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June 11, 2009

Who’s Hot In Business Service
Management
by Peter O’Neill and Evelyn Hubbert
for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals




      Making Leaders Successful Every Day
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June 11, 2009
Who’s Hot In Business Service Management
An Overview Of Vendors Offering BSM Solutions
by Peter O’Neill and Evelyn Hubbert
with Jean-Pierre Garbani and Miroslaw Lisserman

 Executi v e S u mma ry
 Enterprises continue to invest in business service management (BSM) projects, even with the economy
 going into recession, and BSM has been the battle cry of IT management software vendors for several
 years now. As a technology, it is founded on the ability to map business services to infrastructure
 components: This should provide visibility into IT from a business standpoint and give IT the ability to
 become more efficient and better aligned with the needs of the business. The vendor landscape for BSM
 has changed dramatically since the last Forrester Wave™ in Q1 2007. Forrester therefore interviewed
 20 vendors and their customers to document the current vendor landscape for enterprises planning
 a new BSM project. The right solution depends on the chosen enterprise route to BSM, the existing
 infrastructure resources to be monitored, and the reporting needs. Also, only one-third of the effort for
 BSM is technological. The rest is addressing organizational challenges and establishing BSM processes.

 tabl e of Contents                                                              N OT E S & RE S O URC E S
  2 BSM Adoption Continues                                                      Forrester interviewed 20 vendors, including
      Different Routes To BSM                                                   Allen Systems Group (ASG), AmberPoint,
      The 2007 Forrester Wave™ List Is Now Down To                              BMC Software, CA, Compuware, Digital Fuel
      Just Seven                                                                Technologies, dynaTrace software, Efecte,
  5 The BSM Vendor Landscape In 2009                                            FireScope, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, Interlink
                                                                                Software Services, Junisphere Systems, Nimsoft,
      Strategic IT Transformation Programs
                                                                                Novell, Oblicore, OpTier, Oracle, Replay
      BSM Reporting Solutions                                                   Solutions, and USU.
      Service Catalog Management Solutions
      Transaction Management Solutions                                           Related Research Documents
    recommendations                                                             “Market Overview: The IT Management Software
  9 Pick Your Route To BSM First                                                 Market In 2009”
10 Other Questions To Answer When Planning                                       March 13, 2009
   Your BSM Project                                                             “What’s After BSM? Understanding The Financials”
11 Supplemental Material                                                         January 6, 2009
                                                                                “Business Service Management Market Update”
                                                                                 June 30, 2008




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    BSM Adoption Continues
    Enterprises are still investing in BSM projects, even as the economy goes into recession, with IT
    operations professionals realizing that their users care more about the quality of the services that
    IT is supporting than the quality of those that IT is providing.1 Forrester has been forecasting the
    total IT management software market for several years and maintains market sizes for 12 separate
    segments including the segment entitled service-level management (SLM)/BSM.2 In 2009, spending
    on SLM/BSM will exceed $800 million, with an annual growth rate of 27% supported by three
    developments in IT operations:3

       ·	Higher IT process maturity. The phenomenal growth of Information Technology
         Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as the de facto standard for IT service delivery and IT service
         support processes has raised the bar considerably for the process maturity of internal IT
         departments.4 Most internal IT departments today can be considered to be in the stable stage,
         rather than the chaotic stage of a few years ago. These departments now need to measure and
         report against the business services they support more than the technology silos they monitor.

       ·	Improved services attitude. Not that long ago, IT folks approached IT management and service
         operation from a purely technological point of view. The business leaders received reports,
         which accounted abnormal ends (abends) of applications or details on the average number of
         million instructions per second (MIPS) that did not mean anything to them at all. Now, IT is
         willing and able to communicate IT issues effectively to the business, relative to the terms and
         understanding of the business instead of from a technology-centric perspective.

       ·	Better data availability. Technology advances in discovery technologies have enabled
         companies to gain very high levels of data accuracy in recent years.5 Increasing numbers
         of companies are now able to collect data on business service delivery as well as incident
         management and projects. Forrester has even observed enterprises further developing their
         BSM reporting processes into full-fledged activity-based costing and chargeback systems.6 Keep
         in mind, personnel costs are already the largest and an ever-increasing IT budget item.7

    As a result, a new mantra of “whose service is it anyway” is being sung in almost all new process
    improvement projects that affect IT operations. It has become clear that IT has been too
    preoccupied with its own processes in the past — even calling the process of recording and fixing a
    fault in the IT systems as an “IT service” — and it must now pay more attention to the performance
    of the business services that it ultimately supports with technology.




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Different Routes To BSM
Forrester has identified four types of BSM projects:

   ·	Strategic IT transformation programs. New chief information officers (CIOs) or IT operations
     executives who want to improve the business relevance of their quality-of-service reporting
     drive these projects. These are often long-term programs — involving a commitment to one
     of the megavendors for a full portfolio of technologies — that orbit a strategic configuration
     management database (CMDB) project. Strategic IT transformation programs build on smaller,
     short-term projects drawn from the other three categories.

   ·	Service-level reporting projects. Other BSM projects focus on the reporting challenges and
     require the BSM solution to connect to the plethora of existing infrastructure monitoring
     tools. Here, the purpose is to understand service-level agreements (SLAs) from the top-down
     or end user perspective, and the solution should allow IT to drill down into the underlying IT
     infrastructure details that are needed to successfully meet service levels.

   ·	New service catalog management projects. The adoption of ITIL v3 principles, which
     encourage a holistic services perspective, in addition to the process management and
     automation of the classic ITIL best practices is driving IT operations into an organizational split
     of front-office and back-office functions. The front office develops and manages service catalogs
     and creates empathy with the business user by adopting BSM principles, while the back office
     continues to monitor and engineer the IT in production.

   ·	Pragmatic business-oriented performance management projects. Still found in the financial
     services and telco sectors, these transaction management projects provide effective business
     service reporting by adding a value analysis to the transactions that are being monitored.

You may have projects in more than one category at one time. For example, a longer-term strategic
IT transformation program often includes projects from the other three categories. Similarly, a
successful project in service-level reporting, service catalog, or performance management can
provide the required proof of value to launch a strategic IT transformation program.

