Product Overview

Phurnace Software improves the productivity and effectiveness of IT operations teams and project managers by simplifying the management and deployment of JavaEE™ applications. Phurnace’s products have demonstrated their ability to:

• Reduce the time spent on installation and build scripts by as much as 90%
• Reduce the number of configuration-related application server defects by as much as 95%
• Reduce the amount and complexity of installation documentation by as much as 50%
• Accelerate the delivery of production-ready systems by as much as 3 weeks
• Improve overall team effectiveness by promoting an understanding of what has changed and providing the ability to manage the differences easily and efficiently

Application server environments are vulnerable to change

JavaEE™ offers a terrific platform for building and implementing applications, but its widespread adoption has created very significant management challenges for IT organizations. Application servers are the backbone of an increasing number of business-critical systems, but that has only increased the urgency surrounding application server performance and reliability.

Change is endemic in application server environments. Change happens every time there is a new deployment, a new upgrade, a release migration or a newly built and configured environment. And in application server environments, change is the most frequent source of errors. Errors that bring servers down or degrade their performance.

Errors in these environments stem from the manual processes common to both configuration troubleshooting and new deployments. Version-specific scripts, configuration templates, read-me files, emails, and recollections of random conversations are all artifacts of every change, and they jeopardize an organization’s chances of getting an application release properly deployed and configured.

Phurnace's unique patent-pending technology treats the configurations and server profiles as an abstraction, therefore enabling application migration, upgrades and deployments.

Deploying business applications with minimal error and cost

Phurnace offers a repeatable and consistent mechanism for successfully deploying business applications with minimal error and cost. Phurnace’s products give organizations control over six important elements of every application deployment:

• They provide a known baseline environment. Users can examine and represent a given environment either as a baseline upon which to make changes or as a way to capture payloads to be applied to other environments.
• They create an understanding of the changes that will be made. Users can contextually examine an environment and report changes that adding a new payload will make in that environment.
• They provide control over the changes that are made. Users can contextually apply a payload through environmentally sensitive adds/deletes/updates. In addition, define “sacred items” in an environment that are not subject to change.
• They provide robust error management. Users can roll back changes made in the event of an error, with the help of logs designed to determine the root cause of the error.
• They meet the need for flexibility and extensibility. Users are not saddled with any heavy infrastructure, whether they are deploying an internal or external payload.
• They can verify changes and provide an audit trail. Users can follow up a successful deployment with audit trails and verification of payload delivery.

Extending to Portals

Phurnace has recently extended its automated deployment management and configuration capabilities to another layer of the I.T. stack. Phurnace WebSphere Portal® Deliver™ brings the same powerful Phurnace features to one of the market's leading portal environments - IBM WebSphere Portal®.

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