Exact Software this week announced an upgrade of its Exact Event Manager software, expanding users’ ability to monitor their business activities and react quickly to exceptions.
In Exact Event Manager version 7.5, the company has added a graphical user interface and support for the Microsoft SQL Server database platform, increasing scalability, speed, and flexibility. The new version works with Windows Vista and Business Object’s Crystal Reports 11. In addition, an Event Design Module and Navigator makes it easier for users to visually interact with event administration and monitoring, event creation, and event subscriber management, according to Gary Chervitz, principal of product marketing for Exact Americas. Also new is the ability to create job streams — that is, to specify events and automate them in a pre-determined order.
The new release is said to help businesses monitor enterprise data for changes and alert staff, business partners, and customers so that they can respond quickly. In addition, the product scans the business for what Exact refers to as “non-changes,” such as inaction by regular customers or business partners.
“We like to think of this as an invisible employee coordinating workflows,” Chervitz said in an interview with Managing Automation. Companies these days need to “do more with less,” he said, noting that U.S. unemployment rates recently hit a five-year high. “Organizations are strained and stressed, and that hinders clear thinking,” he said. The software ensures that tasks are being performed, and in the right order.