Athene™ 11 adds new and enhanced capabilities to Syncsort’s market-leading cross-platform Capacity Management solution. View this webcast on-demand to get a first-hand look into the new features of Athene™ 11 and how they can help enhance and further automate your Capacity Management process. Key topics include: • Syncsort’s new IBM i integration capabilities • ServiceView and Athene™ Reporting enhancements • Athene™ Cloud and Concentrator

1. Athene™ Cloud and
Athene™ 11.00
Jamie Baker and Rich Fronheiser
June 20, 2018

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3. Why Athene
Less Complexity
Capture and store data from the
entire infrastructure; automate
reporting and alerting; no detailed
system expertise required
Clearer Capacity Information
Identify existing and potential
capacity and performance threats;
prepares and visualizes key data for
time-to-live and bottleneck analysis
Healthier IT Operations
Near real-time alerts identify
problems in all key environments
View latency, transactions per
second, exceptions, etc.
Effective Incident Resolution
Management
Near real-time views to identify real or
potential failures earlier; view detailed
data to support triage repair or
prevention
Higher Operational Efficiency
Enhanced process correlation across
systems; Staff resolves problems faster;
“do more with less”
Eliminate Your Infrastructure
“Blind-Spots”
Get a complete view of Capacity and
Performance – technical, business,
financial – across the enterprise

4. • A single logical database for flexibility of
implementation, security, and management
• ServiceView – Providing business aligned, short,
medium, and long-term views, with days to live
reporting
• Integrator – extract, transform and load time-
series metrics
• Component, Service, Business, Finance & Custom
• Quick and easy analytics by service or lines of
business or infrastructure component
• Configurable to meet your data capture,
management, and reporting needs
Athene - Key Features
The world’s most scalable capacity management
software for physical and virtual environments.
• Brings metrics from across the enterprise to
one place
• 360° view of your service and infrastructure
• The most cost-effective product in its class

5. Athene Cloud – What is it?
Capacity Management in the Cloud - New Athene customers who don’t
want to manage an Athene Server
• Infrastructure managed by Syncsort
• Setup and management performed by seasoned experts
• Pricing TBD and will include system hosting, Athene software & Foundation Services
Capacity Management as a Service - New Customers that need Capacity
Management and don’t have a CM team
• Acquire data source from systems to report on
• Develop one-time or ongoing Capacity Management reports
• Monitor and Recommend Capacity Upgrade
• Cloud can be used to reduce infrastructure costs
• Possible use cases
• Value to Customer
• Cost scoped to requirements

6. • Provisioned and maintained hardware
• Secure transfer of data
• Ongoing management of historical data
• Syncsort-provided reports, analyses, and models
available via PS / Managed Services
Athene Cloud - Key Features
• Enables a world-class Capacity Management
process while avoiding the maintenance of
software, databases, and the amount of data
• Organizations can augment staff or expertise
by partnering with Syncsort PS – create a
Managed Service that will help them take
advantage of the benefits of Capacity
Management without having to increase the
size or experience of staffs

7. Athene Cloud Packages
Base Gold Platinum
Cloud Subscription: Athene Monitoring and Reporting √ √ √
Athene Reporting Overview & Training (Annually) √ √ √
Athene Monitoring Operational Status (Weekly) √ √ √
Athene Upgrade Assistance (Annually) √ √ √
Systems Adjustments (Add/Remove Licensed Servers) 10 25 100
Capacity Dashboards Viewing Portal √ √
Performance and Capacity Management Reporting √ √
Performance, Capacity and Risk Assessment Reports (Qtrly) √ √
Performance Health Assessment Reports (Weekly) √ √
Performance Monitoring and Risk Alerts (Daily) √
Change Impact Assessment (time limited) √
Capacity and Business Alignment Plan (Annually) √
Infrastructure
Application Management
Capacity Planning Service

8. Benefits of Athene and Athene Cloud
• Reduce costs (by automating)
• Improve staff productivity
• Avoid wasting budget
• Increase ROI
• Guarantee happy users and customers
• Assurance for senior management

9. New Features

10. IBM i Integration
• Athene adds IBM i Performance and Capacity
Information
• Integrator DBC functionality provides the ability to
extract data directly from IBM I Collection Services
managed data objects
• Each iSeries LPAR contains an in-built DB2 database
which stores the capacity and performance
information
• Collection services must be enabled for
performance data for the partition you want it
collected on. You only need to collect this data on
one partition, and this partition must be an IBM i
partition.
• Athene will capture and ingest the data using a
provided Integrator DBC template
• Direct SQL queries executed by Template(s)
• JTopen connectivity (data connector)
• Data types/sources easily added/amended

11. Concentrator
• Concentrator Control Center - A
store-and forward node for both
Acquire and Integrator data
• Improved security – limits connectivity
between networks to a single pipe, no
credentials leave site
• Provides PCI compliance by having
targets initiate sessions
• Underpins Athene Cloud

12. Service View
• Inclusion of Integrator target
and component data
• Enhanced service definitions –
grouping and filtering
• Predefined or user defined
template report usage
• Multi-CMIS data access – local,
national, global

13. Reporting and Performance
Improvements
• Enhanced Portal Dashboard Reporting
• Now includes selectable “out-of-the-box” pre-defined domain chart templates
• Create your own report templates and save for future use
• User defined custom metric creation now supported
• Significant Performance Improvements in:
• Data Management
• Control Center VMware data processing
• ServiceView calculation and report generation

14. Summary
• Version 11 delivers
• Athene Cloud Services
• Access and forward data securely from both direct and indirect data
sources
• Enhanced 360o enterprise capacity and performance coverage with IBM
i integration
• Report on collated, unified and correlated data both easier and faster
with pre-defined and user defined templates and metrics
• Execute and maintain in-built Athene CMIS maintenance jobs

15. Questions
Jamie Baker
SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
p +44 (0) 1823 259231
jbaker@syncsort.com
Rich Fronheiser
DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MARKETING
p 845-535-6943
rich.fronheiser@syncsort.com