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IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Business Automation Management 2008


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Job Role Description / Target Audience

An IBM Certified Solution Advisor - Tivoli Business Automation Management 2008 is a person who develops high-level architectural solutions that are integrated with existing systems and aligned with business critical issues within a customer environment. The person is responsible for performing hardware and software business automation solutions analysis and communicating high-level design scenarios to the customer.


Recommended Prerequisite Skills

Key Areas of Competency
  • Map customer requirements to IBM Tivoli Business Automation Management solutions.
  • Assess customer's current operational processes (for example, configuration management procedures).
  • Assess the customer's environment for IBM Tivoli Business Automation opportunities.
  • Align third-party products and IBM products, specifically Tivoli, to IBM Tivoli Business Automation opportunities.
  • Assess requirements and document a high-level design overview and recommendations.
  • Describe business/technical advantages of IBM Tivoli Business Automation solutions.
  • Apply business automation concepts to the solution design.
  • Recommend education opportunities to customer, based on the IBM Tivoli Business Automation solution.
  • Understand hardware and software solution analysis.
  • Possess strong presentation skills.

Prerequisites

  • Knowledge of business automation services (for example, Web services or database services and how they integrate). Skill level 3
  • Capability to assess and analyze business automation maturity. Skill level 3
  • Ability to analyze business and operational processes. Skill level 3
  • Understanding of hardware requirements. Skill level 3
  • Knowledge of operation and business support system frameworks and best practices (for example ITIL and eTOM).  Skill level 2
  • Understanding of business automation aspects of other related IBM products (WebSphere, Lotus, etc.). Skill level 2
  • Familiarity with IBM Tivoli Business Automation education and product certification. Skill level 2
  • Familiarity with IBM OPAL Web site and IBM Tivoli Business Automation offerings. Skill level 2  
  • Understanding of IBM Tivoli Business Automation solution portfolio.  Skill level 2
    • IBM Tivoli Event Automation and Network Management family of products 
    • IBM Tivoli Performance Management family of products
    • IBM Tivoli Monitoring family of products
    • IBM Tivoli Provisioning family of products
    • IBM Tivoli Service Manager family of products
    • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager family of products
    • IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler family of products
  • Knowledge of networking environments, operating systems, relational databases, application environments (Java, .NET, etc.), and key vendor environments. Skill level 1
  • Knowledge of business automation standards, regulations, and certifications (industry, government and civil). Skill level 1
  • Understand business cases for business automation projects. Skill level 1
  • Knowledge of competing business automation products.  Skill level 1
  • Familiarity with related IBM Tivoli Partner products. Skill level 1
  • Understanding of IBM hardware. Skill level 1


Requirements

This certification requires 1 test(s).

Test(s):

  1. Test 438 - Applying Fundamentals of Tivoli Business Automation Management 2008



Test registration

Authorized Prometric test centers (worldwide testing)

Announcement

IBM certification tests to be delivered only through Prometric, beginning July 2, 2007