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Nimsoft Press ReleaseGlobal Printing Press Manufacturer Selects Nimsoft to Provide Advanced Service Level Management of Critical ApplicationsKoenig & Bauer deploys NimBUS to support development of next generation printing presses Munich – May 16, 2007 –Nimsoft Inc., an emerging leader in service level management (SLM) solutions, announced that Koenig & Bauer, a global printing press manufacturer, is implementing its NimBUS SLM solution. The company, headquartered in Wuerzburg, Germany, will use NimBUS to monitor the demands placed on the server infrastructure as well as manage the response time of critical line of business applications. These applications are central to the company’s ability to design and develop a new generation of printing press machines. The deployment will ensure that Koenig & Bauer can proactively manage and monitor the availability of this key line-of-business application across all four of its German factories. "We chose Nimsoft over other products because NimBUS is a feature-rich, easy to deploy and low cost of ownership solution", says Juergen Tuffentsammer, Bereichsleiter IT (CIO) of Koenig & Bauer. "Before implementing the NimBUS solution, we had to collect performance data manually from different sources in order to deliver the results in a graphical format for reporting purposes. This required a huge amount of effort for what should be a relatively straight forward task," says Tuffentsammer "What had formerly been a time consuming and error prone activity is now done automatically at the push of a button." End user satisfaction is an important metric for Koenig & Bauer’s IT department. The teams of production planners and engineers, based at the factories in Wuerzburg, Frankenthal, Radebeul and Trennfeld, expect all line of business applications – such as the internal ERP system or the electronic archive for construction drawings to be readily accessible. The NimBUS solution will transform what has been a largely manual measurement process to a more automated one. NimBUS automatically generates an alert when the thresholds of the application or system performance may be breached. Now Koenig & Bauer’s IT department will be able to compare the application and system performance data against predefined criteria and thresholds and automatically generate results into graphical reports. This will make it far easier to take a holistic view across the application and supporting infrastructure. The applications used by Koenig & Bauer are all very time and resource-intensive. Using NimBUS, it will be possible to measure how long it takes for example to conduct an archive research for CAD construction drawings. Equally, NimBUS will allow the company to monitor the time that it takes to initiate and complete a print job request and capture all the necessary data needed to create accurate threshold metrics. In addition, the company plans to use NimBUS to monitor Internet and Intranet availability. "Manufacturers such as Koenig & Bauer are typical of today’s businesses that rely on business applications to collaborate among staff members across the country," said Norbert Pongratz, Country Manager Central Europe Nimsoft. "Our end-to-end response solution for SLM provides reliability and stability in demanding, distributed environments. The automated features in NimBUS enable IT executives to reduce ongoing management costs and at the same time increase the business value of their IT infrastructure." About Koenig & Bauer Group: The Koenig & Bauer Group is one of the largest press manufacturers worldwide and has the broadest press range within the industry. The parent company is Koenig & Bauer AG (KBA) with facilities in Wuerzburg, Radebeul, Frankenthal and Trennfeld. The other core members of the Group are Maschinenfabrik KBA-Mödling AG in Mödling, near Vienna (Austria), KBA-Grafitec s.r.o. in Dobruška (Czech Republic), KBA-Metronic AG in Veitshöchheim, near Würzburg (Germany), Bauer + Kunzi GmbH in Ditzingen, near Stuttgart (also Germany), KBA-GIORI S.A. in Lausanne (Switzerland) and KBA North America Inc., Web Press Division in York, Pennsylvania (USA). KBA North America Inc., Sheetfed Division in Williston, Vermont, is our sheetfed sales and service subsidiary for the US and Canada. In addition we have sales and service outlets in the UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore, plus a global network of dealers. The core companies in the Group employ some 8,300 people. About Nimsoft Nimsoft is the premier provider of business-focused service level management solutions that customers can easily deploy and use. The company's Service Level Management solutions – NimBUS – are used by hundreds of companies across diverse industries to manage complex networked systems and meet service level agreement targets. Nimsoft solutions combine advanced SLM functionality and broad platform coverage with unprecedented ease of implementation, deployment and use. NimBUS, Nimsoft and the Nimsoft logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Nimsoft Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. © 2007 Nimsoft Inc. all rights reserved.
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