Vendors selected for the "Cool Vendor report" are innovative, impactful and intriguing

BOSTON, MA, April 2, 2008 - BEZ Systems, a leading provider of Predictive Performance Management (PPM) solutions, today announced they have been included in the list of "Cool Vendors" in the March 31 published report "Cool Vendors in IT Operations, 2008" by Donna Scott, Milind Govekar, David Williams, Will Cappelli of Gartner, Inc.

According to the report, "...monitoring in infrastructure and operations needs the ability to anticipate and forecast problems, evaluate potential solutions to remediate issues and measure the impact of any changes that are implemented in production."

"The accelerated rate of IT change and increased dependency on critical applications have forced companies to search for a more proactive approach to performance management", said Dan Haley, president and CEO of BEZ systems. "We are pleased to be recognized by Gartner and included in their Cool Vendor report".

BEZVision allows IT professionals to make ‘trusted changes'. Workload analytics show past and present service delivery to individual lines of business. Forward looking product features alert users to impending service problems while supporting performance and throughput data allow IT managers to make well-informed business decisions. Analytic models provide "what-if" analysis to understand how future change(s) will affect service delivery. Performance data is captured from existing sources and stored in a Performance Management Database (PMDB) to support existing use cases.

About Gartner's Cool Vendor Selection Process

Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About BEZ Systems

Since 1993, BEZ Systems has been applying advanced analytics and modelling technology to IT performance issues. Analytics aggregate current and historic performance data into meaningful business workloads and modelling provides IT management with historic, current and over-the-horizon views of workload service levels. The results provide IT decision-makers with the time and information to make informed business decisions, deploy resources more efficiently, and ensure that service delivery to the business is insulated from the chaotic effects of constant change.

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