This year marks the start of our 20th year as your primary source for enterprise software.
Thank you to all of our licensed customers. Some of you I have known for 20 years, and some of you I’m just getting to know over the past couple. Regardless of your history with Rocket, you have told me that you improve your business each day, each week, each month, each year, by deploying and using our products. And you recognize how unique Rocket is, in that we continue to maintain and enhance every piece of software that you have licensed from us over the past 20 years. We have significantly expanded our product portfolio and professional services capabilities for you over the past few years, and so I want to introduce you to some of the newer products that you should consider taking advantage of in 2009.
CorVu products. From business intelligence to strategy management to information delivery, our CorVu products provide your mid- to large-sized business with solutions that improve your operating results. If you are using any of the Rocket business intelligence products today - everything from Rocket HPO, to Rocket Gentia, to Rocket Visionary - ask your Rocket rep to introduce you to CorVu products. Contact Deanna Ziemba (in the Americas), Richard Whomes (in Europe), or Ron Bleakney (in Australia and Asia), to learn more about CorVu products.
LegaSuite products. We sometimes refer to these as Seagull products. LegaSuite application modernization tools and professional services team is the absolute best-in-class solution to modernize any or all of your legacy applications. Take a look at LegaSuite today. You will save money by making use of LegaSuite instead of attempting to rewrite your existing legacy applications. You will be amazed at how quickly you can provide something fresh and new to both your internal and external customers. Contact Sam Elias (in the Americas, Australia and the Middle East), Simon Roper (in the United Kingdom), or Paul Bosse (Continental Europe) to see how LegaSuite works. Ask Sam, Simon, or Paul to show you how easy it is to build a GUI or web services integration with your legacy app.
Servergraph products. Whether you are using IBM, EMC, or Symantec technology to backup and protect your data, you will want to look at our Servergraph products. Don Becker (in the Americas) and John Procter (in Europe) can demonstrate how effectively Servergraph can tell you what systems are missing from your backups, graphically illustrate your backup infrastructure, and provide a powerful chargeback system to properly bill your internal and external customers.
Arkivio products. By automating discovery, classification, and management of data over its lifecycle, Arkivio products drive specific solutions for regulatory compliance, storage consolidation, disaster recovery optimization, data retention management, and capacity management of a tiered-storage infrastructure. You can reduce TCO by automating a tiered-storage implementation and optimizing the use of existing resources. You can also benefit from increased utilization of lower-cost storage tiers (i.e. ATA disk-based RAID). Contact Giovanni Paliska or Bob Grewal to learn more about our Arkivio products.
AS and ICE products. Our most long standing and loyal customers use Rocket AS and Rocket ICE. We hope you have already heard about the newest members of this product line: Rocket Shuttle AS Edition and the new Rocket.Ascent Client, which allows you to run your AS applications via our new, modern, Eclipse-based UI. The AS core provides the industrial-strength and high speed application platform for the IBM System z. AS and ICE include a rich collection of data analysis and update functions for your System z data. Our continued investment in AS/ICE technology is 100% for your benefit. Contact George Smyth or Sarah Cobley and let them know what you need next.
BlueZone products. Hundreds of companies are getting the world’s best in terminal emulation for significantly less money with BlueZone. 5250, 3270, VT, and even secure FTP - BlueZone provides it all. Contact Jeremy Sharp to learn how quickly you can reduce your annual spending on terminal emulation. And don’t forget to ask Jeremy about the new PasswordVault feature - you will be impressed.
Network products. Rocket NetCure and Rocket Catalant are our two flagship products for networks and telecoms. NetCure provides end-to-end management of your business-critical infrastructure by correlating events across traditional management boundaries. Contact Joe Devlin or Peter Fandel and they will amaze you with the speed and simplicity of NetCure. Catalant is a powerful NMS framework used by most leading telecom manufacturers. The integration of Catalant with the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus solution is another example of Rocket’s deep and broad partnership with IBM (more on that below). Amedee Potier is our Catalant guru; contact him to learn more.
