Latest version dynamically maps business processes, infrastructure topologies, geographies and executive dashboards, allowing IT organizations to proactively manage problems that affect business operations.

The Netherlands - Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Savision B.V., the leader in Microsoft® System Center Operations Manager visualization, today announced the general availability of Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 v3. Live Maps allows IT organizations to create context-aware monitoring maps that add substantial relevance to every IT problem. The new release greatly enhances IT organizations' ability to conceive, build and maintain large-scale monitoring maps. New wizards and templates allow IT professionals to quickly construct dynamically updated business process and executive dashboard maps. These new map types ensure that employees at all levels, from the IT operator to the business executive, have access to the map needed to proactively manage IT problems that affect business operations.

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Version 3 gives organizations running Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 a powerful web-enabled solution to create end-to-end service topologies, business process and executive dashboard maps. Additionally, the latest version allows maps to become network link aware ensuring that geographic connectivity problems are easily identifiable. These enhancements coupled with new wizards and templates provide unparalleled visualization options for IT organizations.

“With Live Maps v3, we are able to rapidly deploy maintenance-free monitoring maps for our 800 locations,” said Diego Zamora, IT Manager, Maersk. “The new version allows us define simple rules that help dynamically build and update maps. We were able to create hundreds of geographically connected maps in an hour. And, these maps are automatically updated as our environment changes. Live Maps has allowed us to build maps that truly unlock our investment in Microsoft Operations Manager.”

Live Maps puts Operations Manager health states and alerts in business terms. Only Live Maps allows IT Pros to map IT objects into dashboards, business processes and service topologies. Live Maps brings real-time, relevant information to users based on role. IT Pros see topologies and geographic maps. Business users see processes. Executives see dashboards. Everyone gets the right view.

By importing or creating process flows in Live Maps, business process owners are able to create end-to-end views of critical customer-facing and back-office business processes. This provides process owners with the context and visibility to proactively monitor, measure and manage critical processes without prolonged and constant interaction with IT administrators.

“Connecting IT failures to business problems is nearly impossible without the proper relationships and visualization engine. We believe that Live Map's business process mapping capability is the missing link,” said Brian Muffley, Information & Communication Technology Manager, Lend Lease. “Live Maps is the only solution which allows our organization to create dynamic business process views atop Microsoft's Operation Manager. This allowed us to create a health-view for each business owner, greatly reducing communication burdens and speeding problem resolution.”

Solution Overview

Application and Network Topologies

Live Maps v3 allows you to create true end-to-end diagrams of your applications and network. These diagrams are 'live', properties and states are constantly updated as your environment changes. Now you can combine all the essential, non-discoverable, information previously stored in Visio diagrams and Excel sheets with the live monitoring information collected by Operations Manager 2007. A truly powerful combination!

In Live Maps v3 you can do all your drawing and diagramming from within the Live Maps Authoring console with real Operations Manager objects. Simple drag and drop operations combined with Live Maps v3 new advanced drawing controls make it simple and fast.

Modeling and monitoring your Business Processes

Nowadays almost every business process depends on Information Technology (IT). And it is not IT but business processes that make you money. So it is critical to instantly understand the impact of an IT failure on your business. Live Maps v3 allows you to do just that!

Using the new business process shapes in Live Maps v3 you can easily model your business process and map them to the IT infrastructure that supports them, giving everybody, IT manager, user and the business process owner, instant insight into the health of a business process.

Besides the instant insight you get into the current state of you business processes the advanced Live Maps Availability Report also gives you access to the historical availability of your business processes.

Monitoring your Sites and Offices

In today's global economy almost every midsized to large company has branch offices and sites that are geographically dispersed, sometimes regionally, sometimes globally. Anybody responsible for such a complex environment needs constant insight into the health of all these offices and sites. With Live Maps v3 that's exactly what you get.

By combining any of the over 300+ built-in maps with the new rule-based dynamic list Live Maps lets you to create live maps that automatically keep up to date while your IT environment evolves.

The built-in ability of Live Maps to create unlimited levels of maps ensures you will never lose overview.

Monitoring your datacenter

Every IT manager that is responsible for a large datacenter knows the challenge of staying in the know about the health of all the racks and servers in the datacenter. It is just an overwhelming task. Live Maps v3 can make your life a whole of a lot easier.

Live Maps v3 allows you to use your existing datacenter and rack diagrams and combine them with the wealth of information collected by Operations Manager 2007, resulting in an easy to understand, always up to date, graphical representation of the health of your datacenter and racks.

Dashboards

Sometimes you need to know all the nitty-gritty details about your environment. Most of the time you just want to know everything is alright! That's where the new dashboard feature comes in.

Live Maps dashboards are easy to understand top level views of the state of your environment. And you can take any perspective, locations, business process, IT services, whatever fits your needs. Using the built-in drilldown feature you can still get to the root cause of the problem within a few simple clicks.

To view a product demonstration, go to: http://www.savision.com/demo

Availability

Live Maps for Operations Manager 2007 v3 is generally available for purchase today. Pricing starts at 750 Euro.