Business Transaction Management - Eliminate stealth waste from business processes w/Nastel AutoPilot TransactionWorks

MELVILLE, NY – (May 5, 2009) – Nastel Technologies, a premier global provider of Business Transaction Performance™ (BTP™) solutions for mission-critical applications, today announced the release of AutoPilot TransactionWorks® a solution providing businesses with 360° situational awareness™, reduced transactional latency and improved business transaction performance™ to ensure optimum service levels while eliminating the hidden costs, or "stealth waste", in business processes.

AutoPilot TransactionWorks' unique Business Transaction Performance, or BTP, solution enables businesses to auto-discover the transactions that comprise their business processes such as payments, order management, accounting, and purchasing. It automatically maps them to the IT infrastructure and automates the determination and resolution of performance problems and degradations in order to proactively improve service and minimize operational risk. BTP makes it possible to instantly see technology issues in the context of a user's business. This enables users to be faster, prioritized and predictive in their management of customer-facing business services.

"In today's challenging economy businesses need to reduce costs without sacrificing service and compliance.  They need a real-time view of transactions in the context of their business in order to make the right decisions and remain competitive," said Charley Rich, Nastel VP of Marketing and Product Management.  "TransactionWorks will help firms drive the performance of their business transactions by improving visibility across both the distributed and mainframe tiers and enabling them to more efficiently manage the transactions that are the life blood of their business – any time, any place, anywhere."

About TransactionWorks
TransactionWorks tracks the messages that flow between applications, monitors transaction volumes and performance metrics and continually compares them to service level agreements.   As a member of the AutoPilot family, TransactionWorks seamlessly integrates with any of the other modules in the AutoPilot suite to meet the needs of each user's unique environment.

The AutoPilot suite includes modules for monitoring and managing a wide array of infrastructure components, including IBM WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server (WAS), WebSphere Business Integrator (WBI), and WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). AutoPilot is IBM-validated as SOA Ready and Tivoli ready.

TransactionWorks features:

• Continual real-time view of business transaction health and performance
• Discover applications and system components
• Map transaction flow (across Application servers including WAS, Applications, Middleware such as WMQ, and Database Servers)
• Discovers transaction volume (total, failed)
• Tracks messages exchanged between applications
• Measure transaction volume, latency and duration (total, maximum, average)
• Measure and quantify failed transactions and SLAs
• Correlate transactional data, operational data and non-IT business data from sources such as RSS or news feeds to show transaction flows in the context of your business

TransactionWorks can lower the cost of improving business transaction performance by helping users identify and eliminate the "stealth waste" in business processes to improve enterprise efficiency.   TransactionWorks' capabilities for transaction tracing, performance analysis and determination of business impact enable users to continually reduce cost, improve service and manage risk. 

For more information about Nastel Technologies, please visit www.nastel.com .

About Nastel
Nastel Technologies is a premier global provider of business transaction performance™ solutions for mission-critical applications to Global 2000-sized companies. Nastel is a privately held company headquartered in New York, with offices in the U.S., the U.K., Mexico, and a network of partners throughout Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia. For more information, visit Nastel's website at www.nastel.com.

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