Managed Methods SOA Journal

Apptio is betting big on the market for demand-based budget forecasting. A new feature in its technology business management solutions software suite aims to help business managers plan and budget more accurately by inputting departmental forecasts into its software. The Bellevue, Wash., company is calling it a “closed-loop” approach to financial planning, cost management, and transparency. The promised result: tighter alignment with business priorities, improved cost efficiency, and transparent reporting on the cost and value of IT services. Michel Feaster, vice president of products at Apptio, is convinced the company’s closed-loop financial planning process will “close the gap between IT and the business” by letting companies update budgets and forecasts based on real business priorities. “Demand-based forecasting gives IT the data it needs to respond more effectiv... (more)

Managed Methods Partners with The SOA Monitor

The adoption of SOA brings many challenges to an organization. No matter where you stand in the process of deploying an SOA, there is a diverse set of challenges that needs to be addressed in order to successfully achieve ROI. Managed Methods has announced a strategic partnership with The SOA Monitor, an SOA and BPM consulting and training company that helps customers at all stages of SOA adoption. Implementation success depends on the ability to coordinate the many moving parts of an SOA. JaxView’s flexibility will help in that process by providing the visibility, security... (more)

SOA Product Review: Managed Methods JaxView 4.0

Whether you work for a very large company with thousands of services in production or a small company with only a couple, visibility into the performance and uptime of those services is critical. Before you start investigating the myriad of governance products on the market, many of which will set you back a great deal of money, let me save you some time (and money). You can get up and running in about an hour for chump change with JaxView from Managed Methods and get a firm handle on how your services are performing (or not performing as the case may be). If you’ve ever worked ... (more)

Managed Methods Offers SOA Management Support

Managed Methods has announced the availability of their SOA management and runtime governance support for deeper visibility for Aqualogic ESB, WebLogic Integration (WLI) and Progress Sonic ESB 7.6. This capability expands the SOA environments that JaxView supports, including  a wide range of support for applications exposed by ESBs , protocols and messaging and back-end-databases and systems. "We are exceptionally pleased with this release for the support of these integration and mediation products. Our customers are using JaxView in varying ways, from agentless visibility to se... (more)

IT Management is Not Called Change Management for a Reason

THERE WAS A DAY… In the heady days of the networked IT explosion, it was a green field. We had very little data stored anywhere, everything was reasonably new, and whatever we thought might help the organization we were able to just go do, assuming the organization had the money to do it. Systems started to make everyone’s life easier, not just the few who benefitted from mainframes, we were helping the organization be more efficient and more adaptable. For the enterprise, those days are gone. Now we are a key part of the enterprise, with a (documented) massive amount of data tha... (more)