Foglight

More than ever, e-business applications have become the core fixture in today's business world. With the increasing complexity of today's growing IT infrastructures that support these applications, the task of managing availability and performance has become extremely complex, if not impossible.

Without a clear picture of what's happening within the IT infrastructure, administrators and application owners can find it difficult to effectively manage these applications, and may often find themselves reactively fixing performance problems – ultimately disrupting application availability and decreasing the level of service to demanding users. Ensure your company's application uptime and performance with Foglight®.

Foglight is the most comprehensive solution designed to monitor today's complex business applications. Unlike other monitors that only detect problems within the individual components of the IT infrastructure, Foglight correlates these components and provides relevant information at the application level.

Stat™

To keep up with the demands of today’s ever-changing business environment, PeopleSoft introduces new features and enhancements through regular updates and upgrades. The challenge for companies today is to keep up with these changes and customizations while continuing to address the hundreds of other demands on their development organization. Lost customizations can result in costly re-work and even downtime for your enterprise. Without an effective change management strategy, this can be an overwhelming and resource-intensive process. With Stat™, organizations can be confident that they will not experience downtime caused by lost customizations. Stat delivers the only comprehensive change management solution to encompass both PeopleSoft objects and flat files for your PeopleSoft applications. With Stat’s seamless solution, the need to use a variety of applications and manual processes to manage development activities is no longer necessary. Stat is designed to be as flexible as possible in order to support, rather than replace, current business processes.

Change Management

Stat enables PeopleSoft project team members to successfully manage the evolution of their applications. With Stat’s complete change management system, the development, migration and documentation cycle is never broken. Regardless of the size or complexity of your enterprise or development team, all actions and activities are assigned, tracked and documented. Audit trails provide increased accountability during and after the initial implementation. As developers document changes, they are automatically user, date and time stamped.>

Version Control

With Stat, all versions of your PeopleSoft objects (including non-application designer objects) and flat files (including COBOL, SQR, SQL, nVision, Crystal, SQL scripts, etc.,) are versioned and stored indefinitely in the Stat repository. This allows development to proceed without the risk of overwrites or lost changes. Objects and flat files can be versioned together in the same work packet called a Stat Work Archiving Tool (SWAT) set or in separate SWAT sets, depending on your business processes. Before development begins, Stat automatically takes a “snapshot” or baseline SWAT set. During development, additional snapshots (containing some or all of the objects/files) can be taken as needed. At any time, deleted or modified objects/files can be easily recovered or “rolled-back” to a prior version without performing a database restore. Using the Stat Recovery Wizard, objects/files can be moved, individually or in groups, from Stat to any PeopleSoft database or file directory. Recovery is even possible if the object/file no longer exists in your PeopleSoft environment.

Business Continuity for File Systems and the Oracle Database

SharePlex® is a family of replication products that provides uptime for your critical business applications. Whether your system’s availability is threatened with disaster, corruption, overload, migration or other planned outages, SharePlex replication dramatically reduces downtime.

SharePlex features remarkable, patent-pending technology that creates and maintains a near-real time and fault tolerant replica of your Oracle database and file systems – truly unbreakable. These replicas are available to: enhance disaster recovery, offload reporting for greater performance on the primary system, undertake major maintenance without application downtime, and more. That’s where the transformation of your business begins.

Are you facing any of the following challenges today?

Ensuring High Data Availability with Replication

To increase availability and performance in today’s application environments, companies require a redundant, live and up-to-the-minute replica of production data. SharePlex® is a revolutionary, patent pending, log-based replication solution that successfully meets these conflicting demands. With minimal overhead, SharePlex provides real-time data replication to one or more databases to ensure constant availability. These target databases can be used as up-to-the-minute reporting instances as well as backup systems in case of failure.

Improving ERP System Performance

The combination of online transactions and query processing against the same ERP database causes performance problems — especially at peak times, such as a month-end close. The resource contention between OLTP and query processing creates serious performance bottlenecks. By enabling reports and queries to be relocated to run against a fully accessible, current replica, SharePlex resolves this conflict and improves end-user response time.

Enabling High Availability for E-Commerce

For e-commerce business, downtime affects market capitalization and the bottom line. Today’s consumers won’t wait for online vendors to revive a stalled system, and business-to-business transactions delayed by system downtime could result in damaged relationships and terminated contracts. SharePlex supports the

24x7 e-commerce enterprise with peer-to-peer replication, thereby enabling load balancing activity and increasing availability. Regardless of the type of enterprise, SharePlex ensures transparent Oracle database replication to improve performance and offer disaster resilience.

Flexible Configurations for Complete, Low-Impact Replication

The optimal replication solution for any enterprise can be configured to support the current system architecture and grow with future requirements. With its flexible, multitiered architecture, SharePlex provides an optimum replication.

Quest Central™ for Oracle

Managing multiple databases manually or with a patchwork of unrelated, competitive tools can make the DBA team’s job unnecessarily difficult. With the dramatic increase in size and Complexity of many companies’ database environments, Oracle DBA’s are challenged to keep up with numerous essential tasks to maintain their service levels. Designed by Oracle experts, Quest’s database products have become the industry standard for database performance and availability. Building on this tradition, Quest offers Quest Central™ —the feature-rich, integrated toolkit that provides everything Oracle DBA’s need to juggle multiple tasks simultaneously and to complete their growing workload. Quest Central offers four functionality components: Database Administration, Performance Diagnostics, SQL Tuning and Space Management.

