links for 2008-07-17

• Forrester report on Oracle’s Enterprise Manager
  current offering and future plans of Oracle’s IT management group
  (tags: oracleenterprisemanager oracle dbmanagement dbmonitoring monitoring)
• ASG’s New Business Service Platform(TM) (BSP(TM)) Solutions for Performance Management Bridge the Gap Between Mainframe and Distributed Environments – MarketWatch
  distributed performance management, virtualization performance management, enterprise performance management, and z/OS(R) performance and reporting management.

  ** I’m still interested in learning more about ASG’s BSM solution and who uses it. **

  (tags: asg bsm business-service-management)
• Data centres chart course to move up the value chain
  Reliance IDC is already in talks with over 50 technology solutions providers for tie-ups to provide these services. … The company has already entered into a tie-up with Compuware for providing business service management (BSM).
  (tags: bsm business-service-management saas msp compuware proxima vantageservicemanager vantage)
• Helping Business People Understand IT (and Helping IT People Understand the Business)
  effective IT needs to be accomplished in a way that the business can understand. We in IT need to speak the language of business. When problems occur, we need to relay their impact to our business leaders using language they can understand.
  (tags: bsm business-service-management ebook compuware vantageservicemanager)
• ERP for IT (ERP4IT) – An approach to creating greater shareholder value
  The typical cause is a combination of a lack of design plan AND not correlating the business value impact. The latter point on correlating business value impact is usually due to fear of transparency.
  (tags: ERP4IT bsm business-service-management it-value bsm_value)
• Firms struggle with application management
  Nine out of 10 IT managers want to provide different views of the same performance management data sets to different users, yet almost two thirds said that their application performance management software could not deliver this key requirement.
  (tags: appmgmt monitoring questsoftware)
• City of Lompoc Selects Aptilo Networks to Provide Next Generation of Municipal Wi-Fi Service
  software-as-a-service (SaaS) option, the Aptilo Managed Service(TM). With this hosted solution, Aptilo operates the wireless broadband service from one of Aptilo’s Network Operation Centers (NOCs).
  (tags: AptiloNetworks wifi saas msp serviceassurance sqm monitoring)
• Aptilo Networks
  wireless service management platforms designed for service providers, enterprises and municipalities needing rapidly deployable, scalable multiservice solutions to easily manage data and voice services over WiMAX, Metro wireless and WiFi networks.
  (tags: aptilonetworks wifi wireless sqm serviceassurance servicemanagement)
• IBM – Performance Management
  This page is the Performance Management section of the IBM Network Management Newsletter
  (tags: IBM Tivoli performancemgt spamletter)
• IBM – IBM Service Management Newsletter
  The IBM Service Management Newsletter is to assist Service Management Professionals enhance their skills in the management of their organisation’s Service Management products
  (tags: ibm tivoli servicemanagement spamletter)
• IBM – Event Management
  This page is the Event Management section of the IBM Network Management Newsletter
  (tags: IBM Tivoli eventmanagement spamletter)
• IBM – Network Management Newsletter
  The IBM Network Management Newsletter is to assist Netcool Professionals enhance their skills in the management of their organisation’s Network Management portfolio of products.
  (tags: IBM Tivoli networkmanagement spamletter)
• Spiceworks Community – How does Firescope CMDB compare or complement Spiceworks
  How does Firescope CMDB compare or complement Spiceworks… in terms of discovery and monitoring.
  (tags: firescope spiceworks cmdb itsm)

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