8. Support for Service & Infrastructure Management Process ITIL Process Change Management Incident Management Problem Management Configuration Management Incidents Problems Known errors Changes Cis Relationships Error Control CMDB Service Lifecycle Operations Design & Planning Deployment Management Technical Support ICT Infrastructure Lifecycle
9. Visibility on Multi-Layered Dependency Mapping Infrastructure Layer System Server Router Router Subnet Software Management Tool Business Layer User users Cost Center Contract Service Provider Organization Service Layer Hardware Service Network Service Application Service
10. Management of All Sources of Change C onfiguration M anagement D atabase ( CMDB ) Network Infrastructure Discovery tool discovers Changes on the network Requester Supervisor request changes System administrator imports changes from 3 rd party applications Excel sheet, bar code scanning, monitoring, … Deployment plan Project manager reconciles modeled changes
25. The N(i) 2 Suite Strategy: ACCM for the Enterprise N(i) 2 CMDB Open API Contract SLA Management Incident Problem Request Management Infrastructure (L1 to L7 & Services) Management Asset & Change Management Performance Management Fault Management Release Management Customer Relationship Management InfoVista, PVSR EMC2 | Smarts, HP OpenView nLayers The N(i) 2 Suite , HP Service Desk InfoVista The N(i) 2 Suite CiscoWorks / IP SC Voyence, MS-SMS The N(i) 2 Suite
26. Competitive Analysis Clear Gap in Infrastructure Management SD’ Service Level Manager SD’s Help Desk Manager SD’s Help Desk Manager SD’s Help Desk Manager SD’s Help Desk Manager SD’s Change Manager SD’s Change Manager (via other HP platforms) SD’s Help Desk Manager Service Desk’s CMDB (SD CI’s only) HP Service Desk ServiceCenter Change Management Service Management Request Management ServiceCenter Help Desk Service Management Self Care AssetCenter AssetCenter AssetCenter ServiceCenter ServiceCenter ServiceCenter ServiceCenter ServiceCenter Ent. Discovery Active CMDB (IT assets only) Peregrine Infrastructure Mgmnt Planning & Auditing Infrastructure Mgmnt Structure Design Help Desk Service Management Incident Management Asset Management Infrastructure Mgmnt Financial Management Asset Management Infrastructure Mgmnt Contract Management Infrastructure Mgmnt Network Design Infrastructure Mgmnt Connectivity Design Asset Management Infrastructure Mgmnt Inventory Management Service Level Agreement SLA Management Help Desk Service Management Problem Management Change Management Change Management Deployment Management Change Management Change Management Task Management Discovery Services N(i) 2 CMDB Discovery N(i) 2 CMDB Configuration Management Atrium (sold with BMC products) N(i) 2 CMDB CMDB BMC Remedy N(i) 2 Features
35. Leveraging a Federated CMDB CMDB Enhanced Fault Management for Smarts Customer & End-to-end Visibility for N(i) 2 Customer Enhanced problem resolution End-to-end change process Physical Infrastructure Applications Location Deployment History Visibility on Layer 2 & 3 Topologies & Device Configurations Visibility on Non-Discoverable Resources & Information Logical Network
36. Extending Service Management with Root Cause Analysis Problem Management Change Management N(i) 2 Reconciliation Engine Full CMDB Configuration Management Integrated ITIL ® Processes Known Errors
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Editor's Notes
15 years in OSS, Network Resource Management, and Facility Management Founded Lat45 , developer of inventory network resource management for service providers
15 years in OSS, Network Resource Management, and Facility Management Founded Lat45 , developer of inventory network resource management for service providers
Accurate source of truth Resource & relationship auto-discovery Rule based resource reconciliation & data synch Policy & Standards Enforcement Workflow driven process Policy catalogs Next generation CMDB platform Single technology platform True federation of data Standard based APIs N(i)2 Dashboard Standalone mode Comprehensive analytics Tracking of all sources of change Control changes throughout their lifecycle
Accurate source of truth Resource & relationship auto-discovery Rule based resource reconciliation & data synch Policy & Standards Enforcement Workflow driven process Policy catalogs Next generation CMDB platform Single technology platform True federation of data Standard based APIs N(i)2 Dashboard Standalone mode Comprehensive analytics Tracking of all sources of change Control changes throughout their lifecycle
N(i) 2 ’s CMDB is not just a repository of configurations Provides to third party application required services for efficient remote configuration. Provides an extended CI scope including structure, connectivity, and network related CIs Delivered with a dashboard type of application that provide generic reporting, leveraging globally the CMDB with comprehensive analytics. Enhances CIs management with business rules N(i) 2 ’s Infrastructure Management is not just common IT assets manager Treats structure, connectivity, and network items as asset Supports planning and design of major infrastructure projects with alternate scenarios Supports automation of deployment related to major infrastructure projects N(i) 2 ’s Service Management is not just sophisticated help desk It leverage the concept of service , bridging the gap between the business and the infrastructure configurations It provide visibility on dependency between offered services and infrastructure items for better compliancy with SLAs
Leveraging partners’ sales force and customer base
By 2007, larger storage vendors will have sharpened their marketing approach to SMB. By Q1, they likely to have had a year of efforts, and limited success in addressing the markets, and will have sharpened their aim. Some of smaller companies are likely to achieve success addressing vertical niches within SMB Traditional market categories, such as network fault management are becoming less useful in capturing real market dynamics