Increased demands to meet customer service-level agreements often put a great
burden on IT to deliver a robust architecture for application management.
Organizations wishing to deploy a management solution must consider a number
of important requirements. For instance, sufficient monitoring must be in
place to ensure the availability, performance, and system health of deployed
applications and business processes. Additionally, management solutions must
allow IT to control and configure applications. This control is vital to
ensuring that the deployed assets can adapt to change over time.
Meeting these management requirements becomes even more difficult as
organizations must manage components that are distributed and deployed on
heterogeneous operating systems, platforms, and languages. IT management
often requires the merger of a variety of management technologies, s... (more)