how application discovery and dependency mapping can stop you from losing customers
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How Application Discovery and
Dependency Mapping can stop you
from losing customers
March 19, 2015
Eveline Oehrlich
VP, Research Director
Forrester Research
Arun Balachandran
Sr. Marketing Analyst
ManageEngine
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Eveline Oehrlich – VP, Research DirectorEveline covers BT & IT Operations and service delivery, her
current research focuses on the implementation of best practices
around people, processes and technology to advance BT & IT
Operations teams into the age of the customer. Her coverage
includes service management from a holistic or partial
perspective, including topics such as Service Portfolio
Management, Technology Business Management and many
other aspects of BT and IT.
Arun Balachandran – Sr. Marketing AnalystArun is a senior marketing analyst at ManageEngine and
currently works for ManageEngine’s application performance
management solution. Arun is the author of application
performance management white papers such as Integrated
Performance Management for Physical, Virtual and Cloud
Infrastructure and Going Beyond Plain Virtualization
Monitoring. He has a masters degree in computer applications.
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How Application Discovery &
Dependency Mapping Can Stop You
From Losing Customers…Eveline Oehrlich, VP, Research Director
March 10, 2015
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Agenda
• The age of the customer
• The customer lifecycle
• MTTR must change
• A different approach
• Conclusion
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Age of manufacturing
Mass manufacturing
makes industrial
powerhouses
successful
• Ford
• Boeing
• GE
• RCA
Age of distribution
Global connections
and transportation
systems make
distribution key
• Wal-Mart
• Toyota
• P&G
• UPS
Age of information
Connected PCs and
supply chains mean
those that control
information flow
dominate
• Amazon
• Comcast
• Capital One
Age of the customer
Empowered buyers
demand a new level of
customer obsession
• Macy’s
• Salesforce.com
• USAA
• Amazon
The age of the customer is a 20-year business cycle in which the
most successful enterprises will reinvent themselves to systematically
understand and serve increasingly powerful customers.
Empowered customers have given rise to a new era led by empowered customers
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Turn big data
into business
insights
Transform
the customer
experience
Accelerate
your digital
business
Age of the
customer
Embrace
the mobile
mind shift
Here’s how your buyers are thinking about the market imperatives
Ascending before descending
Source: John E. Hunter, Frank L. Schmidt, and Michael K. Judiesch (1990), Individual Differences in Output Variability as a Function of Job Complexity, Journal of
Applied Psychology, Volume 75, Vol. 1 (p.36)
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Business leaders prioritize growth and customer experience improvement
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Two technology management agendas
Technology
management = BT
Business technology: The
systems, technologies, and
processes to win, serve, and
retain customers.
IT +
Information technology: The
systems, technologies, and
processes to support and
transform an organization’s
internal operations.
The work an organization performs to
differentiate products and services
and achieve business outcomes with
technology.
Source: 1TM Terminology
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50K foot view of the BT Agenda
Customer journey
Business capabilities
System patterns
Technology portfolio
BT leadership
Activates
Catalyzes changes
in systems
Consume
resources
Shapes priorities
Delivers outcomes
Systems of:1.Record2.Engagement3.Automation
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Customer Journey: The Customer Life Cycle
May 2014 “Brief: Systems Of Engagement Take Center Stage”
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50K foot view of the BT Agenda
Customer journey
Business capabilities
System patterns
Technology portfolio
BT leadership
Activates
Catalyzes changes
in systems
Consume
resources
Shapes priorities
Delivers outcomes
Systems of:1.Record2.Engagement3.Automation
Business Processes
Services Hierarchy
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Business
Services
ISB
us
ine
ss
Application
Services
Co
nsu
ltin
g S
erv
ices
Infrastructure Services
Project and Support -Related Services for IT
Partners and Key Stakeholders
+ Storage & Backup+ System Monitoring+ Facilities management+ Scheduling+ Database
+ SAP+ Network+ Web Site Hosting
+ e-sourcing,+ Treasury system,+ Brand Image library,
+ e-learning,+ Back office reporting,+ Sales force system,
+ Order to cash,+ Plan to produce,+ Financial cycles
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50K foot view of the BT Agenda
Customer journey
Business capabilities
System patterns
Technology portfolio
BT leadership
Activates
Catalyzes changes
in systems
Consume
resources
Shapes priorities
Delivers outcomes
Systems of:1.Record2.Engagement3.Automation
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Characterizing Three Classes Of Software SystemsMay 2014 “Brief: Systems Of Engagement Take Center Stage”
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Systems Of Engagement Directly Touch CustomersMay 2014 “Brief: Systems Of Engagement Take Center Stage”
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50K foot view of the BT Agenda
Customer journey
Business capabilities
System patterns
Technology portfolio
BT leadership
Activates
Catalyzes changes
in systems
Consume
resources
Shapes priorities
Delivers outcomes
Systems of:1.Record2.Engagement3.Automation
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Business Technology Supporting CLC
Source: July 29, 2014, “Top Technologies For Your BT Agenda” Forrester report
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Application Discovery &
Dependency Mapping
› Mean time to resolution is a good Operations KPI
› Mean time to identify
› Mean time to know
› Mean time to fix
› Mean time to verify
MTTI MTTK MTTF MTTV
1. Where Does I&O Waste Time (i.e., Money)?
MTTR
HERE is the
opportunity!
