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.
