Proactively Managing Change
for Today and Tomorrow
The BEZ Vision
BEZ believes companies are starting to cross a threshold where the manual, piecemeal, reactive approach to understanding how change affects IT service delivery is no longer sufficient or cost effective. Industry analysts repeatedly state that the rate of change continues to accelerate, at a blindingly fast pace, along with a corresponding increase in hardware and software complexity that seems to make managing change beyond humanly possible. BEZ is directly addressing this issue by delivering a new class of proactive solution, BEZVision, to manage the rapid and inevitable changes in today's increasingly volatile IT environment.
BEZ combines advanced analytics, 'hands-off' problem notification and powerful predictions to ensure high-quality, low-cost application and database service delivery. This provides IT decision-makers with the necessary time and information to make informed decisions, deploy resources better and ensure that service delivery is isolated from the chaotic effects of constant change. BEZ helps eliminate 'Mean Time To Surprise'.
BEZ combines two unique views of performance in order to fill the gap between the business and technology:
1. Performance By Workloads - A business driven view of performance by workloads analyzes the effects of the infrastructure on business
2. Performance Over Time - Provides a proactive focus that includes a forward-looking view of service delivery ensuring uninterrupted business service and improved resilience to the constant change in today's datacenter.
BEZ develops purpose-built products to help IT managers:
- Insulate application performance from inevitable changes
- Maximize service levels by providing past, present and future performance, failures and impact on business services
- Provide "Business Driven IT"
A Business Lens on Information Technology
BEZ Systems applies advanced analytics and predictive modeling technology to solve important application and database performance issues, frequently while they are still small and before they can negatively impact end-users. Analytics aggregate performance data into meaningful business workloads while modeling provides IT management with historic, current and over-the-horizon views of workload service levels.
By building on the past, proactive IT service organizations need to:
- Connect with the Business: Develop the ability to look at IT through a business lens – this is the ability to translate technology efficiencies into service delivery of key business workloads in business terms that are familiar to both IT management and Business management.
At the core of the BEZ Solution is the ability to measure and track the performance
of business-oriented workloads over time
- View Workloads Over Time: Acquire the ability to look into the future by applying prediction technology to IT issues. There's just not enough time to both react to change and make informed, cost effective, timely decisions. You can use this powerful ability for both near-term tactical (e.g. Problem Isolation or Change Impact Analysis) and longer-term strategic (e.g. Activity Profiling or Performance Planning) management of IT resources.
The BEZVision Solution
Scalable, Flexible, and Extensible
The BEZVision solution was designed to be an extension to existing environments. It includes specifications for a scalable, flexible and extensible services-oriented architecture using open software standards with web-based UI, ease of installation and ease of use. The service oriented design allows BEZVision to cooperate with existing data sources and technologies from other vendors. Future product offerings from BEZ will embed key elements of the BEZVision solution to focus on the multiple service segments within application delivery, for example, in data delivery and processing delivery.
BEZVision is useful for addressing both near-term tactical and longer-term strategic application and database issues
Applying BEZVision – What can it do for you?
BEZVision profiles complex database processing to understand data usage and access patterns, resource consumption and throughput by workload or application, and notifies you of current performance issues. It also provides a guided process to help identify, analyze and resolve service delivery problems quickly. BEZVision allows you to forecast future performance, resource utilization and throughput in order to understand when service levels will be exceeded and throughput levels will degrade to stunt business growth potential.
BEZVision can be used for both reactive (i.e. tactical) support for today's environment and also proactive (i.e. strategic) support for efficiently managing IT change and aligning more closely with the business.
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