White Papers

 TIBCO users may wish to expand IT monitoring and management beyond their TIBCO infrastructure. Many SL customers have chosen to extend their TIBCO monitoring and visualization application to a broader Business Service Management (BSM) solution, delivering single-pane-of-glass visibility across their heterogeneous IT infrastructure. BSM provides real-time situational awareness about IT operations, linking the availability and performance status of IT infrastructure to business-oriented services and processes. Leveraging the broader Enterprise RTView platform, TIBCO users can deliver a BSM solution in order to:

• Better understand the business impact of IT problems
• Productively fix problems before they impact users and the business
• Prioritize IT efforts based on business risk

As the nature of real-time information has evolved, the requirements for analysis and visualization of data have become more complex and sophisticated. There are key lessons to be learned from the process control industry’s decades of experience in dealing with real-time mission-critical data. This whitepaper discusses how lessons can be taken from traditional process monitoring applications and applied in today’s more complex multi-dimensional environments in order to deliver more effective and successful Business Activity Monitoring solutions for the enterprise.

There are many sources of information about best practices using JMX, focused primarily on common usage conventions and design patterns. However, the use of JMX in custom application monitoring systems brings with it an array of unique challenges involving the aggregation, analysis, and visualization of real-time data. This paper discusses practical issues regarding data content and design of MBeans for optimal use in such systems. Some commonly overlooked requirements are explored and recommendations made for minimizing client-side development efforts.

Enterprise RTView for TIBCO is a software application developed by SL Corporation®  that enables users to leverage their TIBCO investment by dramatically enhancing visibility into their infrastructure. Enterprise RTView provides a flexible, configurable, out-of-the-box solution to help enterprises optimize their monitoring of TIBCO Enterprise Message Service™, TIBCO Hawk® and TIBCO Rendezvous® applications by visually presenting real-time and archived data from the TIBCO Information Bus (TIB) and other data sources, all without programming. The purpose of this whitepaper is to review a number of ways TIBCO users are able to increase productivity by improving the visibility of their TIBCO infrastructure. Several use cases are presented along with an

Business intelligence has been given a new face with the advent of information being delivered to the desktop via graphical information dashboards. Typically delivered via browser or enterprise portals, these dashboards have increased the demand for information used by companies to dynamically generate new revenue, reduce costs and improve operational efficiency.

In today's large scale business IT departments, a new class of problem has emerged, which is not solved by traditional infrastructure management products. The need to monitor and control complex integrated applications and huge data flows is increasingly important as dependencies on the systems grow.

SL-GMS is known worldwide as the most complete, high performance dynamic graphics system available for real-time monitoring and control applications. SL-GMS is widely used in various industries such as process automation, network monitoring, power distribution and traffic control.