: David.Chalmers@macro4.com
www.macro4.com

Stand 4 - Computer Management Sciences Inc

Computer Management Sciences offers CPExpertTM to help analyze performance problems with z/OS environments. CPExpert automates computer performance evaluation by detecting system performance problems, identifying the causes of the problems, and suggesting ways to improve system performance. Different components of CPExpert analyze performance problems with WebSphere MQ, DB2, Goal Mode, CICS, and DASD.

CPExpert is written in SAS and is composed of hundreds of expert system rules, analysis modules, and queuing models. CPExpert executes as a batch job, and analyzes standard SMF/RMF data contained in either MXG, SAS/ITSV, or MICS performance data base. CPExpert's low fee is affordable for all sites!

Don Deese, President,
Computer Management Sciences,
6076-D Franconia Road,
Alexandria, Virginia 2310 USA
Tel: + 1 (703) 922-7027
Fax: + 1 (703) 922 7305
Email: Don_Deese@cpexpert.com
http://www.cpexpert.com

Stand 5 - BMC Software

BMC Software helps IT organizations drive greater business value through better management of technology. Our industry-leading Business Service Management solutions ensure that everything IT does is prioritized according to business impact, so IT can proactively address business requirements to lower costs, drive revenue and mitigate risk. BMC solutions share BMC Atrium. technologies to enable IT to manage across the complexity of diverse systems and processes-from mainframe to distributed, databases to applications, service to security. Founded in 1980, BMC has offices worldwide and fiscal 2004 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. BMC Software. Activate your business with the power of IT.

Shauna Harper,
Marketing BMC,
Assurance House,
Vicarage Road,
Egham,
Surrey,
TW20 9JY
www.bmc.com

Stand 6 - Compuware

Compuware Corporation, a multi-billion dollar company, provides business value through software and professional services that optimise productivity and reduce costs across the application life cycle. Meeting the rapidly changing needs of businesses of all sizes, Compuware's market-leading solutions improve the quality, ease the integration and enhance the performance of distributed, e-business and enterprise software.

Compuware's suite of products, improves application performance by identifying, troubleshooting and preventing performance problems. With continuous monitoring of servers and databases, network application traffic and end-user response times, identifying performance slowdowns-before your customers are affected.

Compuware UK
163 Bath Road
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 4AA
Tel: 01753 444000
www.compuware.co.uk

Stand 7 - IBM

More information coming soon.

IBM

Stand 8 - Fujitsu Australia

Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communication products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 4.7 trillion yen (US$44.5 billion) for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2005. Visit www.fujitsu.com for further information.

Fujitsu Australia
1230 NepeaN Hwy
Cheltenham 3192 Vic
Australia
Tel No: +61 411 266 693
Fax No:+61 392 65 0404
Email: mike.tsykin@au.fujitsu.com
www.fujitsu.com

Stand 9 - Cybermation UK

Cybermation, the largest and fastest growing vendor worldwide dedicated primarily to enterprise job scheduling, specializes in software and services that modernize legacy solutions and simplify complex IT infrastructures to help Data Center managers pro-actively manage Service-Level Agreements, improve operational effectiveness and contain costs.

Cybermation provides the foundation for the real-time infrastructure by enabling end-to-end IT workload and process automation with Cybermation ESP for event-based, cross platform enterprise job scheduling and Cybermation Alchemist for cross platform software change management. Since 1982, Cybermation has been helping companies consolidate their multi-product scheduling solutions and migrate from legacy schedulers to a common solution across all platforms with Cybermation ESP.

Cybermation

Stand 10 - Action Software

Action Software's products eventACTION and ussACTION are unique in that they allow organisations to enforce the Sarbanes Oxley and COBIT requirements in the systems areas of z/OS. All changes can be tracked and, if necessary, prevented unless an authorised change request is present. No other tools have these unique capabilites or can provide a true actively controlled change environment.

Hugo Prittie
Action Software
Alte Steinhauserstr. 1
CH-6330 Cham
Switzerland
Tel No: +41 41 748 6266
Fax No:+41 41 748 6267
Email: hugoprittie@actionsoftware.ch
www.actionsoftware.ch

Stand 11 - SAS

SAS is the leader in business intelligence software and services. Customers at 40,000 sites, including 96 of the top 100 FORTUNE Global 500® companies, use SAS software to manage and gain insights from vast amounts of data, resulting in faster, more accurate business decisions, more profitable relationships with customers and suppliers, compliance with governmental regulations, research breakthroughs and better products. Only SAS offers leading data integration, intelligence storage, advanced analytics and traditional business intelligence applications within a comprehensive enterprise intelligence platform. Since 1976, SAS has been giving customers around the world The Power to Know.

