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Stanley Black & Decker Adds Accelatis Ascension Suite To Monitor, Manage Upgrade to Oracle Hyperion
[September 22, 2014]

Stanley Black & Decker Adds Accelatis Ascension Suite To Monitor, Manage Upgrade to Oracle Hyperion


WILTON, Conn. --(Business Wire)--

Accelatis today announced that Stanley Black & Decker (News - Alert) Corp. has installed Accelatis Ascension Suite to monitor, manage and improve the company's upgraded Oracle Hyperion installation. Stanley Black & Decker has deployed the latest version of the Oracle (News - Alert) Hyperion financial applications and environment, using the latest version of Ascension Suite to make the process smoother.

Accelatis provides Application Performance Management (APM (News - Alert)) solutions for Oracle Hyperion EPM and other enterprise software systems. Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE: SWK), an S&P 500 company, is a diversified global provider of hand tools, power tools, security solutions, healthcare solutions, engineered fastening systems, and more.

Ascension Suite 3.0 is the premier Oracle EPM / Hyperion Application Performance Monitoring and Infrastructure Management software application, and was built specifically to address the unique system and application management challenges of Hyperion systems. Accelatis Ascension Suite comprises a single solution for Oracle EPM / Hyperion that provides:

  • Infrastructure Management
  • Automation
  • Application Monitoring
  • System Monitoring
  • Performance Optimization
  • Load Generation
  • User Simulation

"Given our commitment to product innovation, growth, and the creation of lasting shareholder value, Stanley Black & Decker has a special concern for optimizing the performance of our own financial systems," said Guna Appalaraju, Manager, Enterprise Solutions. "After two years of successful experience using Ascension Suite with earlier versions of Oracle Hyperion, we are upgrading to Hyperion version 11.1.2.2, and using Ascension Suite 3.0 to manage the process."

Ascension Suite's advanced monitoring and wealth of data mining capabilities, as well as simulation and testing features, will enable Stanley Blac & Decker to understand the impact of user activity on these key financial reporting systems, said Appalaraju, "so in turn we can concentrate our efforts on providing the best possible system performance, with our smart operationally lean high performance support team."



Headquartered in New Britain, Conn., Stanley Black & Decker is a diversified global company with a broad product line that includes hand tools; power tools and related accessories; mechanical access and electronic security solutions; healthcare solutions; engineered fastening systems, and more. It has a solid track record of operational excellence, and is widely recognized for its innovation and growth. The company's products span three primary areas: Construction and Do-It-Yourself, Industrial, and Security.

"As a company that has established a leadership position in consumer and industrial products, Stanley Black & Decker relies on the performance of its financial management and reporting systems to maintain its operational excellence and keep it on track with compliance testing and reporting," said Jonathan Berry, president and CEO of Accelatis. "An upgrade is the ultimate affirmation of our business value, and we are proud that Stanley Black & Decker is joining our many customers whose growing needs are being met by Accelatis Ascension Suite 3.0, which was designed specifically to optimize the Oracle Hyperion environment."


Appalaraju will be telling of his experience with Ascension Suite in a 21-minute webinar on Wednesday, Sept. 24, starting at noon (Eastern time). It will follow a brief case-history format: why SBD needed something to optimize Hyperion, how Ascension Suite has worked (benefits, business value), and what are their future plans. Click here for registration and other information.

Ascension Suite helps monitor, manage and report at all levels of the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management environment, from IT/Infrastructure through Application Administration to solving problems that face the CFO. Ascension Suite works across the Oracle EPM application suite: Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Planning, Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE); along with the associated products such as SmartView, Shared Services, Financial Reporting and Financial Data Quality Management (FDM).

Accelatis empowers Oracle EPM clients to operate their systems at the most efficient level, allowing them to focus more on their business. With the ability to take a comprehensive approach to Application Performance Management (APM), Accelatis' clients benefit from the full cycle of product tuning, monitoring, issue resolution, optimization, user simulations, and load testing. All these capabilities work together to provide greater value than point solutions.

About Accelatis
Founded in 2008, Accelatis provides a comprehensive Application Performance Management (APM) software solution to its worldwide client base for their Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems. Companies rely upon Accelatis to help improve system performance and stability, streamline troubleshooting and manage migrations through monitoring and benchmarking of Oracle Hyperion and IBM (News - Alert) Cognos applications. An Oracle Gold Partner, Accelatis was founded by Hyperion visionaries and developers to rapidly deliver long-term value to EPM clients' global user base through unprecedented visibility and flexibility to manage their applications. For information visit www.Accelatis.com.

Trademark information: Ascension Suite is a trademark of Accelatis, LLC. All other marks are the property of their respective owners, and are used for identification purposes only.


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