Bookmarks for July 7th through July 9th

These are my links for July 7th through July 9th:

• Why Business Transaction Management is not average – Today many IT vendors are providing Business Transaction Management capabilities that focus on monitoring business transactions rather than tiers. The guiding principle is to track all business transactions across all tiers all of the time providing customers with complete visibility and definitive data. In the same way that a school teacher finds out Billy started the class riot by super gluing Stephanie’s hair to the table you can find out why an individual business transaction ran slow because you know exactly how long that business transaction spent in each tier it flowed through. You can therefore identify and isolate business impact in seconds.
• Veeam Business View Released, Veeam Reporter Enterprise Updated – Veeam Business View automates the use of VMware’s native custom attributes to categorize VMs. Business View also allows editing the attributes manually for one or multiple VMs at a time, or automatically based on pre-defined rules. For example, VMware administrators can define an automated rule such as “if a VM has retail in its name, add it to the Retail Banking category.”
• Coradiant acquires the assets of Symphoniq – "Coradiant shares the vision that the best approach to Web application performance management is from the end-user perspective," said Hon Wong, CEO and co-founder of Symphoniq and previously a co-founder at NetIQ, in a statement. "The integration of the two organizations provides an exciting and powerful position to achieve continued leadership in the market, and to continue delivering cutting-edge management capabilities for Web applications."
• Strategy Map « Manage By Walking Around – Standard BSC strategy map with four perspectives
• Strategy shouldn’t be static « Manage By Walking Around – Strategy clearly dictates execution. Execution can influence strategy. This two-way street is why we have adjusted the phrase to “closing the gap between strategy and execution.”