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Read the article, “Business Value Dashboard.” Then, find an organization that has adopted a real-time dashboard for its internal use within the last three years. Do not repeat examples from the textbook or that have been posted by other students.
Please respond to the following:
What are the most important parts of this dashboard?
How do these parts help the business managers? How do they help the individual contributors?
Have real-time dashboards replaced the traditional business report? Justify your answer.
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IT Operations Management
Improving this visibility enables business
teams to make more strategic decisions.
Approximately 92 percent of enterprises have
partial or no integration between IT metrics
and business value.* With limited visibility into
IT, business teams are making decisions that
could ultimately result in application and ser-
vice degradation, inefficient operations, and
poor customer experiences.
Why You Need a
Business Value Dashboard
IT is too often viewed as a cost center and not
a strategic business partner. Failure to com-
municate IT contributions in business terms in-
hibits investments in initiatives that could add
business value. The Micro Focus Business
Value Dashboard (BVD) can help convey value
to business leaders and change the percep-
tion of IT as merely an operational contributor
to a more strategic partner.
Broaden Your View of IT
BVD helps you align operations with the busi-
ness. Use BVD to create custom, flexible IT
dashboards in HTML5 that can be accessed
anywhere, anytime from any device with a
browser. Through custom integrations and
graphing, you can find and review relevant
information that will aid decision-making and
improve business outcomes.
Bridge the Information Gap
BVD and its IT operations dashboard works
with a variety of data sources including Micro
Focus Operations Bridge (OpsBridge), which
provides a single view into your IT operations.
Access the rich information set directly in
BVD without rebuilding the integrations for the
dashboard separately. BVD also now shares
metrics with our Collect Once Store Once
(COSO) common data store.
Give Business Meaning to Your IT Data
Completely flexible and easy-to-use, BVD lets
you visualize the data you need. Incorporate
your own graphics, add color to identify status,
and receive real-time updatesso you always
understand the value driven by IT.
Business Value Dashboard
While staying agile in this dynamic market forces business and IT
teams to align and work together, IT continues to struggle with pro-
viding visibility in business terms. Companies need a more holistic
view of their information and public data to identify what actions
should be taken.
Business Value Dashboard
at a Glance:
Simple:
Design custom templates using standard office tools
Colorful:
Plug in your own graphics and quickly make changes
Flexible:
Show status, metrics, RSS, and video streams from
existing public and private data sources, including
Micro Focus Operations Bridge
Anywhere, anytime, any device:
Access information in real time from popular
browsers on any tablet, smartphone, or PC
Secure:
Protect information with built-in robust security
protocols (SSL and https)
__________
* Robert Naegle and Jeffrey M. Brooks
Map Infrastructure and Operations Metrics
to Business Value. Gartner, March 5, 2015.
Figure 1. The BVD can be completely customized to meet the needs of your organization.
Use Your Existing Data
and Then Some
With OpsBridge you gain access to the in-
dustry-lauded IT availability and performance
management system that integrates with
more than 200 technologies and management
toolsmany of which you likely already have. It
bridges multiple data sources, providing busi-
ness and IT metrics, and displays status in your
IT dashboards.
OpsBridge includes Big Data-based AIOps that
automate pattern matching in log and other
data sources. Additionally, you can integrate
any data stream, RSS feed, or streaming video,
collected from anywhere.
Build and Use Your Dashboard
Start with any of the templates Micro Focus pro-
vides, and customize it in minutes using pop-
ular standard office tools like Microsoft Visio.
Connect to OpsBridge or other data sources.
Then visualize using standard browsers from
popular tablets, smartphones, or your PC.
You can now also share BVD dashboard tem-
plates using our new built in API or the com-
mand line, and generate reports in PDF format.
Benefits of the Dashboard
With BVD, you now have an IT operations-fo-
cused way to describe IT contributions and
display key metrics and status alongside
non-IT data. As shown in the examples above,
customers are already seeing the benefits of
BVD by building display mashups and IT dash-
boards that combine geographical and IT data.
For example, users can develop a bank branch
or shop floor format, and then add tempera-
ture, flow, and transaction throughput informa-
tion, as well as those all-important IT metrics
and status.
Get Started Today
Out-of-the-box dashboard templates enable
you to get started right away, and customiza-
tion only takes a few hours. If youre ready to
quickly communicate how IT supports each
revenue stream, try the free beta program of
BVD today.
Learn more at
www.microfocus.com/bvd
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The CEO said its a very good idea to have this
BVD. Hes looking at it everyday. With this increased
visibility on the BVD, we made a significant change
in the perception of our IT department.
ThomaS BaUmaN
Head of IT Performance
Die Mobiliar
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