Thursday, July 11, 2013

Early warning of actual customer experience issues with HP BPM

What if you had:

early warning of actual customer experience issues…
Early warning allows for a pro-active response to minimize business impact.
Find application issues before your users start using the application – by monitoring them 24x7.
… adequate information to prioritize those issues?
Is the issue isolated to one application, a specific step?  Is the issue localized to one location?
What is the business impact associated with an issue?
and detailed information in order to resolve them?
What was the application error?  Which step failed?  Is it widespread?
Which component contributes to a response time issue (network, server, transfer speed, DNS, etc.)?

This is what HP Business Process Monitor makes possible.

Need early warning of application performance and availability issues

Early warning allows for a pro-active response.
Test your services even outside normal business hours before your customers expect the application to be working.
Real User monitoring will only catch issues if a user is actually using the application.  Proactively validating the application  availability on a regular basis gives you a baseline and 24x7 monitoring capabilities.
Need adequate information to prioritize issues
HP BPM can help you determine the scope of the issue.
By associating a downtime cost to your application can see the impact to the business over time.
SLA’s that are impacted by the performance and availability are easily determined.

Need detailed information in order to resolve

HP BPM can capture what the user saw (for web transactions).  In general the errors returned are captured.
Response time of transaction sub-components is captured which greatly helps determine where the issue should be assigned for resolution.
HP BPM integrates tightly with HP Diagnostics and TransactionVision to isolate problems in application sub-component level (queues, database, Java/.NET components, etc.).

Issues that we hear from customers like yourself where we know that HP BPM can help….

IT is reactive to user complaints of application performance. Customers are effectively being used as monitoring tools and IT is the last to know of an outage or slowdown.
You want a reduction in the number of help desk calls and escalation costs
Embarrassed to see systems monitoring dashboard indicate “All Green” when users are still reporting problems.
Application production issues result in large teams spending too much time on conference bridges playing the “blame game”
The business had a highly visible outage and their user satisfaction ratings and image have suffered
Spending too much time isolating the issue (issue ping-pongs between IT groups until the cause of outage/slowdown is determined)
Application owner is demanding Service Levels be managed at the business service level but all that IT is monitoring is infrastructure health
Performance/availability initiatives with a critical application
Reducing mean time to repair and the associated downtime cost
Eliminating the need for costly application specialists to do intitial triage on issues
Shortening application implementation time with best practices and cooperation between production and development   




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