Free FireScope BSM Trial
TVAR is please to offer the first Business Service Management solution that you can try before you buy. Simply fill in the form below and check your inbox for a trial license key and download link to get your copy of FireScope in your choice of Virtual Machine environment. Each VM has everything you need, pre-installed to get you up and running immediately.
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- Data Collection
- Technology agnostic data collection
- Over 11 Agent and Agent-less collection methods, including SNMP, Syslog, WMI/Perfmon, JMX, Web Services, direct database connections and more
- Normalize data from disparate technologies into a single repository
- Easily integrate new technologies and systems as they come online
- Virtually all standards-based data collection methods included.
- Service Management
- Service-level view of infrastructure
- SLA/SLO Management
- Financial impact analysis of SLAís
- Business metric-based SLAís
- User-Customizable Content
- Each user experience customized to userís role
- Active Directory and LDAP integration
- Granular security controls to manage who has access to what information
- Event Management
- Data correlated across disparate systems for Service-level impact analysis
- Real-time analysis of events and metrics
- Technology metrics blended with business metrics for true business impact analysis
- Create simple or complex rules that span multiple assets
- Flexible tiered-notification and automation capabilities
- Application Aggregation
- Centralize your critical information and applications into a single source
- Aggregate the interfaces of any web application
- Reduce the legwork to find, authenticate and utilize applications
- Single Sign-On and Web Single Sign-On capabilities included
- Rapid Time to Value
- Delivered as a virtual appliance with all software pre-installed
- Deployment measured in days
- Auto-Discovery of assets
- Highly intuitive administrative interface
- Supports your existing organization and processes
With FireScope BSM, you get single point of consolidation of all of your infrastructure event and metric data, combined with key business metrics to help you manage IT Operations in a way where the focus is on the outcome, not the technology.
- Consolidate the event, metrics and interfaces of your existing point solutions and IT assets into a single, customizable web portal and dashboard.
- Correlate technology metrics with business metrics to manage the business outcome of IT, including SLAís based on technology and business metrics.
- Link events and metrics to their financial impact for improved communication with Line of Business (LoB) leaders.
- Realize a Service-level view of your infrastructure, not just a collection of disparate systems and the layers that make them up.
- Migrate to proactive IT and realize new efficiencies while containing costs.
- Seamlessly integrate new technologies or acquisitions into your consolidated view, for a future-proof management solution that grows with your business.
With FireScope, You Can:
Built from the same engine behind FireScope BSM : Enterprise-Edition that powers IT Operations for Fortune 100 enterprises across the globe and across verticals, FireScope BSM is proven technology re-engineered to meet the unique needs of your growing business.
Every aspect of FireScope BSM has been designed to deliver maximum flexibility, yet easy and comfortable to use. No specialty training or consultancy is required to get up and running. In fact, most businesses can start reaping value from FireScope BSM within the first few days after downloading.
Don't believe us? Download a fully-functional trial and experience FireScope BSM for yourself.
White Papers
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Agile BSM Solutions Speed Alignment of IT and Corporate GoalsThis white paper provides a high-level overview of what Business Service Management is, the value it delivers to business, as well as a summary of the biggest hurdles businesses face when trying to achieve BSM. |
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Force Multiply Your Headcount with Web 2.0 TechnologiesYour company has at its disposal a wealth of facts and knowledge gained through years, even decades, of collective experience. The challenge is to make this information easily accessible and, more importantly, actionable for employees at every level. This white paper will describe how Web 2.0 technologies can dramatically enhance productivity and bring new employees up to speed faster. |
Data Sheets
FireScope BSM Data Sheet
FireScope BSM is offered in a variety of formats, listed below. All include the full Operating System stack, the FireScope core applications and their dependencies. Storage requirements will vary, as this is dependent on your rate of data collection, number of Configuration Items being managed and your data retention requirements.
