UC4 Software

UC4 Software is a global provider of intelligent service automation solutions and is a leading vendor of job scheduling, managed file transfer, and workload automation solutions. With its FlagShip automation platform, UC4 V8, the company combines automation technology with real-time intelligence to forecast, visualize, and automate complex IT and business processes across computing environments, from physical to virtual to cloud.

UC4 Software brings new levels of visibility and control to virtualized environments through a combination of its technology with complex event processing (CEP) as a result of its recent acquisition of Senactive. The company's offerings are a significant step over its competition in terms of simplifying virtualization management. UC4 was noted in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling analysis in 2003 when it ranked UC4's flagship product as the most competent and versatile of its kind. The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Job Scheduling analysis in 2009 echoes the sentiment by positioning UC4 as a strong, niche player uniquely poised to address many of the issues arising today with managing and ensuring the availability and performance of diverse applications in the enterprise space.

UC4 Software is a private corporation founded in 1985 and headquartered in Wolfsgraben, Austria and Bellevue, WA, USA. It has more than 1800 customers worldwide and employs over 270 people. Beginning in 2010, Jason Liu took over as UC4 Software's CEO. Jason Liu was most recently president and CEO of Univa UD, a company he transformed from a grid computing player into a recognized leader for cloud systems management software.

Products

UC4 V8
* The engine that orchestrates and executes business and IT processes across physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments.

UC4 Decision
* UC4’s complex event processing (CEP) technology is a rules-based platform that can detect critical events in real time, analyze them, and trigger downstream actions to keep IT systems and business processes on track.

UC4 Business Intelligence and Analytics
* Tools that allow customers to assess and optimize automation strategies and process flows. Tools include UC4 Insight for visualization and analysis; UC4 ClearView for a time-based, end-to-end view into the process flow of your automated services; UC4 KPI, a visualization tool that helps you manage your automation services by graphically comparing them with key performance indicators; UC4 PrintView, which provides extended printing capabilities.

Oracle Application Automation
* Automation solutions to integrate Oracle software with other business applications, including those running on other platforms. Includes solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise, Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle Retail, and Oracle Utilities Customer Care and Billing.

SAP Application Automation
* Integrates your SAP NetWeaver implementation with your enterprise automation strategy, synchronizing it with the rest of application portfolio and includes UC4 Automated System Copy for SAP to automate copies of the SAP system.

SunGard Application Automation
* UC4’s solution for education institutions, the platform automates the entire Unified Digital Campus including financial aid, student letter generation, administrative operations and student payments.

Timeline

• 2009: UC4 acquires complex event processing (CEP) company Senactive and launches UC4 V8, a powerful automation engine that provides a central point of control for managing IT and business processes across the enterprise.

• 2007: UC4 mergers with AppWorx Corp. to form the largest global, independent specialist vendor of enterprise job scheduling and application automation solutions. With this, the company also opens a US headquarters in Bellevue, WA.

• 2006: The Carlyle Group, a global investment firm, becomes the majority shareholder in UC4 Software.

• 2003: Launch of UC4:global, the enterprise job scheduler.

• 1996: UC4 launches its first multiplatform job scheduler, enabling companies to automate job scheduling across complex IT infrastructures.

• 1985: UC4 is founded in Austria by Franz Beranek.

External links

• http://uc4.com (official website)