An application that manages the environment does more than simply let you know that something is wrong — it also lets you fix the problem directly from the management application. A management application can eliminate the need for the backup administrator to be an expert at the various backup applications’ interfaces. A few companies are now closing this gap by providing monitoring intelligence across both enterprise applications and virtualization-specific backup products. These framework products would turn backup applications into service engines, allowing different products to share capabilities. For example, if the developer of an application-specific Backup product wants to add tape support, they could get it from this framework instead of developing it themselves.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/managing-the-multi-vendor-backup