That Reduces Cost of Managing Custom Business Application Configurations
Innovative solution removes blind-spots left by today¹s application dependency mapping tools
McLean,
VA and Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit,
Orlando, FL, June 11, 2007‹ Managed Objects, the Business Service
Management Company announced its Application Configuration Manager
(ACM) a new one-of-a-kind solution designed specifically to go beyond
traditional application dependency mapping tools by giving companies a
faster, easier, and automated way to map and manage the relationships,
dependencies, and configurations associated with today¹s custom,
home-grown enterprise business applications.
Home-grown business applications comprise up to 90% of the total application inventory in many of today¹s large enterprises, which depend upon these applications to create competitive differentiation, develop new sales opportunities, and drive top-line revenue. And yet, without expensive, custom-built ³fingerprints², most of today¹s application discovery tools are blind to home-grown business applications. As such, traditional application dependency maps provide an incomplete picture of the IT enterprise, leaving IT operations essentially ³in-the-dark² when trying to evaluate the impact of proposed application changes.
³Without a comprehensive understanding of the IT infrastructure, companies will continue to face significant risks to the business when implementing application changes,² said Ronni Colville of Gartner Research. ³As companies implement their Configuration Management Database (CMDB) strategy, information about home-grown applications is critical to building out a comprehensive (or complete) IT Service view.²
Compounding this situation, today¹s home-grown enterprise applications are highly subject to change in many cases, over 115 times a week, according to the results from a survey of more than 200 U.S. senior corporate executives and IT managers to be released this month by Managed Objects[i] <#_edn1> . With so many changes happening, it¹s no surprise that 61% of survey respondents reported that most IT outages were cause by software applications. Even more alarming, companies reported that IT outages cost them an average of more than $10,000 per hour over the last year.
³Not only are applications changing frequently, but they¹re also getting much more complex especially with the rapid growth of new application architectures such as SOA and web services,² said Siki Giunta, President and CEO of Managed Objects. To keep pace with this growing complexity and rate of change, companies need a solution like ACM that automatically gathers and reconciles the components and dependencies of today¹s home-grown applications -- providing a complete genetic map of critical application configurations from which IT can accurately understand the impact of potential changes before they¹re implemented in production.²
Home-grown applications represent the final frontier for application dependency mapping. What¹s missing from today¹s application discovery tools is an easy and inexpensive way to map the relationships and dependencies of home-grown business applications. Lacking this, discovery vendors create custom-tailored fingerprints to find and map home-grown application data often at tremendous cost and expense to the customer.
Managed Objects ACM leverages innovative technology to collect information about home-grown business applications from a variety of existing configuration data sources. Gathered data is normalized and correlated to form a complete genetic map of an application¹s configuration. Once assembled, this map becomes a critical input into the Managed Objects Server, allowing it to monitor and report on changes to any custom application in real-time.
In addition, because ACM is an integral part of the Managed Objects platform, application configuration data from ACM can be used in conjunction with traditional discovery and event management data to formulate a complete application availability or end-user performance picture ACM data can even be directly input into a corporate CMDB including Managed Objects¹ own CMDB360.
³Managed Objects ACM provides a perfect complement to any new or existing application mapping project,² said Giunta. ³One of Managed Objects¹ core strengths lies in its ability to integrate and correlate ACM with virtually any other traditional discovery data. In doing this, IT organizations not only get a more complete picture of their critical business applications they gain the ability to more accurately manage the changes they make to their overall IT infrastructure as well.²
About Managed Objects
Managed Objects is the Business Service Management Company. Companies use our solutions to more effectively monitor, manage, and model their IT enterprise. Our unique service perspective overlays existing management tools so complex IT infrastructures can be managed, not as a set of components, but rather as the set of services that IT delivers to the business--services like order processing, e-commerce, online trading, or email. Companies that use Managed Objects realize measurable improvements in IT service quality, cost savings, and increased IT responsiveness.
A venture-backed company headquartered in McLean, VA, with operations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific, Managed Objects is consistently acknowledged by leading industry analysts as well as industry leaders like AIB, CSC, Credit Suisse, DISA, Fidelity Investments, JPMorganChase, Progress Energy, Reuters, TIAA-CREF and other global organizations who rely on Managed Objects BSM technology. For more information, visit www.managedobjects.com.
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[i] <#_ednref1> Companies with more than $5 billion in revenue, ³Trends in application change management², a Managed Objects survey of 200 IT Executives and Professionals, June 2007
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