by delicious
on October 1, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for September 30th:
- 100% Cotton: Crazy Markets – I think the market is a leading indicator that people are no longer willing to pay high prices just because "nobody got fired for buying " mentality – cause some of those people that bought shelf ware that does not work are getting fired. I suspect many companies are going to take a hard look at their annual M&S bill and ask themselves "do I really get enough value from the application I'm paying all this M&S on?" or "could the money be spent saving a job, taking better care of my customers, or investing in an alternative solution?" I think you and I know where this is headed – its all about Value.
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by delicious
on September 30, 2008
Links that I have found interesting for September 30th:
- Is Business Activity Monitoring a BI Application? – A question I posed to a LinkedIn group — Is Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) a BI Application? — sparked interesting discussion. I noted and asked, "BAM involves dashboards and analyses for business processes, and BI isn't typically very processy. If not BI, who 'owns' BAM?" There have been 9 responses to date, including two from Howard Dresner, who has done as much as anyone to shape current-day BI. The responses speak to growing interest in operational BI, and they hint at the impact that complex event processing (CEP) will have on enterprise analytics.
- OpTier upgrades transaction monitoring software – CoreFirst 3.0, software that manages application performance by monitoring transactions, is now able to track transactions as they occur to prevent any failures from impacting the overall application and business service. Dubbed "in-flight transaction monitoring," this capability enables IT managers to take corrective measures before a faulty transaction terminates and causes an application to miss performance thresholds (associated with service-level agreements).
- z/OS basic skills information center – Good z/OS info here
by doug
on September 30, 2008
My timings are all off due to my trip to China over the past two weeks but with little external fanfare TBSM v4.2 was released this past Friday. I’m not going to share much in this note and save my reviews of documentation, product, issues, etc. in WYNTKs coming shortly.
For now, you can review the TBSM v4.2 Information Center here and release notes here.
I look forward to hearing your feedback, thoughts, first impressions, first painful experiences, whatever!
