Metron is a privately owned limited company which was founded in 1986. Metron-Athene Inc is a wholly owned subsidiary of Metron technology Ltd. The company is Europe's foremost Capacity Planning and Systems Performance Management specialist. Metron's flagship product, Athene, provides fully integrated ITIL-compliant capacity management, automatic performance analysis and reporting for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mainframe Servers .

At Metron we are committed to continue developing products to provide IT users the maximum benefits at the least cost. We are delivering this by creating automated products that embody an increasing level of intelligence to address the continuing evolution and complexity of hardware environments and software applications.

Almost half of Metron's employment costs are invested in research and development to ensure its leading edge position. Metron's stated goal is to provide organizations with the means of obtaining the maximum possible return on their IT investments.

Athene, the most cost effective product in its class, has been sold to over 300 clients and adopted by major IT suppliers. Many of the world's leading outsourcing companies are now using Athene combined with expert ITIL® consultancy and training services as a key element of their service management and delivery.

Athene 8 is the world's most scalable Performance Management software for real and virtual environments with the Universal Capacity Planning Module interfacing with all third-party systems management products.

In Europe , Metron's clients include such organizations as Vodafone, O2. T-Mobile, WH Smith, Centrica, Nestle, LloydsTSB and a number of government agencies.

In the US, Athene is installed for clients such as ACS, AIG Inc, Airline Tariff Publishing, Inc, DHL, First Data, Internal Revenue Service, LA County, Lehman Brothers, Pentagon, Pindar, Safeway, TDS Telecom, Telecheck Services, US Customs.

The company works in partnership with leading manufacturers such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft Systems, Sun Microsystems, Tevron, VMware, Computer Associates, Capgemini and Oracle.

Metron intends to be the leading provider of software for computer Performance Management and Capacity Planning. No other independent organization has a comparable number of clients and range of Performance Management software. Metron is extending its world-wide network of distributors and alliances.