links for 2008-01-18

Our esteemed competitors at IBM Tivoli are organizing a BarCamp focused on the use of ITM for BSM. Should be very interesting if they manage to convince a good group that this is a valuable way to spend a weekend.

(tags: devcamp, devcamptivoli)

dynaTrace software® is a leading global provider of innovative Application Performance Management and Diagnostics solutions headquartered in Boston/USA and Linz/Austria:

* Monitor performance
* Diagnose and resolve issues
* Ensure uptime

(tags: dynatrace appmgmt applicationperformancemanagement user-experience monitoring)

Correlix delivers a transaction performance management platform enabling companies to automatically discover, trace and optimize transactions across all layers of the enterprise data center.

(tags: correlix transx-monitoring monitoring performancemgt)

Correlsense develops the next generation of IT systems monitoring and management solutions.The Company has developed unique patent-pending technology for tracking, modeling and prioritization of transactions for multi-tier topologies.

(tags: correlsense transx-monitoring performancemgt transxmgmt btm businesstranxmgmt)

Well I am a goddam freakin’ monkey, and proud of it! And I want us monkeys to overthrow the slow, lazy, banana-eating gorillas who are inflating our daily jobs with mediocre experiences.

(tags: correlsense blog)

Nimsoft sees the Big Four as its main competition. It does acknowledge hearing more about Indicative Software, a company that is similarly taking on the Big Four in service-level management, but believes it can still beat Indicative on entry pricing.

(tags: nimsoft analyst reviews)

The article goes on to offer an excellent primer on digital dashboards. Take a look at this diagram which sums up the good design / bad design points discussed.

(tags: dashboards design visualization bestpractices)

EMC, Hewlett-Packard, or Symantec will purchase Compuware. Why? Compuware is installed everywhere and the mainframe piece is especially valuable as it can get these vendors into deals where IBM has virtually no competition.

(tags: M&A EMC HP symantec Compuware IBM)

(tags: opensource bi reporting jasperreports birt analytics)

Provides a full spectrum of open source Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities including reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, data integration, and a BI platform that have made it the world’s most popular open source BI suite.

(tags: opensource bi reporting)