1) The document introduces Jazz for Service Management, an open architecture from IBM designed to improve visibility, control, and automation through simplified integration of multi-vendor tools.
2) It provides top 5 reasons to check out the beta, including easily plugging in or swapping tools, integrating tools at a fraction of the time and cost, and developing integrations once and reusing many times.
3) The financial impact section estimates potential labor savings of $426,000 and revenue savings of $1,164,800 by simplifying integration and providing a cross-domain view compared to traditional approaches.
4. Jazz for Service Management
Applies the genius & simplicity of the web to ignite IT agility…
Simplify integration & Easily swap vendor Lower TCO across
share relevant data tools and avoid lock in vendors and tools
Connects related data Uses community Provides a common
across multiple IT tools standards to allow & shared set of
using simple web links, just plug & play of integration services
like linking any two related ‘like’ tools accessible by any
pages on the Web. from any vendor vendor tools.
Registry - to find data ,
resources & relationships
Visualization – to display
Linked multi-tool data in context
Data Administration – to lower
Open Services cost of maintaining tools
for Lifecycle Reporting – to better
Collaboration* predict and plan
Security – for compliant &
quick login & data integrity
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* Based on W3C & coming soon Oasis
9. The financial impact of simpler, faster integration…
Audience Today With JAZZ for Service Management
Problem: Incident War Rooms Solution: Cross-Domain View
Support • 10 SMEs at $50/hr • Reduces SMEs by 5
Staff • 20 hrs/wk in war room • Cuts time by 10 hrs/wk
Labor Cost: $520,000/year Labor Cost: $130,000/year
Problem: Integrating Incident Tools Solution: Integrate Once & Reuse
Integration • 2 weeks per integration • 1st integration = 2 weeks
Expert • 5 integrations @ $12k each • 4 integrations = 1/2 wk/each
Time to market: 10 weeks Time to market: 4 weeks
Total Labor Cost: $60,000 Total Labor Cost: $24,000
Problem: Web Service Downtime Solution: Improved Uptime
• $10k/hr ecomm. site; 1.6 hrs / wk • $10k/hr ecomm. site; .8 hrs / wk
Business Lost transactions: $832k Lost transactions: $416k
Manager • Lose 1 client / min @ $300/yr in • Lose 1 client / min @ $300/yr In
repeat business repeat business
Customer churn: $1,497,600 Customer churn: $748,800
Business Impact: Labor savings: $426,000; Revenue Savings: $1,164,800
Total Savings = $1,590,800
9 Based on ISST estimates of man hours required to develop individual monitoring tool integrations which populate a unified, real-time service desk view.