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Bringing calm to the e-business chaos

By GijimaAst
Johannesburg, 25 Feb 2000

There`s no hiding the fact that there is a race on among the top companies as they realise the vast possibilities and opportunities the and Web have to offer. Companies are changing their business processes to leverage the Internet to drive new revenue, reduce costs and create new and compelling competitive advantages.

In response to this, AST Enterprise Systems Management has introduced BMC `s Assurance for E-business. This initiative is comprised of three solutions and services that provide organisations with a single and cohesive view of their enterprise, the missing link in assuring successful e-business.

"Previously companies executed silo management of the various components and technologies within their enterprise," says Geoff van den Bosch, MD of AST ESM, SA distributor of BMC Software. "This left many operations vulnerable to IT loopholes that could potentially exact the most damaging toll on a business."

Van den Bosch says that with the Service Assurance E-business solution, companies can now completely manage their non-stop, ever-changing e-commerce operations, end-to-end and on a real-time basis, while avoiding the pitfalls continuing to plague companies.

Service Assurance for E-business consists of the following three solutions:

  • Patrol for E-Business Management includes a number of easy-to-use, Web application, Web site analysis, Web server, firewall and network analysis management products, which are designed to monitor and improve end-user response time and maintain overall enterprise integrity.

  • Mainview for E-Business Management provides Web server monitoring and management, Web site usage analysis, transaction processing monitoring and database connectors for the OS/390 platform from IBM to comprehensively monitor and improve the service delivered to end-users of web-enabled mainframe applications.

  • Service Assurance Centre for E-business is a combination of methodology, products and services specifically designed to optimise and extend the company`s promise to ensure business availability. It provides an end user-oriented, application- and business-focused view of service management that reduces the time to value and increases the value of e-business management more rapidly.

"The end result of this solution is a properly managed, simplified IT environment, which reduces financial risk, improves customers` Web experience and enhances a companies` competitive position," concludes Bosch.

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