Application Assurance: Predicting and Optimizing IT Performance

Wouldn’t it be great if you could catch—and fix—potential problems before they occur?

Now you can, with UC4 Application Assurance. Its intelligent monitoring and error prevention capabilities work in real time, across your entire enterprise, to help you predictively model and manage your IT environment.

Why Do You Need Application Assurance?
Today’s enterprise IT environments are far more complex than ever before, encompassing not only multiple platforms, legacy systems, and in-house applications, but also virtual and cloud computing environments. In addition, market dynamics and customer demands are constantly changing, requiring far more agility than in the past.

With all this complexity, manual monitoring just isn’t sufficient anymore. You need automation—real-time, intelligent automation, that can work across your entire IT infrastructure to rapidly detect errors, eliminate recurring failures, and automatically handle unplanned resource loads. You need UC4’s Application Assurance.

How It Works
Application Assurance combines real-time monitoring, end-to-end insight into your business and IT processes, and intelligent decision making to help you optimize performance and service delivery across the enterprise—from traditional data centers to virtual and cloud environments. By analyzing patterns, detecting trends, and responding proactively in accordance with rules you establish, UC4 Application Assurance can identify and fix potential problems before users are even aware of them—and it can also help you respond promptly to new opportunities. It comes with dozens of solution templates that you can use right out of the box, making it easy for you to align your business demands and IT performance across the full spectrum of IT processes.

Application Assurance is a combination of two UC4 products:

• UC4 Decision, a complex event processing platform that proactively monitors processes and events in real time and automatically takes whatever actions are needed to keep your applications and operations running smoothly

• UC4 Insight, a pattern-mapping and 3D visualization tool that will help you quickly identify opportunities and error patterns and take immediate action as needed

UC4 Application Assurance Benefits

• Detects root causes of problems and eliminates them before they occur
• Manages complexity and optimizes performance
• Handles unplanned resource loads automatically
• Prevents downtimes and helps you exceed service level agreements
• Aligns business demands and IT performance in real time

“Senior executives must commit to achieving excellence in near-real-time analytics because the pace of business will continue to accelerate, and doing the wrong thing fast will be increasingly costly.”

Roy Schulte, Gartner, “Using Analytics for Situation Awareness and Faster and Smarter Response,” Nov. 2009

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