One of the keys of a maturing Business Service Management deployment and solution rests heavily on insight into the key critical business service and application transactions. These are the things that businesses live and die by. They’re what get things done. They’re the “movers and shakers” that flow through the IT environment and when things go wrong, are often the most difficult to identify, isolate and repair. I had no fewer than five tools helping in this area when I ran the tools group at EarthLink. The mature BSM deployment will leverage insight and visibility into these business transactions, understand the impact on the business when one fails or performs poorly and ultimately have an intimate understanding of how the broader IT environment supports and enables business transactions to get things done.
Keep an eye on these up and comers!
Correlsense: Business Transaction Management – beautifully explained here. “The goal is to track every transaction end to end and correlate to the information collected from the infrastructure. Such an end-to-end view enables to quickly isolate and troubleshoot the root cause of performance problems and start tuning proactively. This application-centric information base enables a group of professionals working together to “speak” the same language and focus on facts, rather than guesswork.” Looks like they have a good pitch to start off with. Yet another agent though. Their CTO’s blog (ex-IBMer) has a nice intro post as well! 🙂
Correlix: “Business Transactions not performing as expected, affecting your customers, partners and revenues, and wondering how to resolve the problem? Correlix delivers a transaction performance management platform enabling companies to automatically discover, trace and optimize transactions across all layers of the enterprise data center. Correlix’s network based CorrelixTM, understands the heterogeneous nature of today’s complex data center and uniquely supports a wide variety of technologies agnostic to operating systems, applications, protocols deployed without interfering with production operations.” No product information on the website yet.
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I am responsible for application monitoring for my company. We are evaluating insideApps from deterMyne Corporation and till now have been very impressed with what they have. Their website is in the process of coming up and will be ready (according to them in a week’s time). They have very good materials, a blog and a live demo site where you play with the product. I would strongly recommend folks to looks at http://www.determyne.com also.
Raj,
Looks like these guys have quite a lot of work to do. I can’t see what they’re really up to nor real product or solution details. Let me know how you progress with things!
Doug
I am the founder of this company and the product. I have been guided to this by one of our evaluators. I would be very happy to go through the demo or answer any questions that you might have.
Basically the product helps you to corelate, trace and monitor transactions from HTTP server to mulitple J2EE containers to Database without requiring any manual instrumentation with very little overheads. It has deep granular transaction contextual metrics that could help and pinpoint performance bottlenecks and potential reasons.
The site is up and has white paper, screenshots, a live demo.
Thanks,
Rajiv
More information about BTM can be found at:
http://www.correlsense.com/business-transaction-management.html