Aternity, Inc., a leader in frontline performance intelligence for Global 1000 enterprises, is a very hot Israeli company to watch right now. As with VeNotion Technologies, the company has been making headlines with regards to its partnerships and developments several times monthly. In the past few weeks, Aternity has announced that it is joining the Red Hat Inc. ISV Partner Program as a Red Hat Ready Partner and that it has earned Certified Partner Status in the Microsoft Partner Program.

Aternity’s Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform lets IT
professionals get a birds’ eye view of what programs users are running
and monitor their interaction with the company’s information. The
software can also detect problems in the early stages before most users
can, and can provide the organization with the valuable information it
needs to make sure it is running smoothly and meeting its goals.

How important is software, such as Aternity’s, to IT professionals and the enterprise right now? Aternity recently sent over some facts and figures to a colleague of mine that should provide IT professionals (and investors) with enough information and reasons to at least keep an eye on Aternity and the field, if nothing more:  

    –  According to Jean-Pierre Garbani of Forrester Research, there are
more than 30,000 enterprises that have more than 100 servers today – and
40 percent of these enterprises are potential targets for deploying end user
experience monitoring solutions.

    –  According to Forrester Research, 74 percent of end user problems are not detected by IT, which means these organizations are negatively impacted from a productivity, revenue, customer service, and delivery-time standpoint. Any enterprise interested in dramatically reducing business disruption and increasing user productivity needs to understand how IT services are consumed by end users, and how end user experience impacts business results.

    –  Aside from its partnership with Red Hat, Inc, [and Microsoft] Aternity has already gained the attention of major industry players – the VC arm of Intel recently led a $5 million investment earlier this year, and Oracle is engaging in a joint venture with the company to provide Oracle E-Business suite users with easy access to Aternity’s platform.

    –  Aternity secured Series A funding in 2005 totaling $7.5M and a Series B round of $6.5M was closed in April 2007.  

Company Facts

Founded in 2004.

Trevor Matz, President and CEO.

Eden Shochat, CTO and Co-founder.

Orit Kislev-Kapon, VP R&D and Co-founder.

Product: The Aternity Frontline Performance Intelligence Platform.

Website: www.aternity.com

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