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EMA Radar For Business Service

Management (BSM): Service Impact

Q3 2010 Summary

by Dennis Drogseth, Vice President

Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)

June 2010

IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING

IT & DATA MANAGEMENT RESEARCH,

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS & CONSULTING

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................................I

Executive Summary .............................................................................................................................................1

Introduction and Methodology.........................................................................................................................1

The EMA RADAR..............................................................................................................................................1

What is BSM Service Impact? ..........................................................................................................................3

The BSM Service Impact Model.......................................................................................................................4

Criteria for Inclusion .....................................................................................................................................5

The Overall State of the BSM Service Impact Market.................................................................................6

A Few Other Trends Worth Mentioning...................................................................................................8

Four Tiers ..............................................................................................................................................8

Application Dependency Mapping Comes in Multiple Flavors ..................................................9

Service Modeling ............................................................................................................................... 10

Expectations for BSM Service Impact Adoption....................................................................................... 11

Platforms, Overlays and Monitoring Suites ........................................................................................... 11

BSM Service Impact Methodology for Evaluation .................................................................................... 12

A Methodology Defined by Problem Set:.............................................................................................. 13

Cost, Deployment, Administrative Overhead ....................................................................................... 14

General Case....................................................................................................................................... 14

Additional Cost criteria.............................................................................................................................. 15

Appendix A: The EMA Radar Report Methodology............................................................................ 16

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EMA Radar For Business Service Management (BSM): Service Impact Q3 2010 Summary

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