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Universal Automation Center (UAC) is a real-time IT automation platform designed to centrally manage and orchestrate tasks and processes across hybrid IT environments - from on-prem to the cloud. Universal Automation Center (UAC) is a software platform designed to automate and orchestrate your IT and business processes, securely manage file transfers, and centralize the management of disparate IT job scheduling and workload automation solutions. With our event-driven automation technology, it is now possible to achieve real-time automation across your entire hybrid IT environment. Real-time hybrid IT automation and managed file transfers (MFT) for any type of cloud, mainframe, distributed or hybrid environment. Start automating, managing and orchestrating file transfers from mainframe or disparate systems to the AWS or Azure cloud and vice versa with no ramp-up time or cost-intensive hardware investments.

Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.

ManageEngine Endpoint Central is built to secure the digital workplace while also giving IT teams complete control over their enterprise endpoints. It delivers a security-first approach by combining advanced endpoint protection with comprehensive management, allowing IT teams to manage the entire endpoint lifecycle, all from a single console. With automated patching across Windows, Mac, Linux and 1,000+ third-party applications, it ensures vulnerabilities are mitigated before attackers can exploit them. Its next-gen antivirus (NGAV) feature, powered by AI-driven behavioural detection, provides 24/7 protection against ransomware, malware, and zero-day threats. Endpoint Central further strengthens enterprise defenses with a broad set of security capabilities, including vulnerability assessment and mitigation, peripheral device control, data loss prevention, application control, endpoint privilege management, encryption with FileVault and BitLocker, and browser security.

NinjaOne unifies IT to simplify work for 35,000+ customers in 140+ countries. The NinjaOne Unified IT Operations Platform delivers endpoint management, autonomous patching, backup, and remote access in a single console to improve efficiency, increase resilience, and reduce spend. By automating IT and managing all endpoints, organizations give employees a great technology experience to work faster, smarter, and easier while IT teams modernize and improve efficiency. NinjaOne is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Management Tools. The company is obsessed with customer success and has retained a 98% customer satisfaction score for more than 5 years.

JS7 JobScheduler is an Open Source workload automation system designed for performance, resilience and security. It provides unlimited performance for parallel execution of jobs and workflows. JS7 offers cross-platform job execution, managed file transfer, complex no-code job dependencies and a real REST API. Platforms - Cloud scheduling from Containers for Docker®, Kubernetes®, OpenShift® etc. - True multi-platform scheduling on premises for Windows®, Linux®, AIX®, Solaris®, macOS® etc. - Hybrid use for cloud and on premises User Interface - Modern, no-code GUI for inventory management, monitoring and control with web browsers - Near real-time information brings immediate visibility of status changes and log output of jobs and workflows - Multi-client capability, role based access management High Availability - Redundancy and Resilience based on asynchronous design and autonomous Agents - Clustering for all JS7 products, automatic fail-over and manual switch-over

There are an estimated 25 million engineers in the world across dozens of distinct functions. As every company becomes a software company, engineers are using New Relic to gather real-time insights and trending data about the performance of their software so they can be more resilient and deliver exceptional customer experiences. Only New Relic provides an all-in-one platform that is built and sold as a unified experience. With New Relic, customers get access to a secure telemetry cloud for all metrics, events, logs, and traces; powerful full-stack analysis tools; and simple, transparent usage-based pricing with only 2 key metrics. New Relic has also curated one of the industry’s largest ecosystems of open source integrations, making it easy for every engineer to get started with observability and use New Relic alongside their other favorite applications.

NeuBird’s flagship product, Hawkeye (Agentic AI SRE), is an AI-powered Site Reliability Engineering platform that transforms IT operations by continuously monitoring telemetry from across your observability stack, logs, metrics, traces, alerts, and incident tickets, to detect issues, analyze root causes, and propose or automate practical remediation in real time without requiring manual investigation. Built for enterprise-grade environments, Hawkeye integrates securely with existing monitoring and incident management tools (such as DataDog, Splunk, PagerDuty, Prometheus, ServiceNow, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, and more), correlates signals across disparate sources, and reasons contextually like a human engineer to surface actionable insights and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by up to ~90%. It is always-on and can be deployed as SaaS or in a customer’s VPC with enterprise security controls, providing autonomous incident response, pattern recognition, etc.

Cycloid is the unified Internal Developer Portal and Platform, made for platform engineering done right. Accelerate your platform engineering adoption from years to weeks, optimize the developer experience and operational efficiency by accelerating the delivery of a developer portal and platform, lighten the cognitive load on IT teams, and advocate for FinOps & Green IT practices. With a GitOps first approach, Cycloid is the single source of truth for your organization. Sovereign by design, we help you take control of your cloud choices and data, ensuring security, compliance, flexibility, and freedom from vendor lock-in at every step. And with GreenIT practices at our core, you'll build an efficient, responsible, and future-proof reality. We are the editor of OSS projects TerraCognita: reverse Terraform; InfraMap: infra diagram; and Terracost: cost estimation. We work with global organizations, US and European public institutions and 6 of the top 10 SI service providers.

Bitrise is a CI/CD platform built for mobile development, helping teams speed up builds, automate testing, and deliver high-quality apps faster. It supports native languages like Swift, Objective-C, Java, and Kotlin, as well as cross-platform frameworks including React Native, Flutter, Xamarin, Cordova, and Ionic. Setup takes minutes, with customizable workflows that adapt to any project. Bitrise integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and other industry-standard tools, while its cloud infrastructure removes the need for manual processes or maintenance overhead. Pipelines provide flexible structure for CI/CD, running tasks in parallel or sequentially to optimize efficiency. With access to the latest machines, up-to-date Xcode versions, and expert customer support, Bitrise offers a complete solution for mobile teams of any size.

ManageEngine Site24x7 is a comprehensive observability and monitoring solution designed to help organizations effectively manage their IT environments. It offers monitoring for back-end IT infrastructure deployed on-premises, in the cloud, in containers, and on virtual machines. It ensures a superior digital experience for end users by tracking application performance and providing synthetic and real user insights. It also analyzes network performance, traffic flow, and configuration changes, troubleshoots application and server performance issues through log analysis, offers custom plugins for the entire tech stack, and evaluates real user usage. Whether you're an MSP or a business aiming to elevate performance, Site24x7 provides enhanced visibility, optimization of hybrid workloads, and proactive monitoring to preemptively identify workflow issues using AI-powered insights. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more than 130 locations worldwide.