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White Papers

Demystifying Middleware for DevOps
Learn EMA's perspective on enabling development and QA teams with high quality tools that deliver visibility to WMQ messages. Nastel's "freemium" AutoPilot® On-demand for WebSphere MQ gives these teams access to a production-grade MQ diagnostics solution using a web browser, and without impacting production systems.
Unraveling the Mystery: How to predict Application Performance Problems
Managing growing complexity while improving service quality and reducing cost is one of the key challenges of today's IT organizations. The Role of Complex Event Processing in Application Performance Management is described in this white paper.
Forrester Research: Evaluating Innovative I&O Solutions: Converged Application Performance Management
Read this review of Nastel by Forrester Research to learn:
  • How to be alerted about problems before the end user is affected
  • Integration of APM with installed monitoring solutions
  • Closed loop automation for application performance management
EMA Radar for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services: Nastel Profile

Download this report from EMA on Nastel's Application Performance Monitoring suite, AutoPilot, showing the Architecture and Integration, Functionality, Cost Advantage, Strengths and Limitations, and more.

A Unified View Across WebSphere DataPower and MQ Solace and TIBCO Messaging
Find out how a unified view of your business transactions can help your business in this white paper from Nastel.
Nastel: An Integrated Application Performance and Business Transaction Management Environment
In this Research Report, Clabby Analytics describes what APM and BTM are. We examine the types of problems that APM and BTM products solve. And we look closely at the product offerings of an emerging APM/BTM vendor — Nastel Technologies. And what we find is that Nastel offers a complete, broad and deep APM environment that can be effectively used to track and monitor applications and transaction flows within a cloud.
Situational Management for SOA
Situational Management provides visibility into specific situations as they develop, and the ability to proactively identify and react to a potential impact caused by particular patterns or circumstances. Find out how AutoPilot can help you identify these situations and save money and resources.
Business Transaction Performance in a World of Silos
BTP offers an auto-discovered end-to-end view of your business transactions; a stitched-together topology in an easily readable UI; performance analysis as compared to service level agreements and root causes of problems; automation of problem resolution; results reporting; and overall improved business process efficiency.
The National Computing Centre Publishes Excellent Review of AutoPilot M6
The NCC Evaluation Centre provides independent advice on 11 separate business areas, employing a two-stage verification process for its certification and product review process. Hitachi Consulting is an ISO 9001 accredited business and technology consultancy, specializing in the financial services, high-technology and public sectors.
Situational Management for Composite Applications
What happens when important customer orders back up before the trading deadline and won't clear that day because of a surge of transactions caused by an unanticipated business event — an "out trade", a lost customer, an SLA violation or non-compliancy? If your business-critical applications run in a composite application environment, events like the ones above require intensive situational management. find out how Nastel can help in this white paper.
Nastel AutoPilot M6™
Read this white paper to find out how AutoPilot can help your business.
Managing Banking Transactions for Operational Excellence
Find out how Nastel saves banks time and money, put controls in place, and allow banks to monitor what's really happening to transactions so revenue is not lost to poor performance.
Proven Ways to Maximize Your IT Infrastructure
Situational Management provides visibility into specific situations as they develop, and the ability to proactively identify and react to a potential impact caused by particular patterns or circumstances. Find out how AutoPilot can help you identify these situations and save money and resources.
Banking CIOs: Keep your eye on the ball - Hot Banking Tech Companies to Watch in 2010
Banking industry CIOs should be aware of innovations and developing technologies that will help them shape their organizations for competitive advantage. Forrester notes eight small tech companies to watch as they innovatively address key banking processes and challenges.
BTP: Proactive Prevention & Visibility
How can monitoring business transaction performance help businesses prevent problems? How can this methodology provide the full visibility across operational performance, transactional performance and compliance to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that is necessary to reduce cost, improve service and manage risk? Find out in this white paper.
Transaction Tracking within Messaging Infrastructures
Application integration has brought about significant advantages; however it has also brought about a need to track intangible, transient digital assets — business transactions. Find out how to track all these applications and assets with Nastel AutoPilot.
Evolving Successfully To SOA: Step One
A Unified View Across WebSphere MQ, TIBCO EMS, and All Your Messaging Systems
Nastel AutoPilot™ In combined EAI and SOA environments
Real-time, on-demand metrics is one of the key foundations of the Real-time Infrastructure.
Hot Banking Tech Companies To Watch in 2010
Te banking industry turned the corner during the third quarter of 2009. US banks posted a $2.8 billion profit, a big improvement over the $4.3 billion loss in the prior quarter, while the rising stock market boosted bank reserves thanks to increases in the value of securities they hold. But they’re not out of the woods yet. Retail banks are juggling cost savings, growth, and compliance, while investment banks look to process more trades faster in increasingly complex global trading environments. Tis report describes eight companies that address key banking industry processes like payments, securitization, frontline sales force enablement online banking and lending, and improving and simplifying the business of trading.

Podcasts

Nastel interviewed on the Computer Outlook Radio Talk Show
Business Transaction Performance: Talking with Nastel Technologies

News Articles

Four Key Abilities for a Successful DevOps
Today’s Technology Challenges Are Actually Old History
Silos of Shame: Why IT Must Learn to Work as One and Serve the Business
Recognizing the Telltale Signs of Poor Application Performance
Information Management - New Product News
Using WebSphere MQ in Development
ITs worst addictions (and how to cure them)

Are you a jargon junkie? Got an insatiable appetite for information? Do you rule over your company's systems with an iron fist, unwilling to yield control until someone pries the keyboard from your cold, dead hands?

You're going to have to face it -- you're addicted to tech. It's not an uncommon problem, but it can lead to bad decisions, lost productivity, wasted money, and data breaches, to name just a few downsides.

