What happens when important customer orders back up before the trading deadline and won’t clear that day because of a surge of transactions caused by an unanticipated business event - an “out trade”, a lost customer, an SLA violation or non-compliancy? What about a system bottleneck that threatens to disrupt customer service during a peak period?

Business success and even continuity depends on knowing about situations like these immediately. In today’s economic climate, with new regulatory pressure and ever increasing requirements for compliance intensive situational management is a necessity for survival.  However, this can be quite daunting as each member of a composite application may initiate its own set of IT transactions.  Being able to “stitch” together these transactions spanning both distributed and mainframe tiers is essential for rapid problem resolution.  

This paper explains how situational management provides visibility into specific situations as they develop, and the ability to proactively identify and react to a potential impact caused by particular patterns or circumstances. Continue reading to explore the concept of situational management for composite applications and learn how Nastel has developed a solution that will successfully monitor critical transaction-based applications as part of a composite application environment.