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Best-in-Class organizations are taking an additional critical step and are measuring application performance not only from the perspective of their data center components, but also from the end user perspective.

For BMC, the BladeLogic buy gave its Business Service Management (BSM) business a significant shot in the arm, industry watchers say.

In a way, Spiceworks is providing a framework for users to “open source” select aspects of the product and the community in a controlled fashion. Spiceworks is providing good moderation of the user-generated content.

“With proper process and organizational planning, CMDBs can reduce mean time to repair or overall downtime by as much as 70 percent,” says ASG’s Chief Technology Officer, John Connor.

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State of Kansas was mandated to find ways to consolidate operations and boost staff productivity… Ultimately, we experienced improved network availability and performance, increased staff efficiencies and lowered operational expenses.

# Should traditional management frameworks be given a second look?
# Do system mgmt framework tools remain a good choice only for the largest of shops?
# Does open source provide a viable alternative?
# Are there alternatives to commercial frameworks?

Event-driven architecture (EDA) and complex-event processing (CEP) provide early problem detection and predict future threats and opportunities before they materialize. They enable the situation awareness and sense-and-respond behavior enterprises need.

Key to this is event driven data integration, in-memory data, predictive analytics and rules engines.

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Lombardi dismissed the move, saying it makes IBM little more than a “bottom feeder”: “Clearly this was a bottom-feeder acquisition for IBM,” said a Lombardi, after CBR asked for comment on the deal. “This is a non-event, especially in the BPM ma

But to succeed against its main competitors in the BSM market, ASG has to transition from best-kept secret to most-visible IT management software challenger.

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Even if consensus is restored, different choices are being made across corporate boundaries and then mergers and acquisitions take place throwing the whole organization into disarray again.

Anytime there is a difference in reward or perspective (e.g., operations focused on reliability, Enterprise architecture focused on flexibility) there will be opportunities to resolve conflict.