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Part two. Listen to part one here. For more information on Business Transaction Management (BTM) visit here.

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One of the cool groups within the broadly tasked IBM Software Services for Tivoli (ISST) organization is the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and the SWAT teams. The SWAT team is deployed around the world to support the software sales process with workshops, proofs of technology (PoT), proofs of concept (PoC) and advanced pilot type engagements to help win business.

Matthew Rodkey is a Solutions Architect and all around “surfer dude” that is really keen on our fundamental IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) and Composite Application Management (ITCAM) products. He’s been instrumental in development of our “Green” monitoring technology and deployment of our ITCAM for WAS and ITCAM for Transactions products.

Matthew and I had the opportunity to speak about all things Architecture, Design and Deployment Planning related for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 a week or so ago. Matt offers a unique and different perspective compared to my discussions with Dr. Frank Tate of Gulf Breeze Software. While one was post sales, implementation and deployment related, Matthew’s focus is on making sure we meet the client’s expectations in such a way to win the client’s business.

I walked away from the discussion with much more insight into what it’s going to take for our clients to be successful with ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. This is the first of two parts (sorry, we talked for three hours!).

For other ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 podcasts, see here, here and here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM or the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product for myself or Matthew please leave comments. If you currently utilize the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product, I’d love to hear from you! 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.

One of the cool groups within the broadly tasked IBM Software Services for Tivoli (ISST) organization is the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and the SWAT teams. The SWAT team is deployed around the world to support the software sales process with workshops, proofs of technology (PoT), proofs of concept (PoC) and advanced pilot type engagements to help win business.

Matthew Rodkey is a Solutions Architect and all around “surfer dude” that is really keen on our fundamental IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) and Composite Application Management (ITCAM) products. He’s been instrumental in development of our “Green” monitoring technology and deployment of our ITCAM for WAS and ITCAM for Transactions products.

Matthew and I had the opportunity to speak about all things Architecture, Design and Deployment Planning related for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 a week or so ago. Matt offers a unique and different perspective compared to my discussions with Dr. Frank Tate of Gulf Breeze Software. While one was post sales, implementation and deployment related, Matthew’s focus is on making sure we meet the client’s expectations in such a way to win the client’s business.

I walked away from the discussion with much more insight into what it’s going to take for our clients to be successful with ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. This is the first of two parts (sorry, we talked for three hours!).

For other ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 podcasts, see here, here and here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM or the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product for myself or Matthew please leave comments. If you currently utilize the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product, I’d love to hear from you! 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.

Part two. Listen to part one here.

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I’ve spent some time over the past week really digging into the IBM Tivoli ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product. In the next few podcasts, I will focus on the area I feel most critical to its success being the architecture, design and deployment planning phases as well as how to ensure long term success once it has been deployed and operationalized. You may want to review my BTM podcast with the Development Manager for ITCAM for Transactions Shoel Perelman.

In this first two part podcast, I speak with Gulf Breeze Software, one of IBM Tivoli’s Accredited Business Partners for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Dr. Frank Tate and the Gulf Breeze Software team have recently completed one of the few client deployments for this new software release. Frank and I speak in detail about everything related to the architecture, design, deployment planning, deployment into operations and lifecycle needed for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Frank is also a regular poster to the Gulf Breeze Software blog where he often shares very useful insight, tips and best practices for many of the IBM Tivoli software products. Take a look at the great post on TBSM!

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM or the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product for myself or Frank please leave comments. If you currently utilize the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product, I’d love to hear from you! 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.

I’ve spent some time over the past week really digging into the IBM Tivoli ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product. In the next few podcasts, I will focus on the area I feel most critical to its success being the architecture, design and deployment planning phases as well as how to ensure long term success once it has been deployed and operationalized. You may want to review my BTM podcast with the Development Manager for ITCAM for Transactions Shoel Perelman.

In this first two part podcast, I speak with Gulf Breeze Software, one of IBM Tivoli’s Accredited Business Partners for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Dr. Frank Tate and the Gulf Breeze Software team have recently completed one of the few client deployments for this new software release. Frank and I speak in detail about everything related to the architecture, design, deployment planning, deployment into operations and lifecycle needed for ITCAM for Transactions v7.1. Frank is also a regular poster to the Gulf Breeze Software blog where he often shares very useful insight, tips and best practices for many of the IBM Tivoli software products. Take a look at the great post on TBSM!

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM or the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product for myself or Frank please leave comments. If you currently utilize the ITCAM for Transactions v7.1 product, I’d love to hear from you! 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.

In this session, Lanir and I briefly talk about the third core component of a BTM solution which is Transaction Monitoring. This is an evolving area for Correlsense and Lanir shared that they are currently maturing their monitoring capabilities.