The 2007 Forrester Wave™ List Is Now Down To Just Seven
Forrester published a Forrester Wave™ on BSM in Q1 2007, a very nascent phase in that market
development. It was so early that some of the vendors selected by Forrester at the time did not
even position themselves as BSM solutions vendors proactively. In the meantime, just seven of
the companies covered in the Forrester Wave™ are still in business as vendors offering BSM: The
remaining 36% have been acquired by other vendors. The project definitions and vendor selection
criteria as defined in the Forrester Wave™ are still suitable for evaluating potential solution suppliers
(see Figure 1).8 There are also several new interesting solution vendors that could be considered by
IT operations professionals planning their BSM projects.




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    Figure 1 Criteria For Selecting BSM Solutions

     Current offering
     Architecture                        Is the product designed to ensure stability, performance, integration, and
                                         scalability?

     Data collection                     Is the solution able to collect relevant and timely data for BSM reporting?

     Service catalog                     How does the BSM solution support or integrate service catalogs, SLAs, and
     management                          OLAs in business metrics?

     IT infrastructure mapping           What are the solution‘s capabilities in discovering and accounting for
                                         configuration items (CIs)?

     Business service mapping            How does the solution support business service mapping? Can it be
                                         diagrammed? Can metrics be maintained?

     Dynamic linking of service          How does the solution map business services to CIs? Is this dynamic?
     to infrastructure

     End-to-end monitoring               How mature are the solution’s monitoring capabilities?

     CMDB                                What are the features of the CMDB? What functionalities does it support?

     Standards and                       What vendor-neutral and third-party standards does the product support?
     interoperability

     Strategy
     Product vision                      What is the company’s product road map for BSM? What is the degree of focus
                                         within the company for IT service management?

     Sales and implementation            What is the sales strategy? Is this strategy credible and successful?
     strategy

     Geographic presence                 How does the company promote and sell its solutions around the world?

     Cost                                How is the product priced?

     Market presence
     Installed base                      How large is the installed base of customers for BSM?

     Employee base                       How many people does the organization dedicate to this solution?

     Financials                          What is the company’s cash position?

    54651                                                                                         Source: Forrester Research, Inc.




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The BSM Vendor Landscape In 2009
Forrester has interviewed and reviewed the current BSM offerings from 20 different vendors to
be able to provide this BSM vendor landscape as an update to the Forrester Wave™.9 Forrester also
interviewed end user clients referenced by each vendor for validation. While a comparative analysis
of the various offerings is not yet available, the following market overview, in combination with the
2007 Forrester Wave™ report, will help IT infrastructure and operations professionals understand
which vendors are offering BSM solutions and which approach they support (see Figure 2).

Figure 2 2009 BSM Vendor Landscape


   Strategic IT transformation program
              BMC Software                         CA*                    HP Software                       IBM*

                             BSM reporting
                                       ASG                     FireScope                  Nimsoft
                                   Compuware               Interlink Software              Novell
                                      Efecte                  Junisphere                    USU

                             Service catalog management
                                    Digital Fuel               Oblicore

                             Transaction management
                                   AmberPoint                  OpTier                Replay Solutions
                                     dynaTrace                 Oracle
*CA and IBM are considered by enterprises when they are already a significant incumbent IT management
 software supplier.
54651                                                                                          Source: Forrester Research, Inc.



Strategic IT Transformation Programs
The current shortlist for these CIO-led initiatives always contains BMC Software and HP as well as
CA and IBM in particular when these vendors are significant incumbent IT management software
suppliers for an enterprise.

   ·	BMC Software. BMC has a BSM portfolio that can cover almost all of what an enterprise needs
     in IT operations and continues to lead its complete corporate positioning with BSM messaging.
     The BSM solution is further enhanced by technologies formerly available from ProactiveNet,
     which it acquired in 2007. The Atrium CMDB has an established leadership position in many
     enterprises and service providers, and BMC has recently enhanced its reporting capabilities
     with the acquisition of ITM Software for even better portfolio, financial, and human capital
     management. BMC has effectively linked BSM reporting with automation through its




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         immediately successful acquisition of BladeLogic in 2008. The BMC marketing machine is
         supported by a well-trained and capable sales and professional services force to help educate
         project members regarding the capabilities and possibilities behind BSM.

       ·	HP Software. HP has now delivered on its promise to integrate the technologies of five
         companies: HP, Peregrine Systems, Mercury Interactive, TransactionVision, and Opsware.
         While the Wave™ evaluation in 2007 considered mainly Mercury solutions as the BSM solution,
         HP has now enhanced the BSM portfolio with a more strongly integrated CMDB and extensive
         integration with HP’s traditional monitoring tools. The vertical integration from dashboard,
         through reporting down to process automation, is now very tight across HP’s own products.
         The BSM level is also still flexible enough to work with other CMDBs and monitoring tools.
         HP’s latest acquired technology, SPI Dynamics, makes its mapping of services to infrastructure
         particularly dynamic.

    BSM Reporting Solutions
    In this category, the enterprise only wants to focus on the reporting layer and does not want
    to replace the complete monitoring tools landscape. Most of the vendors fall into this category,
    including BMC Software and HP.

       ·	ASG. ASG continues to provide its BSM solution. BSP is based on: 1) ASG’s metaCMDB built
         on top of Rochade, a leading metadata repository with built-in federation capabilities; 2) ASG’s
         metaManager, an open adapter bus that allows the rapid development of connectors to third-
         party data collection; and 3) the integration of ASG point solutions that provide real-time
         monitoring functions for a number of technologies, from distributed systems to applications,
         mainframes, and eventually batch processing.

       ·	CA. This company is able to put together a comprehensive BSM solution for a customer,
         including the CMDB from its Cendura acquisition, automation from its Optinuity acquisition,
         and application performance management tools acquired from Wily Technology — all
         combined through its Unified Service Model concept. In short, CA does not call it BSM, but it’s
         now very close to what BMC and HP have to offer.

       ·	Compuware. Compuware entered the BSM market with its acquisition of Proxima Technology
         in January 2007. Compuware has since integrated Proxima as the core of its Vantage product
         line, which is focused on providing end-to-end visibility into application performance starting
         from the end user perspective.10 Vantage includes an integrated service model that ties
         application and infrastructure information together, incorporating data from both Compuware’s
         monitoring products as well as third-party sources. Compuware differentiates its solution by
         focusing on the end user experience and by providing a single solution for proactive issue
         identification, quantification of business impact, and resolution.




