Fact Sheet

Company Overview

BEZ Systems is a Boston-based software company that offers innovative Predictive Performance Management (PPM) solutions that provide a line-of-business view of application resource utilization that allows the enterprise to accurately profile application performance, compare change and growth alternatives, forecast results to set expectations and verify actual performance results versus predictions so that performance objectives can be met to ensure business continuity.

Products

BEZVision™ is an automated management solution enabling IT Managers, and other IT professionals to deliver high performing, uninterrupted application and database services to the business at the lowest cost. It does this by analyzing, notifying and predicting resource consumption, performance and throughput by individual workload. BEZVision was specifically designed to deliver much needed analysis and expert advice to you with minimal intervention.

BEZVision automatically profiles complex application and database processing by workloads to understand data usage, resource consumption and throughput. BEZVision notifies you of current performance issues and provides a guided process to help identify, analyze and quickly resolve service-level issues. These profiles can then be directly input to BEZVision’s prediction engine to understand how different changes will accommodate improved service delivery. BEZVision arms you with the information needed to steer the direction of your efforts through powerful “what if” capabilities for near term performance improvements and longer term infrastructure changes.

BEZVision is composed of five main integrated components: Workloads Over Time, Problem Isolation, Change Impact Analysis, Activity Profiling and Performance Planning

Based on its core prediction technology, BEZVision combines performance management and capacity planning as core disciplines supporting the need to understand current and future data service delivery expectations for key lines-of-business. The BEZVision prediction engine provides powerful capabilities that look ahead to identify performance bottlenecks or service delivery breaches on the horizon. This information provides users with enough time to properly plan and compare alternatives to find the most cost-effective remedy, whether it be implementing simple tuning recommendations or a major infrastructure upgrade.

An older legacy product, BEZPlus, supports NCR Teradata and IBM DB2 UDB environments. It contains a prediction engine where different growth or change scenarios can be evaluated with the current performance profiles to forecast application performance into the future. BEZPlus is a critical application within an overall performance management methodology so the enterprise can meet performance objectives, ensure business continuity and productivity, and drive down infrastructure costs.

Market Opportunity

While traditional Application Performance Management (APM) software applications address the critical need to immediately improve the performance of applications and databases, they are designed to address near-term concerns—not to forecast performance into the future. BEZ adds value to APM software implementations by offering PPM solutions that allow the enterprise to forecast evolving requirements for line-of-business applications and more effectively plan for future demands.

Without the proper tools to assess the performance of evolving applications delivered on a constantly changing infrastructure, organizations today are often forced to over-provision to ensure compliance with performance objectives. Over-provisioning inflates costs, and under-provisioning risks productivity and business growth. BEZ PPM solutions allow you to develop realistic budgets based on factual information to help drive down the cost of owning and operating IT assets while ensuring compliance with the performance requirements of line-of-business applications.

Services

BEZ Systems offers the professional services expertise and our innovative Strategic Performance Management (SPM) best practices methodology to help our customers quickly implement PPM solutions with dramatic results. Our ProService Paks are professional service offerings for short-term engagements that deliver long-term results.

Leadership

BEZ Systems is led by the following team of proven software industry executives:

Investors

BEZ Systems is a well-funded company backed by proven and successful investment firms, including Ascent Venture Partners, the Massachusetts Technology Development Corporation and Velocity Equity Partners.

Customers

Our current customers are primarily in the retail, transportation, insurance, financial services, healthcare, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, government and information services markets.

Partners

BEZ partners with leading hardware, software and systems vendors, including Oracle Corporation, CA Wily, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Teradata and Symantec/Veritas.

Distribution

BEZ offers products and services in North America, South America, and Europe through its direct sales organization and through indirect channel partners.

History

Like many pioneering software companies, BEZ Systems was originally established as a professional services firm. Founded in 1983 by Dr. Boris Zibitsker, BEZ originally provided consulting and educational services focused on improving system performance. Since 1996 BEZ has been a leading provider of PPM solutions for NCR Teradata, IBM DB2 UDB, and Oracle.

Contact Information

BEZ Systems, Inc
345A Summer Street
Boston, MA 02210
Phone: 617.532.8800
Fax: 617.532.8877

www.bez.com