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August 04, 2009 Cressida InQuest for WebSphere MQ helps financial company overcome their missing message records issue. A multinational financial company using WebSphere MQ for internal applications and data exchange with external customers. After a minor outage requiring the recovery of one of their applications, it was discovered that the MQ logs did not contain the expected records. Further investigation uncovered the cause – the application concerned was not using ‘persistent’ messages.

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August 03, 2009 Cressida Technology Ltd., a WebSphere® MQ (WMQ or MQ) solution provider, announced today that InQuest™ for WebSphere® MQ family of automated action solutions has entered General Availability status. In its first release InQuest comes with 3 distinct modules that include:

- Message content Based Alerting (MBA)
- Standards and Rules Enforcement (SRE)
- Message content Based Replication (MBR)

InQuest™ for WebSphere MQ utilizes the standard WMQ API to intercept MQI calls and collect message related content, header and options data. This information is used to provide real-time automated message alerting, tracking, reporting, standards enforcement, replication, accounting and auditing facilities for both persistent and non-persistent MQ messages. To read more please click here!
May 9, 2009 Cressida ReQuest for WebSphere MQ helps Banco BPI -- a multinational financial specialist group focusing predominantly on commercial banking activity to track and find the missing messages between their two MQ Servers when such unexpected incidents occurred. Cressida’s ReQuest™ for WebSphere MQ provided Banco BPI with a reliable, scalable, flexible solution to their requirement for a message tracking and recovery facility as well as a tool to test and migrate their new applications to the production environment. To read more on this case study please click here!
March 12, 2009 Ecora Further Enhances Auditor Professional with Expanded Enterprise Features Support. Ecora Software, the market-proven leader for configuration auditing and compliance reporting solutions, has released Ecora Auditor Professional™ version 4.5 software SP2.
January 12, 2009 Sherpa Software today announced a new email management solution for Lotus Notes users that will help businesses enforce corporate data policies and meet intensifying regulatory requirements. Sherpa Software Compliance Attender is flexible and affordable server-based compliance email software that intercepts, archives and filters inbound and outbound email as well as internal messages in real time. Messages are then automatically mapped against administrator-defined policies and restrictions to prevent the transfer of sensitive data before it occurs, and to provide companies a tamper-proof and comprehensive record of all email communications.

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December 15, 2008 Sherpa Software, a leading e-discovery and archiving software company, announced today the release of File Attender 8.0. The latest version of File Attender features added capabilities for archiving, managing and moving instant message conversations.

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November 25, 2008 AEGON Asset Management UK, Tracks and Recovers Missing WebSphere® MQ Messages With Cressida ReQuest™. ReQuest not only has found what they were looking for, it was able to help them better understand how WMQ Logs actually work. It also gave them control over practically every fault situation by analyzing the available WMQ recovery logs. In addition, ReQuest is used for application errors and design analysis in their development and test environments.

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October 15, 2008 Sherpa Software today announced the latest releases of Discovery Attender for Exchange and Notes. The new versions, Discovery Attender for Exchange version 3.0 and Discovery Attender for Notes version 6.4d/8.0, include enhancements that aid in the production of responsive information for litigation, e-discovery and internal investigations while still offering a non-intrusive architecture, easy-to-use interface and attractive price point. To read more click here
September 18, 2008 Cressida has released the newest GA version of their popular WMQ Log Management offering ReQuest for WebSphere MQ 3.0.4. To learn more about ReQuest and it's functionality please click here
August 08, 2008 Sherpa Software today announced the release of version 4.2 of Mail Attender for Exchange that improves PST management. Mail Attender is a highly-scalable content management solution that automates the scheduling of common policies from a central location. Through its comprehensive management of Exchange mailboxes, the Journal mailbox, desktop and network PST files and public folders, it assists companies in addressing email management, storage and compliance requirements as they may relate to regulations such as SOX, the new amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and others. To read more click here
July 27, 2008 Sherpa Software today announced the release of version 3.0 of Discovery Attender for Exchange that improves search performance by 25%, increases the collection of detail with expanded Pattern Matching and adds new functionality including Indexing of Results and Automatic Labels. Discovery Attender for Exchange is a software tool that automates the search and collection of electronically stored information (ESI) from PST files, Exchange mailboxes, public folders and common file storage areas. It automates the production of responsive information for litigation, e-discovery and internal investigations in a timely, defensible manner.To read more click here
June 15, 2008 Ecora Further Enhances Auditor Professional with Expanded Enterprise Features Support. Ecora Software, the market-proven leader for configuration auditing and compliance reporting solutions, today announced the availability of Service Pack 1 for its Ecora Auditor Professional™ version 4.5 software.

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May 27, 2008 Cressida’s ReQuest™ Speeds EDF Energy New CRM Application System Rollout. EDF Energy identified a requirement to upgrade a number of existing WMQ enabled customer service related applications to offer added functionality and platform portability to their customers. Cressida’s ReQuest™ for WebSphere MQ provided EDF Energy with a reliable, scalable, flexible solution to their requirement for a reliable Replay facility to test and migrate their important new application to the production environment. EDF have also used ReQuest features to track missing in-transit messages and for recovery of queues to a point in time before a failure due to hardware problems. Read the full detail here!
April 8, 2008 Sandvik extend their WebSphere® MQ monitoring to OpenVMS with Cressida's TeQuest™. Sandvik is a high-technology engineering group with advanced products and a world-leading position within their specialized areas. Sandvik run their applications on a broad mix of operating systems including zOS, OpenVMS and i5 platforms with their business critical applications on OpenVMS. Their problem was that the OpenVMS platform, which is strategic to Sandvik, was not covered by IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON software in the same way as their other WMQ platforms. Thus using Cressida TeQuest they were able to bring Tivoli Omegamon® for Messaging support to all their WebSphere MQ platforms.

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March 3, 2008 Cressida ReQuest for WebSphere MQ helps Banco BPI -- a multinational financial specialist group focusing predominantly on commercial banking activity to track and find the missing messages between their two MQ Servers when such unexpected incidents occurred. Cressida’s ReQuest™ for WebSphere MQ provided Banco BPI with a reliable, scalable, flexible solution to their requirement for a message tracking and recovery facility as well as a tool to test and migrate their new applications to the production environment. To read more on this case study please click here!
October 01, 2007 Cressida and mqseries.net announcement. Cressida technology has acquired the premier WebSphere MQ community discussion forum. Brandon Duncan, mqseries.net founder and chief architect notes: ‘ we have maintained mqseries.net as a service to the MQ user community for the past 6+ years. We have had over 14000 registered users since our start and although some of these users may have moved on to other jobs and functions, the larger majority of site users remain involved with and are active members. I am pleased to announce that Cressida Technology have agreed to step in and look after things for us. While I will remain an active site member, the ownership, day to day operation and management of the site will be looked after by Cressida teams. My primary decision factors in selecting Cressida were their existing relationship with the site, extended availability of additional technical staff, willingness to invest their resources to improve the site for our membership community’.

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