{"id":1947,"date":"2009-04-30T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2009-04-30T06:00:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T11:00:54","slug":"interesting-links-for-april-29th-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2009\/04\/interesting-links-for-april-29th-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for April 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for April 29th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com\/soa-talk\/transactions-are-the-currency-for-soa-management\/\">Transactions are the currency for SOA management &#8211; SOA Talk<\/a> &#8211; As has been said elsewhere, &lsquo;tracking the transactions&rsquo; is the name of the game in performance management these days. In SOA and composite applications, with many moving parts, it is a daunting game.\n<p>&ldquo;You have to track each transaction individually. They don&rsquo;t live in one spot,&rdquo; said Ed Horst, Vice President of Product Strategy, AmberPoint.<\/p>\n<p>With transactions, Horst reminds us, &ldquo;the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Each individual piece may be performing per its requirements, but the overall transaction is not.&rdquo; This is something that classic styles of performance tracking can miss. As Horst says: &ldquo;All the &lsquo;lights are green,&rsquo; but the transaction is not completing properly.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itnewsonline.com\/showprnstory.php?storyid=43513\">Enterprise Management Associates Report Names OpTier as Quality of Experience Leader<\/a> &#8211; OpTier(R), the leader in Business Transaction Management(TM) (BTM) for the enterprise, today announced that Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), a leading IT management research and consulting firm, has chosen OpTier as a leader in its recent report titled &quot;An Adopter&#39;s Guide to User Experience Management: How to Pick the Right QoE Solution for You&quot; in the &#39;Application &#8212; Web-only, SOA, Web 2 QoE solution&#39; category. Along with its leadership position, OpTier was ranked as a key player in the &#39;Application Life Cycle&#39; and &#39;Business Impact End User&#39; categories. An excerpt from the report is available at OpTier.com.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are my links for April 29th from 17:14 to 17:16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[989,926,600,604,936,601,603,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-1947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bsm","8":"tag-business-service-management","9":"tag-delicious","10":"tag-itmanagement","11":"tag-itsm","12":"tag-links","13":"tag-read","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}