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San Diego, March 2005
Predicate Logic® Announces TychoMetrics® Web Version 4.0 with Integrated Microsoft Excel Reporting

Predicate Logic, Inc., announces the release of TychoMetrics Version 4.0. “This release of TychoMetrics is extremely powerful and will greatly enhance any organization’s ability to save time and money,” said Jim Lawler, CEO of Predicate Logic. “In the software arena alone, our TychoMetrics users have cut in half their rework for each SEI CMM level attained and enjoy a pay back of two orders of magnitude in the first two years of use. Since the inception of TychoMetrics many years go, we have expanded our markets to include financial, manufacturing, customer support, outsource vendor oversight and project control.”

TychoMetrics Version 4.0 includes:

• Fully Browser-based Application for Reporting and Administration.
• Tight integration with Microsoft® Excel.
• Automated near real-time data gathering and reporting for mission critical environments.
• Enhanced Report Types including single and multi-Scatter Plots.
• XML data import and export.
• Dynamic Event ID for using values from input source data to automatically create and report Metrics, enabling the user to view metric values without prior knowledge of the data values.
• Change Function for automatically reporting changes in input source data and/or Metric values from one time period to the next.
• Generalized Data Probe for user entering 1) the data Field Delimiter (comma, space, semicolon, tab or Fixed Column Width); 2) the Text Qualifier (double quote, single quote, or none); 3) a comment character (double slash, pound, or none); 4) the number of lines to skip from top of source file, and; 5) the user handling the data if source file header is present or not, and; 6) the user selecting date format (to handle different formats found in various input sources).
• Automatic historical harvest for harvesting single source file historically according to a schedule (begin date, end date, and frequency) set by the user.
• Dynamic Selection Criteria function defines the value of Metric TEXT function argument at the time the report using the Metric is generated. For Metrics using the Dynamic Selection Criteria the Report Generator will automatically create, evaluate and report a new Metric for each unique data value it finds in the input source data.
• Automated near real-time data harvests and reporting for mission critical environments
• Enhanced Security to the URL level.
• Filtering for selecting only that data within an input source file that meets a specified date criterion. User selects the data field used for filtering. Filtering occurs during harvest.
• SUM function for summing Metric values over data intervals of a report. Allows for cumulative values on TychoMetrics reports.
• Selection criteria to the level of the report definition.
• Streamlined User Interfaces.
• Enhanced Exporting of Data and Reports from TychoMetrics to other tools/reporting packages.

For more information please contact Holagent Europe

11th March 2005
Holagent Europe and Lamri are sponsoring a free seminar:
"The Role of Metrics and Project Governance in Process Improvement"

Holagent Europe and Lamri invite you to a free seminar taking place at the Crypt, St. Paul's Cathedral on Monday 4th April 2005.

There are many examples of process improvement projects that struggle to start. Many organisations can envisage a "to be" world but they can not see how to get there. In this free seminar we will explore an approach to kick starting process improvement through the use of simple project governance and metrics. This powerful approach will enable the needs of the process improvement team and the project management team to be met in a constructive way.

This free Process Improvement seminar is sponsored by Holagent Europe and Lamri. Tickets will be alloted on a first come first served basis. To learn more and to register visit our events page

12th July 2004
GTECH's real experiences of CMM®
Presentation by Paul Morgan
GTECH'S Regional Software Director, Paul Morgan will share his real world experience of the demands of CMM® and give insight into the real benefits that adopting this process improvement model can bring.

Paul will talk candidly about how GTECH achieved their target maturity level and will pass on the lessons they learned from this journey. He will describe the significant and measurable benefits that GTECH has experienced from adopting a documented, proven and repeatable process improvement framework.

The slides from the Presentaion by Paul Morgan are available to download and view in PDF format from the Holagent Europe Resources Page

About GTECH
GTECH is a truly global technology company, operating in some 44 countries, providing software, networks, and professional services that power high-performance, transaction-processing solutions. GTECH's engineering organisation spans six continents, with the engineering centres supporting local business units.

