BEZ Systems New Product Release Provides Advanced Support for Teradata

BEZ Systems, a leading provider

of Predictive Performance Management (PPM) solutions, today announced

support for Teradata systems by its flagship product, BEZVision?.

BEZVision is a unique, latest generation software solution that uses

analytics and prediction technology to manage application and database

performance issues brought on by accelerated change and complexity.
Data warehouses have emerged as major drivers of Business Intelligence

(BI), and subsequently business performance, but they serve many

masters. The increasing number, types and mix of workloads threaten data

warehouse performance and throughput that various groups within a

company depend on to help make better business decisions.
BEZVision gathers and aggregates existing performance data from Teradata

DBQL into workloads and stores them in a Performance Management Database

(PMDB) that BEZ refers to as the Consolidated

Performance Warehouse. Analytic models are created which approximate

each workload´s unique performance

characteristics. These models can then predict how workloads will

perform with regard to response time, throughput and utilization from

hours to years in advance. Prediction models can warn you of potential

service breeches in the future, what the causes are, what you can do

about them and then test possible solutions before committing resources.

By varying parameters of the models, you can ask "what-if" questions that provide the ability to adapt to change while minimizing

outages and slowdowns.
"Applying BI solutions to business data has

emerged as one of the major tools available for businesses to gain

insight into their operations, plan more effectively and focus assets

for the best possible outcome for the company," said Dan Haley, President and CEO of BEZ Systems. "In

an analogous way, BEZ offers "BI for IT"

applying analytics and modeling technology to IT performance data to

achieve that same end - running IT as a business."
According to Donald Feinberg, Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst

"Gartner believes that the analysis and correlation of performance

related data is critical for IT organizations to move from simply

reacting to problems to becoming proactive and beyond to being

predictive. Only with deep correlation can IT move to proactive

capabilities. And only with broad analytics can IT move to becoming

truly predictable."
"We value our long term relationship with BEZ

and their performance management tool in helping our customers optimize

their Teradata investment," said Randy S.

Lea, Vice President of Products and Services Marketing at Teradata. "Data

warehousing is a very dynamic environment and with BEZVision, customers

have a predictive tool to help forecast future impact based on both

recent activity and anticipated changes to that activity. BEZ tools are

very valuable in proactively addressing performance improvement

opportunities and very useful in developing future upgrade plans."
BEZ software is built using a service-oriented architecture and can

process data from multiple existing performance data gathering agents

and repositories. In addition to using data from Teradata systems

BEZVision utilizes additional data sources from other platforms

including Oracle 10g Grid Control Repository, Precise i3 Performance

Repository, CA/Wily Introscope and HP OpenView.
About BEZ Systems (View

the BEZ 2 Minute Explainer)
Since 1993, BEZ Systems has been

applying advanced analytics and modeling technology to IT performance

issues. Analytics aggregate current and historic performance data into

meaningful business workloads and modeling provides IT management with

historic, current and over-the-horizon views of workload service levels.

The results provide IT decision-makers with the time and information to

make informed business decisions, deploy resources more efficiently, and

ensure that service delivery to the business is insulated from the

chaotic effects of constant change.