Savision Launches Advanced Visualization Production for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007

November 6, 2007; 08:16 AM
The Netherlands - Tuesday, 6 November 2007 - Savision B.V. today introduced its first product, Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007, which is the industry's first seamlessly integrated visual mapping product for Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager 2007. Live Maps now empowers IT organizations to combine any imaginable background image with Operations Manager 2007 data to create rich, context-aware monitoring maps. The deeply integrated solution adds substantial business and operational relevance to every IT problem, thereby decreasing incident identification time and significantly speeding problem resolution.

IT infrastructures are complex; monitoring should be simple. Only Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 simplifies the ever-growing infrastructure maze of systems, applications, and networks into a set of connected pictures or diagrams. Live Maps enables every user to create a different view of the IT ecosystem. Executives need views by business unit and geography, while IT operators require service and component views. Live Maps empowers all users to create real-time, function relevant IT monitoring views in minutes.

Live Maps gives IT professional the tools they need to better visualize and manage more complex environments with the same resources. By mapping alerts to real business services, Live Maps ensures the underlying cause a problem is understood in the context of the business. "KPN has a complex IT environment which spawns more than 60 remote locations. Monitoring our environment without situational context would be impossible unless we hired more people," said Arnold Hoogerwerf, Manager Workspace at KPN. "Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 ensures that our existing IT staff can proactively manage our dispersed environment by displaying IT problems in nested maps based on geographical location and business service."

Live Maps for Operations Manger 2007 also significantly reduces the time it takes for IT operation teams to successfully manage new or changed systems, applications or services. By mapping real-time environment health to logical, physical and geographical maps, IT operators now have a dynamic monitoring interface which adds situational context traditionally filed away in spreadsheets, operations manuals or other static IT artifacts. Live Maps breaths new life into these static artifacts, so operators do not have to memorize or quickly reference them during an IT failure.

"Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 delivered much needed contextual monitoring views to help us visualize how IT problems impact our customer's business." said Michiel Rens, Global Offering Engineer for the Windows Management Framework at EDS. "The real-time perspective provided by Live Maps ensures that our teams can identify and resolve problems rapidly."

Features

Live Maps takes visualization in Operations Manager 2007 to new heights with the following features:

Fully Configurable Maps

    * Create dynamic maps on any imaginable background
    * Over 300 geographical background maps included: world, continents, countries
    * Simple drag, drop and upload interface eases creation and changes

Unlimited Nested Maps

    * Create unlimited dependency-aware, nested maps
    * Configure roll-up states based on most affected object
    * Define overview maps to show only relevant information

Seamless Integration with OpsMgr 2007

    * Run object-sensitive management pack tasks
    * Search and filter on any object on any map Launch Health Explorer from any problematic object
    * Use embedded security model for access rights management
    * Activate maintenance mode for a complete region with a single-click

Enhanced Alert Awareness

    * Objects blink when attention is required
    * Microsoft Outlook style alert view; new alerts are clearly highlighted
    * Embed critical escalation and contact information

"Our technology evolved from years of operational experience managing many of the largest and most complex IT environments in the world," said Douwe van de Voort, Founder of Savision. "Over and over again much needed business context disappeared in the maze of IT environment complexity and corresponding alert lists. With Live Maps, IT organizations can transform alert-lists in business aware monitoring maps."

To view a product demonstration, go to: http://www.savision.com/demo

Availability

Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 is generally available for purchase today. Pricing starts at 1,999 Euros. See a live demonstration at Microsoft TechEd IT Forum 2007 in Barcelona at stand D25.

About Savision

Savision provides solutions that transform, enrich and present data collected by Microsoft?s system management products in a fashion more easily absorbed by humans. Founded in 2006, Savision is headquartered in the Netherlands and is privately held. Savision?s founders and executives bring years of enterprise systems and application management experience from large IT service companies. For more information, go to http://www.savision.com/

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