Analyzer is a must have for any BMC customer utilizing Perform. I have been waiting for functionality like this from Perform for more than 5 years now, it's exactly what I wanted from the product.
Analyzer has:
- greatly increased my productivity by automating routine analysis duties. It has dramatically reduced my use of supplemental tools, e.g. MS-Excel.
- seamlessly integrated with my existing Perceive installation, many Perceive extensions, and non-BMC data sources.
- allowed me to identify the servers I must concentrate on via a customized rule-set that is applied to all servers in my environment
- standardized my reporting techniques
- one-button reporting for my critical applications providing a high quality, standardized, and portable report suitable for management and the technical support groups.
- with the recent addition of the Publisher for Perceiver add-on, I will be able to schedule the production and distribution of these reports.
My management has been extremely pleased by our increased ability to communicate to the end-user community (i.e. application owners, admins, managers, ...) without an increase in staffing levels.
In my opinion, 80% of capacity analysis is able to be automated, the other 20% requires our individual expertise. By automating 80% of the mundane and routine tasks, I have significantly more time to focus on the more important 20% (actual data analysis and capacity planning) and, what's more, analyzer is helping me to do a better and more thorough job on the other 20%.
That's really just the report writing capabilities, I can't wait to leverage the interactive data analysis capabilities (which are pretty substantial) to their full potential.
Analyzer is now my first tool of choice.