Cloud Computing Journal:Thinking of Moving Your Applications to the Cloud? Consider This
Enterprises should consider the specific needs of their applications before making the jump into the cloud. An article by Charles Rich.
APM Digest: Nastel Partners with Thinksoft on Application Diagnostics
Nastel: the secret to APM is knowing what to quickly discard

Presentations

The Case for Reasoning

Presentation from IBM IMPACT 2012 with TD Bank and Verdande Technology.

Learn how investment banks are enhancing their enterprise application performance monitoring (APM) environments with new predictive and self learning technologies such as Case Based Reasoning.

Albert Mavashev's Presentation from Interop 2011

Webinars

IT as a Secret Weapon - A webinar with Coradiant and EMA
Recover 10% of your total revenue with Application Performance Management, a web seminar with J.P, Garbani, Forrester Research
Ultra low-latency, the holy grail for business transaction performance
Driving Business Transactions in a Downturn Economy with IBM
New Models for Application Management - SOA
An ounce of prevention vs. a pound of cure w/ebizQ
Application Performance Management w/ Gartner Group

Videos

Nastel AutoPilot On-Demand for WebSphere MQ Demo Video
Nastel AutoPilot APM Demo
AutoPilot Financial Services Demo
Nastel at Impact announcing AutoPilot On-demand for WMQ
Live TV interview of Nastel at IBM Impact 2011
A Chalk Talk: Nastel AutoPilot Situational Awareness with CEP
Nastel Technologies Overview on YouTube
AutoPilot 3 Minute APM /BTM Demo
Nastel Overview: Business Transaction Performance
Nastel Video Demo: Financial Services Middle Office Scenario
IBM IMPACT 2010 Business Agility for zOS including comments from Nastel
Interview with Charley Rich at Impact 2012
Charley talks about what Nastel is doing at IBM Impact 2012, and the session that Nastel presented with Verdande Technology called "The case for Reasoning".

Case Studies

Monitoring low-latency middleware at Barclays Capital
At Impact 2011 a few weeks ago, Stephen Neal, Director and Global Head of Middleware at Barclays Capital spoke about his experiences monitoring low-latency middleware at Barclays. At Barclays Capital, there is a need to support a middleware footprint across more than 32 offices worldwide employing more than 25,000 people. This footprint is supported by about 7,300 technologists in 19 countries. Some technology teams at Barclays are business-aligned while others provide shared services across all asset classes and business areas.
Business Transaction Management for Major International Retailer
For a consumer retail company, the period between Thanksgiving and New Year’s provides both great opportunity and great risk. Nastel worked with a retailer that earned more than half of its sales revenue during this one time of year, and experienced massive volume that stretched various system capacities. Companies that have both online and offline retail channels experience additional difficulties in managing inventory and ensuring consistent pricing, highlighting their need for process visibility.
Customer Profile - Nastel TransactionWorks and AutoPilot M6
Customer Profile - Nastel TransactionWorks and AutoPilot M6 - Kusnetzky Group analyst interview
Case Study: SKY Mexico, a Satellite Television Provider Deploys Nastel AutoPilot for Real-Time, Proactive Monitoring
With 2.5 million subscribers, 14-year-old Sky Mexico is Mexico’s leading provider of direct-to-home (DTH) television services. Sky Mexico’s IT division continually works to build upon its dominant market position by fortifying customer services with such enhancements as triple and quadruple play. As with most industries, a weak global economy has intensified the importance of stellar customer support and the need to reduce operational costs.
Case Study: Large Insurance Firm Utilizes Proactive Transaction Monitoring to Ensure Quick Claims Processing
The insurer profiled in this case study is one the nation's leaders in healthcare, property and casualty and disability insurance. Its mission is to help people lead healthier lives, make healthcare more affordable and guide its customers to financial security. The insurer’s healthcare division is affiliated with over 150 hospitals and employs over 5,000 associates nationwide.
Case Study: Fiserv Chooses AutoPilot to Improve Monitoring of Bill Payment and Fraud Detection Application Infrastructure
Brookfield, Wis.-based Fiserv, Inc. is the leading global provider of financial services technology solutions. The Fortune 500 company, has leveraged the latest fraud detection and regulatory compliance tools for more than 25 years to enable its more than 16,000 clients to achieve excellence and solve business issues with respect to payments; processing services; risk and compliance; customer and channel management; and insights and optimization.
APM Customer Case Study: BJC Healthcare
BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and midMissouri regions. With net revenue of $3.1 billion, BJC serves urban, suburban and rural communities and includes 13 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.
Large Financial Services Firm implements real-time, proactive transaction monitoring
Founded more than 150 years ago, a large financial services firm provides clients in more than 50 countries with financial advisory services, products and solutions. As an integrated bank, the company consists of multiple global divisions (including: private banking, investment banking and asset management) and employs more than 40,000 people.
One of our customers saved over $15M using Nastel AutoPilot - EMA
Founded in 1996, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) is a leading industry analyst firm that specializes in going “beyond the surface” to provide deep insight across the full spectrum of IT management technologies. EMA interviews a Senior Operations Manager responsible for all aspects of IBM® WebSphere® MQ middleware management supporting business applications, and finds that Nastel provided over $15 million in hard ROI by implementing AutoPilot as a proactive monitoring solution.
 

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What we do.

AutoPilot ensures the availability and performance of applications, middleware and transactions from the datacenter to the cloud. Using complex event processing and business transaction management it automatically identifies and fixes problems before they impact users and disrupt business processes.

AutoPilot enables you to resolve issues when they first show up and not wait until they blow up.

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