THE UNEXPECTED IS THE RULE, NOT THE EXCEPTION. Visibility Suite For Application Delivery

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1 Visibility Suite For Application Delivery THE UNEXPECTED IS THE RULE, NOT THE EXCEPTION. Be ready with Prolify s groundbreaking Dynamic Process Management (DPM) solutions.

2 DYNAMIC Addressing this need, Prolify delivers Visibility Suite for Application Delivery, a groundbreaking Dynamic Process Management (DPM) solution that enables the enterprise to achieve unprecedented compliance rapidly and cost effectively. LIMITED PROCESS VISIBILITY Unknown changes in requirements, build delays by R&D, unprepared test environment, and slippage of severe bugs such common application delivery and testing risks demand the relentless attention of application delivery managers and testing experts. How early can you identify these risks? Can you fully understand their impact and root-cause? Do you possess the information you need to make educated decisions in a timely manner? Hindered by dynamic, manual processes, most IT organizations face limited visibility and control over mission-critical application delivery and testing processes, leaving companies vulnerable to missed and over-budget projects, compromised levels of compliance. 70% OF PROJECTS FAIL TO MEET SCHEDULE, COST, AND QUALITY GOALS 50% OF PROJECTS ARE DELIVERED OVER BUDGET 40% OF SOFTWARE PROJECTS FAIL TO MEET BUSINESS OBJECTIVES GIGA

3 DYNAMIC PROCESS MANAGEMENT CONTROL. EFFICIENCY. COMPLIANCE. Seamlessly integrated with leading application delivery solutions and dashboards, and prepackaged with application delivery and QA bestpractices and KPIs, Prolify s Visibility Suite solution enables application delivery and testing organizations to: GAIN CONTROL Realize Real-time Risk Detection Through on-going process analysis, risks stages of a process. The pattern-based process by assessing schedules, quality and dependencies, as well as application delivery best-practices. thresholds, Visibility Suite issues stakeholders. Alerts contain information about the activities threatening the process as well as the potential impact to the process. Root-cause Analysis Detailed drill-downs are available for accurate root-cause analysis, allowing for effective decisions and immediate resolution. KEY BENEFITS GAIN CONTROL Realize real-time risk detection & alerts Apply drill-downs & root-cause analysis IMPROVE PROCESSES Auto-discover and map key processes Capture and apply best-practices Gain traceability ENSURE COMPLIANCE Detect non-compliant activities in real-time Retain complete audit-trail Alerts and Drill-downs

4 CONTROL. EFFICIEN EASE OF USE AND MINIMAL CHANGE TO WORK HABITS Ease-of-use and prevalence have turned , word processing and spreadsheets, into the tools of choice for communicating information on key processes. Visibility Suite is tightly integrated with various delivery tools. For the user this means only minimal changes to work habits and tools, while allowing process information to be collected in real-time and at an unprecedented detail level. IMPROVE PROCESSES Prolify s Visibility Suite provides organizations with automated, detailed process discovery by leveraging the Dynamic Process Map. With no need Process Map is both automatically built and continuously updated, giving an accurate representation of actual enterprise processes. The auto-discovery capability supersedes the need for reducing overhead time and expense, while accelerating process automation and enhancing process maturity. Visibility Suite uses integral best practices to guide and prompt users, directing them towards the optimal execution path for any task or process. The system also recognizes deviations from best practices, automatically warning users about the associated risks. Visibility Suite analyzes accumulated within successful processes and projects. This information can be further used to enhance the organization s best practices. By incorporating best practices to guide users, and by automatically identifying and capturing current best practices, Visibility Suite allows organizations to improve their processes. Process Auto-discovery

