Effective real-time management of systems and applications is more important than ever in today's fast moving financial markets. The growth in electronic trading, increasing reliance on electronic straight through processing, regulatory focus on best execution have all added to the complexity, and therefore the cost, of conducting your business. Risks associated with Hardware, Application or Network problems can impact both profit and just as importantly company’s reputation. At ITRS, we understand that real-time means just that. Not one, five or ten minutes after the event. With ITRS Geneos, you get a comprehensive, up-to-the-second view of all your mission critical systems, applications and processes, and instant notification of issues before they turn into business problems. All consolidated into a single desktop view.

Why is value-based monitoring important? Here are some quotes from Investment Bank IT managers:

"Event based monitoring is not nearly enough, it shows when an issue has happened – this is too weak. It is like being blindfolded. It tells you nothing about the operating parameters of your system unless an event is raised. So when you have no events you have no confidence that the system is being monitored. Value based management goes beyond that."

"I cannot do my job with just event/alert based monitoring. Alerts are too late, not proactive. If you have an incident then it is too late and you have failed!  Business increasingly have zero-tolerance approach to outages"