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According to Instat/MDR: By 2005, corporate spending on wireless communication sources will reach $74 billion. Over 60% of the US workforce will be using wireless devices! According to a 2004 report by Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge,Mass., 47 percent of enterprises plan to have mobile applications indeployment within 12 months, while 68 percent of small and midsizebusinesses plan deployments in the same window.
Kevin Burden of IDC on enterprise PDA adoption: "Today it's a competitive advantage. Tomorrow it's corporate survival."
Mobile software provides low-cost insurance against a major business disruption. By arming IT staff with secure, remote access to the infrastructure, organizations can:
• Mobilize the organization for rapid recovery and timely resumption of normal activity
• Empower the IT team to apply their expertise from wherever they are
• Provide connectivity to critical databases and network systems
• Enable staff, wherever deployed, to verify operations at back-up sites or data storage locations
• Boost IT staff productivity by up to 30 percent when used on a daily basis for maintenance activities according to a recent study
Expand Beyond Corp. is the worldwide leader in mobile software for IT and application management. With Expand Beyond mobile software, organizations can wirelessly access and control business-critical databases, networks, systems and business applications, anywhere, anytime.
• Reduce complexity, MTTR, slowdowns and downtime
• Improve IT staff productivity 30% with mobile and desktop daily usage
•Avoid adding headcount: existing employees can manage growing infrastructure without new staff. Withholding the addition of just ONE IT worker saves $125,000 - $150,000 per year.
• Incident and problem management - improve service and staff/customer productivity. 34% of alerts arise when the administrator cannot immediately connect
• Ensure business continuity and greatly reduce risk
Increase Productivity Administrators have the tools to be both reactive and proactive End-user productivity increases as down-time decreases Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are met or exceeded
Avoid Revenue Loss Under-performing systems slow down revenue flow Disabled systems stop revenue altogether
Simplify IT Management Heterogeneous IT management: Manage any database, server or network
device throughout the enterprise Single console – any form-factor: Dynamically adjusts to any screen size
including wireless handheld, tablet, laptop, sub-notebook or desktop
In summary, with Expand Beyond, organizations can economize on people, on skills and get more out of established equipment and software
“I was very impressed with this product. We had the software installed and running right away. Our DBA was able to do work from halfway across the country.”– Ron Howard, DBA, Oklahoma County
“PocketDBA helped ensure that our Web site accurately reflected stock levels this holiday season. I accessed my SQL Server database over my PDA so that the toys showed up as in-stock to online viewers. That's when it hit home that PocketDBA was really crucial." – Aaron Lipman, CTO, Entertainment Earth
“I love it. Too many times, PocketDBA has saved me.”– Bill Wingard, Database Analyst, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
“Expand Beyond helps me keep our payroll systems up 24x7. I can receive alerts and then check in payroll processing to make sure everything is going okay. Now my response time on production issues is down to only 5 minutes.”– Damon Kerns, DBA, Steak n Shake
“Unplanned downtime and outages are becoming a thing of the past. The convenience of wireless access combined with a secure, real-time connection lets me keep our systems running at optimum efficiency without being chained to my desk.”– Alwyn Santos, DBA, Comark Inc.
PocketDBA™ mobile software for database administration provides live access to any SQL Server, Oracle, DB2 UDB or Teradata database from a single wireless console.
PocketAdmin™ mobile software enables network and systems administrators to control any Microsoft Windows environment, from Active Directory to workstations and servers, drill down into mission-critical applications including Exchange and IIS, and provides secure command line access to network devices including
• Patented architecture is the best on the industry, and was awarded "best remote administration" software.
• Architecture is up to 52x as fast as other SSH solutions out there!
• XBanywhere mid-tier server allows for centralized security. To manage 60 servers you need only one firewall connection with PocketAdmin. With other solutions you would need 60 firewall connections/holes. Our architecture is more secure and more scalable, with less maintenance by your security/network teams.
• Using shared keys, you can allow entry only to designated handhelds. If the handheld were lost you can remotely disable a particular handheld. Other solutions are client-only without this important security control.
• PocketAdmin Console utilizes secure tunneling that acts as end-to-end security. This brings important security to handhelds without VPN.
• Store server names on the handheld so in a bind you do not need to remember 200 server names or type in the IP address from memory. Reference a drop-down list of your servers that you define.
• Customize macros for frequently executed commands
• Use the "bulk input" feature to greatly speed up entering text on the handheld (many times as fast).
• Works on Palm, Pocket PC, and BlackBerry. Most other products work on only one of these solutions.
XBanywhere is a patented framework allowing applications to function in a mobile and web environment. XBanywhere accelerates the development of mobile and web layers to applications. Development and maintenance costs are dramatically lowered by reducing the dependency on locally-maintained Java, C, and C# code. By leveraging a library of expert rules, user interface controls, and multiple device-specific rendering, XBanywhere saves companies time and money.
What is XBanywhere?