F A C T S
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47 %increasetickets volumes
due to
new apps & systems
Source: HDI Supprt Center Practices & Salary Report 2014
Only 35% of support organizations have
adopted problem management .
Source: HDI Supprt Center Practices & Salary Report 2014
Only 12% of support centers have
adopted event management.
Source: HDI Supprt Center Practices & Salary Report 2014
The Growth Of Applications And Mobile Apps› Applications will dominate the market growth
› Mobile app will dominate within
Additional Technology Management Challenges
› Increase in application and infrastructure complexity
• Decreasing hardware and software costs mean actually an acceleration in numbers
› Difficulty of administration and support
• Leads to resource allocation to administration and support rather than strategic projects
• Need to compensate by hiring more people
• IT will quickly reach an unsustainable cost structure
Processes and Tools are Interdependent
Tools influence processes
• Tools can be used to automate processes
› Save on resources
• Processes can be enabled by tools
› More accurate and granular information
› Better analysis of information
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Incident ManagementChange ManagementProblem Management
Knowledge ManagementAsset Management
Service Level ManagementConfiguration Management
Request FullfillmentService Catalog Management
Release & Deployment…Access ManagementInformation Security…Event Management
Business Relationship…Availability Management
IT Service Cont. ManagementCapacity Management
Service Portfolio ManagementFinancial Management For…Strategy management For…
Supplier ManagementTransition Planning & Support
ITIL Adoption 2014
Percentage of organizations
who have adopted each process
Source: HDI 2014
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Need a more sophisticated
approach
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The Resolution
Business process
Infrastructure
component
Infrastructure
component
Infrastructure
component
Infrastructure
component
Infrastructure
component
Application Application Application
Service-ecosystem dependency models: Application Mapping
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Automated Application Mapping
Component
Discovery
Ecosystem
Service
Model
(Metadata
Repository)
Asset
And
Configuration
Data
Application
Mapping
Component
Data Collection
Discovery of
Application patterns
Mapping of applications
To components
Application Mapping = Enabling Technology› Release management: check development and production
dependencies
› Configuration and change management: understanding impact
› Compliance and audit trails
› Cost control and charge back
› Infrastructure consolidation
› Disaster recovery site and planning
› IT Operation management: dynamic provisioning, incident management, service level management, capacity planning, etc.
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Example: Application to Incident and Problem Resolution
Application
Network Components Server Components Database Components
Tree Structure
of Network Analysis
Tree Structure
of Server Analysis
Tree Structure
of Database Analysis
Incident management:
Events
Capacity
Performance
End user
complaints
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Example: Application to Incident and Problem Resolution
Application
Network Components Server Components Database Components
Tree Structure
of Network Analysis
Tree Structure
of Server Analysis
Tree Structure
of Database Analysis
Impact analysis
Triage
Problem management
Component Alerts
Conclusion
Service Oriented Management
• Requires a link between business process and infrastructure: the application service model
• Crosses “Management Domains”
• Is the result of a strategy, not of multiple tactical initiatives
• Results in business alignment Processes need to be automatized
• Reduces manual work and allows the shift of resources
• Eliminates human error
Arun Balachandran
Sr. Product Marketing Analyst
ManageEngine
A sneak peek into ManageEngine’supcoming ADDM feature
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Greater Complexity of IT Infrastructure
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Visualize application interdependencies in complex
environments.
Quickly estimate the service impact of downtime or failures.
Expedite application troubleshooting by pinpointing
associated components.
Introduction to ADDM
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Agentless discovery for easier deployment.
Uses standard protocols and ports – WMI, SSH, SNMP
Aid for automatic creation of business service groups.
Accurate view of infrastructure
Data can be used as an input to CMDB.
Currently in beta. GA release targeted for Q3 2015.
ADDM
User inputs IP range, subnets
Adds credentials for relevant apps and specifies TCP ports
ADDM runs full discovery scan across network and discovers apps & systems
User chooses to create map of discovered devices and apps
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New Discovery Wizard
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Depends on the network response time, number of devices
and credentials provided for discovery.
Ideally, for a network of 255 devices with 10 credentials
(inclusive of device and application credentials), discovery
takes around 8 minutes.
Time taken for discovery
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Discovered Applications and Devices
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Sample Dependency Map
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About Applications Manager
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