by doug
on November 30, 2006
Is there such a product or capability in a product that could do enterprise wide scheduling and calendaring? What I’m interested in is not related to people, meeting, conference room scheduling, but more along the lines of enterprise planning, BI, etc. where one could input into such a solution that ‘between the hours of 12pm and 2pm’ are the most critical hours of the day for this business service, application, transaction. Or something that could be the repository for killer business impact information based on BI type data feeds, etc. Or something that bleeds into service catalog/IT cost & usage that could track costs/impacts/revenues for use of business and IT services during a certain period, from a certain location, etc.?
Not sure if this is an SLA type tool as SLA’s and OLA’s may not always necessarily be involved. Something more along the lines of an uber-business-intelligence knowledgebase that’s business service, application, process, transaction, flow, etc. aware.
Just curious…
by doug
on November 28, 2006
I’d been seeing interesting Google hits land on my blog for this for months now. This helps fill out some gaps in network quality and performance management and monitoirng in service provider networks, specifically wireless and radio access networks. This will be part of the Netcool pillar under the Tivoli brand.
From the PR: (link here)
“Vallent is a leading supplier of network performance monitoring and service management software for wireless service providers worldwide. Vallent’s software helps service providers manage the performance of their network infrastructure through monitoring and reporting problem areas such as dropped calls and traffic bottlenecks. It also helps operators improve wireless service quality and identify network problems before they impact a customer’s experience.
The combination of Vallent’s software and IBM’s comprehensive management capabilities will enable service providers to deliver and manage end-to-end high quality services across wireline, wireless, IP and converged fixed/mobile network infrastructures. Adding Vallent to IBM Tivoli Software’s Netcool portfolio creates a broad set of service assurance capabilities spanning fault, network performance and service quality management over a wide array of technologies and third-party equipment and applications. Vallent will augment IBM’s ability to help communications service providers manage their networks as they deploy innovative new services while migrating from legacy to next generation infrastructures.”