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   ·	Efecte. Efecte is also now well-established with several major BSM projects within its sales
     territory of Scandinavia, where it markets a family of IT management software solutions with a
     strong business service orientation as “ERP” for IT.

   ·	FireScope. This is the youngest BSM provider in our list, founded in 2006, with probably the
     most modern solution due to its adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. FireScope completed its
     BSM solutions portfolio last year with the acquisition of Caimit and its CMDB technology. It
     provides an impressive reporting and analytics portal framework for all possible IT and business
     user roles, and its 11 different connectivity methods collect data from virtually any networked
     asset. FireScope offers a fully featured Enterprise Edition as well as a Business Edition for SMBs.
     Both solutions are very attractively priced and sold in an appliance model.

   ·	IBM. IBM Tivoli and its Global Services organization continue to assist its customers in setting
     up BSM reporting systems, based on years of experience of doing this with its mainframe-based
     customers. The central component is the IBM TBSM, which relies heavily on the availability
     management and SLM solutions of the IBM Tivoli portfolio. The TBSM product is model-
     based; its models are populated via application dependency mapping, and the Micromuse user
     interface and reporting metaphor have now been adopted.

   ·	Interlink Software. Interlink is now well-established with several major BSM projects around
     the world, although its sales focus is in Europe. While promoting BSM for many years, Interlink
     often first provides an enterprisewide central console for systems and service management and
     then grows the installation into full BSM projects as the service levels drift upstream because
     of the wealth of data that Interlink can provide. This is a pragmatic approach that its clients
     appreciate. The Interlink CMDB, despite being a capable content management system (CMS) in
     its own right, is often positioned as a “service configuration manager” to avoid any enterprise-
     level political issues.

   ·	Junisphere. Junisphere’s BSM solution consists of a unique top-down approach for service
     modeling, incorporating key performance indicators (KPIs) from business processes to
     integrate IT with business. Its further strength is its dashboard and reporting cockpit, providing
     role-based access to business and IT operations staff. The system proactively controls
     all required dependencies of a business process and keeps the information in its service
     management database (SMDB), which then is linked to external CMDBs, building a service
     knowledge management system (SKMS). Junisphere has several large customers in central
     Europe and has established partnerships with several telco and managed service providers to
     secure international expansion in consulting-led opportunities.

   ·	Nimsoft. Nimsoft markets itself brashly as “the ‘Big 4’ alternative for IT performance and
     availability monitoring solutions” and has generated great success with service providers and
     enterprises. Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software, which was reviewed in the 2007 Forrester
     Wave™ as the solution best suited for companies that want to approach BSM from a performance



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         perspective and want to quickly manage the end-to-end performance of critical business
         services. The combination of Nimsoft BSM Express with its ties back to Indicative and the
         Nimsoft Monitoring products makes a particularly strong BSM offering.

       ·	Novell. It has acquired Managed Objects and has now relaunched all the Managed Objects
         products as Novell BSM solutions. MyCMDB, in particular, is a new innovation that
         complements existing CMDB projects by leveraging Web 2.0 and social networking principles
         to facilitate advanced navigation, modeling, analytics, and reporting. The traditional strengths of
         the Managed Objects solutions are being maintained and integrated into Novell’s other systems
         management products. Managed Objects was the first to bring full-fledged BSM systems to
         market. It has a strong product portfolio for BSM projects, and it integrates well with most of
         the industry’s monitoring tools. This ability to integrate with third-party solutions remains a key
         differentiator and benefit.

       ·	USU. It has expanded its product line from IT asset management and financial management to
         a full BSM reporting package by adding systems monitoring functionality with collectors from
         most monitoring systems. It has also added a completely new CMDB system out of its existing
         asset database and is including original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products for discovery
         (from BDNA) and ADM (Tideway). It has focused on German-speaking countries so far, with
         single projects in Italy and in the US. It has also just recruited partners (value-added resellers)
         in the US, Benelux region, and Saudi Arabia to expand further.

    Service Catalog Management Solutions
    While the megavendors tend to provide service request functionality within their service
    management suites, the following vendors provide standalone solutions to design, develop, measure,
    and improve complete services, including business services. The organizations preferring these
    solutions are service providers themselves as well as enterprise IT departments that must behave as
    a shared service by cataloging the services and ultimately charging for service consumption.

       ·	Digital Fuel. The ServiceFlow solution uses a visual modeling approach to model service
         agreements between service providers and their service consumers using SLAs, operating-level
         agreements (OLAs), and underpinning contracts. This approach is very attractive to any service
         provider, as it automates the otherwise-difficult process of managing SLAs and provides common,
         transparent, and verifiable accounting of SLA performance and compliance. Increasingly, internal
         enterprise service providers are using ServiceFlow not only to measure and report on the
         performance of their shared services organizations, such as IT, but also to provide IT cost visibility
         into business services for better cost optimization decisions with their business consumers.

       ·	Oblicore. The company has made a variety of changes to the current solution, which range from
         changes to the look and feel to functionality changes to provide service managers with a much
         better way to manage services and the portfolio of services. The company is very successful in
         continuously supporting service providers and enterprises around the world with its solution set.



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Transaction Management Solutions
Each of the megavendors can now provide solutions for this project type with their technologies, but
the one vendor that is focused on this type of solution for BSM is OpTier. Several other vendors can
also be considered, but they do not use the BSM moniker in their marketing.

   ·	AmberPoint. It is very similar in intent and purpose to OpTier and HP’s Bristol Technology. It
     traces a transaction through any architecture and provides visibility into critical content, while
     including a policy management system for applying policies such as security to the services it is
     managing.

   ·	dynaTrace. It offers the ability to map a transaction through a service-oriented architecture
     (SOA) and monitor its performance as well as provide indicators of incidents and problems.

   ·	OpTier. OpTier prefers to position itself as providing Business Transaction Management, which
     is highly applicable for financial services institutes where transaction has a business context. In
     the meantime, OpTier is now broadening its traction and building on the company’s success in
     an increasing number of markets.

