I had the pleasure of kicking off my Business Transaction Management (BTM) podcast series one evening last week with Shoel Perelman from IBM Tivoli. Shoel is the Development Manager and Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) for the new ITCAM for Transactions product and the ITCAM for SoA product. To learn more about the IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management portfolio, visit this site.

Shoel is relatively new to his role, moving from successfully releasing the new Tivoli Integrated Portal (TIP) component recently. He’s already got a strong grip on BTM after a short six weeks in the new role and deeply understands its value to Business Service Management (BSM) based on his background where he was instrumental in developing the Micromuse BSM product (Netcool/SLAM, Netcool/RAD and now TBSM v4.x).

Shoel and I talked through various areas including BTM Value Proposition, what exactly BTM is and what components or functions should be in a BTM solution and challenges with BTM Adoption. If you’re new to the concept of BTM, please view some of my thoughts on what it is here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post. I hope you enjoy this podcast. If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Shoel, please leave comments.

If you’re a vendor, subject matter expert or practitioner in the area of Business Transaction Management (BTM) and would like to chat on a podcast, please feel free to contact me directly.