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Who Owns the End-to-End Transaction?
May 15, 2012

Transaction-level monitoring matters more and more within enterprise operations environments - if for no other reason than so many different teams within the IT operations and application support ecosystems can benefit ... So who exactly are the team members that need transaction-level monitoring? These are some of the most critical members of the business. Their roles are inter-related and yet their responsibilities are sufficiently distinct ...

Big Transaction Data – The Corporation’s New Friend?
May 02, 2012

2012 will undoubtedly see big data remain high on the agenda of big businesses. Organizations believe that with the skyrocketing data volumes, big data holds the key to getting ahead of the competition, and most importantly could help to improve the experience of the life-blood of their organization, their customers ...

Breaking Down the Silos of Enterprise IT with Business Transaction Management
March 20, 2012

It's no secret that we live in a siloed enterprise IT world. Many attempts have been made to better connect functional departments before but it seems like very little progress has been made. Not only are the different applications that underpin common business processes run as fiefdoms, but the distributed tiered nature of modern application architecture creates walls around functions and tiers. When you add operations to the mix you have multiple stakeholders with conflicting agendas, delegating application performance to the firefighting exercise that ensures once business is severely impacted ...

Why Should Banks, ATM Deployers and Payment Processors Care About Transaction Response Times?
March 01, 2012

Because your customers do. Because multi-channel payment environments are a reality. Because virtualization and the Cloud changes everything. Take your pick ...

Q&A Part Two: Insight from Forrester on APM
February 28, 2012

Jean-Pierre Garbani, Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester, provides valuable insight into the present state and future of APM ...

Survey Results: The Enterprise Struggle With Transaction Availability
February 02, 2012

At BlueStripe, we surveyed 126 IT operations and production support executives at enterprise-level organizations. We were interested about the range of applications they’re responsible for, the most pressing challenges, and if their management tools were effective enough for them to do their jobs. The executives responded with a clear “no” on the latter inquiry. Here’s a summary of the survey results ...

Hot Topics from the Gartner Data Center Conference
January 30, 2012

Last month I attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas. This year, the hot topic was not only cloud computing but seems there were a lot of discussions around DevOps and analytics. Other topics of interest included Application Performance Monitoring (APM), End-user Experience (EUE), Business Transaction Management (BTM), Big Data and many more around IT operations. Take a peek at the few bits and bites I picked up ...

12 Predictions for 2012
December 20, 2011

Industry experts from analyst and consulting firms and all the top vendors offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial predictions on how Application Performance Management and related BSM and ITSM technologies will change and impact business in 2012 ...

Another Look At Gartner's 5 Dimensions of APM
December 03, 2011

APMdigest followers will already have read the article on Gartner's 5 Dimensions of APM. We'd like to look at this matter from a different angle: What are the important issues and goals to consider when evaluating a suite of APM solutions -- from one or more vendors -- to ensure that your APM solution will help IT operate at the new speed of business?

Gartner's 5 Dimensions of APM
December 02, 2011

Gartner's recently published Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring defines “five distinct dimensions of, or perspectives on, end-to-end application performance” which are essential to APM ...