PORTFOLIO NEWS ARCHIVENewsletter: Summer Edition 2003
ARTiSAN's Real-time Studio Selected by Panasonic Automotive Systems Deutschland GmbH (PASD) as Corporate Standard for Systems and Software Development of Car Radios
Cheltenham, UK — ARTiSAN Software Tools, a global leader for UML-based, real-time systems and software modeling tools, announced that Panasonic Automotive Systems Deutschland, a major supplier of car radios and CD-changers for the German automotive industry, has selected Real-time Studio as tool of choice for both systems and software development for all future projects.
"The software group within PASD began its intensive evaluation of tools roughly three years ago," stated Dr. Karlheinz Geist, Project Manager at PASD. "PASD quickly decided to narrow the field to Unified Modeling Language tools because UML had become a world standard, and there is a tremendous amount of information available in print. An early realization of this occurred on a business trip to Japan, where I found several excellent UML books at a tiny bookshop next to the Shin-Yokohama train station! The popularity of UML is a significant advantage for a global player like Panasonic, as it makes the hiring of engineers familiar with the language quite easy. Most of the major universities teach UML, increasing its popularity even further. Real-time Studio was selected due to its low price to value ratio, and the ability of multiple developers to work in parallel through the repository. The multi-user repository sounds like a nice feature on paper – but when you use it in practice and realize the benefit of all of your developers being in sync – you quickly also realize the economic implications of such a powerful and vital tool component."
ARTiSAN Software Tools provides electronic product development teams with the "fastest path to the right product." The company offers products, services and a process for systems and software modeling to accelerate the development of next-generation real-time systems while ensuring that they meet requirements. ARTiSAN enables engineering teams to visualize, design and validate systems before building them, and simplifies implementation with code generation and software reuse. ARTiSAN is a practical partner offering easy-to-adopt, down-to-earth solutions. ARTiSAN Software Tools, Inc., founded in March 1997, is headquartered in Cheltenham, United Kingdom. The company has regional sales offices and distributors throughout the world. For more information, visit www.artisansw.com
Fortinet's FortiGate Antivirus Firewall Wins 'Product of the Year' at 2003 Networking Industry AwardsSANTA CLARA, CA -- Fortinet, the only provider of ASIC powered, network-based antivirus firewall systems for real-time network protection, announced that the FortiGate Antivirus Firewall has won the Networking Industry Awards 2003 Product of the Year for best firewall security product.
The Networking Industry Award's independent panel of judges, who were looking for the most innovative products of the year, evaluated entrants based on the following criteria: functionality, features, innovation, performance, configuration, resilience, ease-of-use, price, fitness for purpose and market position. The FortiGate platform won over competitive products from Cisco (CSCO), Symantec (SYMC) and Secure Computing (SCUR).
FortiGate Antivirus Firewalls are based on a groundbreaking architecture designed specifically to deliver application-layer security and content processing services in addition to network-layer services in real-time, All models in the 10-member FortiGate product family employ Fortinet's unique FortiASIC content processing chip and the powerful, secure, FortiOS operating system to achieve breakthrough price/performance. For more information about the 2003 Networking awards, please visit www.networkingawards.com
Fortinet's award winning Forti-Gate series of ASIC-accelerated antivirus firewalls are the new generation of real-time network protection systems. They detect and eliminate the most damaging, content-based threats from email and web-traffic such as viruses, worms, intrusions, inappropriate web content and more in real-time without degrading network performance. The FortiGate systems deliver a full range of network-level services- firewall, VPN, intrusion detection and traffic shaping--as well as application level services such as anitvirus and content filtering, in dedicated, easily managed platforms. For further information about Fortinet, please visit. www.fortinet.com
Intraspect Unveils Solution for Portal Collaboration. New Solution Integrates Collaboration and Knowledge Management With Corporate Portals To Enhance User ProductivityBRISBANE, Calif. - Intraspect Software, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise collaboration solutions, introduced the Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration designed for industry standard portals including BEA, Oracle, SAP, SunOne, Sybase, and Vignette. This solution enables organizations to augment their corporate portals with a full suite of collaboration and knowledge management capabilities quickly, seamlessly, and cost effectively.
"Our research shows that customer priorities for portal implementations place collaboration and knowledge sharing as the second most important goal behind aggregation of disparate applications," said Matt Cain, senior vice president of META Group. "We have found that inclusion of this kind of functionality can dramatically increase the usage and overall effectiveness of corporate portal deployments."
The Intraspect Solution for Portal Collaboration enables portal users to create shared “communities” to collaborate on areas relevant to the organization including strategic accounts, products, business processes and other topics of interest. These communities provide online workspaces to manage documents and content, discuss issues and strategies, make decisions, track tasks, and share status inside and across teams. Advanced security technology enables users to also perform many of these functions outside the firewall with both clients and partners, and it was designed so end-users can easily and safely create and manage their own communities. The solution is integrated with leading portals through partner-specific portlets and includes single sign-on capability for enhanced ease of use.