   ·	Oracle. It acquired a number of solutions in the management space including ClearApp that led
     to the release of Oracle Composite Application Performance Management Pack. This solution not
     only can map and monitor transactions but also can diagnose SOA applications from a top-level
     perspective and drill all the way down to functional logic or code to optimize its performance.

   ·	Replay Solutions. It offers the ability to collect and capture all transaction data and content. It
     can run the transactions in real time in a parallel virtual sandbox to debug the transaction in
     real time while it runs on the production infrastructure.


 Re c ommend a tions

 pick your route to bsm first
 You cannot actually buy a finished BSM solution; you are leveraging a technology platform to
 be able to provide business-oriented quality-of-service reporting. The most suitable platform
 depends on how you are approaching BSM: strategic, service-level reporting, service catalog, or
 performance management. IT infrastructure and operations professionals should therefore first
 establish which type of BSM project is most applicable before selecting a shortlist of vendors to
 invite, and the Forrester Wave™ on BSM can still be used to compare solution offerings. Particular
 attention should be paid to:

    ·	Checking that all your data can be collected. Your preferred BSM solution should be able
      to collect and collate all your infrastructure monitoring data in near real time. Consider your
      infrastructure platforms, and test that the solution can connect to each of your systems.




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         ·	Testing your reports with business users. BSM is like any other business application where
           the true success will be measured by the user satisfaction with the associated reporting.
           Design and test the desired BSM reports and dashboards using input from your business users,
           and have your BSM vendors prove that their solution can support your reporting needs.


      Other Questions To Answer When Planning Your BSM Project
      IT organizations that are planning a BSM project should also answer the following questions:

         ·	Is there a common understanding of why you’re introducing BSM? Does the whole IT
           organization understand why the BSM journey is starting and where it is heading? Ensure
           that you communicate these objectives at the beginning and issue ongoing progress reports
           to all IT staff.
         ·	Is your BSM plan business-critical? Have you selected those business processes that have
           the most impact on the enterprise? Ensure that you involve your business counterparts in
           these decisions, and use their knowledge to set your priorities.
         ·	Do you understand your ITSM maturity? Is your IT staff already working in a customer-
           centric, service-oriented manner? Ensure that you leverage best practices like ITIL to spread
           this culture in your organization before taking on the challenge of BSM.
         ·	Do you have measurements in place? Are there sufficient metrics to enable you to
           demonstrate the value of your BSM project? Ensure that you set up a measurement system
           and culture that can document values before and after you launch the BSM project.
         ·	Are your BSM projects coordinated? Do you have enough information about different
           projects for initiatives like IT asset management, configuration item autodiscovery, and
           CMDB? Different IT departments are probably executing these with differing objectives. It is
           important to keep the relationships between the projects in mind and to ensure that project
           members communicate about the technologies they employ and the organizational changes
           they make — or plan to make — in order to avoid duplicating work and/or to prevent conflicts
           along the way. You will need high-level management commitment to achieve this, of course.




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Supplemental Material
Companies Interviewed For This Document
AmberPoint                                                  IBM Tivoli
ASG                                                         Interlink Software
BMC Software                                                Junisphere
CA                                                          Nimsoft
Compuware                                                   Novell
Digital Fuel                                                Oblicore
dynaTrace                                                   OpTier
Efecte                                                      Oracle
FireScope                                                   Replay Solutions
HP Software                                                 USU

Endnotes
1	
     As more and more IT organizations improve their service delivery, they are turning their focus to
     presenting their business value more positively. These organizations are beginning to develop true BSM
     systems by doing two things: understanding the metrics their business users employ to decide if IT is
     providing value and linking these metrics and associated business services to IT infrastructure components.
     See the February 1, 2006, “BSM Is Coming Of Age: Time To Define What It Is” report.
2	
     Since 2005, Forrester has tracked the IT management software market across 12 defined categories. For the
     latest forecast, see the March 13, 2009, “Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market In 2009”
     report.
3	
     In 2009, IT faces the problem of cutting costs without affecting the productivity of business users. Ideally,
     enterprises will look at solutions that increase IT operations’ productivity, reduce the time needed to correct
     problems, and eliminate wasted time: This should favor the latest and most innovative IT management
     software products. See the March 13, 2009, “Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market In
     2009” report.
4	
      Originally created by the UK government, ITIL summarizes best practices for the implementation of IT
      management processes. ITIL defines the processes to be implemented to deliver and support IT services
      (most of the time, IT services today equal applications) focusing on the business (IT’s customer). The ITIL
      philosophy revolves around the service desk as a communication platform and the CMDB. ITIL adoption
      rates in $1-billion-plus companies are: 20% in 2005, 50% in 2008, and 80% in 2010. See the June 30, 2008,
     “Business Service Management Market Update” report.




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     5	
           Application to infrastructure dependency mapping bridges the gap among business user value, application
           performance, and what the IT specialist sees — essentially, infrastructure component availability. This,
           combined with the ITIL CMDB concept, lays the foundation for radical changes in the way IT operations
           manage resources. The basic information for application dependency mapping exists in all configuration
           files, routing tables, and port allocation tables and includes all information that the different infrastructure
           components supporting the application use to function effectively at runtime. This technology is therefore
           best described as a kind of online reverse engineering and consists of exploring, analyzing, and querying
           all components supporting an application. See the February 27, 2006, “The Forrester Wave™: Application
           Mapping For The CMDB, Q1 2006” report.
     6	
           Enterprises with mature BSM systems are able to measure and report quality of service at the business
           level; they can also assign sensible, business-centric prioritization to service performance events and other
           incidents. Their next requirement is to add financial analysis elements to the service management reports
           so that the business can understand the true cost of service operations and become involved in demand
           management decisions. See the January 6, 2009, “What’s After BSM? Understanding The Financials” report.
     7	
           Forrester surveyed 704 North American and European executives who said that for 2008, 35% of their IT
           budget was devoted to full-time IT staff, the largest segment recorded. Forrester also saw that only 68% of
           those surveyed increased their IT departments’ average compensation (including salary and benefits). See
           the March 27, 2008, “The State Of Enterprise IT Budgets: 2008” report.
     8	
           Forrester evaluated leading BSM vendors across 26 criteria and found that BMC Software and Managed
           Objects had established early leadership, thanks to their strong product portfolios. HP, Digital Fuel
           Technologies, IBM, Oblicore, and Proxima Technology were leaders as well, while OpTier, Indicative
           Software, CA, and ProactiveNet were strong performers. See the March 28, 2007, “The Forrester Wave™:
           Business Service Management, Q1 2007” report.
     9	
           Microsoft and Symantec were also invited to present a BSM solution, but they declined.
     10	
           The next release, Vantage 11, planned for this summer, has an even tighter integration of Proxima, and
           Forrester anticipates it will be a very competitive reporting and performance analysis solution.




