And NPM solution that allows you to build Dashboards that tell a story

IBM SevOne has been a great tool to utilize to tell a story with the data that is collected and captured. Sure it is easy to just display Dashboards based on the same old data points. With IBM SevOne I get the flexibility to create synthetic indicators, and the ability to display the data in a way the end user can utilize it in the manner they want to. The flexibility with Data Insight, and with Synthetic Indicators and the number of data points that are in the platform I can make some very very custom dashboards, that tell the end user a story around performance of a particular device, site, location, etc.

Now that I have these dashboards in place, and the end user can better understand what is occurring, I can work with that end user to create alarm policies so that someone can react to events, as we know they are indicators for a current/potential outage. To me IBM SevOne is more than just a monitoring tool!.

Data Insight I believe is the most valuable capability. You can use a multitude of tools in order to capture performance data and stored it in a database. Being able to have a dashboarding front end which helps you look at, utilized, and understand that data is the most valuable piece.

Gain more visibility across the board, across multiple vendor types, and be able to have that performance insight. If I have multiple vendor based firewalls, I can easily graph the same performance data for all those devices. It's just easy to create dashboards and have them tell that story.