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Why Monolith?

The Infrastructure Management Landscape

Traditionally, Service Providers and Large Enterprise organizations have had just one choice when it comes to implementing a network management system to drive their network operations centers and service assurance strategies. While there are a variety of providers (including the Big Four), each of these solutions is based on the same business model. They all use a non-unified approach, where they take an acquired portfolio of tools and string them together into a complex and fragile infrastructure. Significant time (and cost) is expended implementing a makeshift synchronization of disparate pieces-and-parts.

So, how’s that going?

Too Much Pain, Not Enough Results

The non-unified approach is fundamentally flawed. In fact, it’s impossible. Data from different tools can only be connected at a surface level. Therefore, critical detail is submerged and cannot be viewed, leveraged or made useful. There are a variety of compromises inherent in this approach:

• High cost of ownership due to complexity of variables (mixed bag of databases, servers, interfaces, languages, data stores, etc.)
• Implementation remains difficult and time-consuming
• Ongoing maintenance challenges and costs (including dependence on uniquely qualified staff)
• Result is not an integrated system - legacy tools can never be blended to optimum usefulness

Now, there’s a better way...

Unified Approach - The Game Changer

Clearly, there’s an urgent need to solve this escalating dilemma. But the Big Four are not going to solve it, because investment in legacy systems and legacy tools impels them to try and sustain their house of cards. In 2005, Monolith stepped up to offer a radical new approach. Having no vested interest in legacy systems, Monolith was free to create a pure, logical and systematic approach to fulfilling today’s infrastructure management requirements. Monolith Software offers a new, unified model designed from the ground up to provide:

• One consistent rules engine for data acquisition,
• One unified data warehouse allowing unprecedented access to decision-enabling data, and
• One, consolidated multi-tenant interface for expanding access to deeper business intelligence.

It doesn’t have to be hard to:

• Create a comprehensive surveillance system for data
• Increase operational efficiency through automation/correlation
• Offer customers transparent access to data, increasing retention
• Automate SLA monitoring

The unified approach simplifies complexity, reduces implementation
time and costs, unleashes data, and enables more impactful
decision-making.

The Unified Experience

Unlimited presentation capabilities. Monolith has a portal-style, unified interface that allows for user or group personalization. Views can be set to survey the entire managed infrastructure or dialed in to abstract specific components of interest into a highly targeted, useful view.

Powerful associative capabilities through the use of meta tagging and hierarchy-based definitions. This enables dynamic presentation, SLM and correlation capabilities well beyond what has previously been offered through non-unified approaches.

A single, unified database engine. Analytics, correlation, automation and presentation are all more powerful as a result of having data co-resident and pre-integrated within the Monolith solution.

A consistent, standards-based Data Normalization & Mediation Rules Engine. Whether you’re dealing with event processing and aggregation, metrics polling or collection, auto-discovery, or topology correlation, Monolith delivers a powerful and consistent data normalization engine.