Symitar VIP - Ted Bilke/Valerie Smith
Wow Ted's been at Symitar 2.5 years?
Round 2 items, a continuation of the slides he ended with at the last presenation. 26 new Cu's last fiscal year, in process of converting them. Of 26, 12 in the last quarter. Added 7 ppl in the conversion area. Donna Steston has joined Symitar as of jan 1, to help expand the Customer realtionship Manager role. I am happy see more client loyality efforts being ramped up at Symitar. If I had to ask for expansion in areas its always R&D and always Client Management.
SMA-OpCon/xps doing well. Installed in OUtlink Symitar center. 16 inhouse customers and 8 installed live at Cu's. Auto Batch is optional.
Failover - BCP tranlog on Linus working well, remote poster installs continuing Failover Certifications (service offered) Coming soon: Backup to server (should speed up nightly processing), batch job reversal capabilities, ECP Assessment and plan building for redundancy.
Episys virtualization - SANs now being sold and supported, Blade servers (use for JHA sube products like Yellow Hammer, Biz Analytics, etc), LPAR, P6 certification, AIX 6.1 certification. Ted hopes to Demo it SEC in August 08. If you are an Ops person this alone will be worth the trip for you to come to Diego. Get it on your budget and calendar now.
Parameterization - CRS added to the paramterization project. In 2008 Online ATM card blocking, do it yourself CARDFM, maintainable card edits.
Support - Extended Support, standardization in hours for productsm standard service targets, etc.
Encryption - NeoScale has been pended and move to nCipher. New reseller agreement signed and Symitar is ready to relaunch in 30days.
VIP program update. Allowing clients to step back from the middle ground between Symitar and a vendor to get the info needed related to integration.