Posts from — August 2006

• Axway Receives ‘Positive’ Rating in Leading Analyst Firm’s Business Activity Monitoring Platforms MarketScope Report
  Axway (PARIS:SOP) today announced that it received a “Positive” rating in Gartner’s “MarketScope for Business Activity Monitoring Platforms, 3Q06,”(1) an evaluation of business activity monitoring (BAM) platform solutions from nine vendors. Axway’s soluti
  (tags: Axway BAM Business-Activity-Monitoring Gartner analyst)
• Empower Decision-Making with Proxima Technology’s Centauri V4 Release
  Proxima Technology, an innovative software vendor providing business service management (BSM) and service level management (SLM) solutions, today announced the general availability of Centauri V4.0. Centauri V4.0 offers better business and IT impact analy
  (tags: Proxima BSM business-service-management)
• Industry First: BMC Software’s Agent-less Scheduling Solution Helps Customers Manage Business Impacts ‘Down to the Minute’:
  BMC Software (NYSE: BMC - News) today launched the industry’s first agent-less, enterprise-wide scheduling solution, enabling businesses to predict, adapt and control an organization’s reaction to change on a minute-by-minute basis. The significantly upgr
  (tags: BMC batch-processing BSM business-service-management)

Another acquisition right down the road from the “Atlanta Security Industry”!

From AP:

BOSTON (AP)–International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) said Wednesday it will spend $1.3 billion in cash to acquire Internet Security Systems Inc. (ISSX), which performs network monitoring and analysis services for companies. The deal values ISS at $28 a share, an 8% premium to ISS’s close at $26 on Tuesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market. If the acquisition is approved by shareholders, the companies expect it to close in the fourth quarter. IBM, Armonk, N.Y., has agreed to buy three public companies this month alone. Two weeks ago, it reached a pact to buy document-management software provider FileNet Corp. (FILE) for $1.6 billion. On Aug. 3, Big Blue agreed to spend $740 million for MRO Software Inc. (MROI), which helps industrial companies track physical assets.

Buying ISS could bolster Big Blue’s ability to take on what it calls “managed security services” for its business customers. ISS helps guard against data theft and other problems with automated monitoring products and with technical consultants, who now will be part of IBM’s vast services arm. Based in Atlanta, ISS says its 11,000 customers include 17 of the world’s largest banks. The company earned $38.5 million on $330 million in revenue last year; this year’s revenue is expected to surpass $350 million. New York Stock Exchange-listed shares of IBM, a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, were quoted 1 cent higher in recent premarket activity from Tuesday’s close of $78.95. Internet Security rose to $27.66 from Tuesday’s $26 closing price.

Updates-

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/082306-ibm-to-buy-internet-security.html?netht=082306netflash

• SITA’s Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management Enhanced by Selecting Digital Fuel
  Digital Fuel, the leader in software solutions for SLA Management and Service Cost Management, today announced that SITA has selected Digital Fuel’s SLA Management solution to improve the utilization of supplier management resources and increase the pro
  (tags: DigitalFuel BAM SLA Business-Activity-Monitoring)

• IT-Director.com: IBM Buys MRO Asset Management and Service
  Following the completion of acquisition IBM intends to establish MRO Software Operations as a business unit within the IBM Tivoli software unit and to market and sell MRO software products and services through IBM’s and MRO’s sales organizations along wit
  (tags: IBM Tivoli MRO Maximo M&A)
• Oblicore to Host Webinar on Measuring The ROI of ITIL Best Practices; Oblicore and Third Sky to Discuss the Business Case for Adopting ITIL
  Oblicore, a leading provider of service delivery management software and best practices, and Third Sky, the leading full service provide for your ITIL implementation, from education, to process consulting, to technology implementation, today announced tha
  (tags: Oblicore ITIL ITSM webinar)
• Making Decisions in a Blink
  The database is dead. Long live ESP! With the explosion in algorithmic trading has come a voracious appetite for low latency data and a need for a speedy way to query that data. But the old ways of data management-querying a database built by a Sybase or
  (tags: CEP ESP EDA Apama Events)
• Opinion: The linchpin to IT service management
  Q: What are ITIL and ITSM and why do I need to care? Is this just the next ISO 9000 kind of thing that the suits get all excited about but means nothing to us real folks? B.K. Dallas A: They are a bunch of acronyms (the dreaded four-letter kind) that, in
  (tags: ITIL ITSM)

• Enterprise IT Planet Product Guide - FiveRuns Systems Management
  The flagship offering from FiveRuns Corporation, FiveRuns Systems Management is a platform based on Ruby on Rails and AJAX technology that is targeted primarily to SMB admins. The platform provides a browser-based (vendor hosted) interface that allows the
  (tags: FiveRuns SAAS systemsmanagement monitoring)

• Service Modeling Language - insight and other views : “Documenting” Microsoft’s SML-into-Products Efforts
  It has been busy here in Microsoft since the July annoucement of the Services Modeling Language (SML) Specification. There have been meetings with the SML Workgroup communities to create, [SDM and] SML communications to send, and SML blog updates to postï
  (tags: Microsoft SML servicemodel service-modeling-language blogs)
• Service Modeling Language
  Hello! My name is Pratul Dublish and I am a Program Manager in the Dynamic Systems Foundation team at Microsoft. My team is responsible for building the infrastructure and tools for Service Modeling Language (SML). The recent public announcement about SML
  (tags: Microsoft SML servicemodel service-modeling-language Blogs)
• Direct from the Senior Director: SML Podcast Available
  Sam Ramji interviews Praerit Garg on Service Modeling Language for Port 25 (http://port25.technet.com), the blog/podcast portal with a mission to provide “conversation with customers and the industry, wherein people can talk openly and honestly about thei
  (tags: Microsoft SML servicemodel service-modeling-language podcast)
• freshmeat.net: Project details for Java Application Monitor API
  The Java Application Monitor (JAMon) is a free, simple, high performance, thread safe, Java API that allows developers to easily monitor production applications. JAMon can be used to determine application performance bottlenecks, user/application interact
  (tags: Java application_performance appmgmt appmonitoring api)

Just released here.

All tied up into the BSM, CMDB and IT process messaging.

Question - Does BMC have a pure-play BSM solution or are they about the sum of all the parts?

A new draft release of the IBM Redbook is available here.

Description:

The IBM Change Configuration Management Database Configuration Discovery and Tracking Server v1.1 (CCMDB-CTDS) is an agentless deep discovery tool which automatically can discover configuration information of application systems, their components and relationships, as well as installed hardware and software components in a complex computer server environment - and track changes to them over time.

IBM CCMDB-CDTS v1.1 is the core component of IBM’s IT Service Management strategy, and fills the role of Change Management Database, for your implementation of ITIL aligned IT processes.

This book provides help and recommendations on how to get started deploying IBM Change Configuration Management Database Configuration Discovery and Tracking Server v1.1 and provides step-by-step instuctions for setting up scanning in your own environment. In addition, the various interfaces that can be used to integrate CCMDB-CDTS with your existing IT Service Management processes are described.

The information in this book is aimed for IT Specialists who will be responsible for implementing IT Service Management solutions based on IBM Change Configuration Management Database Configuration Discovery and Tracking Server v1.1