- Hardware Requirements
- 1.6 GHz or faster CPU
- 1 GB Memory
- 4.38 GB Hard drive space (Core application)
- ESX Server Virtual Appliance requires 100 Gig drive space for database.
- Virtual Appliances will need their corresponding player or server
- Additional space may be needed for data storage
- Available Formats
- VMWare Virtual Appliance
- VMWare ESX Server Virtual Appliance
- Citrix XenServer Virtual Appliance
- FireScope Web Interface
- Fully test in :
- Internet Explorer 7.0 and above
- FireFox 2.0 and above
- Safari 3.0 and above
- Javascript required
- JVM is not required on client workstations
- We try not to use them, but there are a few popups
C-Level Officers
- Strategic
- Align IT services with business outcome.
- Centralize all IT reporting into a single repository and format.
- Control spending with more accurate capacity and performance analysis.
- Manage all aspects of IT, regardless of location or technology.
IT Directors
- Tactical
- Communicate more effectively with management.
- Manage SLA's and policies in real-time.
- Consolidate your solutions into highly intuitive, real-time dashboards.
- Improve employee productivity and training.
Administrators and Specialists
- Technical
- Be everywhere at once and eliminate tedious tasks.
- Identify the precursors to outages and begin resolution before users are impacted.
- Speed up incident response and remediation.
- Aggregate critical applications and event information into a single location.
Read more about how FireScope delivers value to every level of an organization.
FireScope blends all of the best features of traditional network, application and service management solutions and correlating this mass of technology metrics with key business metrics. The math is easy.
+ Application Management
Maintain 24-hour vigilance of all of your critical applications and identify the early signs of potential failure.
- Manage everything from the operating system layer to applications and services, aggregated into service-level views of your entire infrastructure.
- Collect performance or business outcome data from virtually any application through direct database queries, log file aggregation, WMI, web service calls, web synthetic transactions, or through your own custom methods.
- Blend application and business metrics with user experience testing to realize a 3-dimensional view of application performance.
- Quickly identify performance bottlenecks that are impacting service delivery.
- Be the first to know when IT services are being impacted and quickly isolate the cause to begin remediation before users are impacted.
+ Network Management
Gain real-time visibility into how your network may be impacting business processes, applications and revenue generation.
- Real-time, granular analysis of network performance metrics for routers, switches, security and availability solutions, VOIP solutions and any other SNMP-enabled devices.
- Manage your network as the core service that it is, rather than a collection of isolated assets.
- Instantly be alerted when performance drops below thresholds or events occur, including complex event definitions that span multiple, disparate technologies.
- Get up and running in minutes with a flexible discovery engine, built-in MIB walker, pre-built templates and a highly accessible user interface.
+ Service Management
Get the big picture, how individual events are impacting how users consume IT services.
- Logically group your assets in whatever way makes the most sense for your unique needs.
- Gain visibility into how individual events impact IT Service deliverability.
- Define Service-Levels beyond simple availability to measure application performance thresholds, complex security events or even business impact.
- At-a-glance understanding of the status of each of your services, then drill down to identify which asset is impacting deliverability.
+ Financial and Business Impact
Manage IT in terms that colleagues outside of IT can easily understand and embrace.
- Calculate, in real-time the financial cost to your business for critical events using formulas you define.
- Get your budget approved and Line of Business (LoB) involved in IT by communicating the value of technology in terms of the business.
- Focus less on negative reporting of IT, such as outages and incidents, and focus more on the positive value generated by IT.
= FireScope BSM Business-Edition
From powerful discovery and automation features, configuration wizards and inline help on every screen, FireScope puts the power of BSM in the hands of any business, regardless of their budget or staffing. That's Self-Service BSM.
- Delivered as a Virtual Machine for an "Instant On" experience.
- Powerful discovery and automation features get you up and running in minutes.
- Flexibility to define your environment the way you want it, the way you want to manage it.
- Tips and tricks on every screen takes the guess work out of what has traditionally been overly complex and difficult.
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