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Product Announcements Web 2.0 BPM Suite SUNNYVALE, CA—Vitria Technology, Inc. announces the release of M3O, the industry’s first Web 2.0 BPM suite that empowers business users to directly model, manage, monitor, and optimize their business processes. Vitria also is introducing M3O’s Exception Manager, which utilizes all of M3O’s capabilities to automatically resolve process exceptions across the enterprise. Exception Manager is built on three generations of product knowledge in exception management and leverages the benefits of business-level modeling, policy-driven automated resolution, and standards-based technologies in a high performance, enterprise-class solution. Visit www.vitria.com for more information. teams to generate events and transactions that appear on the monitoring framework without the need to code a test harness. LISA can also become an agent that listens to the resulting metrics, making it an integral part of the enterprise’s application management process. LISA already contains the ability to test and accept data for most common enterprise server and application metrics, such as JMX providers, SNMP data, and Windows Perfmon. LISA now ships with several out-of-the-box configurations for most major metrics providers and application servers, such as BEA WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, TIBCO, and JBoss. LISA also allows extensions to capture proprietary metrics into test execution context. Visit www.itko.com/lisa for more information. management tools. SaaS provides significant benefits for companies—no infrastructure to manage, no software to install, faster time to value, and simple subscription pricing. Serena Mariner provides total visibility into project status and metrics to ensure the right people are on the right projects at the right time, ultimately delivering more value to the business. Serena Mariner gives business analysts a way to manage their entire portfolio quickly and easily without creating unwieldy Excel spreadsheets. All Serena products delivered via SaaS will have published pricing and discount schedules. Serena Mashup Composer brings drag-and-drop ease of use to lower the barrier of entry to mashup development. Soon, for a monthly subscription fee, these mashups can be deployed and run on Serena’s on-demand mashup platform. Visit www.serena.com for additional information. LISA 4 DALLAS—iTKO, Inc. announces enhanced native support for enterprise IT monitoring frameworks within the latest release of its LISA 4 testing and validation solution. The new, advanced test execution capabilities of LISA allow IT SaaS-Enabled Products SAN MATEO, CA—Serena Software will offer three solutions via Software-asa-Service (SaaS): Serena Mariner (project and portfolio management), Serena business mashups, and Serena agile lifecycle 44 BETTER SOFTWARE MAY 2008 www.StickyMinds.com http://www.vitria.com http://www.itko.com/lisa http://www.serena.com http://www.agile2008.org http://www.agile2008.org http://www.StickyMinds.com

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