Metricus Newsletter May 2009
Check your IT health and understand your ability to measure IT performance

Free IT health Check IT Performance Management is about the effective combination of metrics, data and tools. Together, these elements enable an organization to define, measure, manage and improve its performance. The Metricus Free IT Health Check will tell you how ready your IT organization is to perform these activities. You will have access to the results and can actually monitor your own process performance for 30 days.


Benefits:
  • Gain valuable insight into the quality of your ITSM data (from HP, IBM, CA, BMC, and so on.)
  • Understandyour readiness for effective IT Performance Management
  • Your data is transformed into information using industry-accepted KPIs
  • Analyze your IT process / activity / service performance through highly dashboards, scorecards, trending graphs, or dynamic charts
  • A free IT Performance Management First Aid Kit for everyparticipant!
Click here to sign up..
 
 
 
Product News: CIO Dashboard, Metricus for consultants, and more..
CIO Dashboard

If you are participating in the Metricus IT health check, you will get access to a full Metricus license for 30 days. Last May significant enhancements were introduced to Metricus, and reflected in a Metricus Demo site. Some of the enhancements include:
  • Additional Modules
  • Metricus for consultant offering (including a Sandbox Environment)
  • Update to the pricing catalog (contact us if you would like to know more)
  • Additional customer examples (peer benchmarking groups, CIO dashboard)
  • Advanced getting-started guide for free trial users

If you do not have a login to the Metricus Demo environment yet and would like to review Metricus, please complete the form available from this link.

 
 
 
Connecting the Dots - Arjan Woertman

A case for Business Intelligence in the cloud for ITSM. This month I came across an interesting article from an investment group called Trident Capital. The author of the blog tried to summarize the value of Business Intelligence solutions in the cloud (software as a service). As BI solutions are complex to manage and maintain, the advantages of a hosted BI solution are easy to make: lower cost, fewer skilled personnel required, easier to optimize usage, ability to work together on data regardless of location, geography, or timezone and last but not least, collaboration of data (benchmarking!). I linked these value components to an IT service management situation, and consequently made a case for BI for ITSM in the cloud.

Connecting the dots provides insight into market trends and a personal view of the Performance Management domain, Software as a Service, and more. You can find more or link up to an RSS feed at the Metricus Weblog.
 
 
 
About Metricus

Metricus is Software-as-a-Service for IT Performance Management. Metricus sits on top of Service Management tools and other applications and aggregates data to provide you with a unique and complete picture of the health of your IT processes and activities. Select IT KPIs that are relevant to your business and in tune with your investments in ITIL, COBIT, or other best practices. Toolkits, dashboards, and advanced analytic capabilities allow you to measure, manage, and improve the performance of your IT organization. For more information click here