Companies with a concentration of sensitive, high-value, information face a constant need to protect, validate, and manage that data regardless of where it resides within the enterprise.  This is the emerging field of Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).

The business applications (mission-critical or otherwise) do not lend themselves to monitoring, analysis, and management because in today’s “e-business” environment these applications span multiple servers, and are typically built up from groups of home-grown and a variety of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications.  There is little or no provision in any present management product (event, application, storage, etc) for monitoring and managing such a business application’s data.  The boundaries between applications are blurred, with the effect that tasks such as business continuity, capacity planning, data protection, and other vital IT functions are jeopardized because no one knows all the “ins and outs” of these important applications.  Regulatory or corporate governance dictates validating business applications for protection and availability; ensuring the usage of sensitive information is compliant with company business policy (e.g., HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, Graham-Leach, etc). 

Application Matrix’s AppliTrak uses an exclusive business application discovery mechanism to accurately monitor, and track data associated with specific business applications regardless of who owns (the) data, where it came from, or where it resides, fulfilling a critical data center need.  The application inventory created and maintained by AppliTrak is open and accessible for reporting and use by IT staff and third-party management tools making it a critical “must-have” in corporate data centers where sensitive and high-value information requires care and attention.

Two of the biggest issues in business process and enterprise management today are: (1) application identification, (2) associating applications to their service level objectives.  Application Matrix makes it a snap to monitor mission-critical applications and ensure that essential system services are being delivered as required.  For more information call or email Application Matrix.