BEZVision Application Solution
Powerful Predicitve Analytics for IT Support Proactive Application Performance Management
BEZ is in the Predictive Analytics business for IT. It's similar in concept to Predictive Analytics for CRM where things like credit scores and propensity for products to be purchased are quantified for tomorrow based on information available today.
BEZVision takes a similar approach by exploiting patterns found in historical performance data. It then identifies performance risks in the future to give IT professionals adequate time to make necessary corrections before end-user response time problems occur.
BEZVision acts in synergy with existing performance and analytic tools and uses performance data collected by these more traditional systems. The results obtained by using BEZVision with traditional performance tools are unparalleled throughout the industry by providing a much needed forward-looking perspective on workloads and applications.
Significant Challenges for IT Managers
Increased emphasis on newer and better applications is helping to drive exponential data growth, along with more database users and increased pressure to make more data available for these applications. The demand for changes, updates and new functionality is constant and the rate of change is constantly increasing. This often leaves IT Managers and application administrators juggling many competing demands from both business units and other technology groups in the organization. IT managers and staff are being asked to do more with less while also promoting better alignment of IT with the needs of the business. It has become incumbent upon them to ensure the smooth deployment and management of new applications that will perform as needed by the business entities requesting them. As a result, many IT Managers are faced with significant challenges that require a predicitve management approach. Some of the more important issues are:
- Greatly increased resource consumption load on the application tier
- 'Out of Control' server resource consumption
- Rapidly deploying newer and better performing applications
- Server consolidation and server re-hosting
- Large increase in number of users
IT Managers and staff too often find themselves reacting to problems in the application environment as they arise. For any of the issues mentioned above, this is not a winning strategy. These issues benefit greatly from a predictive approach that can help turn apparent problems into real business opportunities.
BEZVision™ for Application Servers is an automated management solution enabling IT professionals to deliver high performing, uninterrupted application services to the business at the lowest cost. It does this by analyzing, notifying and predicting resource consumption, performance and throughput by individual workload. BEZVision was specifically designed to deliver much needed analysis and expert advice to you with minimal intervention.
BEZVision automatically profiles complex application processing by workloads to understand data usage, resource consumption and workload throughput. BEZVision notifies you of current performance issues and provides a guided process to help identify, analyze and quickly resolve service-level issues. BEZVision arms you with the information needed to steer the direction of your efforts through powerful "what if" capabilities for near term performance improvements and longer term infrastructure changes. BEZVision provides in-depth analysis, prediction and advice in the three major system components:
- CPU
- Disk I/O
- Thread Pools, Heap Size and Connection Pools
Powerful Predictive Capabilities that Yield Solid Results
Based on its core prediction technology, BEZVision combines performance management and capacity planning as core disciplines supporting the need to understand current and future application service delivery expectations for key lines-of-business. The BEZVision prediction engine provides powerful capabilities that look ahead to identify performance bottlenecks or service delivery breaches on the horizon. This information provides users with enough time to properly plan and compare alternatives to find the most cost-effective remedy, whether it is implementing simple tuning recommendations or a major infrastructure upgrade.
Confidently Plan and Manage Application Service Delivery
The BEZVision Prediction Engine uses current and historic performance data to understand service levels, create performance profiles that represent the unique performance footprint of each line of business and predict future service levels with automatic notification of potential service breaches in the near- and long-term future. BEZVision automatically suggests remedial action for avoiding shortfalls in service delivery when a potential performance or capacity breach is detected. BEZVision provides detailed advice to promote confident decision-making. With BEZVision, IT Managers are in a position to ensure smooth and well managed application service delivery by accurately identifying changes that will be needed to properly align application performance and capacity with the needs of the business.