Systems Management Framework Pitfalls

As a business consultant, I was constantly confronted with clients who had made a significant investment in a systems management framework application, such as HP OpenView or CA Unicenter, and were struggling with how to deploy the technology in order to receive the benefits of the substantial investment they had made.  In most cases, they were sold the software by a zealous software sales person without that sales person having an appreciation of what it would take to actually receive the purported benefits that he was pitching.  Too many times, vendors pitch an exaggerated value proposition for their software which has a limited chance of coming to fruition without a lot of time, resources, and money.  In the current economic state of the world right now, most firms do not have an endless supply of any of those items.

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[NetworkMan]

You could not be more spot on with this post...