IBM Service Management Center for System z

The solutions from IBM Service Management Center for System z integrate seamlessly with each other, including solutions for distributed systems. Their open architecture allows easy integration with non-IBM solutions as well.

In addition to its automatic provisioning capabilities, IBM SMCz enables easy integration across multiple vendor platforms. This improves your ability to better anticipate and respond to system performance issues and security threats, including recovery processes and critical path analysis. Extensive product integration allows a direct linkage of events, assets and applications to the appropriate business services.

With this kind of integration the performance of the IT assets can be directly linked to the business processes through appropriate key performance indicators (KPIs). Expected business performance can be easily compared to actual service levels and KPIs to quickly assess the quality of service delivery.

IBM SMCz also provides simple to use display and report tools that greatly simplify business service management and provide an end-to-end view of your business services and their performance.

IBM Service Management Center for System z solutions, through extensive integration, help you to:

• Plan, test and execute recovery processes based on scope and impact on business service delivery
• Identify, create, test, execute and audit continuity plans for all key business services as well as IT and information assets, so that the business is prepared to quickly recover from a disaster
• Automatically detect, collect, analyze and alert on security events and threats from RACF, applications, data and systems by providing state of the art security management tools combined with sophisticated monitoring tools
• Implement comprehensive audit and compliance reporting and management; identity management and access control can be implemented across mainframe as well as distributed systems, services and applications
• Obtain an end-to-end view of the enterprise and proactively receive warnings about critical situations or degraded services with powerful monitoring tools that are integrated with incident management tools.