ActiveBatch® Workload Automation Drives 32% New Sales Growth For Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.

MORRISTOWN, N.J., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI), maker of ActiveBatch^® Workload Automation and Job Scheduling Software, today announced it has capped a nine-month period of unprecedented financial growth with the best third quarter year-to-date. Combined with stronger-than-ever recognition from industry analyst firms, the period marks a strongly accelerating global acceptance for ActiveBatch's product and customer service strategies.

In the first nine months of its 2012 fiscal year, Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., a privately-held, self-funded and profitable company, has logged a 32% increase in new sales revenue compared to the same period last year, and has signed 62 new ActiveBatch Workload Automation customers, including 19 customers outside the United States in regions including Europe and Asia-Pacific. As of today, ActiveBatch is used in over 1,500 implementations across 43 countries.

This growth has been accompanied by ActiveBatch's recognition by three of the industry's leading analyst firms in recent months. Most recently, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) in its 2012 Workload Automation Radar Report cited ActiveBatch for its Integrated Jobs Library, simplicity and ease of use that supports a unique Internet-based selling and support model that allows customers to easily install and demo a workload automation product.

The EMA Radar Report inclusion follows ActiveBatch's positioning in the "Magic Quadrant for Workload Automation," by Milind Govekar and Biswajeet Mahapatra, February 2012, in a report published by industry research firm Gartner. ActiveBatch was also placed in Forrester Research's "Market Overview: IT Process Automation, Q3 2011" report that pointed to ActiveBatch's capabilities in workload and runbook automation, self-service automation, as well as the product's drag-and-drop interface and readymade jobs and templates.

"Advanced Systems Concepts is pleased to be recognized by these analyst firms for our product's simplicity, ease of use, functionality and recognition for using an Internet-based selling and support model that is changing the way people purchase and support a workload automation solution," said Jim Manias, Vice President of Marketing and Sales. "Our inclusion marks a record period of strong revenue growth, new customer acquisition and the maturation of ActiveBatch into a single IT automation solution."

ActiveBatch Enterprise Job Scheduling and Workload Automation provides IT organizations with a single automation solution that integrates job scheduling, workload and runbook automation and self-service automation to provide "IT Automation Without Boundaries." ActiveBatch allows IT organizations to consolidate scheduling across the enterprise to for improved IT operations and business process automation by allowing users to author and automate workflows faster and easier than relying on custom scripting or "closed" scheduling systems.

Via its Integrated Jobs Library and ActiveBatch Extensions, ActiveBatch supports dozens of applications, databases, technologies and services, including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, PeopleSoft, VMware, Teradata, Web Services, stored procedures and .Net Assemblies.

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About Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc.:

Headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. offers many software products and options for users of Windows, UNIX, Linux, HP OpenVMS and NSK systems as well as IBM z/OS, AIX, i5OS and SCO UNIX. These products provide answers to software developers and system managers with improved system efficiency and utilization. Advanced Systems Concepts has a worldwide base of customers in over 43 countries around the world. Advanced Systems Concepts is a Microsoft Silver Certified Partner and a member of the Microsoft System Center Alliance. It is also an SAP software solution partner, an Informatica Partner, an IBM Netezza Technology Partner, a Teradata Select Partner, an Oracle Gold Partner, an HP AllianceOne Partner, an IBM Business Partner, a member of the VMware TAP program, certified Red Hat Ready Partner, and a Novell ISV Vendor. For more information, see the company's website at http://www.advsyscon.com or call 1-800-229-2724 or 1-973-539 2660.

Copyright © 2012 Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. ActiveBatch is a registered trademark of Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. Other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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