{"id":1441,"date":"2019-05-02T14:53:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T14:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:11:21","slug":"ims-vendor-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/ims-vendor-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"IMS Vendor Selection: Things to Consider Before Finalizing Vendor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/futurism-technologies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/linkedin-logo.png\" alt=\"LinkedIn\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"LinkedIn\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/linkedin-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FuturismTechno\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/twitter-logo.png\" alt=\"Twitter\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Twitter\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/twitter-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FuturismTechnologies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block; text-decoration:none; outline:0;\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/facebook-logo.png\" alt=\"Facebook\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:0 5px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"Facebook\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/facebook-logo.png\" class=\" lazyload\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The inevitable role that IT infrastructure plays in boosting operational agility has forced businesses to proactively ensure the reliability of IT services. Consequently, it has brought a fundamental change in their approach to IT infrastructure management. And that\u2019s where <a aria-label=\"IMS (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.futurismtechnologies.com\/services\/infrastructure-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IMS<\/strong><\/a> vendor selection acquires the paramount importance. However, despite the mushrooming of IT Infrastructure vendors in the market, many businesses are still struggling to select a platform that can meet their IT and business needs.&nbsp; At the kernel of this struggle lies the inability of vendors to offer deep monitoring functionality within a single, unified view of architecture.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With 10+ years of ground-zero experience, we exactly know\nwhat the vendor should be offering and how the relationship between the vendor\nand the end user should take shape. Banking on these strong knowhows, the\narticle tries to establish the key criteria for IMS vendor selection that\nvendors should meet to deserve to be locked in a contract with you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Ability to Support Straightforward Deployment and Ongoing Management Process:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Crumbling under the ever-increasing demands of modern IT\nsetups, businesses now wish for a solution that can be configured without\ncustomizations. But most of the infrastructure management platforms demand\ngreater and deeper customer engagement, including custom script development,\nfor better management of the IT environment. However, these customizations can\nfurther complicate the ongoing management problems by adding cost and\ncomplexity to your infrastructure management strategy. Note that custom\nscripting needs you to have staff which is trained in creating scripts as the\nneed arises. Also, custom scripts are bound to create issues later on,\nespecially when the company decides to upgrade its software to newer\nversions.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Futurism Technology Meets This Criterion of IMS Vendor Selection: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A &#8211; Easy Deployment:&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Futurism implements a simplified installation and deployment\nprocess with a step-by-step visual guide to ensure that your monitoring\nenvironments are configured properly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B &#8211; Supportive of Ongoing Management: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than customization, we believe in the configuration.\nThis puts us in a perfect position to support an agile platform that configures\nmonitoring and management operations without needing to develop custom scripts.\nIn addition, custom coding and scripts impact the company\u2019s ability to easily\nupgrade to newer offered versions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C &#8211; Rapid Application Deployment:&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We infuse new blood in agile operations with out-of-the-box\nmonitoring with over 140 technologies, such as Docker, CloudStack, Cassandra,\nJBoss, OpenStack, &amp; more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Having a Unified View of Your IT Environment:&nbsp; <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned in the opening paragraph, your vendor should be\nable to support a single, unified view of your IT environment.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Futurism Technology Meets This Criterion of IMS Vendor Selection: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A &#8211; Dashboards and Reporting: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Futurism Technologies brings a single view of your IT\nenvironment by dynamically \u201cdrilling-down\u201d interactive dashboards and custom\nviews. It ensures the visibility of all IT systems, networks, and services\nimportant to the organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>B &#8211; Streamlining of Infrastructure Management Tools:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We systematize your administration and support the delivery of new services by streamlining your <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Managed_services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"infrastructure management (opens in a new tab)\">infrastructure management<\/a> tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>3. Analytics and Not Just Reporting: <\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Though it\u2019s subtle, the difference between operational\nreporting and analytics is significant. Reports merely tell you the facts,\nwhile analytics let you perform rapid root-cause resolution and proactive\nidentification of potential performance hotspots. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Futurism Technology Meets This Criterion of IMS Vendor Selection: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A &#8211; Radical Analytics: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With granular details, we proactively identify the following potential performance issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Health Index Report: It rapidly identifies underperforming IT assets, the aging performance of a specific component or group of assets <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Detailed Reports: We provide time-series data for a network component or device along with multiple variables to pinpoint underachieving components <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3.Precautionary Reports: They showcase the number of days before an infrastructure element reaches a threshold violation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>D) Ability to Support\nDeep Infrastructure Management Capabilities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the optimum utilization of physical network,\nvirtual\/cloud network, applications, and databases, vendor\u2019s platform should be\nable to support deep monitoring capabilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How Futurism Technology Meets This Criterion of IMS Vendor Selection: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1 &#8211; Ensured Support For Modern Technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We support Amazon Web Services, Apache Hadoop, Cisco UCS\n&amp; network devices, NetFlow, Citrix XenApp, XenServer &amp; XenDesktop,\nLinux servers, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Windows servers,\nOracle databases, Salesforce.com, and VMware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2 &#8211; Network and Bandwidth Analysis: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We measure the network efficiency by providing details about\napplication consumption on the network through a streamlined workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3 &#8211; Big Data Monitoring: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We ceaselessly monitor the performance of traditional IT infrastructure along with big data such as Hadoop, Cassandra, and MongoDB through a single, unified architecture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inevitable role that IT infrastructure plays in boosting operational agility has forced businesses to proactively ensure the reliability of IT services. Consequently, it has brought a fundamental change in their approach to IT infrastructure management. And that\u2019s where IMS vendor selection acquires the paramount importance. 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