EMA Blog: Business Intelligence and IT Management

In my last blog, I talked about “IT Cultural Transformation and the Elimination of Technology Silos.” That blog keyed on four key areas of advice, which also provide a useful foundation for the topic of “Governance and Optimization.” These key areas include: Standing in the middle of the storm –This means looking at the interdependencies [...]

Cultural transformation and eliminating IT silos may sound like an impossible dream—and indeed, perhaps “eliminating” is too strong a word. But the reality is that IT organizations must change toward a more responsive, business-aligned culture, as well as toward a more service-aware (versus siloed) way of working. So how do you begin? A lot depends, [...]

If you think that ITSM is static and old hat, think twice. A huge number of innovations are just emerging—some have been a long time in coming; while others are unexpected surprises—as analytics and automation are changing the ITSM game dramatically. Here are some trends that I’ve seen in 2014 that I expect will grow [...]

A little over a year ago, I got into a rather animated argument about whether IT could measure its performance by the “value” it delivered rather than by purely measuring “costs.” My dinner companion insisted that IT could now, always, and forever only be measured on costs. I disagreed. In fact I had just planned [...]

You may have noticed that Advanced Operational Analytics is a topic of ongoing interest for blogs and commentary here at EMA, and I suppose this is especially true for me. In a recent blog focusing on “Transformative Use Cases from EMA Research” we looked at using the modular values of AOA to address everything from [...]

A year ago, EMA did some rather eye-opening research about what it takes to deliver business services over a mix of public and private, and non-cloud infrastructures. The research—dubbed “Ecosystem Cloud”—showed that an overwhelming 94% of the respondents felt that monitoring “inside” public cloud infrastructures was important—and 63% felt it was “very important” or “critical.” [...]

Steve Smythe discusses how IT Operations is transformed by big data solutions in his latest blog, “Transformation of IT operations with big data solutions.” Is this a reality? The answer—agreed upon here—is almost certainly “yes.” However, it should be pointed out that “big data,” or “IT Operations Analytics,” or as EMA calls it, “Advanced Operational [...]

It’s fascinating how the meaning for just about every term relevant to service management can be a matter of debate—including IT Service Management itself (a discussion for another time).  However, what’s sparking this blog centers around the three other terms in the headline—“service desk,” “Operations” and “Analytics,” plus a fourth—“cognitive computing.” In reading Brian Jeffrey’s [...]

Discovering, capturing and making sense of complex interdependencies is central to running IT organizations more effectively, and it is also a critical part of running the businesses IT serves. Whether it’s optimizing a network, or an application infrastructure, managing change, or providing more effective security-related access—more often than not these problems involve a complex set [...]

User Experience Management (UEM) continues to capture interest in the marketplace.  And yet it remains somewhat elusive. So, what is User Experience Management really?  It’s gone by many other names in the past, such as Quality of Experience (QoE), and has other incarnations in the present such as Real User Management (RUM).   Older, typically network-centric [...]