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Oct 05, 2009

Forrester/Tech Horizons: OpTier, A Step Toward Business Service Management (BSM) 2.0

"The CoreFirst solution’s ability to provide real-time visibility into all transactions is the key to finding performance bottlenecks with minimal time and effort. ‘You cannot provide value without visibility. CoreFirst provides an easy localization of performance issues and a rapid way to resolution. It shows that IT is in control, and that goes to our credibility with the business,’ says the client as an example of the power of the solution.”

Apr 15, 2009

EMA/Advisory Note/An Adopter’s Guide to User Experience Management (excerpt)

"CoreFirst is also unique in its ability to actively balance server utilization and actively optimize the infrastructure based on prioritization rules so that system resources can be dynamically allocated to avoid bottlenecks."

Jan 20, 2009

IDC/Vendor Profile/ OpTier Private Vendor Watchlist

"OpTier has been around since 2002 and has raised close to $100 million in venture capital plus an undisclosed amount from Cisco. The combination of sound financing, technological capabilities, and the growing installed base puts the company in pole position to capitalize on the growing opportunity in the BTM market of which OpTier was one of the early pioneers."

Sep 24, 2008
EMA reports on CoreFirst 3.0

EMA / Impact Brief / CoreFirst 3.0 - Delivering True Full-Time Transaction Visibility

"OpTier continues to surprise analysts by significantly over-achieving sales revenues, with mid-year 2008 revenues exceeding expectations by 230%."

Apr 28, 2008
AMR Research on OpTier

AMR Research/Measurement That Matters

"We count…OpTier…among the ITIL and BSM faithful [with] expanded…capabilities, both on the software and services side."
Apr 01, 2008
AMR Research on OpTier

AMR Research/IT Management Landscape: Major IT Vendors Evolve Toward IT Resource Planning Suites

"OpTier is a best-of-breed software provider focused on…Business Transaction Management…[which is] used for managing service levels, testing performance, [etc.]"
Feb 01, 2008
EMA Research on OpTier

EMA / The EMA All-Stars in Enterprise Systems Management for 2008 / Excerpt

"OpTier's cross-tier view of every service invocation (or transaction) underlying a business application… is a compelling and result-driven approach."
Nov 01, 2007
IDC Research on OpTier

IDC / White Paper / Business Transaction Management: Facilitating the Management of Virtual Environments

"OpTier has made CoreFirst virtualization-aware and is actively engaged… in doing business at several large Fortune 500 companies."
Jun 22, 2007
The 451 Group Research on OpTier

the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier's latest funding round points to investor confidence in market opportunity

"CoreFirst provides a business impact picture of both individual and aggregate information for problem discovery, change management and load testing in production."
Jun 01, 2007
IDC Research on OpTier

IDC / Excerpt from report #EMT1P / Business Transaction Management: Another Step in the Evolution of IT Management

"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..."
Mar 28, 2007
Forrester Research on OpTier

Forrester / Tech Choices / Strong Performer OpTier Brings Transaction Management To BSM

"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."
Feb 01, 2007
EMA Research on OpTier

EMA / Impact Brief / OpTier and DataSynapse Partner to Control and Optimize Grid Computing Applications

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.
Oct 01, 2006
EMA Research on OpTier

EMA / Case Study / When IT is the Product: Delivering Superior Service when IT is the Differentiator

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.
Jun 30, 2006
IDC Research on OpTier

IDC / Buyer Case Study / TransUnion's TrueCredit.com Revisits Application Management Strategy

This IDC Buyer Case Study analyzes the application management strategy for TrueCredit.com. TrueCredit identifies CoreFirst as a key component in its application management strategy.

Jun 22, 2006
The 451 Group Research on OpTier

the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier - first reference customer, new money and growing opportunity

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.
May 31, 2006
Forrester Research on OpTier

Forrester / Tech Choices / The Next-Generation Banking Platform

CoreFirst... show[s] interesting benefits for the financial services industry, like improved application service levels, reduced risk capital, and improved resource utilization.
Apr 01, 2006
EMA Research on OpTier

EMA / Research Report / SOA Market and Products 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.
Mar 01, 2006
Gartner Research on OpTier

Gartner / Cool Vendors in IT Operations Management, 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.
Feb 01, 2006
EMA Research on OpTier

EMA / Product Brief / OpTier: The Next Generation of Application Management

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.
Nov 14, 2005
The 451 Group Research on OpTier

the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier Upgrades Transaction Management Software

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...
Oct 01, 2005
Forrester Research on OpTier

Forrester / Trends / The Evolution Of Infrastructure Management

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.
Aug 01, 2005
Forrester Research on OpTier

Forrester / Quick Take / In-Flight Transaction Optimization Arrives

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.
Aug 01, 2005
The 451 Group Research on OpTier

the 451 group / Market Insight Service / OpTier reports progress in defining transaction workload management

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.