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In our next podcast, I’d like to speak about the fourth core component of a BTM solution which is Transaction Analytics and Intelligence. I’d also like to chat about how BTM solutions may evolve to support emerging areas such as virtualization, cloud computing, mobile, web2.0, hyper-scale architectures and whatever else may pop up between now and then. Listen to our previous podcasts here, here and here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Lanir 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.

In this podcast, Lanir and I dive into the approach that Correlsense and their SharePath product takes for the second of four key areas that a Business Transaction Management (BTM) solution must incorporate which is Transaction Tracing, Tracking and Stitching.

Listen to the podcast for insight into the thoughts Lanir shares on these Transaction Tracing, Tracking and Stitching concepts (and more!):

In our next podcast, Lanir and I will discuss the third core capability of a BTM solution which is Transaction Monitoring. Listen to our previous podcasts here and here.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Lanir 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.

After a successful CMG ’08 show and the holidays I was finally able to catch up and continue my discussion with Lanir Shacham (Founder and CTO) of Correlsense. The Correlsense team, friends and families are all safe and sound during the current Israeli crisis which I’m happy to hear.

In this podcast, Lanir and I dive into the approach that Correlsense and their SharePath product takes for the first of four key areas that a Business Transaction Management (BTM) solution must incorporate which is Transaction Discovery.

Listen to the podcast for insight into the thoughts Lanir shares on these Transaction Discovery topics:

In our next podcast, Lanir and I will discuss the second core capability of a BTM solution which is Transaction Tracing, Tracking and Stitching.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Lanir 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.

After a successful CMG ’08 show and surviving (?) miserable flights back to the East Coast, I had the pleasure of speaking with Bernie Davidovics, Founder and CTO, and Raymond Marra, EVP of SeaNet Technologies on Business Transaction Management (BTM).

SeaNet Technologies has been around for some time now originally founded in 2001 with their first product in 2003. Their strong suit appears to be in the financial and trading services space with a focus on transaction management in highly complex, mission critical end-to-end, multi tier environments. They claim to be the only vendor in both the enterprise and financial services / trading desk environments at this time.

SeaNet has a unique focus on high volume and latency sensitive transaction management architectures. They focus on not only round trip transaction management but specialize in one way transaction (multi-cast push) discovery, monitoring and management. Precision timing and clock synchronization is one of their specialties.

Here are some of my take aways from this very detailed discussion on BTM as seen by SeaNet Technolgies.

It was a great discussion and opportunity for me to hear about the BTM approach from the perspective of a company that is a bit different than those I’ve spoken with to this point. It’s very clear that the financial and trading market services market has a very different need than many traditional enterprises and service providers.

This pedigree, coupled with SeaNet’s network based passive approach to transaction discovery and inventory, tracing and stitching, monitoring, intelligence and analytics sounds like a solid foundation for a business transaction management solution. I’d enjoy hearing more from a SeaNet Technologies customer or others with direct experience with their technology and products.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post.

If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself, Bernie or Raymond, 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.

I’ve been watching the development of a new startup to the Business Transaction Management (BTM) space named Correlsense for quite a while now. I was probably most attracted to this new moniker called “Business Transaction Management” and the “spicy” blog of their CTO Lanir Shacham. Something about his tone that just “feels right” with me.

Correlsense is positioning their flagship SharePath product as the “Next Generation of Application Performance Management”. Lanir paints his vision of one consolidated BTM platform that becomes the leading IT datacenter management solution incorporating components of user experience management (UEM), application performance management (APM) and business transaction management (BTM). As he says, the days of multiple point products from one or more vendors to cover individual technology silos are short lived. This vision is in perfect alignment with mine and the broader BSM Value Proposition nicely incorporating key components of a maturing and value oriented BSM strategy.

The ability of the SharePath product to go “end-to-end” in a relatively short amount of time was a clear message from part one of our discussion. We establish what BTM means to Correlsense and how BTM will address the countless problems with supporting complex applications and end-to-end transactions in today’s modern IT datacenters. Lanir has considerable depth and detailed hands on experience in this area and it’s evident in our discussion. He’s lived through countless war room firefights trying to identify, isolate and resolve complex application performance and transaction problems. He brings tremendous credibility to what Correlsense is striving to become.

You may subscribe to my podcast feed via Feedburner, iTunes or simply play or download the podcast from this post. In part two, we’ll continue to dive into the BTM area and learn more about how SharePath works. I hope you enjoy this first podcast. If you have any feedback or comments on the topic of BTM for myself or Lanir, 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.

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.