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25 May 2009
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Cirquent Offers Application-Level Solution for PLM Monitoring
The Munich-based consulting firm Cirquent GmbH is now offering an intelligent operation and resource management solution that is interoperable with different PLM application environments. IT solutions for product lifecycle management (PLM) include a variety of interdependencies that IT infrastructure monitoring alone is unable to record and identify effectively. The Cirquent PLM Connector provides a flexible template including functions for performing automatic application tests, SLA evaluations of individual routines, integrated reporting and trend monitoring.
A comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) solution requires a stable and high-performance IT system that extends to multiple sites. Agreed service level agreements, however, typically only refer to the technical IT infrastructure and do not apply to the services of deployed applications such as the PLM systems, CAD workstations or conversion processes. The result: Even though availability and performance monitoring shows that all systems are running properly, the individual business processes frequently function in an unsatisfactory manner and users complain of poor application performance. For an extensive, application-level PLM monitoring solution, the IT consulting firm Cirquent GmbH is now offering a comprehensive template for system-specific integration.
Companies can easily benefit from the flexible and expandable Cirquent solution, which offers low installation costs, sustained cost reductions and increased efficiency when running PLM applications. Application failures can be avoided through proactive monitoring or corrected in real-time by means of drill-down analysis. Performance figures for trend analyses, reportings or SLA monitoring allow to continuously check and optimise the PLM system solution.
Flexible Cirquent template for each individual PLM installation
The Cirquent template offers interfaces to all relevant functions of the Siemens PLM software Teamcenter and the ENOVIA PLM platform from Dassault Systèmes. The Cirquent template is platform independent and can be customized to meet the requirements of any PLM system installation. Maximum investment security is ensured through the use of release-stable APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). The implementation services offered by Cirquent include the analysis of existing system components and monitoring processes, customer-specific configuration of the Cirquent solution template for PLM application monitoring and deployment within the companies’ system environment
The Cirquent PLM Connector implements performance and availability monitoring for PLM application functions (login, fileserver, licences, database queries, workflow, etc.). The Cirquent PLM Connector was built using proven open source technologies such as the Nagios monitoring solution and the PNP4Nagios add-on. Customers also have the option of integrating not just the Cirquent Dashboard for displaying figures in a condensed manner based on the NagVis Nagios add-on but also technology for an integrated, proactive issue management via the Mantis bug tracking system.
About Cirquent GmbH
Cirquent offers consulting throughout the entire value added chain for banks, insurance companies, telecommunications, and manufacturing companies. The services portfolio of the consulting company includes: industry-oriented strategy and process consulting; conceptual design; integration and implementation of individual solutions aimed to support business processes as well as the operation and maintenance of IT systems. Cirquent offers competences in industry-specific processes, methods and technologies – in the areas of customer management, contact centres, finance transformation and application management. Cirquent’s goal is to deliver solutions tailored to the individual requirements of customers, to achieve more efficient business processes, increased business success and reduced costs. The high quality of its consultancy and more than 35 years’ experience has made Cirquent a valued partner of such leading companies as BMW Group, Commerzbank, Münchener Rück and T-Mobile Deutschland.
Cirquent, formerly the Softlab, has established itself as one of today’s leading German consultancy companies, currently ranking within the Top Ten of Germany’s leading IT consulting and systems integration companies (source: Lünendonk List 2009). Headquartered in Munich, Cirquent operates out of five locations in Germany, and also has offices in the UK, Austria and Switzerland. In 2008, with 1,750 employees, the company generated sales of €260 million. Effective from the end of September 2008, the IT group NTT Data, listed on the Tokyo stock exchange and a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) affiliate, acquired a 72.9 percent share of Cirquent. The BMW Group continues to hold a 25.1 share of Cirquent GmbH.
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