Let us see if we can find the five leading reasons (maybe more, maybe less) for why we need a proactive or predictive solution these days.<\/p>\n
#1: I don’t have effective change control in place that spans into and incorporates the monitoring that I do on end point systems, applications and services. <\/p>\n
#2: My boss wants me to “do more with less” so I need to figure out a way to clean up the mess I have today in my resource monitoring and event management solution.<\/p>\n
#3: I know that when this thingy begins to slow down and that thingy drops packets that my transactions begin to fail. Now how do I write that policy to correlate all my thingys?<\/p>\n
#4: My tool is better than your tool. I need to figure out a way to make you believe that your tool is always wrong so you’ll work my trouble ticket.<\/p>\n
#5: My manager told us that we need to become more proactive. I sent the dba an email to tell him that we were going to have an outage to this database in three hours. He’d already gone home for the day.<\/p>\n
These are tongue in cheek, but the underlying themes of each one are very valid in nearly all operations and application support groups. Why are we interested in predictive and proactive tools when we probably don’t have our own house in order in the first place?<\/p>\n
How would you write the business justification and capital purchase plan to explain why you need them? How will you quantify your reasoning? Are you willing to give up one or more FTEs to purchase this solution? Have you had an honest look into the far reaching corners of your organization to see where the real root causes may be that spark your interest in these solutions? Are you ‘really’ ready to try and be proactive or predictive? Are you ‘really’ doing reactive well? What does predictive and proactive really mean to you? How would you describe the core capabilities such a solution should have? How would you associate expected value and ROI from having those capabilities? Where should we be looking elsewhere for help in these areas (BI, operational BI, BPM, BAM, analytic databases, statistical modeling and forecasting, etc.)<\/p>\n
Please share your thoughts and ideas on why proactive and predictive solutions are of interest these days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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