Complete Database Administration

Quest Central for Oracle’s Database Administration simplifies the task of maintaining database objects with a comprehensive graphical object management interface. It allows you to quickly create, drop or alter database objects to accommodate business and application needs. This component also ensures successful script execution with sophisticated error-checking capabilities, and enables the DBA to schedule the script to execute at appropriate times.

Another important aspect of database administration is managing security and permissions.

DBA’s can view and control permissions from the object or user levels, ensuring that application data is only available to authorized users. The Database Administration component is fully integrated with other Quest Central components to streamline workflow.

Real-Time Performance Diagnostics

Leveraging the industry-leading Spotlight® on Oracle functionality, Quest Central for Oracle provides performance diagnostics in real-time. Historical performance metrics are also available in the form of a “health check” you can use to discover your system’s overall status.

Quest Central’s real-time Performance Diagnostics component displays current data flows throughout the database via an architecturally correct graphical user interface. This enables you to view a visual representation of process flows within an Oracle instance, allowing you to observe actual database activity in real time, and alerts you to potential congestion with an audio or visual alarm if any Oracle component is forming a bottleneck.

 Historical Database Diagnostics: Database Health Check

The Performance Diagnostics solution also includes database analysis, enabling you to discover the system’s present or historical status based on workload, configuration, applications and other factors unique to your system. This health check includes key performance statistics and environmental information that has been automatically gathered on a recurring basis and stored in a repository. When database response time becomes a concern, you can run an analysis on the gathered performance metrics, resulting in recommendations on how best to improve the overall efficiency of your Oracle database.

Comprehensive SQL Tuning

Known industry-wide as the proven, leading-edge tuning solution SQLab® Vision, Quest Central’s SQL Tuning offers a powerful Oracle tuning environment, non-intrusive collection technology, impact analysis capabilities and expert tuning advice. The SQL Tuning component captures all SQL statements and performance metrics non-intrusively, and identifies the root of most performance problems by discovering specific resource intensive SQL statements. Once the poorly performing SQL is identified, SQL tuning automatically rewrites the SQL and selects the best alternative to maximize performance.

Industry Renowned Space Management

Quest Central’s Space Management module, previously called Space Manager™

Vista Plus® Output Manager

ENTERPRISE OUTPUT MANAGEMENT 

Vista Plus® Output Manager, a component of the Vista Plus Suite, controls and delivers your corporate information to printers and other destinations across the enterprise by eliminating the technology barriers that prevent information from flowing freely through a corporation. As a true enterprise output management solution, Vista Plus Output Manager ensures that any document created in your business can be delivered to any enterprise destination (printer, Web server, email, fax, and more). In addition, Vista Plus Output Manager offers automated pre-processing capabilities to eliminate any manual intervention.

Centralized Administration and Control

Many organizations today require a single location to view and control their enterprise output.

With Vista Plus Output Manager installed on your Windows or UNIX systems, your IT administrators can manage every print device and job across the enterprise. Administrators have the detailed information they need to track job status and drill down on a device to make informed print decisions, such as holding, deleting, or re-routing a job. Any alerts are forwarded to Vista Plus Output Manager’s Windows- or Web-based consoles. Additionally, alerts can be filtered and passed to application monitors, such as Quest Software’s Foglight® or other popular system management solutions.

Ensure Delivery with Tracking and Notification

Vista Plus Output Manager ensures the delivery of output by monitoring printers from job submission to completion. Device availability or bottlenecks are monitored and managed with the capability of device failover to automatically re-route a print request to the next available device. If an error is detected, Vista Plus Output Manager can be configured to send notifications via email to administrators or end-users.

Reduce Print-related Help Desk Calls

Up to fifty percent of an organization’s help desk calls involve print-related difficulties. Vista Plus Output Manager eliminates unnecessary help desk calls by alerting administrators to potential problems before end users are affected.

Manage ERP Output

n ERP applications such as mySAP.com, PeopleSoft and Oracle E-Business Suite can generate thousands of print jobs daily. Occasionally these ERP applications believe and notify that a print job was successfully delivered, but the job may never have actually reached its final destination.

Vista Plus Output Manager ensures that ERP applications deliver critical documents such as invoices, pick lists and purchase orders to the right place at the right time.

 Reduce Manual Processing Costs

a user's jobs and device usage to later use for chargeback or trending.

Forms Processing

Vista Plus Forms (a separately-licensed member of the Vista Plus Suite) provides the ability to intelligently and dynamically apply a pre-defined form, such as an invoice, with the correct data stream (XML or text) to its final destination. Vista Plus Output Manager can also provide additional processing before and/or after the forms processing. Output is then delivered to a printer or to a Vista Plus warehouse for archiving and on-line viewing.

Automated Batch Scheduling and Calendars

Vista Plus Output Manager enables your organizations to schedule batch jobs and reports to provide better control of your output processes within your environment. The batch scheduler supports fixed- and variable-interval scheduling that can be based on standard calendar days and/or dates as well as customized business calendars. Scheduling can be enhanced with rules to determine an action when a scheduled activity falls on a holiday or other non-working days.

Complete Information Delivery Infrastructure

As organizations strive to further eliminate the costs associated with printing, many are turning to electronic report distribution. The remaining component of the Vista Plus Suite, Vista Plus, provides a report and document warehouse to further streamline operations. Quest’s full information delivery suite manages physical print, on-line reports and electronic documents. The Vista Plus repository appears as another destination device in the Vista Plus Output Manager environment. Vista Plus device probing can also be set to determine the availability of the Vista Plus Server and the amount of storage space available. The output generated from your applications can be directed into the Vista Plus repository for archiving, allowing a broad audience of users to securely access, view, mine, and selectively print from the report repository, using either a Windows or Web client.

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