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Motive Announces Products for Application Management
August 30, 2004

Motive announced three new products to manage custom and packaged enterprise applications: Motive Profile, Motive Triage, and Motive Resolution. These products allow enterprises to automate configuration, problem assessment, and resolution processes. This automation allows enterprises to reduce the manual labor and business interruption costs associated with supporting distributed business applications.

Motive uses “application definition models” to allow IT staff to specify the management intelligence of an application – key components, attributes, parameters, relationships, and operating dependencies. The model basically defines the application’s optimal state. Motive applications then use information captured about the application’s deployment to compare and analyze changes in the application environment, and automate a range of management responses.

Designed for service-oriented, distributed application environments, Motive’s new management products can work within any existing service desk or systems management framework used by IT operations and developers to keep their applications up and running.

For more info, www.motive.com