IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for WebSphere

*Features, advantages and benefits*
Features	Advantages	Benefits
Account and Server Group Management	Servers can be grouped for ease of monitoring	Access to data can be restricted, according to the user’s role
Dynamic monitoring, with three levels available	Monitoring scope and granularity can be changed on-the-fly	Tailor the information displayed to the monitoring needs of the moment
Detailed memory analysis	In-depth metrics are displayed	Shorten the time required to diagnose and remedy application errors
Flexible performance and analysis reporting	Display selected metrics for selected servers or applications	Quickly and thoroughly understand how applications behave in an actual production environment

Business benefits

Today’s dynamic, on demand business depends on an array of complex applications. These are composite applications, meaning that they are deployed as partitioned business logic and data that span Web servers, Java™ 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) application servers, integration middleware and mainframe systems including CICS® and IMS™. Traditional siloed tools that monitor individual systems are not equipped to manage and diagnose composite application performance and availability problems. As a result, operations and development teams relying upon disparate tooling waste countless hours trying to identify, isolate and fix these problems. Poorly performing composite applications can have serious financial consequences on top- and bottom-line results of the business.

IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for WebSphere® delivers unparalleled, integrated management tools for your Web and enterprise infrastructure that help maintain availability and performance of your on demand business. Part of the Tivoli family of application management solutions, ITCAM for WebSphere helps you quickly pinpoint the source of bottlenecks or other defects in application code, server resources or external system dependencies. It provides valuable management capabilities in both distributed and IBM z/OS® environments.

Because organizations may use multiple application servers, ITCAM for WebSphere can integrate tightly with IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for J2EE. Together, these products giving you a consistent way to manage composite applications across WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, JBoss, Oracle, SAP NetWeaver, and Tomcat environments.

Unlike other solutions that lack integrated tools across the problem resolution and application life cycles, ITCAM for WebSphere helps you rapidly identify and fix performance problems before they impact customers and other end users. The end result? You can keep your business running smoothly — to meet customer demands for exceptional service around the clock and around the world.

View the META analyst report for additional information on composite application management challenges.

Through a set of diagnostics, reporting, analysis and resolution tools, ITCAM for WebSphere enables advanced monitoring and management of WebSphere-based J2EE applications, which allow you to:

Detect, analyze and repair WebSphere performance issues in production and test environments.
Maintain high uptime, performance and responsiveness standards for both mainframe and distributed systems. Understand overall application health at a glance across multiple system types

ITCAM for WebSphere also provides key performance metrics to the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal to help operations and support teams spot trends and potential delays before end-users are affected.
ITCAM for WebSphere can exchange information with IBM Rational tools to help developers understand the performance of applications in an actual production environment.
IBM is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s J2EE Application Server Management Magic Quadrant. Click here (PDF, 49KB) to read the Gartner report. ITCAM for WebSphere is an integral part of IBM's IT Service Management solutions that are designed to help deliver services based upon a framework of best practices.