Hyderabad 26th September, 2000 Economic Times

Compulse Systems, an integrated applications and network management player, has scheduled the commercial launch of its first product – Virtual Cluster Monitoring (VCM) during the first week of November this year. The product, an out-of-the-box tool suite, will hit the US markets before being launched in other global markets.

Speaking to ET here on Tuesday, Compulse Systems managing director, Mr. Prateek Jaswant said the beta tests of the products are through and the product will be released to the clients in the US. The product is priced as a low-cost solution that will allow users to manage complex applications in a cost-effective manner, he said.

“The application and network management market is estimated at $3.1 billion market growing at 18-20 per cent annually. There is a great need for easy to use web based tools which could be easily customized for monitoring and managing specific applications, which the existing products do not offer. Our target market will the US market and we are also looking at markets of Europe, Asia-Pacific, particularly Australia,” said Mr. Jaswant.

Compulse, with its primary focus being the SME segment, plans to push the product through distribution channels – end users  and solutions providers. While the company is in the process of establishing alliances and partnerships with top notch IT firms round the globe, there are companies such as Intelligroup, IBM Global Services, Microland and Compaq Computers India that have agreed to evaluate VCM before implementing the product in their network.

VCM comprises of a suite of networking and applications management tools and software providing the necessary tools and  functions to add  custom monitoring and management functions to any enterprise application. The company is working on solutions in the areas of optical fibre.