"we have included a brand new company in the Value Leader category – OpsWise. Their
Automation Center product, released in December 2008, is a marvel to behold. The founders took full advantage of cutting-edge technology to construct an incredibly intuitive and attractive interface. With broad platform support, this JavaScript, Web 2.0, cloud-friendly offering is worth watching."

OpsWise receives award for Best Interface Design

"The OpsWise Automation Center interface is elegant, attractive, and intuitive. It fully deserves this award not only for these characteristics, but for its cutting-edge underpinnings and openness. From Web 2.0 services to contextual Wiki tutorials, this interface is center ring."

 Other reasons OpsWise was rated so highly:

• Deployment and Administration - OpsWise boasts flexibility and speed in implementation. The architecture allows a technology swapout or integration with the existing infrastructure through an internet-enabled data center. The design is fault-tolerant and highly scalable, priding itself on the ability to process large amounts of data. OpsWise has a history of rapid implementations across heterogeneous environments. The user interface is impressive, graphical, and intuitive.
• Cost Advantage - OpsWise sports the lowest entry price of any vendor in the study. The ease of deployment adds to this advantage.
• Architecture and Integration -OpsWise ...  supports a broad range of platforms and applications, includes load balancing functions, Managed File Transfer, RDBMS capabilities for automating SQL and Stored Procedures, and APIs to multiple frameworks. The z/OS integration (JES2, RACF, ACF2, etc.) is surprisingly robust, including z/OS job restart at the step level that is Sysplex-aware.
• Functionality - The OpsWise interface is a gem. It monitors critical paths, has intuitive reporting capabilities, and enables advanced administration with very little training.
• Vendor Strength -This company has remarkable vision, even when compared to the big guys.

 Press release by FastPassCorp A/S  - For immediate release

Copenhagen, Denmark - September 14, 2009 – FastPassCorp, a leading provider of self-service password solutions for enterprises and Hosting Service Provider, announced its FastPass Password Manager V 3.3 has been tested and met the high demands from the Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). The PCI DSS is a set of best practices defined by the PCI Security Standards Council, covering industry-wide requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective in order to safeguard sensitive data in particular customer data. https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pci_dss.shtml

 According to FastPassCorp’s Director of Business Development, Jesper Østergaard, the PCI DSS testing, that was performed by an Authorized PCI Scanning Vendor, reaffirms FastPassCorp’ commitment to the highest levels of data security and coding standards. "The extensive test and approval recognizes the integrity of the FastPass Password Manager solution, the use of secure coding standards and the use of best practices and guidelines to protect sensitive customer data and minimize risk." "We recognize that by being supplier of security and authentication software, our clients puts a level of thrust into our hands. We appreciate this and by meeting the certification requirements from this international security standard, we are doing our outmost to reward this".

 The test, that was very extensive and performed as an independent audit of FastPass Password Manager, was conducted by nSense, a third-party Authorized PCI Scanning Vendor. www.nsense.net.

Proxima Software Solutions are pleased to announce that Novus Capital Markets are the first UK customer to go live with OpsWise Automation Center. Automating a number of IT tasks around their trading floor, Novus have been able to streamline business workflows for their busy Operational Control area, improving reporting, sharing of key information and improving business efficiency.

The key requirement of Novus Capital Markets was the automation of reporting of trading activity each day.
OpsWise automates the collection of transaction data from their trading platform, collates the information using Excel and then distributes the reports to traders and settlements staff.

Commenting on the deployment, Rob Carney Novus Capital’s Head of Information and Business Services said “OpsWise Automation Center has helped us greatly to improve our business processes and operational efficiency. OpsWise is transparent to everyone in the business. It just works!” 

LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA - June 30th, 2009 – OpsWise Software, developers of Automation Center; announces full support for cloud computing infrastructures.

This new release enables enterprises to fully deploy OpsWise Automation Center in cloud-based infrastructures and integrate with existing operating systems and applications residing in their traditional data center or in the cloud.

Additionally, they will also be able to exploit virtualization by dynamically identifying newly provisioned servers and automatically assigning workload as these resources become available in the cloud.

“The nature of workload continues to evolve,” comments Gwyn Clay, VP of Product Management at OpsWise Software. “Traditional Workload Automation and Enterprise Job Scheduling solutions have not adapted to the dynamic and portable nature of emerging applications. OpsWise has provided a solution to enable enterprises to automate and integrate with this new world while continuing to manage their existing workload.”

OpsWise Automation Center was first released in September of 2008. Since then, companies have been leveraging OpsWise to automate complex workflows across Operating Systems, GRID systems, J2EE, and RDBMS systems.

“By building Automation Center on the web standards of today, we have successfully leapfrogged the competition in terms of architecture, security, and deployment.” says Jim Sievers, CEO of OpsWise Software. “ Cloud computing is a key component for the workload of tomorrow. This is the first of many announcements from OpsWise over the upcoming months relating to managing this new workload.”

The new cloud computing capabilities of Automation Center will be available in the Summer 2009 version, due in July.