Operational Excellence for Distributed, Interconnected Applications
Modern distributed, interconnected applications—such as those found in SOAs, Web 2.0, cloud computing, messaging, and ESB initiatives—provide a new level of agility to businesses and IT. In these applications, the software for a business process is composed of "services," components consisting of discrete business functionality that can be recombined and reused in different business processes, enabling rapid business change.
However, these applications execute across heterogeneous systems, so it's hard to know what's happening, or not happening, in daily operations and difficult and time-consuming to find the source of a problem when one occurs. To receive the full benefit of these applications, organizations must provide reliable and cost-effective operations and meet their service-level agreement (SLA) commitments for customer service.
The white paper Operational Excellence for Distributed, Interconnected Applications examines the challenges of and solutions for effectively managing their operations. By reading this paper, you'll learn about:
- Best practices for SOA and other distributed, interconnected applications—and how to overcome the obstacles to successful operations.
- Monitoring applications—including key capabilities for finding and tracking individual services and their interactions across the complex, dynamic distributed, interconnected environment.
- Managing operational problems through centralized policy management and distributed policy evaluation and alerting--with low performance impact.
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