OpTier
Encyclopedia
OpTier is an information technology (IT)
management company that provides software solutions for business transaction management (BTM)
and application performance management (APM)
.
OpTier's Business Transaction Management suite includes:
OpTier was founded in 2002. Founders Israel Mazin, Ori Mazin, Amir Alon, Dov Gal, Motti Tal, and Moshe Meisels previously worked together in Memco Software, which was later sold to Platinum Technology
and ultimately CA Technologies. The team originally set out to meet what it perceived as the changing needs of modern businesses and Fortune 1000
corporations, arising from the evolving nature of IT infrastructure. OpTier’s customers include Avery Dennison, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Morgan Stanley, O2, and Wells Fargo. The company's partners include Amdocs
, Capgemini
, IBM
, Keynote Systems
, Microsoft
and Oracle
. OpTier has its headquarters in New York City, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, the UK, France, and Israel. The company has raised over $110 million in venture capital from its investors, including Carmel Ventures
, Cisco
, Lightspeed Venture Partners
, Pitango Venture Capital, Plenus, and Morgan Stanley
.
.
In May 2009, OpTier was selected as Red Herring
100 North America Winner.
In September 2009 and 2010, OpTier was named Hot Companies Finalist by Network Products Guide.
In March 2010, OpTier was named Finalist for the SIIA CODiE awards 5 years in a row.
In August 2010, OpTier was named to New York City
Hot 125 by Lead411.
In June 2010, OpTier was named Best Transaction-Centric Business Service Management Solution by Enterprise Management Associates.
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
management company that provides software solutions for business transaction management (BTM)
Business Transaction Management
Business transaction management , also known as business transaction monitoring, application transaction profiling or user defined transaction profiling, is the practice of managing information technology from a business transaction perspective...
and application performance management (APM)
Application Performance Management
Application performance management, or APM, refers to the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and service availability of software applications....
.
OpTier's Business Transaction Management suite includes:
- Experience Manager, a real-time, end-userEnd-userEconomics and commerce define an end user as the person who uses a product. The end user or consumer may differ from the person who purchases the product...
monitoring solution that provides alerting, analysis and problem identification for complex web applications - CoreFirst, for visibility into the data centerData centerA data center is a facility used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems...
across infrastructure tiers - Business Events module, for complex event processingComplex Event ProcessingComplex event processing consists of processing many events happening across all the layers of an organization, identifying the most meaningful events within the event cloud, analyzing their impact, and taking subsequent action in real time....
- CloudFirst, for managing service performance in private, hybrid and public cloud computingCloud computingCloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network ....
environments
OpTier was founded in 2002. Founders Israel Mazin, Ori Mazin, Amir Alon, Dov Gal, Motti Tal, and Moshe Meisels previously worked together in Memco Software, which was later sold to Platinum Technology
Platinum Technology
Platinum Technology Inc. was founded by Andrew Filipowski in 1987 to market and support deployment of database management software products and the applications enabled by database management technology and render related services...
and ultimately CA Technologies. The team originally set out to meet what it perceived as the changing needs of modern businesses and Fortune 1000
Fortune 1000
Fortune 1000 is a reference to a list maintained by the American business magazine Fortune. The list is of the 1000 largest American companies, ranked on revenues alone...
corporations, arising from the evolving nature of IT infrastructure. OpTier’s customers include Avery Dennison, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Morgan Stanley, O2, and Wells Fargo. The company's partners include Amdocs
Amdocs
Amdocs Limited is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management , operations support systems...
, Capgemini
Capgemini
Capgemini is a French global IT services company, one of the world's largest management consulting, outsourcing and professional services companies with a staff of 114,274 operating in 40 countries. It is headquartered in Paris and was founded in 1967 by Serge Kampf, the current chairman, in...
, IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, Keynote Systems
Keynote systems
Keynote Systems is a US-based Internet company that specializes in developing and marketing SaaS technology solutions to measure, test, improve, from the end user perspective, the performance of websites, online content, applications, and services across browsers, networks, and mobile devices...
, Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
and Oracle
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
. OpTier has its headquarters in New York City, with additional offices in Silicon Valley, the UK, France, and Israel. The company has raised over $110 million in venture capital from its investors, including Carmel Ventures
Carmel Ventures
Carmel Ventures, established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $600 million under management. Carmel is focused on early stage companies in the fields of Software, Internet, Media, Communications, Semiconductors, and Consumer Electronics....
, Cisco
Cisco
Cisco may refer to:Companies:*Cisco Systems, a computer networking company* Certis CISCO, corporatised entity of the former Commercial and Industrial Security Corporation in Singapore...
, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage investments in IT companies.The firm is based in Menlo Park, California and has raised approximately $2 billion of investor capital since inception across eight venture funds....
, Pitango Venture Capital, Plenus, and Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm headquartered in New York City serving a diversified group of corporations, governments, financial institutions, and individuals. Morgan Stanley also operates in 36 countries around the world, with over 600 offices and a workforce of over 60,000....
.
Honors & Awards
In August, 2005, OpTier was named to the list of 2005 Innovators by InfoWorldInfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
.
In May 2009, OpTier was selected as Red Herring
Red herring
A red herring is a deliberate attempt to divert attention.Red herring may refer to:* Red herring , the informal fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but does not address the issue in question....
100 North America Winner.
In September 2009 and 2010, OpTier was named Hot Companies Finalist by Network Products Guide.
In March 2010, OpTier was named Finalist for the SIIA CODiE awards 5 years in a row.
In August 2010, OpTier was named to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Hot 125 by Lead411.
In June 2010, OpTier was named Best Transaction-Centric Business Service Management Solution by Enterprise Management Associates.
External links
- OpTier official website
- Tech Horizons: OpTier, A Step Toward Business Service Management (BSM) 2.0 - Forrester report
- Gartner: Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
- Forrester: Competitive Analysis: Application Performance Management and Business Transaction Monitoring—A SWOT Analysis of APM and BTM Software Vendors
- IDC: OpTier Extends into the Cloud
- EMA Radar for Application Discovery and Dependency Mapping