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jKool has been named a 2016 IBM Beacon Award Finalist for Best New Application on IBM Cloud.

The Beacon Awards, IBM's premier award program, are exclusively for IBM Business Partners and are designed to honor excellence and innovation across a broad range of solution areas.

The company was selected based on the success and innovation of jKool, a SaaS solution that provides real-time and historical insight into application performance, improving application performance and enhancing end-user experience. jKool runs on SoftLayer and is available directly at jKoolCloud.com or in the IBM Cloud Marketplace and in Bluemix.

"It's a significant honor to be recognized as a Beacon Award finalist," said Charley Rich, VP of Product Management. "jKool is committed to helping our customers manage change while maintaining the quality of service they deliver to their customers. This award validates the hard work that we've done to build the best solution for monitoring and analyzing transactions, metrics and end-user response time."

jKool’s instant analytics provides immediate value to DevOps and IT Ops professionals who need to find and fix problems faster, improve application performance and enhance end-user experience. These users can leverage jKool’s ability to analyze and visualize both historical and real-time data and provide answers immediately. Typical use cases include: analyzing Java Garbage Collection behavior, detecting security issues and acquiring instant insight into business outcomes through real-time analysis of machine data. Businesses will benefit from greater customer satisfaction as they deliver high quality application experiences to their customers.