Embarcadero Streamlines Java Development Experience with Latest Release of Award-Winning JBuilder IDE

Focused on IDE Usability and Performance to Improve Productivity, JBuilder 2008 R2 Offers Developers a Better, Faster User Experience

SAN FRANCISCO – April 23, 2009 – Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. today announced the availability of the latest update to JBuilder®, its award-winning, enterprise-class Java™ IDE. Built on the latest Eclipse framework, JBuilder 2008 R2 boosts developer productivity, application performance, and code quality with advanced features and updated support for the leading commercial and open source Java EE 5 application servers.

Incorporating functionality from the recently introduced Embarcadero® J Optimizer™, JBuilder 2008 R2 includes the ability to profile the performance behavior of Java EE application code across common Java EE components such as JDBC, RMI, JSP, JNDI, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), JMS and Web service protocol containers. Java developers can quickly and easily profile, analyze, and locate memory and CPU bottlenecks in their code all from within the JBuilder IDE.

One of the most complete, full-featured Java™ IDEs available, JBuilder 2008 R2 provides the tools and capabilities that enable developers to model, build, test, deploy and maintain their applications within a single environment. In fact, JBuilder 2008 was recently awarded a Jolt Productivity Award in the development environments category.

JBuilder 2008 R2 introduces several new features that improve usability and developer productivity while streamlining common operations within the IDE. The latest version expands on the core Java functionality provided by the Eclipse 3.4.1 open source framework and Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) 3.0. Highlights of new JBuilder 2008 R2 features include:

• Optimized modeling features for large projects using smart filters
• Ability to optimize and tune IDE performance through fine grained customization
• Ability to enable Java modeling for any Eclipse Java project directly from the Package Explorer
• Generation of EJB Test Client for EJB 2.x and EJB 3.0 Session Beans
• DTO/Session Facade and Client Generation for EJB 2.x and EJB 3.0 Entity Beans
• Ability to tag resources in all Java projects in a workspace

As a component of Embarcadero® All-Access™, a complete database tools and application developer toolkit, Java developers who program in other languages such as PHP, who write SQL code occasionally, or who may need to reverse engineer data models from an existing database schema can leverage this complete tool chest. All-Access provides application developers, architects and database professionals with cost effective, on-demand access to all the tools they need to design, build and run software applications and database systems.

 Pricing and Availability
JBuilder 2008 R2 is now available worldwide. Pricing in North America begins at $499 USD for the Professional Edition and $1,499 USD for the Enterprise Edition. Special upgrade pricing starting at $79 USD for Professional Edition and $129 USD for Enterprise Edition is available for JBuilder 2008 customers. To learn more about JBuilder, visit www.embarcadero.com/products/jbuilder.

 Supported Platforms and Languages
JBuilder is supported on Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP 1, Mac OS X (10.5) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. JBuilder also supports the most commonly used commercial and open source Java application servers including Apache Geronimo, Apache Tomcat, BEA WebLogic Application Server, Borland Enterprise Server, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Containers for Java and Sun GlassFish.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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Java and Database Performance Optimization To Detect, Fix & Prevent System Performance Issues

Embarcadero Technologies®, a database tools and developer software company, today announced a set of new and enhanced performance optimization tools to help companies detect, fix and prevent a range of costly software errors that will improve the performance, availability and scalability of software systems. These tools include J Optimizer 2009 for Java profiling and optimization, DB Optimizer 1.5 for SQL profiling and tuning, and Performance Center for automated 24/7 database monitoring.

These complementary performance optimization tools enable the profiling and fine-tuning of Java and SQL code from the Java application layer down to the database layer, facilitating code development and detection of issues before an application or database query goes into production. They also help customers quickly diagnose and fix performance issues within live production systems, enabling them to improve application and database performance, thereby extending the life of existing hardware investments. Performance Center, serves as a 24/7 "watchdog" to monitor production database systems and pinpoint problems impacting performance and scalability. This enables customers to set-up automated performance monitoring and preventative actions ensuring production system performance and service levels are met.

Debuting J Optimizer 2009
J Optimizer is a next-generation Java profiling and error-checking tool based on the Optimizeit technology and development teams that Embarcadero acquired from Borland Software in 2008. J Optimizer enables Java developers to isolate and resolve performance issues during the development of Java programs and Java EE applications. With J Optimizer, developers can profile memory and CPU usage, display real-time threading information and determine which parts of the code are executed, all down to the line-level detail. J Optimizer also includes the Request Analyzer to track performance bottlenecks at the JDBC, JMS, JNDI, JSP, EJB, CCI and Web services level.

DB Optimizer 1.5
DB Optimizer 1.5 is the newest version of Embarcadero's SQL profiling and tuning IDE. DB Optimizer maximizes database and application performance by enabling DBAs and developers to quickly discover, diagnose, and optimize poor-performing SQL. DB Optimizer 1.5 builds upon the 1.0 version of the SQL profiling and tuning tool with new features such as continuous profiling, full multi-platform support, a revamped interface and full Unicode support.

