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BTM Podcast: Architecture and Deployment Planning for IBM Tivoli ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 with Gulf Breeze Software Part 1

by doug on January 19, 2009

in Best Practices, BSM, BTM, BTM Podcast, Business Service Management, Business Transaction Management, E2E Service Management, IBM, Implementation, ITCAM for Transactions, Podcasts, Tivoli, Transaction Management, Value

I’ve spent some time over the past week really digging into the IBM Tivoli ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product. In the next few podcasts, I will focus on the area I feel most critical to its success being the architecture, design and deployment planning phases as well as how to ensure long term success once it has been deployed and operationalized. You may want to review my BTM podcast with the Development Manager for ITCAM for Transactions Shoel Perelman.

In this first two part podcast, I speak with Gulf Breeze Software, one of IBM Tivoli’s Accredited Business Partners for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Dr. Frank Tate and the Gulf Breeze Software team have recently completed one of the few client deployments for this new software release. Frank and I speak in detail about everything related to the architecture, design, deployment planning, deployment into operations and lifecycle needed for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Frank is also a regular poster to the Gulf Breeze Software blog where he often shares very useful insight, tips and best practices for many of the IBM Tivoli software products. Take a look at the great post on TBSM!

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM or the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product for myself or Frank please leave comments. If you currently utilize the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product, I’d love to hear from you! 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.

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Interesting Links for January 16th

by delicious on January 17, 2009

in General

Links that I have found interesting for January 16th:

How Apdex provides the best view into response times – ** If you're not doing this, why? You should be!!! Key component of BQE and broader value prop for BSM **
Measuring what matters
Response-time numbers on their own don't really tell you what applications are in trouble. Apdex is an open standard that defines a better way to report response-time measurements, and the best part is it can be applied to any existing measurements. Here's how it works.

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Interesting Links for January 15th

by delicious on January 16, 2009

in General

Links that I have found interesting for January 15th:

Oh, Now it’s legacy IT that’s dead. Huh? « Adventures in systems land – transaction networks, transaction volume, transactions in legacy networks
Is SOA dead? « Adventures in systems land – transactions transaction transactions
Business Transaction Management (BTM) http://dougmcclure.net/blog/business-transaction-management/
Best Practices Integration Of IBM Tivoli Monitoring & Tivoli Business Services Manager For Databases – A Dashboard for DBA's – This package provides a set of rec's and a sample implementation of a set of the out of the box best practices integration of ITM and TBSM targeting DB Applications and DBA.
The integration contained in this pacakge and described in the associated white paper allow customers to bring database availability and performance information (events, KPIs, etc) from ITM for DB (DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) into TBSM dashboard in an optimal way for DBA and DB SMEs.

This integration creates out of the box service trees with selected KPIs, pre-defined DB topology, customer canvas and events views. Best practices dashboards for DBA and for DB experts are created using these views.

This integration consists of the Best Practices paper with steps required to deliver the integration and the package with configuration/scripts/etc associated to the best practices. The paper is located on the Tivoli Wiki Central. The scripts and configuration files are contained here.
IBM Tivoli OMNIbus and Network Manager v8.1 – IBM® Tivoli® OMNIbus and Network Manager V8.1 delivers consolidated Event and Network management, as a single offering. This provides Fault, Performance and Network Management delivered in an integrated offering.

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