Definitions: Application Performance Management
Created on: Jan 27, 2009 10:43 AM by Loraine Lawson - Last Modified: Mar 30, 2009 12:28 PM by Loraine Lawson
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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