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Once again, industry giants Microsoft and IBM racked up the most awards, topping the voting with nine and eight awards each, respectively–a testament to their broad portfolios. Oracle followed close behind, with the PeopleSoft and Siebel acquisitions hel
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InfoVista, a service-centric performance-management software provider, has awarded multiyear offshore development deal to Ness Technologies, an IT services and solutions provider.
Under the terms of the contract, Ness Technologies will establish a Resear
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Much of the information that companies use to make operational decisions is either fragmented or out of date by the time it becomes available to management. This issue persists despite major advances in process automation and computerized monitoring. The
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The demand for real-time event analysis is constantly increasing. As consumers, we have high expectations that the businesses we deal with can identify and react to our transactions and issues instantaneously. Consumers and businesses alike are starting t
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Compuware Corporation (Nasdaq: CPWR – News) today announced that it has acquired privately held Proxima Technology for approximately $31 million, net of cash. Headquartered in Denver, and with key offices in Australia and the United Kingdom, Proxima has a
“Sleeper” Compuware announced today that it intends to purchase Proxima Technology. The press release indicates that Proxima’s Centauri product will become part of the Vantage suite.
Compuware has some good products and technologies of which I’ve used quite a few in the Vantage suite. They’ve made some key acquisitions over the past couple of years but I haven’t seen or heard much on how well they’ve been integrated into the suite. I thought the Adlex acquisition was a good one but it’s positioning and marketing has been relatively quiet. I’m not sure how well Compuware can or will carry the Business Service Management message or if they’ll just use this as a much needed improvement for the “top layer” dashboard and visualization needed to mend, patch and fix poor architectural choices in the Vantage suite, especially with the main user interface and dashboard. It was in need of significant work when I used it in the past. I’d bet this is a key driver for this acquisition.
This should make for some interesting discussions around here and potentially more work! It’s always fun to watch the new year come in and speculate on what it may bring. I wonder if there will be more M&A in this space this year by the big players looking to fill gaps, the smaller combining forces or a BSM/SLM convergence. Managed Objects, Digital Fuel, Oblicore, Netuitive, Indicative, OpTier, Magnum, etc. are all potential M&A targets now probably in that order. Then there’s BMC, who may revisit their definition of Business Service Management and seek to fill their gap with a pure play BSM solution rather than their ITSM based BSM story in place today.
I’m enjoying my holiday break and have been able to get caught up some on my “to-do” list. I’ve submitted the following best practice, how to and engagement methodology “field guides” to the internal Tivoli Services knowledge library (ICE). I assume that any IBM’er can request access to this repository. I plan to get these released via the OPAL repository process for general client and partner use as well. Ping me for more information.
How To:
- Incorporating Text, String or VARCHAR Data into Netcool/RAD 3.0 or TBSM 4.1 Tree View Scorecards
- Enabling a Full Netcool/RAD 3.0 – TBSM 4.1 Internal Database Schema and Data Backup
Best Practices:
- Back Up Best Practices for Netcool/RAD 3.0 and TBSM 4.1
Engagement Methodology:
- Netcool/RAD 3.0 and TBSM 4.1 Requirements Discovery Interview Questions
- Netcool/RAD 3.0 and TBSM 4.1 Application Discovery and Modeling Interview
- Netcool/RAD 3.0 and TBSM 4.1 Template Portfolio
- Netcool/RAD 3.0 and TBSM 4.1 Service Instance Portfolio