Meridium Announces First APM Enterprise Service Bus - APM Connect

Meridium, Inc., a global leader in asset performance management (APM) software and services, announced the availability of APM Connect, the first APM enterprise service bus, reportedly creating the APM market's only agile, flexible device- and system-agnostic platform to drive accurate M2M communication between heterogeneous applications and across complex IT landscapes. APM Connect is the first solution from Meridium's new Integration Center of Excellence (ICE), a centralized, global shared services organization focused on all aspects of integration development, support and services.

APM Connect delivers a simplified, scalable framework with integrated management tools and capabilities that initially will:

• Standardize connectors that understand how to load customer data into Meridium Enterprise APM solutions
• Centralize capabilities for configuring connections, monitoring, logging, and scheduling data transfer jobs
• Provide common interfaces for standardized capabilities across all Meridium Enterprise APM solutions

Subsequent versions of APM Connect will offer additional capabilities to:

• Enable business users to perform common tasks like defining data mappings and creating data transformation logic
• Provide plug and play connectivity to devices and other heterogeneous applications and systems

Paula Hollywood, ARC Advisory Group, commented, "ARC believes that technology standardization and system complexity are two of the challenges that must be overcome before the vision of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can be realized. An agnostic platform, such as APM Connect, is a step to overcoming these challenges for managing assets."

Keywords: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), M2M, Enterprise Service Bus, Integrated Management Tools, ARC Advisory Group.