Definitions: Application Performance Management

Definition

Seen as a business-intelligence process, application performance  management is usually a back-burner issue around the office. A lot of  companies will say they're doing performance management, but their efforts  usually end up approaching the level of passing around a bunch of spreadsheets  that somebody types numbers into.

Business Applications

There are automated systems out there that will grab data  from different sources and aggregate them and roll them up into scorecard tools  that can easily be seen by the whole team. These tools support collaboration.

Businesses that do invest in application performance  infrastructure spend an average of $96,000 per year and can mitigate the risk  of losing up to $117 million per year. The best approach is not to shell out  for marquee systems that address only the major app performance issues, but to  install a wide range of capabilities designed to manage full application  lifecycles.

Deployment Concerns

64-bit corporate performance management (CPM) applications  provide a several order of magnitude improvement in deployment options at  reasonable costs. With the CPMs, you may have a several order-of-magnitude  improvement in the underlying architecture that will allow software providers  to do some new things they never would have considered in the past. The door will be open to new strategies and approaches to begin experimenting with and  devising new functionality and capabilities in anticipation of the increasing  need for more agile, collaborative and holistic performance management.

Technical Details

The experience of Japan’s Daiwa Securities offers an  example of the kind of improvement that souped-up application performance can  bring. The company had a proprietary system that supported more than 120  applications for about 250 employees, but frequent crashes and poor tech  support would knock the system out on a weekly basis for more than an hour at a  stretch—an eternity in the securities business. The company recently migrated  to Red Hat’s JBoss Enterprise Application and Portal Platforms, delivering an instant savings of $300,000 in licensing and hardware costs, and has cut application compiling and delivery times from about 15 minutes to a few seconds.

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