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  • 1. June 11, 2009 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management by Peter O’Neill and Evelyn Hubbert for IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Making Leaders Successful Every Day
  • 2. For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals June 11, 2009 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management An Overview Of Vendors Offering BSM Solutions by Peter O’Neill and Evelyn Hubbert with Jean-Pierre Garbani and Miroslaw Lisserman Executi v e S u mma ry Enterprises continue to invest in business service management (BSM) projects, even with the economy going into recession, and BSM has been the battle cry of IT management software vendors for several years now. As a technology, it is founded on the ability to map business services to infrastructure components: This should provide visibility into IT from a business standpoint and give IT the ability to become more efficient and better aligned with the needs of the business. The vendor landscape for BSM has changed dramatically since the last Forrester Wave™ in Q1 2007. Forrester therefore interviewed 20 vendors and their customers to document the current vendor landscape for enterprises planning a new BSM project. The right solution depends on the chosen enterprise route to BSM, the existing infrastructure resources to be monitored, and the reporting needs. Also, only one-third of the effort for BSM is technological. The rest is addressing organizational challenges and establishing BSM processes. tabl e of Contents N OT E S & RE S O URC E S 2 BSM Adoption Continues Forrester interviewed 20 vendors, including Different Routes To BSM Allen Systems Group (ASG), AmberPoint, The 2007 Forrester Wave™ List Is Now Down To BMC Software, CA, Compuware, Digital Fuel Just Seven Technologies, dynaTrace software, Efecte, 5 The BSM Vendor Landscape In 2009 FireScope, HP Software, IBM Tivoli, Interlink Software Services, Junisphere Systems, Nimsoft, Strategic IT Transformation Programs Novell, Oblicore, OpTier, Oracle, Replay BSM Reporting Solutions Solutions, and USU. Service Catalog Management Solutions Transaction Management Solutions Related Research Documents recommendations “Market Overview: The IT Management Software 9 Pick Your Route To BSM First Market In 2009” 10 Other Questions To Answer When Planning March 13, 2009 Your BSM Project “What’s After BSM? Understanding The Financials” 11 Supplemental Material January 6, 2009 “Business Service Management Market Update” June 30, 2008 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. All rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction is strictly prohibited. Information is based on best available resources. Opinions reflect judgment at the time and are subject to change. Forrester®, Technographics®, Forrester Wave, RoleView, TechRadar, and Total Economic Impact are trademarks of Forrester Research, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. To purchase reprints of this document, please email clientsupport@forrester.com. For additional information, go to www.forrester.com.
  • 3. 2 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals BSM Adoption Continues Enterprises are still investing in BSM projects, even as the economy goes into recession, with IT operations professionals realizing that their users care more about the quality of the services that IT is supporting than the quality of those that IT is providing.1 Forrester has been forecasting the total IT management software market for several years and maintains market sizes for 12 separate segments including the segment entitled service-level management (SLM)/BSM.2 In 2009, spending on SLM/BSM will exceed $800 million, with an annual growth rate of 27% supported by three developments in IT operations:3 · Higher IT process maturity. The phenomenal growth of Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as the de facto standard for IT service delivery and IT service support processes has raised the bar considerably for the process maturity of internal IT departments.4 Most internal IT departments today can be considered to be in the stable stage, rather than the chaotic stage of a few years ago. These departments now need to measure and report against the business services they support more than the technology silos they monitor. · Improved services attitude. Not that long ago, IT folks approached IT management and service operation from a purely technological point of view. The business leaders received reports, which accounted abnormal ends (abends) of applications or details on the average number of million instructions per second (MIPS) that did not mean anything to them at all. Now, IT is willing and able to communicate IT issues effectively to the business, relative to the terms and understanding of the business instead of from a technology-centric perspective. · Better data availability. Technology advances in discovery technologies have enabled companies to gain very high levels of data accuracy in recent years.5 Increasing numbers of companies are now able to collect data on business service delivery as well as incident management and projects. Forrester has even observed enterprises further developing their BSM reporting processes into full-fledged activity-based costing and chargeback systems.6 Keep in mind, personnel costs are already the largest and an ever-increasing IT budget item.7 As a result, a new mantra of “whose service is it anyway” is being sung in almost all new process improvement projects that affect IT operations. It has become clear that IT has been too preoccupied with its own processes in the past — even calling the process of recording and fixing a fault in the IT systems as an “IT service” — and it must now pay more attention to the performance of the business services that it ultimately supports with technology. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 4. Who’s Hot In Business Service Management 3 For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Different Routes To BSM Forrester has identified four types of BSM projects: · Strategic IT transformation programs. New chief information officers (CIOs) or IT operations executives who want to improve the business relevance of their quality-of-service reporting drive these projects. These are often long-term programs — involving a commitment to one of the megavendors for a full portfolio of technologies — that orbit a strategic configuration management database (CMDB) project. Strategic IT transformation programs build on smaller, short-term projects drawn from the other three categories. · Service-level reporting projects. Other BSM projects focus on the reporting challenges and require the BSM solution to connect to the plethora of existing infrastructure monitoring tools. Here, the purpose is to understand service-level agreements (SLAs) from the top-down or end user perspective, and the solution should allow IT to drill down into the underlying IT infrastructure details that are needed to successfully meet service levels. · New service catalog management projects. The adoption of ITIL v3 principles, which encourage a holistic services perspective, in addition to the process management and automation of the classic ITIL best practices is driving IT operations into an organizational split of front-office and back-office functions. The front office develops and manages service catalogs and creates empathy with the business user by adopting BSM principles, while the back office continues to monitor and engineer the IT in production. · Pragmatic business-oriented performance management projects. Still found in the financial services and telco sectors, these transaction management projects provide effective business service reporting by adding a value analysis to the transactions that are being monitored. You may have projects in more than one category at one time. For example, a longer-term strategic IT transformation program often includes projects from the other three categories. Similarly, a successful project in service-level reporting, service catalog, or performance management can provide the required proof of value to launch a strategic IT transformation program. The 2007 Forrester Wave™ List Is Now Down To Just Seven Forrester published a Forrester Wave™ on BSM in Q1 2007, a very nascent phase in that market development. It was so early that some of the vendors selected by Forrester at the time did not even position themselves as BSM solutions vendors proactively. In the meantime, just seven of the companies covered in the Forrester Wave™ are still in business as vendors offering BSM: The remaining 36% have been acquired by other vendors. The project definitions and vendor selection criteria as defined in the Forrester Wave™ are still suitable for evaluating potential solution suppliers (see Figure 1).8 There are also several new interesting solution vendors that could be considered by IT operations professionals planning their BSM projects. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 11, 2009
