Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois-based Platinum Technology Inc is drawing ever closer to its long-promised Platinum Open Enterprise Management System framework with last week’s unveiling of adapters for its AutoSys batch job control system, enabling it to recognize and respond to third party applications and co-ordinate tasks. Calling it AutoSys/Adapter – the company describes it as an access translator – Platinum has a host of AutoSys/Adapters up and ready for SAP’s R/3, Oracle applications including financials, government financials, manufacturing and human resources and its own distribution management tool AutoXfer. It is currently working on adapters for PeopleSoft Inc’s financial, personnel and distribution applications slated for the third quarter. Other applications currently in beta testing include its own tablespace reorganization utility TSReorg, system file back- up NetArchive and network back-up specialist Legato Systems Inc’s storage management software. The adapters include single schedulers enabling centralized points of control, dynamic load balancing, co-ordinated tasks between systems and complex job dependencies across applications. The AutoSys/Adapters come as add-on products to AutoSys and prices go from $15,000. In the meantime, Platinum has spun out the service arms of its Locus Computing Corp, Axis Systems International Inc, Paradigm Systems Corp, Trinzic Corp and its own Platinum education division into a wholly owned professional services subsidiary, to be know as Platinum Solutions Inc.
