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PROFORMA TO LAUNCH POWERFUL
ProServer APRIL 15
Further strengthening its position as an industry leader, Proforma Corp
announced the launch of ProServer -- the first true web-based management tool
for enterprise modeling. To be commercially available April 15, this
innovative technology allows business and systems analysts to manage, update
and communicate business and system models across a wide-area network,
enabling globally-distributed teams to work together under a common, model-
based view of their enterprise. It was introduced at the Gartner
Symposium/ITxpo in San Diego.
ProServer was created to meet client demands for greater business agility.
Its
multi-user, remote-access server provides real-time development against a
shared repository within Proforma's ProVision business process modeling,
enterprise architecture and process simulation solution. ProServer makes key
intellectual capital readily available and easily accessible via ProVision's
web-based architecture.
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"Business models and operational knowledge no longer have to sit in the
hands
of a few -- with ProServer they can become a key asset of the entire company,"
said Jerry Huchzermeier, Proforma's chairman and chief technology officer.
"ProServer empowers distributed teams to dynamically refine business processes
and systems in response to rapidly changing requirements. They can manage,
communicate and distribute business knowledge and models anywhere,
anytime."
In the March 4 report "Magic Quadrant for Business Process Analysis,"
Gartner
Research's Vice President Jim Sinur calls attention to the need for such
agility in today's BPA tools. "The business process analysis market is
experiencing significant growth, while experiencing fundamental changes. It is
no longer relegated just to documentation and static modeling," the report
stated. "BPA methods, tools and techniques are now taking on vibrant roles in
modeling business process alternatives on the front end of the process
development cycle, as well as optimization of live processes through near-
real-time feeds."
Intelligent Features, Architecture Paramount In ProServer
Performance, portability and the use of standard communication protocols
are
among ProServer's technical features:
- True client/server architecture -- provides web-based access using
industry-standard HTTP protocols; can coordinate multi-client
efforts.
- Performance -- requires less operational information transmitted across
a
network; data compressed to minimize network traffic; performs well, even in
low-bandwidth scenarios.
- Scalability -- supports large volumes of information, as well as
concurrent
access by multiple users.
- Portability -- runs on any Java-enabled web application
server.
- Enterprise DBMS Support -- relies on Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
to
utilize industrial-strength DBMS.
- Security -- enables administrators to define a single set of users and
groups as well as the policies that grant access to an arbitrary number of
shared repositories and notebooks.
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