Friday, 23 December 2011

Holiday Greetings from Paul Malton – CEO


This has been a good year for Metron-Athene.  We have expanded our team of professional people and focussed on feeding back the ideas from the customers into producing our expanding range of Capacity Management tools.  The use of agile development with its fortnightly goal setting has helped to achieve a quicker turnaround in a fast changing environment.  The comments, by customers, on our new offerings continue to be complimentary.

The major deliverable of this approach this year has been our Integrator module.  This enables any data to be imported into the capacity database at the heart of our Athene software.  That data is then available along with any other data captured using Athene’s agents, agentless or framework interface capture modules for use by the extensive analysis, reporting and planning facilities that Athene provides.  Many Integrator ‘Capture Packs’ already exist for areas such as network, storage, application performance monitoring and more.  New ones can be quickly and easily created by Metron or Athene users via the easy-to-use Integrator browser interface.  As with so much in modern life the key is flexibility – Integrator adds to the already wide range of Athene data capture options to enable all capacity data to be stored in and used from one database with one toolset.

The economic background has been challenging and there seems to be no enthusiasm from the political leaders.  In our market what is foremost is the improvement of the usability of information at a reducing cost.   This almost defines Athene.  When companies are facing tough challenges a cost saving product is very popular. 

Thank you to all our staff, customers and partners who work with us.   I hope that you have a very happy holiday and return refreshed and enthusiastic.

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