5 CONTROL. CY. EFFICIENCY.COMPLIANCE. COMPLIANCE. ENSURE COMPLIANCE Detect Non-Compliant Activities Visibility Suite detects non-compliant activities, e.g. Segregation of Duties violations, using patterns that are based on compliance frameworks, such as COBIT and COSO. The system about deviations and generates compliance reports, recording all violations that took place. The report includes in-depth information about the irregularities, the entire chain of precipitating events, and the involved users. Based on the Dynamic Process Map, Visibility Suite generates a detailed and complete audit-trail for all activities and processes. The audit-trail contains actual process execution information - whether planned or ad-hoc. This enables traceability and serves as the cornerstone for compliance requirements by most industry regulations, and can also be used to satisfy proof-of-compliance. THE PROLIFY DIFFERENCE Existing process management solutions requiring costly and lengthy implementations. Subsequently these solutions often demand major organizational changes. In contrast, Prolify s solution: Supports unplanned and unpredictable activities Provides process visibility at an unprecedented level of detail Offers a rapid and cost-effective implementation, with no need to Requires only minimal change to user practices and tools RAPID AND LOW COST IMPLEMENTATION Visibility Suite is implemented rapidly and cost-effectively with no processes or set up With the installation of the Visibility Suite server, and the completion of a short is ready for immediate use, and can be integrated out-of-the-box with various popular application delivery tools and dashboards. The system also contains an extensive pattern library, including ITIL and COBIT.

6 COLLECT. SYNTHESIZE. ANALYZE. HOW IT WORKS In order to provide unprecedented levels of visibility and control over dynamic, manual application delivery and testing processes, Prolify s patent-pending Visibility Suite: Visibility Suite collects real-time process data from multiple sources, such as delivery tools. and application delivery tools entails only minimal changes to user work habits and allows process information to be collected in real-time and at an unprecedented detail level. The Prolify Synthesis Engine merges in real-time discrete process information, planned and unplanned, into a detailed coherent process map. An extensive pre-packaged library of patterns and best-practices allows the system to compensate for missing, the inevitable outcome of aligning disparate sources. The result is a constantly-updated Dynamic Process Map. This map is an accurate representation of all processrelated information tasks, participants, resources and deliverables and a description of all process interdependencies and relationships. In parallel to synthesizing the information, on-going process analysis occurs in order to detect and assess risks. Process stakeholders can receive alerts of potential problems, detailing both their impact and root-cause. For accurate detection of application delivery process risks, the sophisticated process analysis mechanism leverages an extensive pre-packaged patterns library.

7 BUSINESS CASE STUDY GLOBAL ELECTRONICS MANUFACTURER UPGRADES ITS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SYSTEM When a leading global electronics manufacturer upgraded its Supply Chain Management (SCM) Control (QC) team. Only at the test execution phase did the QC team learn about these changes. Consequently the test scenarios and automated testing scripts required adaptation, threatening the system go-live with a three week delay. Pressured to be ready for the encroaching holiday shopping season, the company s executives decided to defer the SCM s go-live by only one week, and to shorten the testing period. With the system delay affecting distribution, margins were lost by referring customers to indirect channels. Furthermore, with limited testing, the system s quality suffered severely. The result: loss of business valued at millions of dollars, a devalued stock price, a damaged reputation and the dismissal of key executives. PREVENTING MISSED OBJECTIVES With Prolify s Visibility Suite seamlessly embedded in the manufacturer s personal tools, all data related to the application delivery project would be automatically collected by the system. Tracking processes in real-time and identifying process risks, The Visibility Suite can assess the impact that unplanned changes, like the system design change, pose to company objectives. By acting on the root-cause of project risks, the Visibility Suite could take into account the related dependencies, even spanning multiple degrees of separation, and alert relevant stakeholders about the design change and its potential impact. contributed to keeping the company objectives on schedule, while preventing the potential for lost revenue, depreciated share-value and damage to its reputation.

8 UNITED STATES OFFICES 1050 Winter Street, Suite 1000 Waltham, Massachusetts United States Phone: (781) Fax: (617) ISRAEL OFFICES 7 Giborey Israel St. Netanya, Israel Tel: Fax: info@prolify.com ABOUT PROLIFY, INC. Prolify delivers groundbreaking Dynamic Process Management (DPM) solutions for IT Governance, enabling enterprises to achieve and cost effectively. Prolify s Visibility Suite provides customers with tight process control by delivering real-time risk detection and by allowing accurate rootcause analysis. Customers can improve their IT processes through process auto-discovery, and by capturing and applying best-practices. Compliance is ensured by detecting non-compliant activities in real-time and by retaining complete audit-trails of all processes. Lead by an experienced team of high-tech entrepreneurs, Prolify has partnered with leading enterprise software vendors like Mercury, BMC Software and IBM. For more information, please visit Prolify, Visibility Suite, and the Prolify logo and all other Prolify product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Prolify Inc. in the United States and/or other foreign countries. All other company, brand and product names are marks of their respective holders Prolify Inc. Patents pending. All rights reserved.