Monitoring Tools for ERP Applications

ERP applications are used for supply-chain management within an organization. The top ERP applications are SAP R/3, Baan, PeopleSoft, and Oracle applications. This section describes the monitoring tools that have been customized for ERP applications, emphasizing SAP R/3, because it is the leader in this market.

Some ERP application vendors provide a monitoring capability, such as SAP's Computing Center Management System (CCMS) management tool and the EarlyWatch program, which periodically check SAP performance. However, other vendors provide more complete monitoring capabilities. This section focuses on Envive Corporation's monitoring capabilities for SAP, and three monitoring vendors, BMC Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, ...

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