Managed Objects ADM Solution

So, what's in your IT infrastructure? If someone were to ask you which applications are running on each server in your enterprise, could you tell them? Better yet, do you know which hardware and software components your critical production applications depend upon to run smoothly? When someone makes a significant change to an application or IT component in your production environment, do you secretly cross your fingers and hope that nothing breaks?

What if you had an easy, automatic way to discover all of the applications and IT components in your IT enterprise? Better yet, what if that same solution could give you an accurate map of your applications and IT infrastructure - not only your IT elements and their attributes, but also their relationships and dependencies as well? Imagine a solution that also combined advanced analytics that let you easily perform such complex tasks as impact, gap, or drift analysis against your changing IT infrastructure? Well, Managed Objects has that solution today... we call it Application Dependency Mapping (ADM).

Managed Objects ADM Lifecycle

Managed Objects ADM delivers a comprehensive application and IT infrastructure discovery and mapping solution formulated in two seamlessly integrated products -- Managed Objects Business Technology Insight™ (BTI) and Application Configuration Management™ (ACM).

Managed Objects BTI is an appliance-based discovery tool that provides complete active and passive agent-less discovery capabilities to map out even the most complex IT infrastructure - from hardware-based devices like servers, routers, and switches to packaged applications like SAP, Peoplesoft and Oracle applications. With BTI, users can see a complete picture of the elements that comprise their IT infrastructure - as well as the properties, or attributes, that make up each of the IT elements within their enterprise. To learn more about Managed Objects BTI Discovery solution, click here.

For companies looking for an automated solution to map relationships and dependencies for home-grown applications without the need for the custom-built "fingerprints" there's Managed Objects Application Configuration Manager™ (ACM).

Managed Objects' ACM is a solution to effectively manage home-grown application changes by automating the collection, correlation, and management of configuration data associated with these applications and their dependencies. ACM combines innovative technology with a unique 5-Step continuous process and professional services "know-how" to automate the definition, identification, and modeling of application components along with their relationships and dependencies. The result is a complete "genetic map" of the application - stored within an ACM repository in the form of a set of Managed Objects Personas™.

ACM uses its library of Personas to provide a complete model of the business application landscape. In addition, ACM’s dashboard visualization records and reports on real-time changes to the actual application configuration giving IT Organizations a powerful mechanism to monitor application configuration “drift” or “gaps”, as they occur over-time. With this, IT Operations has an accurate, real-time system to verify and maintain any home-grown enterprise application – ensuring not only that it is at all times complete, but correct as well.

Further, because both ACM and BTI are an integral part of the Managed Objects v4 platform, IT organizations have complete access to real-time performance and availability data for individual IT components or business services. In addition, Managed Objects v4 works with ACM and BTI data to provide advanced analytics, like root-cause and impact – to better understand proposed application changes before they affect the production environment, or minimize end-user impact when outages do occur. To download a copy of the Managed Objects ACM Data Sheet, please click here.

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