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Each year, organizations spend millions of dollars expanding existing infrastructure and increasing security. As a C-Level officer, it’s your responsibility to spend your budget where it will derive the most business value for the organization, which is an increasingly difficult task.

The FireScope solution dramatically increases your visibility into the current conditions of your enterprise and simplifies long-term decisions by helping you view and manage the business impact of IT.

How can FireScope Help?

• Streamline Enterprise Reporting

  With FireScope, you get a single reporting interface for your entire Enterprise. No matter whether it's analyzing your SLA effectiveness, summarizing current and trending security posture or identifying the best opportunity for virtualization, FireScope delivers the information you need in seconds.

• Gain New Insight

  Establishing effective security and enterprise performance requires you to know everything that's going on within your infrastructure, as it happens. FireScope aggregates the data from any application, system, database, and/or point solution to give you the complete picture. Using the latest Web 2.0 technologies, FireScope delivers information in real-time with a minimal learning curve.

• Drive dramatic cost savings

  By increasing the effectiveness of your organization’s existing solutions and simplifying budgetary decisions, many organizations realize FireScope’s ROI rapidly. Additionally, FireScope customers see at least 20% - 30% savings in the first year by consolidating all IT Operations management and monitoring into a single web-based portal. For more information, you are invited to read our white paper on Realizing ROI from a Comprehensive Monitoring Solution.

• Ensure rapid and effective implementations

  FireScope was born from the frustrations of IT Operations professionals who struggled to make complex, disparate systems work together. Therefore, when developing FireScope, simplicity played an important role. As a direct result of this philosophy, the FireScope appliance is designed for rapid deployment with typical installations completing up in just a few days. Once installed and deployed, FireScope requires no specialized training or dedicated staff, and is virtually maintenance free.

Make your life easier.

• Improve employee productivity

  IT professionals typically spend between 65% - 80% of their day reading log files, checking KPI’s, diagnosing issues,and putting out fires. No one enjoys these tasks, especially IT professionals. FireScope centralizes all critical IT operations alerts and intelligence into a single, web-based portal, which frees up IT professionals to do what they’re trained and paid to do. As a result, root-cause analysis of these issues takes seconds instead of hours, allowing your IT professionals to focus their time on the business outcome of IT Operations.

• Simplify strategic IT decisions

  The more actionable information you have at your disposal, the easier it is to make long-term decisions with confidence. FireScope customers get a single dashboard that aggregates all of the information concerning the health and security of all of your networked devices, all accessible in a few simple clicks.

• Harden your enterprise

  Just as with people, technology that works together is more effective than the sum of its individual parts. With FireScope providing the glue to bind your individual point solutions, systems, databases and networked devices together, you make a significant step toward defending your business from the security threats of tomorrow.

Additional Resources

Take Charge of Data Center Power and Air

With FireScope, businesses gain unparalleled insight into current and trending power and air utilization, significantly simplifying strategic and budgetary decisions. FireScope aggregates data from all of your existing power systems, heating and air conditioning equipment, power distribution systems, servers, and point solutions into FireScope’s web-based portal for instant access. Simultaneously, this data is processed through FireScope’s extensible rules engine and business intelligence module, providing real-time decision support and helping you map the growth of your business.

Simplify the Management of Service Oriented Architecture Applications

FireScope significantly simplifies day-to-day and long-term management of SOA applications by providing IT professionals with a single source to analyze and manage every aspect of each component of their SOA deployments. By aggregating the event information from every networked device into a single FireScope appliance, FireScope enables organizations to merge application error information, transaction performance metrics and system health events for a complete, three-dimensional view of everything that’s going on – delivered in real-time.

Revolutionize the Way You Analyze and Plan IT Operations

Utilizing data collected from virtually any networked asset, FireScope users can create reports with drag-and-drop ease to analyze any aspect of IT operations over any period of time, including real-time - such as creating "what-if" scenarios, forecasts, trending and analysis.

Revolutionize the Way You Conduct IT Operations with Real-Time Visibility of IT Operations

FireScope offers organizations a single, web-based portal that aggregates all the relevant data from every networked asset in real-time, delivering actionable intelligence when it can do the most good.

FireScope's Flexible Advantage - Logically Group Assets to Fit Your Unique Needs

FireScope empowers clients to realize substantial benefits in efficiency, without requiring major changes within your IT organization. Each asset being managed by FireScope can be grouped in whatever way makes sense for your organization.

FireScope's Application Aggregation - Enhance the Effectiveness of Your Point Solutions

Within the first 90 days of deployment, over half of the point solutions organizations purchase fall into disuse, or are not utilized at peak effectiveness. Learn how FireScope can help.

Introducing the FireScope Google Maps Feature

FireScope’s Google Maps mapping capability provides at-a-glance knowledge of critical system metrics in real time. The pre-set parameters can be easily customized according to any data collected by FireScope; e.g., Web server availability, network bandwidth, system security or other criteria. The interface offers graphical, satellite or hybrid views, with color-coded lines between locations that indicate connectivity status. AJAX-powered detail bubbles for each facility show the aggregated status of system assets at that location, while a zoom in/out control allows users to view assets at levels ranging from street grids to international boundaries.

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• FireScope's Flexible Advantage - Logically Group Assets to Fit Your Unique Needs
• FireScope’s Flexible Data Collection Methods