Posts Tagged ‘Systems’

BigLever Software CEO to Deliver Keynote Address for International Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems Workshop

January 24th, 2012

BigLever Software™, the leading provider of systems and software product line engineering (PLE) solutions, announced today that Dr. Charles Krueger, the company’s Founder and CEO, will deliver the keynote address at the Sixth International Workshop on Variability Modeling of Software-Intensive Systems (VaMoS) to be held on January 25 – 27, 2012 in Liepzig, Germany. As an acknowledged author, speaker and PLE pioneer, Dr. Krueger was invited to provide workshop attendees with insight into new, pragmatic approaches for managing variability in systems and software product lines.

The VaMoS 2012 workshop series brings together researchers and practitioners from various areas dedicated to mastering variability for the development, maintenance, and evolution of software-intensive systems. The workshop will address the advantages, drawbacks, viability and results of various approaches for managing variability in systems, system families, and product lines.

Dr. Krueger’s keynote address – entitled Reuse is an Event. Sharing is a Journey. – will focus on new, highly effective forms of systems and software asset reuse that are enabling discontinuous improvements in engineering efficiency across the entire product line engineering lifecycle, from requirements, to design, implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. The presentation will explore key lessons learned over the last four decades of software reuse, featuring successful new approaches that are not based on reuse events experienced in isolation, but rather on an odyssey of sharing embarked upon with others over time.

Source:http://eon.businesswire.com/news/eon/20120123006255/en/biglever/product-line-software/product-lione-engineering

Harvey Software Announces CoLinear Systems as December Featured Business Partner

December 15th, 2011

Fort Myers, FL — Today, Harvey Software, Inc. announced CoLinear Systems, Inc. as its Featured Harvey Software Business Partner for December. CoLinear Systems connects its Response® order management system to Harvey Software’s Computerized Parcel System (CPS™) in environments where companies need to ship with multiple carriers. By adding a dedicated multi-carrier shipping system, CoLinear’s customers streamline their shipping process to save money and time, as well as seamlessly import and export shipping information. CoLinear includes CPS shipping software in systems applications when customers need access to fast rate shopping of all three major carriers.

“One of the appeals CoLinear’s Response software is its flexibility of application similar to our CPS shipping software,” said Terry Kennedy, VP of Alliance Marketing at Harvey Software. “Both programs are well-suited for small, midsize, and large volume clients, plus both programs are easily able to grow with a business as its volume increases. We look to CoLinear for clients who need flexible and customizable order management systems, and CoLinear looks to us to provide fast and efficient rate shopping for multiple shipping carriers,” continued Mr. Kennedy. “We thank CoLinear Systems for their continued support of CPS and Harvey Software, and we welcome them as our Featured Business Partner for the month of December.”

“We thank Harvey Software for recognizing our efforts to integrate and distribute our two software products. We have made it our business to increase productivity in order management, and we recognize the increases in productivity and cost savings possible in shipping with Harvey’s CPS shipping software. We have heard great things from our customers who utilize both software products,” said Scott Weaver, President & CEO at CoLinear Systems. “We know that both companies share a similar mission of helping small businesses become big businesses by saving them time and money in fulfillment. We look forward to this partnership continuing for many years as we continue to provide great products and service to our clients,” concluded Mr. Weaver.

Source:http://www.emailwire.com/release/76792-Harvey-Software-Announces-CoLinear-Systems-as-December-Featured-Business-Partner.html

Innovative Fire Simulator Software Released by Action Training Systems

August 30th, 2011

Many fire service trainers are faced with having unreliable resources to produce relevant and competency based classroom training for their fire officers and firefighters. StageIT is an innovative product created by Action Training Systems, which provides realistic training in tactical decision making. It allows training officers to use photos or video clips of actual buildings and sites located in their response area. Its realistic quality and capacity to create multiple stages for an incident allows the training officer to change the fire conditions in the classroom based upon the tactical decisions made by company officers and their crews.

Fire service trainers now have the tool to create real world situations which will enhance your student’s tactical decision making ability and help prepare pre-incident planning for fire, HAZMAT, terrorism and WMD situations. StageIt can also be used for promotional testing.

If the fire scene can be visualized, StageIT can build it. This is both a cost-effective solution for creating simulations for the classroom and an affordable networking solution. It is now possible to keep response areas staffed while training by remotely running simulations out to networked locations. The instructor will have the ability to change the student’s simulation screen and view what the student is seeing on the instructor module. StageIT also allows you to project a full-screen image of the scenarios without the instructor controls being visible to the student. This keeps the student focused on the scenario presented to them instead of being disrupted by what the instructor is doing behind the scenes.

StageIT Effects: Module I (Advanced Smoke and Backdraft) is an enhancement that adds even more realistic effects to the simulation. Module I includes backdraft explosions, directional fire, column smokes with added colors, puffing smokes and added glass effects. A remarkable 40 additional animations and seven still effects in all!

The properties of each effect in StageIT may be layered to blend effects, edit them for size, transparency, speed or fade in and out giving you an almost unlimited ability to match the effects to your photos.

This training simulator is as close to reality as you can get. That’s what makes this software so unique – its authenticity and the realism in the training content with actual photos of local buildings and sites and as well as the ability to import your own video and sound files. With StageIT’s Windows based file and folder design, you simply drag and drop effects, making it simple to use.

Another feature which makes StageIT a flexible training tool is the ability to use scenarios in PowerPoint® presentations. The separate stages of a scenario are automatically published as independent Windows Media Video [.wmv] files, which are easily imported into PowerPoint presentations. No additional software is needed to import a movie created in StageIT into a PowerPoint® presentation.

