- February 21, 2007 -
Heroix, a leading provider
of application performance monitoring software,
today announced 2006 sales of its Longitude agentless
monitoring software increased more than 300% over
2005. Offering an integrated approach to monitoring
IT performance and Service Level Agreements, Longitude
provides reporting, alerting, automated correction,
and SLA monitoring for applications, servers, IT
infrastructure, networks, and SNMP devices to help
companies ensure optimal business performance.
“Longitude’s unique monitoring approach
is finding real traction with organizations that
desire greater visibility into IT service levels,”
said Heroix Founder and CEO Howard Reisman. “By
aggregating metrics and correlating events across
the disparate components that comprise distributed
applications, Longitude provides clearer performance
reporting for business and IT managers, and enables
root cause analysis that speeds troubleshooting
and problem resolution by IT staff.”
The increased sales momentum came in tandem with
two major updates for the agentless monitoring
software package. In April, Longitude V3 expanded
its SLA reporting and added event correlation
for root cause analysis, baseline workload data
for threshold adjustment, scalable notifications
and corrective actions, and expanded monitoring
coverage.
In December, Longitude V4 centralized monitoring
and management with an enhanced event monitor
console and added a real time performance monitoring
statistic dashboard, custom monitoring of SNMP
devices, a management reporting portal, and consolidation
of Windows Event Logs.
"Longitude's new event control, real-time
dashboard and reporting for business users are
all hallmarks of sophisticated incident and problem
management solutions," said Jasmine Noel,
founder, Ptak, Noel & Associates. "Yet
Heroix has integrated these new capabilities into
the product interface in intuitive ways which
allows customers to reap the benefits without
extensive product configuration or training. This
usability insurance helps customers get the most
value out of Longitude."
Longitude’s blend of easy deployment and
superior reporting capabilities made it the right
choice for Greg Gootee, CIO at Mid Rogue Health
Information Management Services (MRHIMS). "We
chose Heroix Longitude after an extensive search,"
said Gootee. "We were extremely impressed
with how easy the product was to deploy and liked
the fact that the reporting capabilities provide
valuable data for a cross section of IT support
staff. With Longitude, we are able to effectively
manage our SLAs and meet our customer obligations.
Not only does Longitude provide rich performance
monitoring capabilities, it offers a superior
cost-to-value advantage."
Michael Hecht, IT Director at Arrowsight, chose
Longitude for similar reasons. "The product's
agentless architecture and solid reporting, event
monitoring, dashboard, and SLA capabilities are
superior,” said Hecht. “As a Web-based
Application Service Provider, any IT problems
we experience have a direct impact on our ability
to serve our customers. The proactive performance
monitoring capabilities we get from Longitude
are immense."
Pricing and Availability
Longitude V4 is available now. The pricing for basic OS monitoring starts at $299 per monitored system. Heroix offers a 14-day free trial of Longitude as well as an online Flash demo.
About Heroix
Heroix delivers award-winning software products
that help organizations optimize the availability
and performance of applications, databases, systems,
and IT infrastructure running across multiple
platforms. Today, with a presence in over 40 countries,
Heroix has delivered performance management solutions
to over 1,000 organizations worldwide, including
Arrowsight, Fallon Clinic, Kaiser Permanente,
Honeywell, Tembec, Motorola, Inc., and Young Broadcasting.
