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AMR Research/Measurement That Matters
April 2008
We count…OpTier…among the ITIL and BSM faithful [with] expanded…capabilities, both on the software and services side.
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AMR Research/IT Management Landscape: Major IT Vendors Evolve Toward IT Resource Planning Suites
April 2008
OpTier is a best-of-breed software provider focused on…Business Transaction Management…[which is] used for managing service levels, testing performance, [etc.]
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EMA™ RESEARCH / The EMA™ All-Stars™ in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008 / Excerpt
February 2008
OpTier's cross-tier view of every service invocation (or transaction) underlying a business application… is a compelling and result-driven approach.
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IDC / White Paper / Business Transaction Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments
November 2007
OpTier has made CoreFirst virtualization-aware and is actively engaged… in doing business at several large Fortune 500 companies.
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IDC / Excerpt from report #EMT1P / Business Transaction Management: Another Step in the Evolution of IT Management
June 2007
In the last few years, start-up companies have been founded to provide dedicated BTM [Business Transaction Management] solutions. The "veteran" among them is OpTier...
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the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier's latest funding round points to investor confidence in market opportunity
11 June 2007 - Market Development
CoreFirst provides a business impact picture of both individual and aggregate information for problem discovery, change management and load testing in production.
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Forrester / Tech Choices / Strong Performer OpTier Brings Transaction Management To BSM
March 28, 2007
CoreFirst... is an excellent addition to existing service management tools. It can be integrated with existing tools… guaranteeing that the most important transactions flow easily through the infrastructure.
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Enterprise Management Associates / Impact Brief / OpTier and DataSynapse Partner to Control and Optimize Grid Computing Applications
February 2007
Grid computing is...most applicable to enterprises...with a requirement for high bandwidth, CPU-intensive applications. This partnership has the potential to hasten [its] adoption…by making it easier to monitor and manage.
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Enterprise Management Associates / Case Study / When IT is the Product: Delivering Superior Service when IT is the Differentiator
October 2006
TrueCredit is a seasoned SOA adopter... In an effort to augment the already significant ROI they were seeing from SOA deployment, they looked to OpTier to model and prioritize transactions.
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IDC / Buyer Case Study #202604 / TransUnion's TrueCredit.com Revisits Application Management Strategy
July 2006
This IDC Buyer Case Study analyzes the application management strategy for TrueCredit.com. TrueCredit identifies CoreFirst as a key component of its application management strategy.
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the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier - first reference customer, new money and growing opportunity
June 2006
Version 2.0 of [the] CoreFirst transaction management product is out with beta sites… Managing quality of service (QOS) for SaaS delivery is exactly the kind of requirement that CoreFirst can be applied to.
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Enterprise Management Associates / OpTier Product Brief / SOA Market and Products 2006: Current State, Future Directions
May 2006
CoreFirst provides an end-to-end view of every…transaction…across the tiers underlying a service, including resource metrics for each tier... [It] also goes beyond SOA borders across legacy systems.
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Forrester / Tech Choices / The Next-Generation Banking Platform
May 2006
CoreFirst... show[s] interesting benefits for the financial services industry, like improved application service levels, reduced risk capital, and improved resource utilization.
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Enterprise Management Associates / Research Report / SOA Market and Products 2006: Current State, Future Directions
April 2006
CoreFirst can help lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), improve hardware utilization, and reduce resource contention by exposing and optimizing the real-time performance of SOA services.
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Gartner / Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management, 2006
March 2006
While companies such as IBM and HP have far-reaching RTI strategies many years from fruition, OpTier is… delivering… these capabilities today with its transaction workload management solution.
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Enterprise Management Associates / Product Brief / OpTier: The Next Generation of Application Management
February 2006
CoreFirst's focus on transaction-centric monitoring, active management and service accounting should make it a distinctive and attractive partner for broader service management initiatives.
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the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier upgrades transaction workload management software, looks ahead to 2.x
November 2005
Today's businesses expect IT services to be… consistent, predictable and cost-effective. CoreFirst combines discovery with performance monitoring and active intervention in resource allocation...
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Forrester / Trends / The Evolution Of Infrastructure Management
October 2005
At the real-time transaction level, OpTier offers the capability to analyze performance and bottlenecks with very fine granularity and to implement corrective actions to prioritize critical transactions.
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the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier reports progress in defining transaction workload management
August 2005
What's striking about OpTier's CoreFirst is its unusual combination of a passive discovery tool and performance monitor with active intervention in resource allocation and workload management.
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Forrester / Quick Take / In-Flight Transaction Optimization Arrives
August 2005
CoreFirst... can alter CPU priorities in real time to optimize execution of selected transactions against service-level goals. Forrester believes that this real-time optimization is an industry first.
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