By Jason Simpson In a recent blog on operational adoption published in SOAWorld Magazine, Netuitive Founder Bob Farzami pointed to a white paper examining the challenges standing in the way of proactive management and outlined a methodology for best practices to ensure rapid time-to-value and implementation success. read "Collaboration – at the heart of VIP and successful operational adoption"

In APMdigest's exclusive interview, Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about his latest report: Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites? read "Interview with Gartner - Analytics vs. APM"

<p>In APMdigest's exclusive interview, Will Cappelli, Gartner Research VP in Enterprise Management, talks about his latest report: Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?  It’s an interesting look at the rapid emergence and importance of IT analytics as part of enterprise application performance management solutions that increasingly focused on understanding and linking IT and application performance with the impact on the business.</p> read "Interesting interview with Gartner --- Analytics vs. APM"

Analytics - specifically analytics about how IT impacts the business - seem to be "the next big thing" for CIOs according to Gartner and a recent ZDNet article. The idea is closer to reality than you might think. read "Analyzing the Business Impact of IT : The Next Big Thing for CIOs?"

Gartner recently published an important report titled "Will IT Operations Analytics Platforms Replace APM Suites?" The research brief by Gartner Research VP Will Cappelli is based on Gartner client Inquiries about enterprise performance and availability strategies and these enterprises report a near-universal commitment to the idea that monitoring, performance and availability should be application-centric. read "Does IT Operations Analytics Threaten APM?"