BEZVision: A Predictive Analytic Solution
Predictive Analytics: Complementing Your Good Judgment with a Precise Plan of Action
By F. Daniel Haley, president and CEO, BEZ Systems, Inc.
The Problem…
The vast majority of IT organizations rely predominantly on human judgment for providing performance predictions for their most critical business applications. But, how reliable is human judgment alone? How many factors can the human brain correlate at once? Do you have that "super human" brain that fully understands virtualization, cloud computing, server processing, network latency, application concurrency, etc., and can determine any application issues associated with each discipline for every change you are anticipating? Probably not.
It has been proven time and again that the most accurate predictions result when a combination of human judgment and sound analysis is employed. Now there's a next generation software tool from BEZ Systems, based on sophisticated analytic queueing theory, here to assist in your performance forecasting and planning needs.
A Brief History…
Existing performance tools help IT organizations acquire a better understanding of past key performance indicators. The problem is that they don't help in looking forward to predict what the anticipated performance of your applications will be in the future. Managing future expectations by only looking backward is analogous to driving a car by only looking in the rear view mirror. How can you anticipate the bumps in the road or the changing landscape? That's easy. You can't! Enabling predictive analytics, powered by a analytical modeling engine, opens the door to measurements of the future by allowing organizations to muscle through vast amounts of performance data and provide near real-time analysis essential for tomorrow's insight.
A Solution at Hand…
BEZ Systems is proud to offer BEZVision, a predictive analytic solution, that is easy to install and configure and is capable of running predications in multiple modes; either automated or user-driven.
In automated mode, no involvement of IT personnel is required to make a prediction. BEZVision will take the current performance profile data it has collected, determine, in parallel, the historical usage patterns of the application and will then run a prediction on what performance changes or bottlenecks will occur if the application continues to grow at the same pace as it has historically. Alerts and Notifications can be set up within BEZVision that will analyze these prediction results and will make you aware of any performance issues lurking on the horizon. Notification in advance of a problem occurring provides IT personnel ample time to research the issue and rectify the situation before it ever surfaces as a real problem to their end-users.
In user-driven mode, you take control of the solution and conduct "what-if" analysis against your system of choice. Changes related to application growth, hardware or software configuration, consolidation impacts, etc., can be issued for BEZVision to evaluate. Depending on the type of change that you want to analyze, you are guided through a menu driven process to specify the change or changes to be evaluated. Multiple changes can be coupled together and a timeline for when the anticipated change will occur can be established for each change event. Prediction forecast horizons can cover days, weeks, months or quarters. This allows tactical changes as well as strategic planning to be conducted using the same solution, thereby, saving money and eliminating the learning curve associated with a multiple solution approach.
Recommendations are provided with each prediction run to help totally avoid or at least remediate any upcoming performance problems. Multiple change scenarios can be evaluated against one another to determine the best course of action that should be employed for the system being analyzed. You can even enter a cost value associated with each scenario to allow a cost/performance benefit analysis to be conducted for each prediction run.
BEZVision leverages its proprietary analytic prediction engine algorithms to expedite traditional modeling times from hours to minutes. This allows you to run multiple change scenarios and generate comprehensive justification analyses in a very short period of time and with minimal effort.
BEZVision couples automatic data collection, model calibration, and full optimization engine processing into its results to provide the most robust and accurate predictive analytics solution on the market. A web-based interface and menu driven GUI functionality allows sophisticated predictive analyses to be generated by anyone in the organization that wants to know where they're headed.
With technology constantly evolving and complexity constantly increasing, shouldn't you join the BEZVision revolution now? The only thing you've got to lose are those pesky performance problems. Take the next exit and request a BEZVision trial version today!