Published January 3, 2023
Integration is a fundamental part of any IT infrastructure. It allows organizations to connect different systems and applications together in order to share data and information. As organizations become more complex and interconnected, they need to ensure they have complete observability and monitoring of their integration architecture.
Published September 26, 2022
Nastel Technologies – Intelligence from Integration
Leading Global Provider of Messaging Middleware-Centric Performance & Transaction Management
Banking is about financial transactions. These are executed by sending payments and instructions over middleware.
Published September 13, 2022
There are a few key differences between distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry. One is that OpenTelemetry offers a more unified approach to instrumentation, while distributed tracing takes a more granular approach. This means that OpenTelemetry can be less time-consuming to set up, but it doesn’t necessarily offer as much visibility into your system as distributed tracing does.
Published June 30, 2022
Transaction tracking and tracing are not the same thing.
One of the top 10 banks in the world recently chose Nastel and this was their primary reason.
They had a Priority 1 request processor incident on the mainframe where high value messages went missing and it took two weeks to find them.
Published May 19, 2022
When conducting business online it is vital to be able to track all parts of any financial transactions conducted by your organization. Where different companies are working together on different steps in the process, this isn’t always simple to achieve.
Published April 29, 2022
As systems get ever more complicated with more layers in the application stack, it can become more difficult to keep track of what is happening at all of the different, discrete levels and this is where distributed tracing comes into play.
Published March 10, 2022
IBM Cloud Pak for Integration (CP4I) is a platform that helps you quickly and easily integrate your hybrid cloud applications with the systems and applications that are important for running your business. It can help to collaborate between the different application teams and businesses that exist in your organization and ensure that they are working together at maximum efficiency.
Published January 1, 2021
The classic retailing model has been to market and sell stuff. Seems logical enough, retailers buy products from distributors who host the products of vendors, and the goal for the retailer is to sell stuff for a profit.
Published September 8, 2020
A business has to choose a pathway, either to focus on the needs of shareholders or the needs of customers. No one likes to hear this, because in the perfect world, we’d love to think that we can do both.
Published October 18, 2018
BTM or Business Transaction Management vs. Business Transaction Performance - two terms aimed to describe the current state of the affairs in what Gartner calls Transaction Profiling.
Ever since I came across the term BTM I questioned whether the term actually reflects what vendors do in this space.
