ELM and Environment Comparison on Demand  

The Need
From new releases and upgrades to on-going maintenance and issue handling, changes in an enterprise often put environment stability at risk. Once such a risk is identified, the enterprise is often hard pressed to accurately investigate its root cause in order to ensure stability today and reduce the risk of production outages in the future. As such, environment issues typically affect the entire application delivery process, and lead to significant financial losses, time-to-market delays, and compromised quality.

The Solution
Based on EVOLVEN's groundbreaking environment lifecycle management (ELM) solution, ELM & Environment Comparison on Demand:

• Compares the entire environment including applications and their underlying infrastructure applications (e.g. front-end servers, middleware, databases, messaging layer, operating systems, hardware)
• Compares environment configuration and content in an in-depth fashion, and drills down to the most granular level of configuration parameters (e.g. configuration files, registry, database schema and stored procedures, reference data in database)
• Analyzes changes and differences with a focus on criticality and impact by:
         -- classifying changes and differences by impact
         -- prioritizing and highlighting critical changes
         -- ignoring insignificant changes
         -- comparing inherently different environments (test vs. production)

By comparing two environments or a current environment with a historical working snapshot or golden baseline, Environment Comparison on Demand enables IT managers to quickly and easily identify and analyze changes and differences that put environment stability at risk. Giving the enterprise complete control of its environment operation and transition, Environment Comparison on Demand not only cuts costs and increases efficiency, but also reduces the risk of production outages, improves quality, and accelerates time to market.

The Benefits