IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager

Business benefits

*Features, advantages and benefits*
Features	Advantages	Benefits
Provides business context for IT, enables greater accountability to business user needs and improves ability to prioritize and optimize	Allows IT staff to view IT resources in the context of critical business services and to prioritize actions based on business impact and make intelligent tradeoffs	Provides business context for IT. Enables greater accountability to business user needs. Improves ability to prioritize and optimize.
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager executive dashboard and service API	Enables the visualization of key business service status	Provides knowledge to executives on the health of IT as it relates to business objectives
Integration of service level status from IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor onto the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager executive dashboard	Service Level Agreement (SLA) status is combined with business service availability status on an executive dashboard	Communication to business and IT leaders regarding the health of IT occurs in a consistent timely manner
End-to-end Auto-discovery of resources and their relationships	Automatically keeps business service views current with an increasingly dynamic IT environment	Speeds implementation. Improves productivity and accuracy.
Web console	Flexibility with more robust filtering	Allows you to view IT status from anywhere at anytime
Automatically discovers and builds graphical views of application	Allows for the placement of discovered resources into containers that represent critical Business Systems and Applications	Speeds implementation time and reduces errors and ensures the currency and accuracy of management view

IBM® Tivoli® Business Systems Manager is part of the IBM Tivoli IT Service Management portfolio of products that provides intelligent management software to help businesses you increase your operational agility by aligning IT operations to business priorities. Intelligent management software helps optimize your IT operations according to the business goals of the your organization, rather than focusing on the technology itself. These goals may be to streamline business processes and optimize resources to help manage costs, to increase efficiency to manage productivity and increase revenue, or assuring service availability to enhance customer satisfaction.

IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager takes availability management to the next level by enabling IT to become responsive to their customers rather than technology. Utilizing the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager executive dashboard, your executives can visualize see the health of the most critical business services and any associated service level agreements. With this real-time knowledge IT resources and actions can be targeted towards the most critical and costly IT resources and issues can be targeted, and ultimately delivering the greatest impact to the business.

IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager enables you to:

Align and manage IT in the context of business priorities
Utilize the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager executive dashboard to provide knowledge about key business services
Integrate service level data from IBM Tivoli Service Level Advisor in the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager executive dashboard
Automatically discover and maintain resources and relationships within an IT infrastructure
Leverage data from existing Tivoli and 3rd party monitoring products
Display instantaneous (real-time) service level status and root cause analysis
Provide end-to-end systems management support (distributed to mainframe)
Utilize a Web console to manage IT from anywhere at anytime
Display resource relationships in tables, hierarchical trees, hyperviews and topology views
Auto-discover new resources and auto-populate business systems