Does Your IT Implementation Align with Your Business Goals?

As distributed, interconnected applications of all kinds grow in popularity—in SOA, Web 2.0, cloud computing, messaging, and ESB initiatives—there is a need for line-of-business owners to collaborate more effectively with IT departments to align their implementations with business goals. The problem is the lack of visibility into, and data on, what exactly is going on in the real-time services network from a business point of view.

The white paper Business Process Visibility: Aligning IT and Business Goals discusses this problem and a unique solution from Progress® Actional® that enables organizations to realize the full business potential of distributed, interconnected applications that are essential to critical business operations and lines of revenues.

In particular, this paper examines:

• Why current IT monitoring solutions and other typical attempts to provide business insight into operations, such as creating synthetic transactions, are inadequate.
  
  
• How the solution offered in Actional Enterprise combines IT and business views of transactions to allow organizations to understand and manage loosely coupled services executing in runtime operations as business processes.
  
  
• How, with Actional Enterprise, organizations can use this business process visibility, as well as service-level agreement (SLA) policies and other Actional mechanisms, for service-level management, for example, to optimize service traffic to ensure quality of service and provide priority treatment for key customers.

SPECIAL OFFER! Register now and you'll also receive the white paper The Forrester Wave™: Standalone SOA And Web Services Management Solutions, Q4 2007 Report, published by independent research firm, Forrester Research, Inc. The Forrester Research report evaluates vendors against approximately 100 criteria points, and names Actional as #1 in Current Offering and Strategy.