Precise Launches Application Performance Management Solution for Microsoft SQL Server

Business Wire, July 9, 2002

Business/Technology Editors

Precise and Microsoft Jointly Engineer Precise/Indepth for SQL Server's High-Speed Sampling Technology to Support Customers' Needs in

the Production Environment

Precise Software Solutions (Nasdaq: PRSE) rounds out its coverage of the leading relational databases with the release today of Precise/Indepth(TM) for the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 data management and analysis platform. Leveraging Precise's industry-proven Application Performance Management expertise and technology, Precise/Indepth for SQL Server 2000 provides database administrators with a comprehensive solution for proactively detecting and resolving the root causes of application performance degradation in the production environment.

"Precise/Indepth for SQL Server will make it even easier and quicker for our customers to achieve maximum performance, scalability and uptime from their enterprise applications built on the SQL Server 2000 database management platform," commented Stan Sorensen, director of marketing for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp. "Precise's application-focused performance management strategy clearly aligns with Microsoft's mission of easy manageability for SQL Server. This is the reason why, following the request of a mutual customer, Microsoft cooperatively worked with Precise to develop Precise/Indepth for SQL Server."

The high-speed sampling technology of Precise/Indepth for SQL Server was jointly engineered with Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), and is designed to support customers' needs for Application Performance Management in the production environment. Like all of Precise's solutions, Precise/Indepth for SQL Server's sampling technology consumes minimal overhead, thereby enabling continuous, hi-speed monitoring for proactive detection of performance degradation - before problems affect end-users' response time.

With its industry-leading scalability and speed, SQL Server is the leading database on Windows and Windows NT platforms, and the fastest-growing relational database management system (RDBMS) overall. SQL Server grew approximately 25% in new licenses sales in 2001, according to Gartner Dataquest. The release of Precise/Indepth for SQL Server enables Precise to target those companies that have invested in SQL Server to support their mission-critical enterprise-class applications, including SAP R/3, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Clarify and others running on Windows 2000 and Windows NT servers. Precise/Indepth for SQL Server enables companies to optimize business application performance and deliver optimal service to their end users, all while increasing database administrators' productivity and maximizing their investment in the application infrastructure.

Designed for ease-of-use, Precise/Indepth for SQL Server delivers 24x7 monitoring with in-depth analysis enabling customers to tune the performance of their application for peak efficiency. Through its built-in methodology, Precise/Indepth for SQL Server provides a complete view of application performance by capturing, measuring, and correlating performance metrics from all critical system components to quickly and automatically identify the symptoms and resolve the root causes of application performance bottlenecks.

"We are pleased to strengthen our relationship with Microsoft with the release of Precise/Indepth for SQL Server. This marks our third joint undertaking and we look forward to working with Microsoft on additional products in the future. Precise/Indepth for SQL Server brings to market the same industry-leading technology benefits that Precise has been delivering for Oracle for over eight years - the same technology that the Gartner Group recently claimed `is the best of a hotly contested market segment'," said Shimon Alon, Chief Executive Officer at Precise Software Solutions. "Both our existing customers as well as numerous companies worldwide have been eagerly awaiting the release of Precise/Indepth for SQL Server, and we have already generated revenues from this product. With Precise/Indepth for SQL Server we now support the industry's leading databases - from Oracle, IBM and now Microsoft - delivering a common methodology for optimizing the performance of a heterogeneous database environment, thereby maximizing the productivity of scarce and expensive DBA resources."

Precise/Indepth for SQL Server stores and maintains high-quality application performance data in the Precise Performance Warehouse(TM), enabling users to go back in time and perform short-term as well as historical analysis, examine usage patterns, and identify performance trends. By analyzing long-term performance, rather than simple one-time snapshots, Precise/Indepth for SQL Server provides users with a complete, intelligent picture of performance over time, helping them to understand normal application behavior and immediately identify abnormal behavior, and differentiate between temporary problems and longer term performance issues.

Precise/Indepth for SQL Server supports Microsoft SQL Server 2000 running on Windows 2000 or Windows NT, and is available immediately.