Analytics

December 02, 2011

Gartner's recently published Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring defines “five distinct dimensions of, or perspectives on, end-to-end application performance” which are essential to APM ...

November 11, 2011

Back in the “good” or “bad” old days, life used to be simpler for those of us focused on BSM. Application Management, though strategic, was domain-centric and BSM was where everything came together. But as technologies evolved, and a growing focus on real-time currency, in part due to cloud, caused a combination of panic and realignment in many IT organizations, APM became more cross-domain in nature and BSM became more of a watchword for strategies that get postponed for blue skies and quieter times ...

November 01, 2011

Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, discusses the past and future of APM, and its key components such as analytics and end-user experience monitoring ...

October 17, 2011

This blog is the second in a series to help you getter a better sense of what kind of analytic technologies are available in the market today and how they might best apply to your environment.

September 26, 2011

"Analytics" is -- like many words applied to BSM, service management and the management of applications and networked infrastructures -- a somewhat conflicted term.

September 22, 2011

Today’s market environment demands businesses to change and adapt rapidly according to market dynamics, while still remaining in control. For business, these dynamics can mean sifting through what can amount to petabytes of data to act tactically and strategically ...

April 19, 2011

Defining BSM has always been a challenge. Many tool vendors have their own definitions of BSM, or use other terms such as ITSM, BTM or APM instead of BSM ...

February 09, 2011

Predictive analytics evaluates the current and past and makes predictions about the future ... It is the hidden decision engine that drives many innovative businesses ...

February 09, 2011

In today’s dynamic IT environments, setting thresholds for the various monitoring points in the infrastructure becomes practically impossible. When thresholds are set manually, they will either be too generous to pick up performance issues, or so stringent resulting in a sea of alerts being fired by the monitoring solutions. A new approach is required to ensure that IT can meet constantly changing business needs ...

February 09, 2011

Whether your goal is to improve operational efficiencies, or to provide new services, you need to capture, understand and use all of your data –- analytics must be core to your thinking ...

October 29, 2010

Insight from David Williams, Research VP at Gartner, about the value of behavior learning technologies in virtual environments ...

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