This alliance substantiates Quest’s commitment to delivering leading application management solutions for e-commerce and eBusiness application environments.
The scope of the alliance includes joint development and marketing initiatives beginning with the release of Foglight(R) for Siebel eBusiness Applications. This will extend to additional products and interfaces later this year.
We are pleased to welcome Quest Software as a Strategic Software Partner in the Siebel Alliance Program, said Richard Gorman, vice president of product marketing for Siebel Systems. Quest is a leader in the application management market and has proven to us that they understand the needs and issues surrounding the management of Siebel eBusiness Applications. Our development teams continue to work together to create solutions that provide our customers with comprehensive, integrated offerings for the end-to-end management of the entire suite of Siebel eBusiness Applications.
Quest also announces the general availability of Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications, a comprehensive application monitoring solution. The integration of Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications with Siebel 2000 has successfully passed stringent testing conducted by the Siebel Validation Program, a comprehensive process that evaluates and documents integrated third-party solutions by putting them through rigorous technical scrutiny.
As our customers deploy Siebel eBusiness Applications across their enterprise, maintaining optimal performance and availability of these systems is critical to achieving their business objectives, said Joe Tomassini, product manager of systems management for Siebel Systems. By partnering with Quest on the design and integration methodology of their Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications solution, we can now offer our customers a comprehensive performance monitoring solution that encompasses all the components of the Siebel eBusiness Applications infrastructure.
Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications detects potential or actual application problem areas in real time and alerts application administrators before end users are affected by compromised application availability or performance degradation.
Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications is an integral addition to Quest Software’s application management product offering, which includes solutions for real-time diagnostics and problem resolution, application monitoring and tuning, space reorganization, capacity planning, and high availability to ensure 24×7 operation of enterprise applications.
The foundation of our business is ensuring the performance and availability of business critical applications, said Marshall Senk, Quest Software’s vice president of marketing. We are excited to be working with an industry leader like Siebel Systems to build and deliver complete management solutions for their customers. Foglight for Siebel eBusiness Applications is the first result of this relationship and we look forward to jointly extending our product family.
