Top 10 IT Performance Management Predictions for 2014

Domain-specific intelligence

Domain-specific intelligence will grow in importance for performance management. For many years, the "how" to monitor has gained credence over the "what" to monitor. Enterprises have often focused on how management products work -- agent or agentless, what protocols, etc. We expect this to change in 2014.

As IT organizations come under pressure to do more with less, they will seek management tools that are more intelligent, can find problems without human intervention and in a proactive manner. To address this, management tools will need to embed a greater degree of domain expertise than they have done in the past. Collecting the key metrics, setting the right thresholds, and displaying the right reports out of the box will be some of the capabilities required from performance management tools.