In the information age, your mission-critical applications aren't limited to your local network. Should your application monitor be any different? NCAM (Net Centric Application Monitor) can certainly provide outstanding stand-alone monitoring capabilities. But in the global enterprise environment, the real question becomes not just "Is this application up?", but more importantly "Are the user communities around the world that need this resource currently able to access it?"

The answer to this question is obviously a matter of the user's point of view, and can depend upon a wide range of factors including local firewalls, access lists, network latency and connectivity. NCAM's completely "linkable" and federated architecture allows many NCAM servers at different locations to join together to paint a common operational picture, representing several perspectives.