Action Training Systems provides high quality video demonstrations on DVD and interactive CBT (computer based training) programs and simulator programs on the Iluminar Learning Management System (LMS) software platform. All programs are reviewed by renowned subject matter experts aiding in content creation through the production of multimedia training tools, which is why ATS has been recognized for their high standard of exceptional real life content.

Source:http://www.prweb.com/releases/firesimulator/firesimulationsoftware/prweb8755667.htm

TeleCommunication systems is among the companies in the systems software industry With the highest debt To equity ratio (TSYS, ORCL, WBSN, SYMC, ROVI)

October 24th, 2010

Below are the top five companies in the Systems Software industry as measured by their Debt To Equity ratio. The Debt/Equity ratio measures a company’s leverage and a high level often implies that a company has financed much of its growth with debt.

TeleCommunication Systems (TSYS) has a Debt/Equity ratio of 0.91x based on total debt of $183.5 million.

Oracle (ORCL) has a Debt/Equity ratio of 0.53x based on total debt of $17 billion.

Websense (WBSN) has a Debt/Equity ratio of 0.46x based on total debt of $70 million.

Symantec (SYMC) has a Debt/Equity ratio of 0.42x based on total debt of $1.9 billion.

Rovi (ROVI) has a Debt/Equity ratio of 0.33x based on total debt of $524.2 million.

Source:http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Newsfeed/Article/120844181/201010231047/TeleCommunication-Systems-is-Among-the-Companies-in-the-Systems-Software-Industry-With-the-Highest-Debt-To-Equity-Ratio-TSYS-ORCL-WBSN-SYMC-ROVI-.aspx

IBM Buys PSS Systems

October 15th, 2010

IBM has acquired PSS Systems, a privately held Silicon Valley ISV whose software helps legal departments and CIOs analyze, automate and implement information governance and legal retention policies across massive amounts of electronic business information and dispose of that information in an automated way. Its clients reportedly include seven of the top 10 Fortune 500s. Financial terms were not disclosed. It’s for IBM’s suite of Information Lifecycle Governance solutions.

Source:-http://www.sys-con.com/node/1572713

Evolving Systems is Among the Companies in the Systems Software

October 9th, 2010

Below are the top five companies in the Systems Software industry as measured by dividend yield. Dividends can enhance returns for investors seeking income in addition to capital gains.
Evolving Systems (NASDAQ:EVOL) ranks first with a dividend yield of 2.6%; Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) ranks second with a dividend yield of 2.6%; and Opnet Technologies (NASDAQ:OPNT) ranks third with a dividend yield of 2.1%.
Not too far behind, CA Inc (NASDAQ:CA) and Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL) have dividend yields of 0.8% and 0.7%, respectively.
SmarTrend is bullish on shares of EVOL and our subscribers were alerted to Buy on August 18, 2009 at $5.28. The stock has risen 43.1% since the alert was issued.

Source:-http://www.mysmartrend.com/news-briefs/news-watch/evolving-systems-among-companies-systems-software-industry-highest-dividend-y

Hard Facts on Software – A fresh look at high availability systems

October 4th, 2010

I guess today’s topic gets most business managers interested. Systems are never an issue until they stop running. So keeping them running is critical. This week we continue briefly with our discussion of disaster recovery and prevention, and then turn to high availability systems.
In many cases, an organisation may elect to use an outsourced disaster recovery provider to provide a stand-by site and systems rather than using their own remote facilities.

In addition to preparing for the need to recover systems, organisations must also implement precautionary measures with an objective of preventing a disaster in the first place. These may include some of the following:

Local mirrors of systems and/or data and use of disk protection technology such as RAID
Surge protectors — to minimise the effect of power surges on delicate electronic equipment
Uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and/or backup generator to keep systems going in the event of a power failure
Fire preventions — alarms, fire extinguishers
Anti-virus software and other security measures

Fortunately, as a Mac user I don’t need to worry about Anti-virus software. On Windows you will need the latest and the greatest to prevent attack.

But lets focus on high availability, and again I quote from Wikipedia:

“High availability is a system design approach and associated service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period.”

Users want their systems, for example wrist-watches, hospitals, airplanes or computers, to be ready to serve them at all times.
Availability refers to the ability of the user community to access the system, whether to submit new work, update or alter existing work, or collect the results of previous work. If a user cannot access the system, it is said to be unavailable. Generally, the term downtime is used to refer to periods when a system is unavailable.

A distinction can be made between scheduled and unscheduled downtime. Typically, scheduled downtime is a result of maintenance that is disruptive to system operation and usually cannot be avoided with a currently installed system design. Scheduled downtime events might include patches to system software that require a reboot or system configuration changes that only take effect upon a reboot.

In general, scheduled downtime is usually the result of some logical, management-initiated event. Unscheduled downtime events typically arise from some physical event, such as a hardware or software failure or environmental anomaly. Examples of unscheduled downtime events include power outages, failed CPU or RAM components (or possibly other failed hardware components), an over-temperature related shutdown, logically or physically severed network connections, catastrophic security breaches, or various application, middleware, and operating system failures.

Many computing sites exclude scheduled downtime from availability calculations, assuming, correctly or incorrectly, that scheduled downtime has little or no impact upon the computing user community. By excluding scheduled downtime, many systems can claim to have phenomenally high availability, which might give the illusion of continuous availability.”

We will continue to explore high availability systems next time, just note already that costs of availability are extremely high and increase exponentially with an increase in availability. Not only because multiple redundant systems are necessary but also because of higher staff costs to manage such systems. This is where SAAS has so many advantages.

But lets discuss this next time, and remember……keep it (A)FRESH!

Source:http://www.economist.com.na/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22394:hard-facts-on-software-a-fresh-look-at-high-availability-systems&catid=570:columns&Itemid=66

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