Business Transaction Management™ (BTM) is an approach to managing IT from a business transaction perspective. BTM ensures service quality for users of business transactions while simultaneously optimizing the underlying IT applications and infrastructure.
A business transaction is an end-to-end service that an IT application provides to end-users or other applications; for example, a stock trade, account login, product purchase or billing inquiry.
Each business transaction has a unique profile that contains a business context (i.e. user, time, location) and a technical profile including the flow topology, resources consumed and performance.
Business transactions provide the key to understanding IT from a business perspective – and vice versa. They reveal exactly how business transactions are dependent on IT components, and conversely, precisely how specific components affect the business.
The heart of BTM is the ability to capture and track all transactions, across all IT tiers, automatically and continuously. This concept was first introduced by OpTier with its flagship CoreFirst® product.
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