Performance Center
Embarcadero Performance Center is an award-winning 24x7 database monitoring tool that tracks and reports on all aspects of database activity such as memory, I/O, contention, space, network, objects, users, and SQL code to pinpoint performance problems. Performance Center is available now and the new 2.7 release is scheduled to launch in Q2 2009.

Access Performance Optimization Anytime, Anywhere
With the recent launch of Embarcadero's new All-Access "toolbox" the company is now offering on-demand access to its award-winning application development and database tools. These tools range from rapid application and web development and database design and development to database management. Now, these three new and enhanced optimization tools - J Optimizer, DB Optimizer and Performance Center - will also be made available through All-Access, providing customers who are using All-Access with an entire system-wide performance suite via an economically-friendly and simple model. For more information on All-Access, visit www.embarcadero.com/products/all_access.

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Improve Metadata Search and Reporting with ER/Studio Enterprise Portal

Portal Now Included with Enterprise Edition of Embarcadero's Industry-Leading Data Modeling Tool Suite

San Francisco (PRWEB) April 7, 2009 -- Embarcadero Technologies®, a database tools and developer tools company, is releasing a new version of its ER/Studio™ Enterprise Portal and announcing it will now include the Portal as a standard component of the company's popular ER/Studio Enterprise data modeling tool.

The ER/Studio Enterprise Portal home page lets users get started right away

With the Portal, we're extending the value of metadata across organizations and enabling a centralized and collaborative work structure that promotes data re-use and standardized leveraging of data assets

New with this Portal release are a high-speed search engine, configurable synchronization between the Portal mart and repository server, and access to "favorites" widgets on the home page. Also, each ER/Studio Enterprise licensee - new or existing - will be eligible for a user Portal license that can be used independent of their concurrent licenses.

By providing metadata, business rules and data models in a centralized, searchable reporting structure like ER/Studio Enterprise Portal, companies can improve collaboration among their data architects, DBAs, developers and business users to ensure a common understanding of data used in the enterprise. Through the Portal, users can also attain global visibility into their corporate data assets and understand how they are being accessed via business processes, the state of data in use versus at rest, as well as the whereabouts of critical and sensitive data.

"With the Portal, we're extending the value of metadata across organizations and enabling a centralized and collaborative work structure that promotes data re-use and standardized leveraging of data assets," said Michael Swindell, vice president of products for Embarcadero. "This move ensures our customers have this valuable reporting asset with every instance of ER/Studio, enabling them to search for and understand corporate data using a Web-based method that's already familiar to them."

ER/Studio Enterprise Portal is a Web-based reporting tool for accessing and searching the ER/Studio repository for enterprise metadata to improve data and metadata management practices. The Portal is accessed internally via a corporate intranet or externally via the Web for cross-model and repository-wide searching of data definitions and objects. It includes standardized HTML reporting capabilities and structured browsing in the repository.

Version 1.1 of the ER/Studio Enterprise Portal release builds upon the first release with the following new feature and benefits:

• A discrete license that can be dedicated to a user or group of users for Portal access independent of the concurrent license
• An updated search engine that incorporates the Apache Lucene information retrieval library for high-performance, full-text search functions
• Configurable synchronization between the Portal mart and repository server
• E-mail capabilities and "favorites" tagging for search results and reports
• Access to "favorites" widgets on the home page
• A configuration manager for changing parameters of the application server without reinstalling the application
• Enhanced synchronization (ETL) interface that gives administrators more control over synchronization options
• Stylistic and usability improvements to the Portal's user interface

ER/Studio Enterprise and Portal, along with Embarcadero's other modeling-focused products, are now also available through the Embarcadero® All-Access™ "toolbox." All-Access provides an innovative and economically friendly approach to software tooling by providing a complete collection of application and database development tools with flexible and cost-effective licensing. Along with data modeling, All-Access customers gain instant access to a full suite of tools for designing, building and running software applications and databases, regardless of platform or programming language.

Availability
ER/Studio Enterprise Portal is now available as a standard feature to ER/Studio Enterprise customers at no additional cost. For more information, visit: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/er_studio_portal/index.php.

About Embarcadero Technologies
Embarcadero Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of award-winning tools for application developers and database professionals so they can design systems right, build them faster and run them better, regardless of their platform or programming language. Ninety of the Fortune 100 and an active community of more than three million users worldwide rely on Embarcadero products to increase productivity, reduce costs, simplify change management and compliance and accelerate innovation. Founded in 1993, Embarcadero is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices located around the world. Embarcadero is online at www.embarcadero.com.

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Jason Tiret is the director of modeling and design solutions for Embarcadero Technologies. In this role, he oversees Embarcadero's award-winning data modeling and design products. Jason counts more than a decade of experience in data modeling, metadata and database management. 

He has consulted with many Fortune 500 companies and has been a frequent speaker on the topics of data architecture, metadata and data governance. Jason received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California at Davis.