Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Creating the Business Case for ITSM Tool Consolidation

If you read our earlier blog “The Common Issues with Operating Multiple IT Service Desk Tools,” then you’re hopefully better aware of all the issues caused by running multiple service desk tools and potentially now looking at how to justify an ITSM tool consolidation project. To help, this blog shares some of the key opportunities to create a compelling business case for change.

Microsoft Co-Sell Ready | M365 Monitor for Azure

NiCE has achieved the Microsoft Co-Sell Ready status with its Microsoft 365 Service monitoring solutions for Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange. Microsoft’s global network of internal and partner executives utilizes the Microsoft Co-Sell Ready status to identify Microsoft accredited solutions. Co-Sell Ready partners are a selected group of software vendors meeting Microsoft technical and business standards delivering optimized and secured solutions.

SolarWinds Gives Data Pros the Tools for DataOps Success With Database Mapper and Task Factory

Company enables data pros to accelerate data delivery and cloud migrations more efficiently; showcases database management solutions and educates on database strategies at upcoming industry events.

Use these metrics to get the most out of your engineering team

I’ve been leading software teams for more than 20 years and one thing I’ve learned about metrics is that leaders tend to put too much emphasis on engineering metrics alone, without considering the bigger picture. After speaking to a range of engineering industry leaders, and poring over millions of jobs processed from software teams worldwide, we found that the most insightful and relevant metrics fall into three categories: What metrics are meaningful for your team to measure?

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Leonardo Murillo, Principal Partner Solutions Architect at Weaveworks

Sit down with Ana and Jason for this week's show with Leonardo (Leo) Murillo, principal partner solutions architect at Weaveworks, and former DJ, who joins us from Costa Rica. Leo shares his take on GitOps, offers a lot of excellent resources to check out, and shares his thoughts on automating reliability. He also defines how to account for the “DJ variable” and “party parameters” alongside some fun anecdotes on DevOps.

Oracle Management Pack Update Release (21.9.2568.0)

We’re happy to announce a new update release of our Oracle Management Pack for SCOM. The 21.9.2568.0 release contains new features, fixes, and changes. On top of this, we have also released a new datasheet and a white paper that you can find more information about further down in this article.

The Absolute Fastest Way to Get Started with Mattermost Apps

This post outlines the quickest path available for a developer to use a basic Mattermost app on a local setup. It makes use of Docker containers, a Node.js app, and — of course — a Mattermost instance! When you’re ready to get started with the Mattermost App Framework, here are the steps that you will need to take.

Discovering the Differences Between Log Observability and Monitoring

Log observability and monitoring are terms often used interchangeably, but really they describe two approaches to solving and understanding different things. Observability refers to the ability to understand the state of a complex system (or series of systems) without needing to make any changes or deploy new code.