YES - large-scale applications such as SAP and Oracle Siebel support core business functions. Many build and implement integrations between SAP systems and non-SAP applications such as Seibel using SAP NetWeaver, SOA and/or other middleware components to support complex business processes. If they fail, business goals are in jeopardy. These complex applications are woven into heterogeneous networks, and every change or fix ripples through multiple systems and applications.

The focus of IT has been on managing systems, efficiently and at low cost. In today’s environment, this systems orientation results in disconnected monitoring data that does nothing to indicate the health of overall business services, making end-user complaints the first indication that service levels aren’t being met. It also makes it extremely difficult to assign problems to the team that can fix them most quickly.

HP Business Availability Center for SAP applications is a comprehensive solution to proactively manage SAP & non-SAP environments in a production environment, so that IT is able to best leverage its resources and respond faster to SAP incidents, thus increasing the value its SAP applications deliver to the business.

We have a very exciting flash demo (total run time 3:34) highlighting our approach to helping our customers better manage their business services and complex IT landscapes.

Check it out:

https://h30406.www3.hp.com/campaigns/2009/demo/bsm_sap/index.html

You can read more details on the solution here: http://h20229.www2.hp.com/partner/protected/assets/pdf/4AA1-9302ENW.pdf

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