  • 5. 4 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Figure 1 Criteria For Selecting BSM Solutions Current offering Architecture Is the product designed to ensure stability, performance, integration, and scalability? Data collection Is the solution able to collect relevant and timely data for BSM reporting? Service catalog How does the BSM solution support or integrate service catalogs, SLAs, and management OLAs in business metrics? IT infrastructure mapping What are the solution‘s capabilities in discovering and accounting for configuration items (CIs)? Business service mapping How does the solution support business service mapping? Can it be diagrammed? Can metrics be maintained? Dynamic linking of service How does the solution map business services to CIs? Is this dynamic? to infrastructure End-to-end monitoring How mature are the solution’s monitoring capabilities? CMDB What are the features of the CMDB? What functionalities does it support? Standards and What vendor-neutral and third-party standards does the product support? interoperability Strategy Product vision What is the company’s product road map for BSM? What is the degree of focus within the company for IT service management? Sales and implementation What is the sales strategy? Is this strategy credible and successful? strategy Geographic presence How does the company promote and sell its solutions around the world? Cost How is the product priced? Market presence Installed base How large is the installed base of customers for BSM? Employee base How many people does the organization dedicate to this solution? Financials What is the company’s cash position? 54651 Source: Forrester Research, Inc. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 6. Who’s Hot In Business Service Management 5 For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals The BSM Vendor Landscape In 2009 Forrester has interviewed and reviewed the current BSM offerings from 20 different vendors to be able to provide this BSM vendor landscape as an update to the Forrester Wave™.9 Forrester also interviewed end user clients referenced by each vendor for validation. While a comparative analysis of the various offerings is not yet available, the following market overview, in combination with the 2007 Forrester Wave™ report, will help IT infrastructure and operations professionals understand which vendors are offering BSM solutions and which approach they support (see Figure 2). Figure 2 2009 BSM Vendor Landscape Strategic IT transformation program BMC Software CA* HP Software IBM* BSM reporting ASG FireScope Nimsoft Compuware Interlink Software Novell Efecte Junisphere USU Service catalog management Digital Fuel Oblicore Transaction management AmberPoint OpTier Replay Solutions dynaTrace Oracle *CA and IBM are considered by enterprises when they are already a significant incumbent IT management software supplier. 54651 Source: Forrester Research, Inc. Strategic IT Transformation Programs The current shortlist for these CIO-led initiatives always contains BMC Software and HP as well as CA and IBM in particular when these vendors are significant incumbent IT management software suppliers for an enterprise. · BMC Software. BMC has a BSM portfolio that can cover almost all of what an enterprise needs in IT operations and continues to lead its complete corporate positioning with BSM messaging. The BSM solution is further enhanced by technologies formerly available from ProactiveNet, which it acquired in 2007. The Atrium CMDB has an established leadership position in many enterprises and service providers, and BMC has recently enhanced its reporting capabilities with the acquisition of ITM Software for even better portfolio, financial, and human capital management. BMC has effectively linked BSM reporting with automation through its © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 11, 2009
  • 7. 6 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals immediately successful acquisition of BladeLogic in 2008. The BMC marketing machine is supported by a well-trained and capable sales and professional services force to help educate project members regarding the capabilities and possibilities behind BSM. · HP Software. HP has now delivered on its promise to integrate the technologies of five companies: HP, Peregrine Systems, Mercury Interactive, TransactionVision, and Opsware. While the Wave™ evaluation in 2007 considered mainly Mercury solutions as the BSM solution, HP has now enhanced the BSM portfolio with a more strongly integrated CMDB and extensive integration with HP’s traditional monitoring tools. The vertical integration from dashboard, through reporting down to process automation, is now very tight across HP’s own products. The BSM level is also still flexible enough to work with other CMDBs and monitoring tools. HP’s latest acquired technology, SPI Dynamics, makes its mapping of services to infrastructure particularly dynamic. BSM Reporting Solutions In this category, the enterprise only wants to focus on the reporting layer and does not want to replace the complete monitoring tools landscape. Most of the vendors fall into this category, including BMC Software and HP. · ASG. ASG continues to provide its BSM solution. BSP is based on: 1) ASG’s metaCMDB built on top of Rochade, a leading metadata repository with built-in federation capabilities; 2) ASG’s metaManager, an open adapter bus that allows the rapid development of connectors to third- party data collection; and 3) the integration of ASG point solutions that provide real-time monitoring functions for a number of technologies, from distributed systems to applications, mainframes, and eventually batch processing. · CA. This company is able to put together a comprehensive BSM solution for a customer, including the CMDB from its Cendura acquisition, automation from its Optinuity acquisition, and application performance management tools acquired from Wily Technology — all combined through its Unified Service Model concept. In short, CA does not call it BSM, but it’s now very close to what BMC and HP have to offer. · Compuware. Compuware entered the BSM market with its acquisition of Proxima Technology in January 2007. Compuware has since integrated Proxima as the core of its Vantage product line, which is focused on providing end-to-end visibility into application performance starting from the end user perspective.10 Vantage includes an integrated service model that ties application and infrastructure information together, incorporating data from both Compuware’s monitoring products as well as third-party sources. Compuware differentiates its solution by focusing on the end user experience and by providing a single solution for proactive issue identification, quantification of business impact, and resolution. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 8. Who’s Hot In Business Service Management 7 For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals · Efecte. Efecte is also now well-established with several major BSM projects within its sales territory of Scandinavia, where it markets a family of IT management software solutions with a strong business service orientation as “ERP” for IT. · FireScope. This is the youngest BSM provider in our list, founded in 2006, with probably the most modern solution due to its adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. FireScope completed its BSM solutions portfolio last year with the acquisition of Caimit and its CMDB technology. It provides an impressive reporting and analytics portal framework for all possible IT and business user roles, and its 11 different connectivity methods collect data from virtually any networked asset. FireScope offers a fully featured Enterprise Edition as well as a Business Edition for SMBs. Both solutions are very attractively priced and sold in an appliance model. · IBM. IBM Tivoli and its Global Services organization continue to assist its customers in setting up BSM reporting systems, based on years of experience of doing this with its mainframe-based customers. The central component is the IBM TBSM, which relies heavily on the availability management and SLM solutions of the IBM Tivoli portfolio. The TBSM product is model- based; its models are populated via application dependency mapping, and the Micromuse user interface and reporting metaphor have now been adopted. · Interlink Software. Interlink is now well-established with several major BSM projects around the world, although its sales focus is in Europe. While promoting BSM for many years, Interlink often first provides an enterprisewide central console for systems and service management and then grows the installation into full BSM projects as the service levels drift upstream because of the wealth of data that Interlink can provide. This is a pragmatic approach that its clients appreciate. The Interlink CMDB, despite being a capable content management system (CMS) in its own right, is often positioned as a “service configuration manager” to avoid any enterprise- level political issues. · Junisphere. Junisphere’s BSM solution consists of a unique top-down approach for service modeling, incorporating key performance indicators (KPIs) from business processes to integrate IT with business. Its further strength is its dashboard and reporting cockpit, providing role-based access to business and IT operations staff. The system proactively controls all required dependencies of a business process and keeps the information in its service management database (SMDB), which then is linked to external CMDBs, building a service knowledge management system (SKMS). Junisphere has several large customers in central Europe and has established partnerships with several telco and managed service providers to secure international expansion in consulting-led opportunities. · Nimsoft. Nimsoft markets itself brashly as “the ‘Big 4’ alternative for IT performance and availability monitoring solutions” and has generated great success with service providers and enterprises. Nimsoft acquired Indicative Software, which was reviewed in the 2007 Forrester Wave™ as the solution best suited for companies that want to approach BSM from a performance © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 11, 2009
  • 9. 8 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals perspective and want to quickly manage the end-to-end performance of critical business services. The combination of Nimsoft BSM Express with its ties back to Indicative and the Nimsoft Monitoring products makes a particularly strong BSM offering. · Novell. It has acquired Managed Objects and has now relaunched all the Managed Objects products as Novell BSM solutions. MyCMDB, in particular, is a new innovation that complements existing CMDB projects by leveraging Web 2.0 and social networking principles to facilitate advanced navigation, modeling, analytics, and reporting. The traditional strengths of the Managed Objects solutions are being maintained and integrated into Novell’s other systems management products. Managed Objects was the first to bring full-fledged BSM systems to market. It has a strong product portfolio for BSM projects, and it integrates well with most of the industry’s monitoring tools. This ability to integrate with third-party solutions remains a key differentiator and benefit. · USU. It has expanded its product line from IT asset management and financial management to a full BSM reporting package by adding systems monitoring functionality with collectors from most monitoring systems. It has also added a completely new CMDB system out of its existing asset database and is including original equipment manufacturer (OEM) products for discovery (from BDNA) and ADM (Tideway). It has focused on German-speaking countries so far, with single projects in Italy and in the US. It has also just recruited partners (value-added resellers) in the US, Benelux region, and Saudi Arabia to expand further. Service Catalog Management Solutions While the megavendors tend to provide service request functionality within their service management suites, the following vendors provide standalone solutions to design, develop, measure, and improve complete services, including business services. The organizations preferring these solutions are service providers themselves as well as enterprise IT departments that must behave as a shared service by cataloging the services and ultimately charging for service consumption. · Digital Fuel. The ServiceFlow solution uses a visual modeling approach to model service agreements between service providers and their service consumers using SLAs, operating-level agreements (OLAs), and underpinning contracts. This approach is very attractive to any service provider, as it automates the otherwise-difficult process of managing SLAs and provides common, transparent, and verifiable accounting of SLA performance and compliance. Increasingly, internal enterprise service providers are using ServiceFlow not only to measure and report on the performance of their shared services organizations, such as IT, but also to provide IT cost visibility into business services for better cost optimization decisions with their business consumers. · Oblicore. The company has made a variety of changes to the current solution, which range from changes to the look and feel to functionality changes to provide service managers with a much better way to manage services and the portfolio of services. The company is very successful in continuously supporting service providers and enterprises around the world with its solution set. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 10. Who’s Hot In Business Service Management 9 For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Transaction Management Solutions Each of the megavendors can now provide solutions for this project type with their technologies, but the one vendor that is focused on this type of solution for BSM is OpTier. Several other vendors can also be considered, but they do not use the BSM moniker in their marketing. · AmberPoint. It is very similar in intent and purpose to OpTier and HP’s Bristol Technology. It traces a transaction through any architecture and provides visibility into critical content, while including a policy management system for applying policies such as security to the services it is managing. · dynaTrace. It offers the ability to map a transaction through a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and monitor its performance as well as provide indicators of incidents and problems. · OpTier. OpTier prefers to position itself as providing Business Transaction Management, which is highly applicable for financial services institutes where transaction has a business context. In the meantime, OpTier is now broadening its traction and building on the company’s success in an increasing number of markets. · Oracle. It acquired a number of solutions in the management space including ClearApp that led to the release of Oracle Composite Application Performance Management Pack. This solution not only can map and monitor transactions but also can diagnose SOA applications from a top-level perspective and drill all the way down to functional logic or code to optimize its performance. · Replay Solutions. It offers the ability to collect and capture all transaction data and content. It can run the transactions in real time in a parallel virtual sandbox to debug the transaction in real time while it runs on the production infrastructure. Re c ommend a tions pick your route to bsm first You cannot actually buy a finished BSM solution; you are leveraging a technology platform to be able to provide business-oriented quality-of-service reporting. The most suitable platform depends on how you are approaching BSM: strategic, service-level reporting, service catalog, or performance management. IT infrastructure and operations professionals should therefore first establish which type of BSM project is most applicable before selecting a shortlist of vendors to invite, and the Forrester Wave™ on BSM can still be used to compare solution offerings. Particular attention should be paid to: · Checking that all your data can be collected. Your preferred BSM solution should be able to collect and collate all your infrastructure monitoring data in near real time. Consider your infrastructure platforms, and test that the solution can connect to each of your systems. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 11, 2009