Margaret Ryan
Marketing Department
SAS UK & Ireland
Tel: +44 (0) 1628 404 335
Fax: +44 (0) 1628 404 301
Email: info.uk@suk.sas.com
www.sas.com/uk

Stand 12 - Capacitas

All organisations now rely on ICT, but poor performance often results in costly system upgrades that do not necessarily solve the problem. Capacitas® focuses on the link between systems' performance, customer expectations and cost, enabling us to improve performance and reduce expenditure at any stage in the application lifecycle.

We have experience in many financial services, telecoms and retail companies and employ top analysts in this field with proven experience. We provide our expertise through staff training and client projects, delivering system performance improvements, capacity planning and cost optimisation.

The benefits we deliver are improved revenue recognition, reputation and profitability.

Andy Bolton, CEO,
Capacitas,
Prince Consort House,
109-111 Farringdon Road,
London,
EC1R 3BW
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 841 7431
Fax: + 44 (0) 8700 520 445
Email: andybolton@capacitas.co.uk
www.capacitas.co.uk

Stand 13 - Aptitune Corporation

Aptitune Corporation is the manufacturer of SarCheck®. SarCheck takes performance tuning beyond all other tools for UNIX and Linux. Instead of merely producing reports that require more interpretation, SarCheck analyzes sar reports and data from the /proc filesystem, as well as ps -elf output to produce recommendations. It then examines the system's tunable parameters and their interaction toward each other to produce a concise, plain English report. SarCheck identifies problem areas and makes recommendations for corrective action. SarCheck uses gnuplot to create JPEG or PNG graphs on the fly and inserts them into its HTML output producing illustrative graphs with accompanying text. We're the folks with the propeller hats! - come by and get one while they last.

Sue Connolly
Aptitune Corporation
Kebbell House
Delta Gain
Watford.
WD19 5BE
Tel: + 44(0) 208 421 7553
Fax: + 44(0) 208 421 5457
Email: sales@aptitune.co.uk
www.sarcheck.co.uk

Stand 14 - E3 Sciences Limited

e3 Sciences is an established Software and Consultancy company. We specialise in providing software and services across a range of platforms, which include z/OS, UNIX, Linux, Windows.

DR/VFI, the only truly automated, intelligent enterprise solution for backup and recovery management products in use by major corporations all over the world. DR/VFI is not another back up programme, but a higher-level system that enhances the capabilities of utilities and technology you already own, leveraging popular enterprise backup systems, mirroring or replication and virtual tape systems.

DR/VFI automatically monitors and analyzes file activity in real-time, identifying critical files for easy backup and recovery and applies this knowledge by directing your back up utilities to copy just the files needed for recovery. The result is a streamlined backup process that saves you time and money and yet provides the best data protection available.

VFI supports z/OS, Linux, SUN and soon HP followed by AIX.

SMFUTIL, the SMF data management and movement utility that S390 installations around the world are utilizing to automate, greatly enhance the availability and accessibility of SMF data. It combines speed with extreme flexibility and versatile in handling SMF data. Customers experience significantly improved processing times and cost savings over their current SMF processing methods.

Franco Vitale, Technical Director,
e3 Sciences Ltd,
PO Box 1195,
Bedford,
MK42 8WY,
Tel: + 44 (0)207 060 6601
Fax: + 44 (0) 207 060 6602
Email: info@e3sciences.com
http://www.e3sciences.com

Stand 15 - Beta Systems Software Ltd

More than 20 years' experience in software development have made Beta Systems a leading provider of software solutions and support services.

Our products secure and optimise corporate processes in the following areas: Input & output management, Security management, Storage management, Scheduling

Central areas of importance are the creation, processing, distribution and archiving of documents; cross-platform, clearly defined control of computing processes; access and user management, and reliable data transmission and backup.

To optimize our clients' use of these solutions, we provide complete installation, training consulting and technical support services.

Sonia Rose,
Marketng Manager,
BETA Systems,
Highlands House,
Basingstoke Rd,
Reading,
RG7 1NT
Tel: + 44 (0) 1189 885 175
Fax: + 44 (0) 118 988 4899
Email: sonia.rose@betasytems.com
www.betasystems.com

Stand 16 - DemandTech

Demand Technology Software is the proud developer of Performance SeNTry, the premiere Windows Server 2003 performance data collector on the market today. Performance SeNTry is designed with the professional performance analyst and capacity planner in mind. When you combine Performance SeNTry's intelligent data collection capabilities; its full function Microsoft SQL Server-based Performance DataBase; and third party support from Lund MetaView and Performance Gallery, Merrill's MXG, SAS, and SAS Institute's IT Resource Manager, you have the ability to take control of your critical Windows servers and applications.

Andy McLaughlin
DemandTech
Tel: +44 1305 86 00 76
Email: andym@demandtech.com

Stand 17 - Captell Developments

Captell Developments V6 Enterprise Capacity Management Reporting System was developed in response to the specific needs of the capacity management community.

