Performance as a Service (PaaS) combines industry-leading proactive performance management software, BEZVision, with in-depth knowledge and advice from world class database and performance experts to deliver the best database performance intelligence available anywhere. This unique combination allows IT departments to migrate toward more agile proactive organizations that can guarantee service delivery to the business, reduce costs, improve IT efficiency and shift the focus away from reactive firefighting and toward innovating for the business.

Performance as a Service provides an unprecedented opportunity for you to effectively manage the performance of your applications and supporting infrastructure. With its low cost subscription fee and hands-off operation, you will be provided daily and weekly performance reports and also a thorough monthly database and application performance review. BEZVision^TM dashboard reports are combined with professional services expertise to form a powerful PaaS program that can help ensure SLA compliance and reveal areas in your system requiring further or deeper investigation through additional expert analysis.

Performance as a Service Elements

Performance as a Service possesses elements that make it both attractive and beneficial to prospective clients:

On-demand - There is no lengthy development or implementation exercises to go through. It's there when you need it.

Automated - BEZVision is instrumented with flexible, low overhead data collectors that run unattended after initial set up. Reports are generated automatically at regular intervals or can be generated manually for specific performance issues.

Customized - Dashboards and reports can be customized for the environment they are running in. Clients can see just their database performance, application performance, data warehouse performance or any combination of these.

Expandable - The service is expandable as a client organization changes and grows. Additional databases, applications and systems can be added at any time to accommodate these changes

Pay-as-you-go - Clients only pay for what they are using. There are no large up front expenditures and no hidden costs

Performance intelligence - Business people have been successfully applying models and prediction to business problems for decades. In order to align more closely with the business, IT can now use advanced prediction technology to support the business with Performance Intelligence

Your subscription includes a customizable dashboard tailored to your needs

What BEZ do

Since 1993, BEZ has been applying analytics and predictive technology to IT performance problems to provide technical managers with the time and data necessary to make better decisions.

BEZ technology is used primarily to reduce costs while providing superior service to the business, but has also been shown to increase productivity and provide a more agile environment for rapid changes and adjustments to respond quickly to ever changing marketplace conditions.

- Reduce Costs ($)

• No over-provisioning, JIT spending, enable consolidation
• Move from test to production quicker with more service assurance
• Decrease Time to Market - evaluate alternatives
• Eliminate excessive database licensing and maintenance costs by right sizing the database environment.
• Ensure Uninterrupted Service to the Business
  

- Increase Personnel Productively ($,$)

• Reducing reactive firefighting increases productivity
• Prioritize/focus personnel on tasks that are most important
• Provide a common shared perspective throughout organization
• Automate management of performance reporting tasks
  

- Intangibles ($?)

• Increase Agility
• Bolster IT Reputation
• Insulate the business from effects of constant change
• Understand what service is delivered for each dollar spent
  

How you will benefit from PaaS

Clients are not typically in the database or application performance business. We are! This provides all clients with expert analysis and advice at a reasonable cost in terms of both time and money.

Furthermore, clients can realize further benefits while focusing more on the business tasks that need to be completed or supported:

• Focus on company added value, not becoming performance experts
  • Have professional performance experts at your service
• Ensure service delivery with documented results
• Protect against the ravages of constant change
  • No service breaches - no downtime
• Lower barrier to entry - Can start slow
  • Pay for what you use
  • Can expand and contract
  • No large capital outlay, Fixed monthly costs (operational)
  • 2 Levels of support to choose from (or mix)
• Deliver the same benefits without the effort
  • Less Personnel time/experience required
  • Allow stretched personnel to focus on other more productive work
  • No "product training"
  • Can add on licenses and services at any time
  • Tiered solution (analytics only or analytics plus "what-if")
  • Mix and match solutions for a tailored solution that fits your needs
    

Performance as a Service Programs

In order to tightly focus on your needs while still maintaining a high degree of flexibility, BEZ offers both Level 1 and Level 2 PaaS programs:

Level 1 PaaS Program

The Level 1 PaaS Program uses analytics and automatic "what if" queries to determine when and what type of database performance problem will occur, but does not directly address or provide remedial advice for how to minimize or completely avoid the problem.

The Level 1 PaaS Program includes the following:

• The BEZVision Performance Dashboard (automatically generated)
• Daily and weekly automated Service Reports
• Past, present and future "as-is^TM" predictions
• Alerts in the form of SNMP traps or emails
  

Level 2 PaaS Program

While the Level 1 program is limited to determining when a problem will occur, the Level 2 PaaS Program focuses on what can be done to solve it. Level 2 is where the full power of the BEZVision prediction engine is employed on your behalf to address either Basic or Advanced "what-if" questions, as follows:

The Level 2 Basic PaaS Program includes "what-if" questions that address:

• Growth in Users and Data
• Surge Management
• Hardware Change (Server or Storage)
  

The Level 2 Advanced PaaS Program includes "what-if" questions that address:

• Server/Application Consolidation
• New Application Introduction
• Resource limits / execution priority changes
• Storage Requirements Planning (Oracle Only)
• Load Testing Extension
• Database Configuration Adjustments
• Database Schema Modifications
  

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