by delicious
on December 9, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for December 9th:
- Knoa Software Receives Positive Review in Butler Group Technology Audit – Knoa, the leading provider of end-user experience and performance management software, today announced the results of a technology audit, conducted by Butler Group evaluating Knoa's flagship product, Experience and Performance Manager (Knoa EPM). In this independent, objective evaluation Knoa's capabilities for end-user monitoring and performance management were found to be innovative, pioneering and mission-critical.
- One brand new product and two major enhancements to the BSM stack – Vienna HP Software Universe 2008 – HP Operations Manager i (Part of HP Operations Center) is our next-generation consolidated event and performance management product following on from HP Operations Manager.
Internally, we call it OMi. Three keys about OMi…
* You can take events from anywhere into OMi because it sits directly on top of our CMDB which holds business transaction, user experience, application, middleware, and infrastructure information.
* OMi does root event analysis using the discovered service dependency map held in the CMDB. This means that only root events are shown in the console and subsequent events caused by the root event are hidden.
* OMi gives you more than simply an "event stream" view of the world. It can also give you a service health view of the services you are responsible for. The exact make-up of a service's health is up to you – it will obviously include availability and performance, but it can also include the number of open incidents, for example.
by delicious
on December 8, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for December 8th:
- Startup Of The Week: Zyrion — Business Service Management – As IT environments become more complex because of service-oriented architectures, virtualization, and other new technologies, it's harder to see the connections between IT infrastructure and business operations. Business service management illuminates those connections. While most BSM software is meant for large enterprises, Zyrion aims for the midmarket.
- Do IT and the business speak the same language? « CIO Conversations on Infrastructure – So how to begin bridging the divide:
1. IT folk, please learn the business your organisation is in. Be very clear where the next pay check comes from and be passionate about helping the business compete and succeed. Learn how to do basic financial management and understand how to create a business case for IT.
2. Business folk should find ways to embed themselves into IT so that there is a natural cross pollination of ideas and understanding. IT can make a big difference to your success so don’t take IT for granted – work with your IT department and treat them like an internal services organisation. Be a good customer to the IT department and they will be good to you.
- TIBCO Reveals Industry's Most Flexible Statistics-Driven Analytic Platform – Spotfire S+ enables statisticians and business analysts to prototype, test, and deploy analytics much faster than with alternative statistical modeling environments. It delivers a wider range of robust statistics tools, as well as improved deployment and integration capabilities that help business analysts and researchers make informed and reliable decisions at critical points across the organization. By adding the advanced predictive analytics of Spotfire S+ products to the Spotfire Enterprise Analytics platform, TIBCO is empowering customers to gain deeper insights into their critical information and speeding the deployment of advanced analytics throughout the enterprise.
- AmberPoint Enhances Governance and Management Capabilities for Microsoft SOA Platform – By ensuring its software delivers visibility and control across Microsoft's latest and emerging SOA solutions, AmberPoint brings greater end-to-end governance and business transaction management capabilities across composite application environments. AmberPoint also announced that it has joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance Program, a partner ecosystem that helps facilitate integrated systems management solutions.
by doug
on December 1, 2008
I’ve been watching the development of a new startup to the Business Transaction Management (BTM) space named Correlsense for quite a while now. I was probably most attracted to this new moniker called “Business Transaction Management” and the “spicy” blog of their CTO Lanir Shacham. Something about his tone that just “feels right” with me.
Correlsense is positioning their flagship SharePath product as the “Next Generation of Application Performance Management”. Lanir paints his vision of one consolidated BTM platform that becomes the leading IT datacenter management solution incorporating components of user experience management (UEM), application performance management (APM) and business transaction management (BTM). As he says, the days of multiple point products from one or more vendors to cover individual technology silos are short lived. This vision is in perfect alignment with mine and the broader BSM Value Proposition nicely incorporating key components of a maturing and value oriented BSM strategy.
The ability of the SharePath product to go “end-to-end” in a relatively short amount of time was a clear message from part one of our discussion. We establish what BTM means to Correlsense and how BTM will address the countless problems with supporting complex applications and end-to-end transactions in today’s modern IT datacenters. Lanir has considerable depth and detailed hands on experience in this area and it’s evident in our discussion. He’s lived through countless war room firefights trying to identify, isolate and resolve complex application performance and transaction problems. He brings tremendous credibility to what Correlsense is striving to become.
You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post. In part two, we’ll continue to dive into the BTM area and learn more about how SharePath works. I hope you enjoy this first podcast. If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Lanir, please leave comments.
If you’re a vendor, subject matter expert or practitioner in the area of Business Transaction Management (BTM) and would like to chat on a podcast, please feel free to contact me directly.
