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BASINGSTOKE, England, -- Platform Computing Inc., today announced that ARM, the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, has implemented Platform Intelligence(TM) and Platform LSF(R) to better align IT resources with business objectives. Optimising the performance of ARM's IT infrastructure, Platform Intelligence, an IT analytics solution, and Platform LSF, the foundation of Platform's Enterprise Grid solution, is being installed across up to 1200 CPUs at five design centres in the UK, France and the USA, and will integrate existing Sun Solaris systems and newer Linux systems into an Enterprise Grid. "With Platform Intelligence we have a detailed, enterprise-wide view of IT resource utilisation as it relates to individual projects, and therefore corporate objectives," said Ibrahim Chadirichi, IT Development Director, ARM. "Information technology is a critical part of our business, and a major proportion of our costs, therefore, we need to make informed decisions and optimise our IT resources to consistently finish on time, on budget and maintain our market leadership. Knowing how our infrastructure is performing over time will provide the vital information necessary to add new resources for new projects and maintain maximum efficiency and throughput within acceptable cost limits." The first 'IT Analytics' solution of its kind, Platform Intelligence combines business intelligence technology with a highly scalable adaptive agent framework to provide a solution for rapid decision-making. Going beyond traditional operational and system management tools, Platform Intelligence provides business-specific information that is correlated to expose the interdependent relationship between distributed IT assets and business objectives. Armed with this data, ARM is able to adopt a more flexible IT strategy to ensure consistent service delivery, effective capacity planning, and informed IT investments. "IT decision makers need to make informed planning decisions about technology investments, which requires in-depth insight into the computing environment," said Kieran Lees, managing director for Northern Europe, Platform. "With this solution, ARM can compare and contrast systems performance and utilisation in real-world situations over extended periods of time, and align these related IT services with the underlying business objectives for greater impact on corporate performance." With Platform Intelligence, companies can maximise enterprise resources across multiple locations to run hundreds of ongoing projects and manage a huge workload without unsustainable IT infrastructure expenditure. This solution will improve time to market for new products, enable more informed decisions on the purchase of new software and hardware, measure the return on investment from IT purchases against business objectives, and reduce ongoing expenditure on hardware and software licenses.