  • 11. 10 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals · Testing your reports with business users. BSM is like any other business application where the true success will be measured by the user satisfaction with the associated reporting. Design and test the desired BSM reports and dashboards using input from your business users, and have your BSM vendors prove that their solution can support your reporting needs. Other Questions To Answer When Planning Your BSM Project IT organizations that are planning a BSM project should also answer the following questions: · Is there a common understanding of why you’re introducing BSM? Does the whole IT organization understand why the BSM journey is starting and where it is heading? Ensure that you communicate these objectives at the beginning and issue ongoing progress reports to all IT staff. · Is your BSM plan business-critical? Have you selected those business processes that have the most impact on the enterprise? Ensure that you involve your business counterparts in these decisions, and use their knowledge to set your priorities. · Do you understand your ITSM maturity? Is your IT staff already working in a customer- centric, service-oriented manner? Ensure that you leverage best practices like ITIL to spread this culture in your organization before taking on the challenge of BSM. · Do you have measurements in place? Are there sufficient metrics to enable you to demonstrate the value of your BSM project? Ensure that you set up a measurement system and culture that can document values before and after you launch the BSM project. · Are your BSM projects coordinated? Do you have enough information about different projects for initiatives like IT asset management, configuration item autodiscovery, and CMDB? Different IT departments are probably executing these with differing objectives. It is important to keep the relationships between the projects in mind and to ensure that project members communicate about the technologies they employ and the organizational changes they make — or plan to make — in order to avoid duplicating work and/or to prevent conflicts along the way. You will need high-level management commitment to achieve this, of course. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
  • 12. Who’s Hot In Business Service Management 11 For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals Supplemental Material Companies Interviewed For This Document AmberPoint IBM Tivoli ASG Interlink Software BMC Software Junisphere CA Nimsoft Compuware Novell Digital Fuel Oblicore dynaTrace OpTier Efecte Oracle FireScope Replay Solutions HP Software USU Endnotes 1 As more and more IT organizations improve their service delivery, they are turning their focus to presenting their business value more positively. These organizations are beginning to develop true BSM systems by doing two things: understanding the metrics their business users employ to decide if IT is providing value and linking these metrics and associated business services to IT infrastructure components. See the February 1, 2006, “BSM Is Coming Of Age: Time To Define What It Is” report. 2 Since 2005, Forrester has tracked the IT management software market across 12 defined categories. For the latest forecast, see the March 13, 2009, “Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market In 2009” report. 3 In 2009, IT faces the problem of cutting costs without affecting the productivity of business users. Ideally, enterprises will look at solutions that increase IT operations’ productivity, reduce the time needed to correct problems, and eliminate wasted time: This should favor the latest and most innovative IT management software products. See the March 13, 2009, “Market Overview: The IT Management Software Market In 2009” report. 4 Originally created by the UK government, ITIL summarizes best practices for the implementation of IT management processes. ITIL defines the processes to be implemented to deliver and support IT services (most of the time, IT services today equal applications) focusing on the business (IT’s customer). The ITIL philosophy revolves around the service desk as a communication platform and the CMDB. ITIL adoption rates in $1-billion-plus companies are: 20% in 2005, 50% in 2008, and 80% in 2010. See the June 30, 2008, “Business Service Management Market Update” report. © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited June 11, 2009
  • 13. 12 Who’s Hot In Business Service Management For IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals 5 Application to infrastructure dependency mapping bridges the gap among business user value, application performance, and what the IT specialist sees — essentially, infrastructure component availability. This, combined with the ITIL CMDB concept, lays the foundation for radical changes in the way IT operations manage resources. The basic information for application dependency mapping exists in all configuration files, routing tables, and port allocation tables and includes all information that the different infrastructure components supporting the application use to function effectively at runtime. This technology is therefore best described as a kind of online reverse engineering and consists of exploring, analyzing, and querying all components supporting an application. See the February 27, 2006, “The Forrester Wave™: Application Mapping For The CMDB, Q1 2006” report. 6 Enterprises with mature BSM systems are able to measure and report quality of service at the business level; they can also assign sensible, business-centric prioritization to service performance events and other incidents. Their next requirement is to add financial analysis elements to the service management reports so that the business can understand the true cost of service operations and become involved in demand management decisions. See the January 6, 2009, “What’s After BSM? Understanding The Financials” report. 7 Forrester surveyed 704 North American and European executives who said that for 2008, 35% of their IT budget was devoted to full-time IT staff, the largest segment recorded. Forrester also saw that only 68% of those surveyed increased their IT departments’ average compensation (including salary and benefits). See the March 27, 2008, “The State Of Enterprise IT Budgets: 2008” report. 8 Forrester evaluated leading BSM vendors across 26 criteria and found that BMC Software and Managed Objects had established early leadership, thanks to their strong product portfolios. HP, Digital Fuel Technologies, IBM, Oblicore, and Proxima Technology were leaders as well, while OpTier, Indicative Software, CA, and ProactiveNet were strong performers. See the March 28, 2007, “The Forrester Wave™: Business Service Management, Q1 2007” report. 9 Microsoft and Symantec were also invited to present a BSM solution, but they declined. 10 The next release, Vantage 11, planned for this summer, has an even tighter integration of Proxima, and Forrester anticipates it will be a very competitive reporting and performance analysis solution. June 11, 2009 © 2009, Forrester Research, Inc. Reproduction Prohibited
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