Intraspect also offers solution-specific options that integrate with the portal solution. These include a Project Management Office (PMO) Community, Deal Flow Community, and Account Management Community.development, sales, and marketing initiatives.
Intraspect is the leading provider of enterprise solutions that power complex business processes, manage content lifecycles and enhance internal and external collaboration. Over 200 companies use Intraspect’s solutions to increase productivity and enhance customer satisfaction including Bank of America, Barclays Global Investors, BearingPoint, Cadence, GE Capital, Hill & Knowlton, J.P. Morgan Chase, LSI Logic, Ogilvy, Sun Microsystems and Reed Elsevier. For more information visit www.intraspect.com.
mSAFE and HP technologies allow service providers to deploy quality end-to-end solutions for usage-based billing
of 3G servicesBöblingen, Germany/ McLean, Virginia, USA– With perfectly interoperable billing solutions from mSAFE and Hewlett-Packard, mobile services providers are now able to implement new profitable billing models that incorporate aspects such as the value of called contents and the quality of service (QoS): with its patent-pending Billing Agent, mSAFE offers a technology which facilitates the immediate processing of data on mobile service usage and contents at the source - in the mobile unit. Hewlett-Packard's mediation system, HP Internet Usage Manager (HP IUM), prepares this information along with usage data from other sources in order to pass it on to billing or customer service applications in a uniform, immediately exploitable format. The result is a closed system for monitoring, billing and analyzing usage data that truly lives up to the claims of end-to-end and real-time functionality.
Up to now, service providers were forced to sacrifice considerable revenues because they were either unable to implement advanced billing models flexibly enough or had to work on the basis of erroneous and incomplete usage data. Thanks to usage tracking capabilities directly in the mobile unit, the mSAFE Billing Agent together with HP IUM make it possible to deploy and bill for such mobile data services for prepaid card users in real-time. The trick to this: verification as to whether a connection is to be terminated because the credit balance is zero or a new balance has to be established in real-time - in order to continue the service - occurs directly in the end device. In this way, service providers are liberated from overloading their network infrastructures with varied control mechanisms, which are near real-time only.
The combined solution provides companies with the competence to implement future-oriented billing models quickly, simply and reliably, allowing them to take lucrative new markets by storm and keeping their customers loyal. Offerings in the areas of content services with quality of session complete billing as well as open m-Commerce capabilities complement this new solution. But it doesn't stop there: the data processed directly from the mobile unit to HP IUM system for aggregation and correlation preparation also provides detailed information on customer behavior crucial for strategic capacity planning and sure-fire marketing.
From its founding at the beginning of 2000 by experienced innovators from the telecommunications sector, mSAFE has quickly made a name for itself as a provider of advanced technologies, enabling real-time billing of mobile services. With mSAFE's billing agent product, the company has developed and now distributes a globally unique, patent-pending solution that makes it possible to process usage data directly from the end user device – the key to providing maximum flexibility and accuracy in billing for mobile communications of data services. mSAFE is headquartered in Virginia, USA with a subsidiary in Rehovot, Israel. For detailed information on the company and its products, please visit: www.msafe.com
SealedMedia Safeguards Corporate Email and Documents with New Version of its Document Security Solution
Added Support for Protecting Email Messages Provides Major Advantage in Safeguarding Confidential Corporate Information
SealedMedia Inc. announced the immediate availability of its new document security solution, SealedMedia Version 2.6, which adds important new functions to seal and protect email messages and all popular document formats. The new version also offers enhancements to the company’s License Server, Sealer and Unsealer software components, including an improved user interface as well as support for the MPEG-4 file format. SealedMedia Version 2.6 now supports a broader range of document file formats including Outlook and Lotus Notes for email; Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, HTML, GIF, JPEG, PNG, MP3, QuickTime and MPEG-1 and 4 in a single software solution. The result is a comprehensive document security offering for companies seeking to protect confidential corporate information inside and outside of their businesses.
SealedMedia also announced two major new customers; HMV, a premier retailer of music, videos and computer games; and RHK, a well-respected research and advisory firm assisting the world’s leading telecommunications companies.
"We were looking for a solution to protect important internal documents such as our Board communications and Management Dashboard to ensure the information remained amongst its intended recipients,” stated Andrew Clarke, IT Director, HMV. “SealedMedia's persistent protection document security software has provided us with the ability to address this issue in one easy-to-use package which worked with our existing applications -- yet without significant alterations."
SealedMedia provides an enterprise Document Sealing solution that seals confidential or valuable documents against Digital Leakage. Only authorized users can use sealed documents and, even while using them, cannot abuse them by redistributing them to unauthorized users. The right to use sealed documents can be revoked at any time, even from previously authorized users and regardless of the final location of the sealed documents. Unique to SealedMedia is its support for standard document formats such as Email (Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes), Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe PDF and HTML, in addition to image, music and video formats. SealedMedia customers include 3i, Xansa, The Financial Times, Congressional Quarterly, The Butler Group and AOL/ Time Warner. Strategic Partners include Documentum and Business Systems Group (BSG). SealedMedia has offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Austin (Texas) and London. For more information on SealedMedia , visit www.sealedmedia.com.
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