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Description

Improving business outcomes involves making it easier to spot and address high-priority incidents. The WatchTower Platform serves as a comprehensive observability tool that streamlines incident resolution specifically within mainframe environments by effectively integrating and correlating events, data flows, and metrics across various IT silos. It provides a cohesive and intuitive interface for operations teams, allowing them to optimize their workflows. Leveraging established AIOps solutions, WatchTower is adept at detecting potential problems at an early stage, which aids in proactive mitigation. Additionally, it utilizes OpenTelemetry to transmit mainframe data and insights to observability tools, allowing enterprise SREs to pinpoint bottlenecks and improve operational effectiveness. By enhancing alerts with relevant context, WatchTower eliminates the necessity for logging into multiple tools to gather essential information. Its workflows expedite the processes of problem identification, investigation, and incident resolution, while also simplifying the handover and escalation of issues. With such capabilities, WatchTower not only enhances incident management but also empowers teams to proactively maintain high service availability.

Description

ServiceNow® Problem Management streamlines the process of restoring services, often enabling the prevention of future issues altogether. By utilizing a systematic workflow that identifies root causes and resolves problems, ServiceNow allows organizations to eradicate recurring incidents and lessen the effects of unforeseen disruptions. Through automated workflows, problem managers can conveniently document both workarounds and solutions, allowing IT teams to concentrate on their tasks and enhance productivity. With a unified perspective on incidents and related changes, IT professionals can provide quicker responses and effective resolutions. Accelerate the resolution process, reduce interruptions, and lessen the consequences by disseminating solutions and workarounds. Identify and tackle potential points of failure while assessing the impact of issues all in a single platform. By equipping IT with the tools to tackle problems at their origin, the likelihood of future disruptions from repeated incidents is significantly diminished. Furthermore, sharing updates with service subscribers fosters greater transparency and facilitates more effective collaboration among teams. As a result, organizations can work more cohesively and efficiently to improve overall service quality.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API No 

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Integrations

OpenTelemetry Yes 
SYSVIEW Performance Management Yes 
openITCOCKPIT No 

Integrations

OpenTelemetry No 
SYSVIEW Performance Management No 
openITCOCKPIT Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours Yes 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars Yes 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Broadcom

Country

United States

Website

www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe/watchtower-observability

Vendor Details

Company Name

ServiceNow

Founded

2004

Country

United States

Website

www.servicenow.com/products/problem-management.html

Product Features

IT Management

Capacity Monitoring No 
Compliance Management No 
Event Logs No 
Hardware Inventory No 
IT Budgeting No 
License Management No 
Patch Management No 
Remote Access No 
Scheduling No 
Software Inventory No 
User Activity Monitoring No 

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