From the monthly archives:

November 2008

BTM Podcast Series: Discussing BTM from IBM Tivoli with Shoel Perelman

by doug on November 28, 2008

I had the pleasure of kicking off my Business Transaction Management (BTM) podcast series one evening last week with Shoel Perelman from IBM Tivoli. Shoel is the Development Manager and Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for the new ITCAM for Transactions product and the ITCAM for SoA product. To learn more about the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management portfolio, visit this site.

Shoel is relatively new to his role, moving from successfully releasing the new Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP) component recently. He’s already got a strong grip on BTM after a short six weeks in the new role and deeply understands its value to Business Service Management (BSM) based on his background where he was instrumental in developing the Micromuse BSM product (Netcool/SLAM, Netcool/RAD and now TBSM v4.x).

Shoel and I talked through various areas including BTM Value Proposition, what exactly BTM is and what components or functions should be in a BTM solution and challenges with BTM Adoption. If you’re new to the concept of BTM, please view some of my thoughts on what it is here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post. I hope you enjoy this podcast. If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Shoel, please leave comments.

If you’re a vendor, subject matter expert or practitioner in the area of Business Transaction Management (BTM) and would like to chat on a podcast, please feel free to contact me directly.

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Business Transaction Management (BTM) Defined

by doug on November 27, 2008

As previously mentioned, I’m starting a new series of podcasts, guest authors and conversations with vendors, subject matter experts and practitioners in this area called Business Transaction Management (BTM).

In this first podcast, I’ve shared my thoughts and views for what I currently think Business Transaction Management is and the foundational components that make up a BTM solution.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

Please share your thoughts and feedback directly or via comments. I look forward to hearing how important you feel BTM is within your company and what you’re doing in this area to enhance your overall BSM Value Proposition.

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Interesting Links for November 26th

Links that I have found interesting for November 26th:

Are retailers' sites ready for an onslaught? – Dennis Drogseth, a vice president at research firm Enterprise Management Associates (and a Network World columnist) also weighed in on the issue of end-user monitoring. He’s seeing a growing interest among companies in so-called Quality of Experience (QoE), which [...]

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The Journey of a IBM Tivoli PULSE 2009 Abstract Submission

Well, I thought I had a great idea for a session in what is to be a “business leader” centric track at our upcoming IBM Tivoli PULSE 2009 conference in February. Apparently, someone didn’t agree. The “presentation police” sent a not so nice “REJECTED” form letter to me recently.
Here’s what they were positioning this track [...]

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Bookmarks for November 17th through November 26th

These are my links for November 17th through November 26th:

How does BSM improve IT Operations' efficiency? – Making Business Service Management a Reality – BSM is all about managing the health of services in a way such that IT's priorities are aligned with the business's priorities – it might almost be better if we called [...]

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Interesting Links for November 17th

Links that I have found interesting for November 17th:

Netuitive Extends Self-Learning Performance Management Capabilities to CA eHealth – Netuitive today announced that its self-learning performance management technology now integrates with leading network management product CA eHealth® Network Performance Manager to give CA eHealth customers greater insight into service health, behaviors and trends. Today's news is [...]

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Interesting Links for November 13th

Links that I have found interesting for November 13th:

Deal Radar 2008: Zyrion – Sramana Mitra on Strategy – Continuing the trend of technology democratization, Zyrion provides mid-market enterprises with business service management (BSM) and IT infrastructure monitoring software. Their flagship BSM product, Traverse, is based on technology that is being used by large enterprises worldwide.
Zyrion’s [...]

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Interesting Links for November 12th

Links that I have found interesting for November 12th:

The cloud’s most important equation – If you build a traditional data center platform for your application, you worry about three variables: The amount of traffic to your site, your capacity to handle that traffic, and the user experience they get, such as latency. The equation looks [...]

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