Found a unique SaaS play in the Enterprise Monitoring as a service area called TruePath Technologies. One of their very innovative solutions is the use of Google Calendar’s API for visualization of enterprise monitoring data, scheduling and communicating change requests, maintenance windows, etc. They’re also doing some neat portal stuff using Web 2.0 sites like Pageflakes, 24eyes and RSS feeds.
Probably not very scalable for high event volumes, but the idea of using this as a way to communicate critical events or change and downtime windows is nice. I’ve seen some other monitoring related uses of Google Maps for visualizing monitoring status based on location. It’s pretty useful for the visualization of WiFi hot spot coverage without spending huge $$$ on GIS mapping tools.
Is anyone doing neat Web2.0 stuff like dashboards, portals, ITSM, workflow, monitoring, etc. using emerging web development technology?
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