Objective System Integrators Inc is integrating its network management system with Isicad Inc’s Command infrastructure management products. Objective System of Folsom, California says the combine will enable it to extend its traditional enterprise market focus to the departmental end of the network management business. NetExpert, it’s high-end Common Management Information Protocol-based system is designed for use with network management, data collection and service management systems. Santa Clara, California-based Isicad’s Command is a Unix computer-aided design-based network design system for tracking, managing and controlling the delivery of data voice and video network services. The two plan to make reference sales of each others offerings. NetExpert collects event data and using its rules- based language, corrects problems or alerts an operator. Administrators can define various levels of problem alert, perform configuration management, create and manipulate trouble tickets, access reports and execute bi-directional dialogues from Open Look and Motif graphical user interfaces. NetExpert supports Advanced Transfer Mode, Frame Relay, wireless and video-on-demand connections, runs on all major Unixes and supports CA-OpenIngres, Sybase, Oracle and Informix databases. NetExpert will be up under Windows NT by the year-end and the Objective says that it is preparing Internet and Java releases of NetExpert. Prices for it start at $150,000. Isicad’s Command costs from $17,500 for a single user. Objective System Integrators went public last December and has 275 staff. It says it hardly sees the London, UK-based rival Micromuse Ltd in the US market. It is usually up against custom shops, internal development teams or general- purpose environments such as Hewlett-Packard Co’s HP OpenView or IBM Corp NetView.