Mainstar products. For our IBM System z customers, Mainstar products focus on storage management, with an emphasis on business continuity. From HSM management and reporting to DB2 cloning, from catalog recovery to provisioning Linux, Mainstar has the tools for you at an affordable price. Contact Doug Bryan (in the Americas, Australia, and Asia), John Procter (in Europe), and Amerigo Baldassarri (in Australia and Asia) for more information on Mainstar products.
Security products. If you are deploying the world-class security infrastructure from RSA (EMC), we have a rich portfolio of IBM System z extenders for you. Recent technology that we’ve brought to market includes extending RSA Key Manager to CICS transactions and data at rest (files, data sets). Our LDAP-to-mainframe bridge technology is another product that will interest you. Contact Christy Lofink to learn more about extending your RSA and LDAP infrastructure to IBM System z.
Products for IBM System z. Rocket also has a broad portfolio of products that help you cost-effectively manage IBM System z environments of all shapes and sizes. Whether your focus is z/OS, z/VM, or Linux, and whether you manage DB2 and IMS infrastructure, storage, CICS, or the core system internals, Rocket has industry-leading products ready for you to deploy. You may already be a customer of Rocket MXI, FYI/CICS, or Provisioning Expert for Linux on zSeries. If not, you should really take a look and see how these products can save you money.
AeroText and Smart DB. Perhaps you want to learn more about AeroText, our newest information extraction product, or SmartDB, intelligent adapters for the Oracle e-business suite. Nicole White can help you with AeroText and Sam Elias can help you with SmartDB.
IBM Information Management, IBM Tivoli, and IBM Rational. I would be remiss if I didn’t point you to the excellent products that IBM offers in their Information Management, Tivoli, and Rational brands. Rocket provides products and technology that IBM includes in these flagship product lines: QMF, DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for Linux, Unix, and Windows, IMS, Tivoli for z/VM, Tivoli for z/OS, and Rational SCLM. For example, did you know that you can now manage your SCLM projects from an Eclipse GUI and directly within Rational Developer for System z? You can search ibm.com to learn more about these brands, find product details, search for redbooks, white papers, user manuals, announcement letters, download instructions, and much more. Here are just a few of the many useful links that IBM provides:
IBM DB2 Query Management Facility
IBM DataQuant
IBM DB2 Audit Management Expert for z/OS
IBM DB2 Recovery Expert for z/OS
IBM IMS Audit Management Expert for z/OS
IBM Backup and Restore Manager for z/VM
IBM Tivoli Output Manager for z/OS
IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS
IBM SCLM Administrator Toolkit
Rocket Partners. Which brings me to our partners that resell and OEM our software products. I want to thank you for your business. Rocket treats your customers with extreme care, as if they were our own. You have measured our performance over the years, and your results prove our commitment to achieving the highest level of quality and customer satisfaction in and around the products we supply to you. Our entire development process is geared to private-labeling all of our products for you, providing you with user manuals that fit your style guidelines, and 24x7 global support to you and your customers.
Finally, to those of you who have entrusted your products, your employees, and your customers to Rocket: We work hard to make sure that what we acquire and integrate remains viable in the marketplace. Your customers become our customers and immediately feel the warmth of the Rocket family. Your labs become our labs; your engineers become our engineers. You can be sure that what you created will be taken care of at Rocket. If you are considering divesting an asset or selling your business, Rocket has a long history and a successful track record of being a friendly and fair acquirer.
Regardless of how you interact with Rocket, as a customer, a partner, or a seller, stay in touch with me throughout 2009. Let me know how Rocket can help you be successful with your next project or business initiative. Common wisdom indicates that we will all be facing new and interesting challenges this year. Together we can continue to do great things and achieve great results.
All the best to you in 2009,
- Andy
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