• XBanywhere is a mobile and web application-enabling framework
“Expand Beyond could do for databases what the remote control did for TVs.”– CIO Magazine
“Database administrators could dramatically increase their productivity by operating remotely... Imagine the efficiencies in not having to call a DBA back to the office.”– InfoWorld Magazine
“There is no need to dream about the efficiency and flexibility of wireless enterprise management. With Expand Beyond, you could move to the wireless fast lane today.”– DM Review Magazine
“In eWEEK Labs’ tests of PocketAdmin for Windows, which shipped last month, we were able to remotely tackle a broad range of management tasks through the product’s nicely laid out, HTML-based mobile client interface. We could also access these controls through a PC Web browser.”– eWEEK Magazine
“PocketAdmin does exactly what is promises: delivers a secure command shell directly to the Pocket PC. If you know what you're doing, that's enough to manage many aspects of Windows servers.”– Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine
Allstate Communications, Inc. – a telecommunications service bureau responsible for routing 1 million calls a month to fulfillment centers and processing billing transaction records. Technical services team supports 400 internal employees
Downtime or performance degradation costs: Thousands of dollars an hourAlerts received when fixed connections are not available: 4 times per week
“When a problem arises on one of the critical databases, how long does it take to reach key people and for them to connect to the system to fix it? Or worse, drive to the office to fix it? On our system, one hour of down time would pay for the PocketDBA product. It has paid for itself on more than one occasion.”
“I am on my third version of PocketDBA. The upgrade to V2.1 took less than 5 minutes to download from the Expand Beyond web site and less than 10 minutes to install and test. The ability to go to a shell command and check on system space or processes has really increased my reliance on the product. I have only used Tech Support during installation. The rest of the time PocketDBA has always worked.”
– Jim Cox, Director of Technical Services and Senior DBA
Tropical Sportswear, Inc. (“TSI” NASDAQ: TSCI), designs, manufactures and markets high-quality major labor and private brand sportswear that is sold through large retail distribution channels. TSI sets the benchmark in its industry by achieving a 24-day time to market for new product introductions
Downtime or performance degradation costs: $1 million per 4 hoursAlerts: 10 per week
Service Level Agreement response time: Within 5 minutes of being notified
“The role of the DBA has changed. The DBA is no longer locked in a back room, he is now a major contributor to managing the impacts on profitability. We have weekly meetings on our SLA performance. When questions arise concerning IT expenditures that impact the balance sheet, such as ‘Why do you need more space or memory? How much do you need?,’ I just run my scripts on PocketDBA and have current stats immediately.”
“PocketDBA has saved my hide many times. Things change dynamically with the ERP database. On top of that, TSI is located in the Lightning Capitol of the world. PocketDBA is a key part of my disaster recovery and business continuity plan.”
– Charles Hendricks, Database Manager, Tropical Sportswear, Inc., Tampa, FL
Cinergy Corp. (NYCE: CIN) is one of the leading diversified energy companies with two core businesses: regulated operations and energy merchant. Cinergy’s regulated delivery operations serve 1.5 million electric customers and about 500,000 gas customers in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky and control 7,000 megawatts of generation.
Alerts received when fixed connections are not available: 2 – 3 per weekService Level Agreement response time: Respond to initial page within 15
minutes; be logged on and working to resolve within 30 minutes
“I have a 45 minute commute to work. I can save 90 minutes of driving with 10 minutes online using PocketDBA.”
“We have multiplatform criteria for the tools we buy. My boss approved the purchase of PocketDBA because he wanted to give me all the tools I needed to do my job, but it certainly helped that PocketDBA can be used not just on the 30 Oracle databases that I manage but also on the 200-300 SQL Server databases that other DBAs manage.”
TechRepublic (January 2003) Make wireless database administration part of your consulting package
“The day-in, day-out tasks of monitoring the server, tuning for performance, and catching problems before they become crises can all be done from anywhere in the world when you’re wireless. Without the necessity of travel, you can fit a quick look at a server into otherwise unproductive moments.”
Mobile Business Advisor (March 2003) Business Continuity: Are You Prepared?
“Vendors such as Expand Beyond see wireless technology andBCM as a perfect fit. Wireless connections can be more reliablethan fixed data communications lines because they aren’taffected by weather. Mobile connectivity also extends networkboundaries, letting administrators access mission-critical systemsand applications from any location.”
Federal Computer Week (May 2003) PDA Software Grab Bag
“Every network administrator has a horror story about a server or database crash occurring when no dial-up connection was available. Even general maintenance can be extremely inconvenient when traveling. Now imagine gaining real-time wireless access to the network from anywhere at any time, where access means not just monitoring but the ability to carry out any network command in real time.”
Database Trends & Applications (May 2003) Using Mobile Applications Extends Business Continuity
“Smart businesses are improving their continuity plans by embracing mobile systems management solutions. Used properly, these solutions can reduce response time during all phases of disaster recovery.”
Secure, mobile IT diagnostics, management and administration of the infrastructure improves responsiveness and adds an important element to your company’s business continuity plan.
Cost Savings: Fast and significant ROI – pays for itself in months
Optimized for Wireless Minimal application overhead Low click design, GUI based State awareness of connections Dynamic rendering Easy data input Submit processes to the background
Anywhere Access Browser based – no client software to
install Form-factor independent
PDAs and Handhelds
Smartphones
Laptops
Dynamic display intelligence Network agnostic
Secure Native authentication – grant access rights
and privileges based on user account End to end encryption Mobile VPN and 2-Factor authentication
Real-time Control No syncing or data stored on handheld Interactive session Anytime, anywhere
Scalable No agents to install Access and manage any number of
disparate databases, network components, operating systems and applications
Single point of entry into the enterprise Manage and navigate through unlimited
Data from 2002 AT&T commissioned Business Continuity survey of 1000 of their largest customers.
…“Businesses should make sure that remote access systems for telecommuting workers are ready, easily scalable and up to the task of providing uninterrupted access for a protracted period.” – IDC
…“Enterprises that have not integrated remote access into their disaster management teams should start now.” –Gartner