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ARM Version 4, Release 3
October 26, 2009
Information Balance today announced a new milestone in the development of its leading APM
product, IB-Application Road Map (IB-ARM). With IB-ARM Version 4.3 the company
has completed moving off its ASP basis (Versions 1.0-3.4) and now offers its clients
a stand-alone, self-administered version of its application portfolio management product.
Release V4.3 incorporates a separate Administrator Workbench which automates the creation and refresh of repository content.
It includes all the requisite parsers for the target technology portfolio and the corresponding inter-technology mapping rules.
The ARM Repository refresh process is highly automated with several easy-to-use features:
Managing multiple ARM repositories within an organization
Configuring a new refresh for a given repository
Initiating, running and monitoring the refresh process
Testing the refresh results
Publishing the new repository to production
The Administrator Workbench also provides for a number of housekeeping functions from user administration to logging and tool configuration.
In addition, a new Application Dashboard has been added to the already function rich Analyst Workbench. The dashboard displays a variety of application metrics that will support effective application management.
Version 4 will continue to receive further improvements via one additional release in Q1 2010. Version 5 will bring a completely revamped user interface, currently planned for Q2 2010.
For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact gszirmak@infobal.com.
ARM Version 4
December, 2008
Information Balance announced a major milestone in the development of its leading APM product, IB-Application Road Map (IB-ARM). With IB-ARM Version 4 the company is moving off its ASP base and now offers its clients a stand-alone, self-administered version of its application portfolio management product.
"This new version will allow customers to process all their source code and documentation and generate their repository content on site" says Gabor Szirmak, President. "Customers will now be able to refresh their repository content in-house as frequently as required without having to rely on IB's services".
The first release under the new version, Release V4.1 incoporates several significant functional and interface improvements. The tool's search facility received a major upgrade, with significant improvement both in metadata and source code search. Additional new features include extended search displays, variable-level metadata mapping, improved diagram displays, enhanced usage statistics and logging. Many existing parsers have also been upgraded, enabling the search interfaces to target user needs more effectively.
Version 4 will continue to receive further improvements throughout 2009 via four additional releases, and it will be rolled out to existing customer sites as part of their regular refresh protocol in 2009.
For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact gszirmak@infobal.com.
ARM Version 3.2
September, 2007
With Version 3.2.2 IB has added several features to its flagship APM solution IB-ARM. With the enhanced Diagram Viewer, users can search, zoom and print generated diagrams. Hyperlinking now extends to all source code and generated diagrams. The Search facility received extensive improvements; users can search content using multiple criteria. The new tabbed interface makes navigation easier. Version 3.2 is compatible with IE7.
Version 3.2.2 is being rolled out to customer sites as part of their regular refresh protocol.
For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact gszirmak@infobal.com.
ARM RunBook Version 1.0
December, 2005
Operation and on-call support personnel in IT shops with batch processing in their production portfolio rely on extensive systems documentation – often called Run Books – in their day-to-day work. Run Book information typically specifies what jobs run in what sequence, the components of each job – scheduling, steps, programs invoked, files manipulated, restart instructions, completion and return codes, etc. Creating and maintaining Run Books is a tedious and time-consuming manual effort that needs to be repeated with every major production release to ensure that the information stays current.
Information Balance’s ARM-RunBook Option is a software add-on to an existing IB-ARM implementation. ARM-RunBook dynamically generates Run Book content from the IB-ARM repository, augments it with client specified static information (e.g. on-call phone numbers) and publishes the extracted information based on a pre-defined document template. The published document can be in Word, HTML or PDF. Following every major release, once the IB-ARM repository is refreshed to reflect the latest production state, reproducing the corresponding Run Book becomes as simple as re-running ARM-Runbook.
For more information, or to arrange a demonstration, please contact gszirmak@infobal.com.
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