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Founded: September 2004
Headquarters: Westborough, Mass.
Management: President and CEO Trevor Matz, most recently worldwide managing director of application integration for InterSystems.
Funding: $7.5 million in July 2005 from Vertex Venture Capital, Genesis Partners, Clal Industries and Investments, and Portview Communications; and $5 million in May 2007 led by Intel Capital and existing investors.
What company offers: Frontline Performance Intelligence platform measures application performance from the user perspective, letting IT and business managers know when performance slowdowns are because of IT or the business itself. The software lets companies make priorities and plan applications based on user experience.
What it’s worth watching: "The ultimate judge of IT and business alignment is the user: If alignment is view as conformity to user expectations in terms of availability, performance, usability and accuracy, then monitoring user experience is the only way IT knows that it is meeting these expectations," writes Jean-Pierre Garbani, a vice president at Forrester Research, in a June 2007 report about technologies that monitor user experience .
Where company got its name: Sounds like eternity, but company officials reveal the name doesn't hold a secret meaning or source of origin.
Customers: Comverse, Hologic, Israel-based insurance companies Menora and the Midgal Group.
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RE: 10 IT-management software companies to watchBy John on September 13, 2007, 3:21 pmHeroix (www.heroix.com) should be mentioned in this list as well. They provide top of the line agentless network and application monitoring tools that are reasonably...
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NetcordiaBy gtapley on September 14, 2007, 10:25 amAnother company that I feel is worth watching is Netcordia (http://www.netcordia.com/). Their home page describes their product very well: Netcordia simplifies...
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What companies are we missing?By Anonymous on September 14, 2007, 10:53 amKeep in mind, the newer the better. Trying to avoid focusing on companies that have been around too long. Ideally, think companies that started or came out of stealth...
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Are 'Newer' companies really better? I don't think so...By Anonymous on September 14, 2007, 3:33 pmI would challenge that newer companies are better companies to consider for IT management, probably more so if your IT management is about ensuring the peak performance...
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Why watch?By meatpieandtatters on September 17, 2007, 9:48 amIt kills me that VC funding is somehow a metric that merits a company to be watched. The way I view it is that the more funding they have the higher the price of...
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Not saying newer companies are better....By Anonymous on September 17, 2007, 7:50 pmJust saying we wanted the article to have a focus, and the focus was to inform readers about a batch of companies they probably hadn't heard of before, just to let...
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