Business Activity Monitoring

For over a decade, IT organizations have been plagued by high data warehousing costs, with millions of dollars spent annually on specialized, high-end hardware and DBA personnel overhead for performance tuning. The root cause: using data warehouse database management (DBMS) software, like Oracle and SQLServer that were designed 20-30 years ago to handle write-intensive OLTP workloads, not query-intensive analytic workloads.

Configuration Management is at the heart of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITILŪ) and forms the foundation for Business Service Management (BSM). In fact, it is safe to say that neither the ITIL IT Service Management (ITSM) processes nor the BSM functions that leverage ITSM can be efficiently carried out without accurate configuration and dependency information.

This whitepaper explains how organizations can reduce their energy bills by remotely regulating computers. Topics include typical workplace computer usage, how to calculate your potential energy savings, debunking power management myths, and how you can assign multiple power saving profiles to clients.

Learn why that's so, why traditional log and event management solutions don't provide the answer, and how a modern integrated product does.

There is growing evidence that more pervasive BI and analytics have a direct impact on competitiveness. Better decision making is more important when resources become restricted during a recession, so BI and analytics projects will still appeal to management. However, justifying large capital outlays for software will be challenging unless short-term benefits can be directly correlated with the investment.

If the go-go 1990s, with its fast money and flush credit seeking rapid and steep returns, created the demand for "renaissance" Chief Financial Officers ("CFO"), who could manage (and market) both the strategic and financial operations of the enterprise, the more sobering decade that followed led directly to the creation and subsequent rise of the Chief Procurement Officer ("CPO"), who could reduce costs, build internal relationships, and develop strategic suppliers efficiently and effectively.

This report describes a study of attempts by organizations to improve decision-making through the use of information, among other interventions.

You probably know Stratus Technologies' fault-tolerant ftServer systems and services for delivering uptime of nearly 99.9999% for the world's most essential applications. What you might not know is how effectively - and how simply - our mission-critical Support Services let your enterprise protect this industry-leading availability. Our focus on preventing downtime and data loss brings you much more than basic break-fix support. If you're used to average server support, get ready to experience meaningful differences. One example: It's not uncommon for Stratus Support Services to identify problems before our customers do. Stellar satisfaction ratings of 96% or higher show the value our clients place in these services.

Composite applications can provide multiple benefits, such as business agility, better utilization of business software assets through code reuse, development efficiencies, and cost optimization. Once companies are skilled at deploying them, many find that they roll out new applications and integrations faster, while maximizing the value of "tried and true" software components.

Effective workload automation that provides complete management level visibility into real-time events impacting the delivery of IT services is needed by the data center more than ever before. The traditional job scheduling approach, with an uncoordinated set of tools that often requires reactive manual intervention to minimize service disruptions, is failing more than ever due to todays complex world of IT with its multiple platforms, applications and virtualized resources.

The Actional architecture enables end-to-end transaction monitoring and alerting as well as fast root cause analysis-with cost-effective scalability and high performance. This paper presents a detailed description of the unique technology that makes these and other key characteristics possible.

Learn how-and how much-you can gain in benefits from using Actional Enterprise for managing the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications. This E-kit will help you understand in measurable terms-such as the costs, cost savings, and ROI-of deploying Actional. Simply register and you will receive the resources required to help you build and communicate a business case.

Progress Actional is the leader in delivering management products and solutions for today's interconnected applications - including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about SOA and Web service management technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts and other helpful learning resources.

Learn how-and how much-you can gain in benefits from using Actional Enterprise for managing the operations of your distributed, interconnected applications. This E-kit will help you understand in measurable terms-such as the costs, cost savings, and ROI-of deploying Actional. Simply register and you will receive the resources required to help you build and communicate a business case.

Progress Actional is the leader in delivering management products and solutions for today's interconnected applications - including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Learn more about SOA and Web service management technologies by reading through our broad selection of white papers, on-demand webinars, podcasts and other helpful learning resources.

IDC Report: Complex Event Processing Opportunity Analysis and Assessment of Key Products Read this excerpt of the 2009 IDC study by Maureen Fleming and Jeff Silverstein looking at complex event processing. The excerpt includes IDC opinion on the market for CEP, what defines CEP and independently profiles Progress Apama, which was ranked "Top CEP Innovator" in the report.

How a CRM project is planned, implemented, and promoted is crucial when it comes to adoption. In this whitepaper you'll learn how to avoid some common pitfalls that often hinder adoption, such as lack of executive endorsement, IT constraints, structural inflexibility and more. Prepare for the pitfalls before implementation and your return on CRM investment will soar.

Virtualization is now mainstream. Enterprises continue to heavily invest in virtualization projects and while short term hardware and cost saving benefits are being achieved, few enterprises achieve anywhere close to the full potential of virtualization as they struggle with new problems like assuring performance and availability, preventing VM sprawl, and maximizing resource utilization

Learn why insurers need a 360-degree view of each customer covering his or her entire experience with the company in order to provide products and service that stand out from the crowd. See how IT that supports integrated, end-to-end business processes can also increase insurer responsiveness and customer loyalty.

Siemens is one of the largest technology companies with six major business divisions. They chose DB2 and SAP for scalability, performance, increased savings, and lower TCO.

Social media allows people to be more connected than ever before and the mediums available for marketing are changing rapidly as new technologies come available. Online users are communicating in real time and every brand in the world is being caught up in the conversation whether they are participating or not.

Reduce the long, after hours finger pointing through proactive performance monitoring all while facilitating collaboration and driving organizational efficiencies.

Forrester Research has named Apama as a standout leader in the complex event processing (CEP) platform market in The Forrester Wave: Complex Event Processing Platforms, Q3 2009 Report. The Report evaluated nine CEP platform vendors based on a comprehensive set of evaluation criteria.

How can a professional services firm grow profitably while providing clients with the higher-quality service and rock-bottom project pricing they demand? The firm must rely on leading best-practice solutions to gain control over every aspect of its business – from business development to resource planning to client billing.

To meet the challenges of intense competition and increasing customer demands, companies must tightly align their IT service management with business issues and priorities. This paper outlines the maturity steps involved in the progression towards proactive Business Service Management (BSM) and explains how ASG's metaCMDB helps secure its seamless adoption.