links for 2008-02-07

Open source BI projects, such as the Eclipse Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), JasperForge and the Pentaho BI Project are maturing, experts say

(tags: Eclipse BIRT Pentaho Jasper OSS BI reporting visualization)

IT developers increasingly find that embedding BI and reporting tools into applications is an effective way to meet the information needs of users and customers.

(tags: bi oss eclipse birt pentaho jasper reporting visualization)

This new capability in IBM Dashboard Accelerator software will help companies extract business data and present it in new, different and more meaningful contexts through their IBM WebSphere Portal applications.

(tags: IBM Cognos BI dashboards portal websphere)

In that spirit, these blog posts will mostly take a lighter look at network management. After all, networks are complicated. Network management doesn’t have to be.

(tags: packettrap blog)

quickly become familiar with a given CIM object model (CIMOM) by connecting to a CIM Object Manager server and visually interacting with a given object model. Users can automatically list classes, relationships, and attributes and perform path analysis.

(tags: CIM DMTF alphaworks servicemodel modeling)

John Willis, an IBM Tivoli veteran with over 25 years of experience in the software industry has entered into a long term exclusive partnership with Intelligium, a leader in providing Tivoli and Websphere services globally.

** Congrats John! **

(tags: Intelligium Zabovo johnwillis)

In just a few clicks, you can have your favorite open source applications up and running.

(tags: opensource software installation)

Recommended procedures for installing and configuring TADDM, tips and techniques for populating the TADDM database and customizing its use, performance considerations, and information about how TADDM integrates with operational management programs.

(tags: IBM Tivoli TADDM appdisco discovery)

practical guide to implementing, using and optimizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, including best practices for performance tuning, sizing, high availability, scalability, reporting, CCMDB integration and firewall considerations.

(tags: IBM Tivoli redbook ITM monitoring implementation)

Cassatt software makes data centers more efficient

(tags: virtualization grid automation software datacenter)

Prior to joining Packeteer, Agostino was chief marketing officer at Integrien Corporation, a provider of integrity management solutions

Hmmm

(tags: Integrien Packeteer CMO execs)

Extends Coradiant’s existing expertise to reach deeper into IT Management, while at the same time broadening reach to stakeholders within the enterprise. Eric Chan and Avinash Kaushik bring both the experience and expertise to support this endeavor.

(tags: Coradiant advisoryboard)

Well, first of all, here in The Netherlands we are fond of process models. The models we added so far to the ITSM-world are ASL (Application Services Library) and BiSL (Business Information Services Library).

(tags: ITSM ASL BISL ITIL+ EIEIO processmodel)

Read this short white paper on the integration of EMC Smarts and System Center Operations Manager 2007.

(tags: Microsoft EMC SMARTS SCOM esm monitoring networkmanagement systemsmanagement)