For more information about GTECH visit http://www.gtech.com .

Panel Session
In a rare opportunity to question a panel of industry experts in process improvement attendees will gain the kind of real world experience and advice not available in books.   Attendees will be able to pre-post questions to marketing@lamri.com and the chairman will ensure that there is an opportunity to provide questions from the floor. The panel members will include:

Paul Morgan - GTECH, Paul joined GTECH as the Regional Software Director for Northern Europe before being asked to lead the corporate-wide software process improvement initiative.

Julian Holmes - Capgemini. Julian was one of the leading members of the process improvement teams deploying RUP® within the Capgemini Accelerated Delivery Centres.

Kieran Doyle - Lamri.   Kieran entered the CMM® based process improvement world as the Quality manager for the narrow band switching team in Marconi.   This work led to him becoming a SW-CMM lead assessor and leading expert on practical process improvement.

June 2004
Enhanced Metrics Reporting Via Microsoft® Excel

Predicate Logic Inc. announces the upcoming release of TychoMetrics Version 3.6.

“This release of TychoMetrics incorporates the one tool that is used by over 60% of the measurement community-Excel,” said Jim Lawler, CEO of Predicate Logic. “Users now will have the capability to click on a button to view their reports in Excel. Plus, all the features of Excel are available. Since the inception of TychoMetrics many years go, we have expanded our markets to include financial, manufacturing, customer support, outsource vendor oversight and project control.”

“Visitors to SEPG 2004 in London on 14th to 17th June will be amongst the first to see the new capabilities of TychoMetrics” said John Mills, Managing Director of Holagent Europe.

TychoMetrics consists of pre-defined SmartMetrics, probe agents and reports designed primarily for software development and IT project environments, including all CMM and CMMI SEI levels. TychoMetrics strongly supports software development and IT environments; however, other non-software development and IT environments, are enjoying the capabilities of this powerful and flexible tool.

TychoMetrics automatically collects over 400 smart metrics, comes with key third-party tool probes and probe agents, and has both standard and scientific report types. The tool is based on Predicate Logic’s patented metrics technology, which is titled “Universal Data Measurement, Analysis and Control System.”

Holagent Europe is Predicate Logic’s partner in Europe. Holagent Europe was founded in 2000 as a specialist distributor focusing on the provision of best in class systems and software engineering tools to facilitate process improvement. Our value added is the professional services provided by our consulting engineers who are experienced in the complex issues associated with the deployment of software tools in support of your process.

Find out more about Tychometrics

May 2004
Systems & Software Engineering Process Group Conference

The ninth annual European Systems and Software
Engineering Process Group Conference
14 - 17 June 2004, LONDON

Europe's premier process improvement conference returns to the UK this summer as the European SEPGT Conference takes place over four days in June 2004 at the Novotel London West.

As usual, Holagent Europe will be well represented - come and visit us in the exhibition hall throughout the conference. Also exhibiting at the conference will be our partner consulting firm Lamri and pragma Systems.

When Europe brings together a forum of some of the world's leading authorities on CMMI, process improvement, software measurement and project management, it is inevitable that Holagent Europe will be at the heart of the proceedings. That is why Holagent Europe together with its consulting partner Lamri and its supplier pragma Systems will be exhibiting at the ninth annual European Systems and Software Engineering Process Group Conference.

The conference promises to be an exciting event with four intensive days of tutorials, presentations, panel discussions and informal meetings where delegates, presenters and exhibitors have the opportunity to learn and share experience on the practical issues of making process improvement work on every level. Take this opportunity to come and meet the Holagent Europe team on our exhibition stand.

If you can't attend the conference but would like to visit the exhibition on Tuesday afternoon, 15th June then click here to contact Holagent Europe for a free exhibition pass.

Full conference programme and online registration at: www.espi.org

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