An Advanced, World-Class Software Platform that Supports the Efficient Delivery of Proactive Service Assurance
Overview
VistaFoundation® is a holistic business intelligence platform that supports the efficient delivery of InfoVista's proactive service assurance solutions — and is at the heart of VistaInsight® for Networks, VistaInsight® for Servers and VistaInsight® for IP Telephony.
VistaFoundation consists of a highly efficient, multi-tiered architecture that collects data from large and complex network and IT infrastructures; processes analytics in real-time; consolidates service and resource KPIs; automates discovery, inventory and configuration management; and presents actionable information on service performance within a dynamic portal environment.
VistaFoundation ensures that regardless of the network and IT environment; operations teams, network planners, business analysts, customer services and end-users, all have a common and cross-domain solution for proactive service assurance that enhances operational efficiency.
Key Benefits
VistaFoundation®, InfoVista’s holistic technology platform for network performance management, empowers large enterprises service providers to:
- Predict impending problems to preempt outages through an early warning system
- Accelerate implementation of new services to achieve fast time to market
Improve operational efficiency and reduced training and operational support costs - Deliver high-value, personalized service level reporting to business users and customers
- Manage large, distributed global environments in real-time
- Incrementally scale management platform for a growing IT environment
- Maintain reliability and integrity of data
- Reduce cost and risk of integration with proven interoperability
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of service performance impact on business units and end customers
- Prioritize problem resolution to business and service level commitments
Key Features
VistaFoundation® provides:
- Tiered architecture and carrier-class scalability
- Centralized inventory with automated discovery and data model provisioning
- Automated and dynamic relationship maintenance for devices, services, KPIs, reports and attributes
- Collection and analysis of tens of millions of data points/hour at the edge
- Proven carrier-class scalability utilizing distributed collection; a balanced, multi-tier processing architecture; and a robust, centralized data mart
- Real-time analysis
- Analysis of data at point of collection, real-time performance metric computation and on-demand reporting
- Comparison of real-time performance with historical baselines to detect existing abnormal conditions
- Preemptive, real-time alerting that identifies service level problems and impending performance degradations, in advance of outages
- Open interoperability
- Industry standard database
- Allows bidirectional transfer of valuable business, performance, topology and configuration data
- Integrates with existing EMS and OSS solutions, including event management, provisioning, service activation, service support and CRM applications
- Coordinated provisioning of analytics and report configurations, as the environment change
- Object-based modeling
- Aggregation of associated KPIs at multiple levels, from business to service to resource
- Embedded workflows for specific tasks (capacity planning, problem resolution, service level management)
- Simplified customization including changes to pre-packaged analytics and the creation of new performance reports
- Flexible and adaptive
- Flexibility to rapidly instrument new and existing resources in multi-vendor, multi-technology environments
- Effortless customization of portal-based dashboards and reports
