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Ensuring that the services provided by IT are helping drive the growth of the business is a daunting task for Vice Presidents, especially when the underlying technology requires more attention than the results derived.

FireScope provides actionable business intelligence on vital topics ranging from SLA conformity, compliance policy enforcement or even growing the capacity of IT services – information that is fundamental to maintaining successful enterprise operations.

How can FireScope Help?

• Real-time monitoring of SLA’s and policies.

  With FireScope aggregating information from any networked device, you gain a centralized, real-time interface for all of your enterprise reporting needs. This means the ability to generate SLA status reports on the fly, or using the Business Intelligence engine to help you make better strategic decisions.

• Easy to change and manage.

  When it’s time to make changes to your policies or business processes, these functsions can easily be modified from an AJAX-driven, drag-and-drop web page.. With a few mouse clicks, your changes are immediately live and reflected in all reports.

• An extensible on-demand platform.

  FireScope offers a powerful platform that was designed specifically for flexibility and extensibility. As your enterprise grows and introduces new technologies, FireScope seamlessly integrates the new sources of data with existing aggregated intelligence to enhance the value of information provided.

• Rapid time to value.

  Deployments of FireScope are typically measured in days due to our pre-installed appliance model. This means you start seeing results within the first week of installation.

Make your life easier.

• Focus on the outcome, not the technology.

  FireScope separates the events and intelligence from the underlying data, helping you focus your decisions on the business case, not the technology behind it.

• Improve the business services you provide.

  Over the long term, FireScope increases your awareness of trends in utilization and capacity, helping you identify the best time to plan expansion or simplify the deployment of new services.

Additional Resources

Take Charge of Data Center Power and Air

With FireScope, businesses gain unparalleled insight into current and trending power and air utilization, significantly simplifying strategic and budgetary decisions. FireScope aggregates data from all of your existing power systems, heating and air conditioning equipment, power distribution systems, servers, and point solutions into FireScope’s web-based portal for instant access. Simultaneously, this data is processed through FireScope’s extensible rules engine and business intelligence module, providing real-time decision support and helping you map the growth of your business.

Simplify the Management of Service Oriented Architecture Applications

FireScope significantly simplifies day-to-day and long-term management of SOA applications by providing IT professionals with a single source to analyze and manage every aspect of each component of their SOA deployments. By aggregating the event information from every networked device into a single FireScope appliance, FireScope enables organizations to merge application error information, transaction performance metrics and system health events for a complete, three-dimensional view of everything that’s going on – delivered in real-time.

Revolutionize the Way You Analyze and Plan IT Operations

Utilizing data collected from virtually any networked asset, FireScope users can create reports with drag-and-drop ease to analyze any aspect of IT operations over any period of time, including real-time - such as creating "what-if" scenarios, forecasts, trending and analysis.

Revolutionize the Way You Conduct IT Operations with Real-Time Visibility of IT Operations

FireScope offers organizations a single, web-based portal that aggregates all the relevant data from every networked asset in real-time, delivering actionable intelligence when it can do the most good.

FireScope's Flexible Advantage - Logically Group Assets to Fit Your Unique Needs

FireScope empowers clients to realize substantial benefits in efficiency, without requiring major changes within your IT organization. Each asset being managed by FireScope can be grouped in whatever way makes sense for your organization.

FireScope's Application Aggregation - Enhance the Effectiveness of Your Point Solutions

Within the first 90 days of deployment, over half of the point solutions organizations purchase fall into disuse, or are not utilized at peak effectiveness. Learn how FireScope can help.

Introducing the FireScope Google Maps Feature

FireScope’s Google Maps mapping capability provides at-a-glance knowledge of critical system metrics in real time. The pre-set parameters can be easily customized according to any data collected by FireScope; e.g., Web server availability, network bandwidth, system security or other criteria. The interface offers graphical, satellite or hybrid views, with color-coded lines between locations that indicate connectivity status. AJAX-powered detail bubbles for each facility show the aggregated status of system assets at that location, while a zoom in/out control allows users to view assets at levels ranging from street grids to international boundaries.

Related Links

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• FireScope's Flexible Advantage - Logically Group Assets to Fit Your Unique Needs
• FireScope’s Flexible Data Collection Methods