JP1 - Job Management Partner 1
Integrated Enterprise System Management

Overview
Key Benefits
Job Management
Desktop Management
Availability Management
Integrated Management
Further Information & Evaluations

Maintaining control of the systems in a complex IT environment is a demanding challenge. The reliability, flexibility, manageability, performance, responsiveness, and cost effectiveness of management solutions are all issues of strategic importance. Resources distributed throughout the enterprise must be fully utilized and manual operations must be automated to satisfy these goals and for organizations to remain competitive.

Hitachi's JP1 software addresses these critical needs with robust, multi-platform, enterprise-class tools for managing the whole distributed enterprise. Individual products can address the immediate needs of point solutions, but are integrated with each other, allowing a complete enterprise solution to be implemented. Hitachi's JP1 uniquely combines ease of use with the flexibility needed in a constantly evolving environment, to allow IT staff to concentrate on key business issues.

Key Benefits

. Proven, enterprise-class tools for managing the distributed enterprise . Automation of system processing and administrative tasks . Reduces the time and cost of system management and improves reliability . Increases the efficiency and cost effectiveness of system resources . Integration with other leading solutions such as HP OpenViewT and SAP R/3® . The support and partnership of a responsive, global leader with proven expertise in enterprise systems and business processes

Job Management
The automation of routine tasks is key to managing the distributed enterprise. The time of IT staff is too valuable to be spent performing tasks such as routine data backup, managing temporary file space, or monitoring login failures. However these operations are critical to the functions of the enterprise and must be performed reliably. Also the system should be able to prioritize background tasks, taking advantage of unused resources, and minimizing the impact of these tasks on on-line processing. When exceptional circumstances occur, there needs to be flexibility in handling them, or sufficient intelligence to call for human intervention.

The solutions provided by Hitachi's JP1 job management products address these needs, from scheduling of complex repetitive interdependent jobs, to initiating a sequence of tasks in response to detected events, and distributing the workload amongst available processing resources.

Using Hitachi's JP1 job management tools is as simple as drawing a flow chart and marking dates on a calendar. By employing a hierarchical architecture even large systems can be effectively managed, either from a central console or by delegation into multiple domains.

To learn more about job management using Hitachi's JP1 click here, or visit the main JP1 web site.

Desktop Management
In large networks or physically distributed smaller ones management of the users workstations present considerable challenges. Ensuring that users receive the latest versions and updates to the software required for their work requires tools that can determine the configuration of the users machines and install the appropriate software. However installation of software must not tie up valuable resources such as network bandwidth when it is needed for the normal work of the enterprise. When physical access to machines is either difficult or impossible system administrators still need be able to resolve issues on those remote machines.

Hitachi's JP1 desktop management products, provide the tools to automate software distribution and inventory management, and can provide remote control of users machines for administrators and help desk staff. Multilevel scheduling of updates minimizes bandwidth requirements and, by linking with systems inventory, ensures smooth rollout of software in a timely manner. The software also supports automated cross platform collection and distribution of data.

To learn more about desktop management using Hitachi's JP1 click here, or visit the main JP1 web site.

Availability Management
The applications run within an enterprise are at the core of the business, and as such are essential to its success. With more and more operations becoming available 24x7 the business applications need to be constantly monitored and managed, but IT staff cannot be dedicated solely to this task.

A solution to this dilemma can be found with Hitachi's JP1 availability management tools.

Both server operations and processes associated with application process, including databases, transaction processing, and business specific applications, can be centrally monitored and alerts generated if they fail. Hitachi's JP1 provides specific integration with the Oracle ApplicationsT suite and SAP R/3®, allowing the maintenance of these to be seamlessly incorporated into the management of the entire enterprise.

To learn more about application management using Hitachi's JP1 click here, or visit the main JP1 web site.

Integrated Management
Having all the tools available to manage the enterprise is is of limited use if each tool has a unique interface and does not inter operate with the others. In addition to the overhead in training required for each system, separate tools can become unmanageable in large distributed enterprises, due to the complexity of the systems involved.

While Hitachi's JP1 software can be deployed as standalone solutions for smaller organizations, integrated management provides the flexibility and scaleable required to manage the largest systems. The time and costs of managing the enterprise can be minimized using a centralized cross platform console, and more sophisticated responses to situations are available than with point solutions. The hierarchical structure implemented by Hitachi's JP1 integrated management tools scales to handle systems of any size.

Additionally, Hitachi's JP1 provides integration with Hewlett Packard OpenView Network Node ManagerT product, providing further integration across the enterprise.

To learn more about integrated management using Hitachi's JP1 click here, or visit the main JP1 web site.

Further Information and Evaluations
More information on Hitachi's JP1 is available: In the USA please call 1 (781) 768-5850, E-mail jp1@hitachisoftware.com, or visit the main JP1 web site.

For support issues please visit our customer support pages or call your support contact number. If you wish to log a support issue please have all the relevant information to hand as this will expedite a resolution.

A number of case studies of JP1 implementations are available, which you can view and download by clicking here.

To request an evaluation copy of Hitachi's JP1 software please complete our Evaluation Request. The software is available on a 90 day trial to qualified organizations on the continental USA.