Information Balance (IB) 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.
“This new release 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. In addition, we added a new Application Dashboard to our Analyst Workbench to provide direct support for the effective management of the application portfolio”.
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.
