Best Buy is using Adaptive IT Portfolio Manager™
(ITPM) to manage its enterprise application integration (EAI) architecture.
This includes a large number of packaged and home-grown enterprise
applications and databases, including those distributed to local offices.
They are connected by a variety of technologies including
message queues, adaptors, extract-transform-load (ETL) processes and
scheduled file transfers. ITPM allows them to capture this full detail
- down to the level of which files need to be in which directories
in order to be transferred - meaning that it can be used as a key
source of information for problem diagnosis and resolution.
However, ITPM's powerful view capabilities enable abstracted
views to be constructed of end-to-end information flow at the process
level - allowing management of the technology in context of the business
process. This provides a very powerful capability for impact analysis
and resource optimization: for example it was discovered that a large
number of message queues were being maintained and fed with information,
but that nothing was actually making use of that information - so
that the queues could in fact be disabled, making a large resource
saving, with no business impact.
And, still further, the processes can be linked in with
the enterprise business architecture for a complete top-to-bottom
management capability.
Best Buy selected Adaptive to replace an in-house repository
due to the power and flexibility of the repository, the view and visualization
capability over the web, and its openness, extensibility and support
for standards.
"The Adaptive repository is a key component of
Best Buy's approach to manage IT in a rational manner. We are leveraging
its ability to represent complex enterprise integration metadata not
easily handled through other tools. Adaptive's strong support for,
and ability to implement, the OMG's Model Driven Architecture, is
a product strength."
Charlie Betz
Metadata Program Capability Manager
Best Buy |
