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The rebranding is being announced in conjunction with major enhancements in the capabilities of the IT automation software. 

As Software & Management Associates (SMA) enters its fourth decade, the company has announced the rebranding of its flagship IT automation software product from OpCon/xps to OpConX5.  The product will now generally be referred to as OpCon. The rebranding is being announced in conjunction with major enhancements in the capabilities of OpCon. These include:

  • The introduction of Enterprise Manager as the replacement for the old Visual Basic user interface
  • The introduction of Notification Manager as the replacement for the old ENS (event notification service)
  • Replacements for History and Audit Management
  • Many new OpCon functions as requested by the existing client partners

Enterprise Manager Gets Bold New User Interface

Based on the Eclipse framework and JAVA, Enterprise Manager (EM) replaces the old Visual Basic User Interface. The new EM supports powerful new capabilities such as plug-ins, undocking of panels, more graphic displays, lists and reports, and “access anything from anywhere” technology. The EM delivers unprecedented convenience enabling users to discover their own most efficient work methods.

IBM i LSAM Message Management 

SMA’s agent (LSAM = local schedule activity monitor) is always being enhanced and expanded, extending the power of OpCpon into the full range of capabilities supported by the IBM i operating system. The latest enhancement is a dramatic extension of this agent’s Message Management service. More than ever, OpCon becomes a single solution for all system automation needs, with the addition and expansion of these capabilities:

  • Capture, store and share any data element from message text (primary or secondary)
  • Condition unlimited message response commands with comparisons to message content, to LSAM variables or to any text string
  • Qualify message response by generic job names, generic or specific user IDs, generic message ranges
  • Qualify message response by an array of date and time windows or limits
  • Qualify message response by thresholds (numbers of incidents), including threshold expiration date/time

Software & Management Associates (SMA) was established in 1980 by a team of forward-thinking Unisys automation experts. A privately-held company with corporate headquarters in Greater Houston, Texas and offices and partners worldwide, SMA first captured the attention of IT managers around the world with the release of THE SCHEDULER 29 years ago. The product instantly became the definitive job scheduling and workload management standard for the Unisys platform. As the IT industry evolved, SMA continued to lead the way by introducing SMA OpCon/xps, the first Windows-based, enterprisewide, multi-platform automation solution. Today, SMA supports business leaders worldwide. SMA is committed to providing customers with innovative enterprise automation solutions to strengthen and further maximize their competitive advantage.

Our goal is to offer the most comprehensive and effective IT automation software and associated services to organizations for which multi-platform application scheduling is a critical business requirement.SMA continues to set the standard for independent software vendors by extending our workload management suite of products across platforms, applications, and operating systems. SMA supports open systems and the growing client/server market, while helping organizations reduce costs and increase their return on investment. SMA has been in the business of delivering quality enterprise automation solutions and services since 1980.

Because we specialize exclusively in job scheduling operations, we know this market, this technology better than other providers. That level of focus makes us the best at what we do. Since SMA is a privately held company, we are accountable to customers, not stockholders. Therefore, your success is our success. To that end, SMA collaborates with technical experts and business professionals to constantly develop cost-effective and innovative implementation strategies.

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