Monitoring Software: Saving Money and Increasing Performance by Upgrading OMEGAMON (full version)

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Ernie Gilman and Mac Holloway from IBM discuss the performance gains and cost savings customers can achieve by upgrading their OMEGAMON monitoring software.

Transcript: Gilman: 02:01:53 - Well you know one of the things weve been helping customers with is helping them with the OMEGAMON. Customers have a OMEGAMON, they have it, they run it, they like it, but you know one of the things we talk about is well, whats new? Why should I need to upgrade to the next release? I have what I have today. Im happy with it. Why should I upgrade?
Gilman: 02:05:34 - Well you know, everybodys under cost pressures today. And trying to get more cycles out of the z box they have today. And when I tell them that they can put in some software, such as the OMEGAMON, and immediately get benefits out of that, [onscreen text: Saving money] get cycles back and save money, its like getting a check at the end of the week, theyre very excited about that.
Gilman: 02:06:18 - You know the pressures I see with a lot of customers, theyre under tremendous cost pressure today. They have to do more with less, so I come and tell them if you put in OMEGAMON and you put in the latest release, were going to actually tell you where the savings are, were going to actually offload your processor. [onscreen text: Doing more with less] Were going to be able to do more with less. Its almost like getting a check for putting in the new software.
Mack: 02:25:14 - Okay, in the OMEGAMON area, realize, we continue to work on the product. As Ive said, were trying to make sure were delivering the customer value you need. There are already three of the version 4.2 OMEGAMONs out there. They all have some substantial value adds, in terms of [onscreen text: Performance gains] performance, in terms of consumability. I just get so jazzed when I look at the stuff and how we leverage this. We get some of this from one group, we get some of it from another group. All of this converges in this product, this suite we call the OMEGAMONs. And theyre all continuous in getting better. We continue to take customer commits. [onscreen text: Ongoing enhancements] We continue to put value in. This is the way that we can help our customers actually deal with the pressures theyre under today.
Gilman: 02:08:48 - I had a case last week where a customer implemented the OMEGAMON, they created a new workspace. Just by the fact of creating this workspace, they saw problems in their environment they had never seen before. Its a matter of getting the right information in the right format to the right people. The datas there, but I just have to get it to the person in the right format. [onscreen text: Reducing time to resolution] And thats whats so exciting about OMEGAMON is that the data is, I dont know where the problem is but if I can present it in the right format, they can say, ah! I see the problem.

Mack: 02:22:37 In the current release that one of my teams is working on, there are a set of things were trying to address that are really key. One is, weve got to make stuff easier for people to put in place. So were leveraging some key technology to [onscreen text: Reducing migration time by 75 percent] reduce the migration time by 75%. Thats a lot of staffing that just doesnt get spent. Weve also done a bunch of work around trying to reduce the consumption of CPU and weve seen reductions both in excess of 50% in the product, but then were also working with customers to say, heres how you can leverage the product. Then we see as much as 50% reductions there. This is what they need. They need to save money. The costs of our products has to be something that adds value.


Gilman: 02:12:21 - Well you know the thing about OMEGAMON is the customers are used to a lot of people coming up to them saying we can do this and that and so forth. The difference is IBM delivers because of the investment [onscreen text: Continual investment in improvement] we make. Well put in this product, it actually uses less cycles for more functionality. Its like you put OMEGAMON in, put in a new release, its like writing you a check. Youve already got it, lets get money in your pocket, because its offloading your system and giving you more capabilities.

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• monitoring software
• OMEGAMON
• IBM
• Tivoli