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Automate discovery and visualization with IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager

Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager delivers automated discovery and configuration tracking capabilities to build application maps that provide real-time visibility into application complexity.
- Understand the structure of interdependent and complex applications
- Rapidly isolate configuration-related application problems, which reduces troubleshooting time from hours and days to minutes
- Better understand the impact of component-level events in order to sort issues based on application and service impact
- More effectively plan change so that application upgrades and deployments can occur without disruptions
- Create a shared topological definition of applications for use by other management applications, such as service level managers and provisioning tools
- Efficiently works across platforms such as Microsoft, Distributed and Mainframe
- Attain real-time, end-to-end visibility into your complex application infrastructure
- Gain a clear understanding of the dependencies between servers, applications, network devices, software,configuration files, operating systems and other IT infrastructure components
- Integrate discovery capabilities with business operations tools
- Understand change and control its effects across the infrastructure
- Enhance management of physical,virtual and cloud environments
Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager helps IT administrators understand the structure, status, configuration, and change history of their interdependent business applications. Successful management of these and related application management tasks can then lead to specific and tangible benefits for both IT and the business, including:
- 50 percent reduction in mean time to repair by quickly identifying and isolating configuration changes that affect service.
- 10 to 20 percent reduction in deployed application rollbacks due to a better understanding of configuration item dependencies before changes are made.
- 84 percent reduction in the time required to inventory IT assets.
- Improved energy efficiency and reduced energy costs through the ability to consolidate and optimize devices.*
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