The Currency Of Change
When talking about automation, people easily ignore the power of change and consider the contemplated processes as engraved in stone. In spite of the fact that “change is not new and change is natural“, as Thomas L. Friedman (The World is Flat) pointed out in his or thought-provoking book:“Change is hard. Change is hardest on those caught by surprise. Change is hardest on those who have difficulty changing too.”
Talking about change means talking about events – the secret currency of change counting any single change of state. This is worth emphasizing because events are not only the drivers of today’s businesses and operations, but they can occur everywhere – crossing platform, departmental and even enterprise borders.
Today you´re managing dynamic IT environments which are complex blends of physical, virtual, or cloud-based resources. In such environments transparency is key to staying agile and responsive. But even being reactive is not enough to keep your business situationally aware. To ensure that the processes are up-to-date and the engine is not automating errors and detours, any automation effort must be accompanied by an ongoing optimization effort.
The crux is that reaction and analysis are meshing. Take lunch break at school as real world example: the bell is ringing and 10 seconds later everyone stands in the line of the cafeteria waiting to be served. Following the classical monitoring way, cooking would start when the bell rings. Knowing more about the processes in the kitchen, the guys from UC4 start cooking 2 hours before – so everything is ready when the children come.
This kind of processing intelligence is key to avoiding overheads and running automated environments in a cost- and SLA-conscious way. Knowing the processes in school, the ringing bell is a foreseeable event. So you better not focus on reducing the reaction time and waste time and money. Otherwise it makes a lot of sense to monitor the cooking process as close to real-time as possible. It ensures that you have all the processing options available – before the bell rings!
Knowing that change is a constant not a variable and that automation can only be effective if it is combined with intelligence, UC4´s Application Assurance solution incorporates real-time data, insight into the complete end-to-end business or IT processes, and intelligent decision making.
Have a look. It’s worth it!
Wolfgang Tonninger
Not a UC4 employee, but an external source and UC4 companion. Wolfgang Tonninger is responsible for irritation and inspiration in this blog, and secretly the blog engine. He has been working in content creation and development for 20 years, as well as writing about intelligent use of IT solutions. He thinks too much about cultural aspects of technology - sometimes offline without bad conscience.
Not a UC4 employee, but an external source and UC4 companion. Wolfgang Tonninger is responsible for irritation and inspiration in this blog, and secretly the blog engine. He has been working in content creation and development for 20 years, as well as writing about intelligent use of IT solutions. He thinks too much about cultural aspects of technology - sometimes offline without bad conscience. ...less info