Captell V6 automates data storage and report generation from data collected by proprietary monitoring products. It sits over the top of IT environment monitoring products generating reports from a wide variety of data. Captell is not a monitoring tool, it simply focuses on capacity reporting with rich publishing options that include print and web enabled reporting.

Captell V6 Enterprise is the flagship product of Captell Developments a Canberra, Australia based company. Adrian Heald is the Director of the company and he has an extensive history in Capacity Management and Planning and has delivered papers and held executive positions with CMG community stretching back more than a dozen years. Visit him in the Vendor area Booth 17 and check out the web site at www.captelldevelopments.com

Nick Housego
CapTell Developments Pty Ltd
Tel: +61 (0)2 6232 6364
Fax: +61 (0)2 6232 6365
Email: nick.housego@captelldevelopments.com
www.captelldevelopments.com

Stand 18 - Metron Technology UK

Metron's Athene provides automatic performance analysis, reporting and capacity management for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers - all the necessary tools to implement Enterprise ITIL Capacity Management.

Showcasing Athene 8 Lucerne - the world's most scalable performance management software with the Universal Capacity Planning Interface for third-party systems management frameworks. Five years in development - the new benchmark for Performance and Capacity Management software.

The world's leading Outsourcing Companies and half the UK's top 100 Companies are saving millions using Athene combined with expert ITIL CM consultancy and training services as a key element of their Service Management and Delivery.

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Paul Shimmel, Director,
Metron Technology,
Osborne House,
Trull Road,
Taunton,
TA1 4PX
Tel: + 44 (0) 1823 259 231
Fax: + (0) 1823 334 502
Email: paul.shimell@metron.co.uk
www.metron.co.uk

Stand 19 - Platform Solutions

Platform Solutions, Inc. (PSI), makes next-generation open mainframe computers compatible with the broadest set of datacenter environments and operating systems, including the IBM z/OS. Based on proven systems architecture acquired from Amdahl Corporation and industry-standard Intel Itanium 2 processor technology, PSI mainframes are the first mainframe computers that can run the z/OS, Linux, Windows and UNIX on a single server footprint. In addition to multi-OS support, PSI systems bring to the industry-standard Itanium platform mainframe RAS characteristics while providing advanced I/O connectivity and innovative virtulization capabilities. PSI was founded specifically to provide customers a true choice in their selection of advanced mainframe systems.

Dina Kelley
Marketing Communications Manager
Platform Solutions, Inc.
501 Macara Ave, Suite 101
Sunnyvale,
CA 94085
USA
Tel: (408) 720-3537
Fax: (408) 737-3444
Email: dkelley@platsolns.com
www.platform-solutions.com

Stand 20 - CPT Global

CPT Global (CPT) is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, USA and Germany. CPT's worldwide client list includes companies across the Telecommunications, Financial, Transport and Government sectors.

Core capabilities: Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning, Cost Reduction Services, Management of Information Technology, CPT has 200 specialist IT consultants. This depth of experience allows CPT to quickly identify performance and capacity problems, and to implement effective solutions. CPT's Cost Reduction Services provide CPU savings of between 15-30%. We offer the option of Risk/Reward (success fee) invoicing.

Alan MacKenzie, Technical Director
CPT Global,
Parkshot House,
5 Kew Road,
Richmond,
Surrey,
TW9 2PR
Tel: + (0) 20 8334 8085
Fax: + (0) 208 334 8541
Email: amackenzie@cptglobal.com
http://www.CPTglobal.com

Stand 21 - CA, Wily Technology Division

A division of CA, Wily is the market-leading provider of Enterprise Application Management solutions. By providing end-to-end visibility into customer transactions in real time, Wily's products enable companies to successfully manage the health and availability of their critical web applications and Infrastructure. Wily's collaborative management approach allows enterprises to rapidly detect and diagnose application slowdowns and failures, and better assess the impact of application performance on business success. This means better customer service, more stable revenue streams, and higher IT productivity. Wily Technology is a division of CA's Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) unit, which delivers best-in-class services support, service delivery and financial asset management solutions to help organisations control costs while maintaining optimum IT capabilities to learn more about Wily, visit http://www.wilytech.com

CA Wily Technology Division
Ditton Park
Riding Court Road
Datchet
Slough
Berkshire
Tel: 07855 948366
Email: nbar@wilytech.com
www.wilytech.com

Stand 22 - Crovan

At Crovan our mission is to add significant value to the software development process for complex enterprise systems, by capturing, representing and predicting the performance of the whole system before deployment.

Crovan's PredictorV tool is used in the pre-deployment stage to find and analyse the performance bottlenecks in a J2EE application. PredictorV detects all the software performance bottlenecks in one iteration; identifies ways of correcting these bottlenecks; predicts the performance for different hardware resources and for different usage scenarios; and selects the most relevant scenarios for actual testing in the lab.

John Murphy
Crovan
Tel: + 353 1 716 2928
Email: J.Murphy@ucd.ie
www.crovan.com

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