IBM Tivoli
Composite Application Management
The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management Solution increases the performance and availability of business-critical applications, including portal and SOA-based technologies by delivering real time problem resolution to the right experts through a portal-based end-to-end view of services, transactions and associated resources.
The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management Solution brings together data from multiple applications and multiple sources (such as Web servers, J2EE application servers, integration middleware and mainframe systems), to deliver clearer enterprise insight and effective problem resolution.
Business processes draw on a variety of separate sources for business logic and data and enterprises typically rely on a variety of disparate monitoring tools to manage and ensure the integrity of these individual resources. As a result problem identification and resolution lacks unity or strategy, requiring additional time and unnecessary resource to identify, isolate and fix.
The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management solution delivers an integrated solution to automatically monitor, analyze and resolve problems at the service, transaction, application and resource levels to ensure organisations efficiently isolate, diagnose and fix business-critical application performance problems to reduce IT lifecycle costs across operations, support and development.
Using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal administrators and experts are able to visualise problem information and customise performance metrics to suit their exact requirements, allowing them to ensure resources are working to best business effect, and to plan for future performance.
By directly linking operations and development IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management solutions ensures IT staff resolve incidents effectively by facilitating the information flow between Operations, Development and Support groups.
The Tivoli composite application management solution is designed to help organisations:
- Monitor services and response times to detect potential slowdowns or performance bottlenecks before the end-user is affected
- Mediate services and enforce policies
- Trace transactions and accurately diagnose problems by drilling down to the root cause
- Monitor and adjust resources to ensure they are used efficiently
The Tivoli solution addresses all three dimensions of effective application management:
- Services and Transactions (service level response times and problem isolation)
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Response Time Tracking quickly identifies and isolates bottlenecks by providing an end-to-end transaction management solution that can proactively recognize, isolate and resolve end user response time performance problems - IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for SOA monitors, manages and controls the Web services layer to identify the source of bottlenecks or failures.
- Applications (deep-dive diagnostics and correlation across subsystems)
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphereHelps increase the performance and availability of business-critical applications through real-time problem determination across subsystems through drill-down diagnostics for J2EE, CICS and IMS application performance problems.
Business Benefit:
- Establish an application management solution for high availability and performance across the entire enterprise through a single portal interface
- Build an on demand environment that can respond quickly in a fast-changing world
- Provide the right real time diagnostics and reports to the right experts to ensure swift resolution and informed decision making
- Refine resource management and reduce cost by deploying intelligent fixes before problems become significant
- Ensure effective policy management and compliance through a unified strategy for problem definition and control
- Align IT strategy to genuine business goals
- Generate swift ROI and reduce cost to value by reducing incident