End User

March 06, 2013

APM is entering into a period of intense competition of technology and strategy with a multiplicity of vendors and viewpoints. While the nomenclature used within its space has five distinct dimensions that elucidate its meaning, the very acronym of APM is in question: Application Performance - Monitoring vs. Management ...

February 28, 2013

Chris Dancy, Director, Office of the CTO at BMC Software, talks about APM and user experience ...

January 23, 2013

Without the capability to manage the performance lifecycle between the Cloud – whether public, private or hybrid – and the consumers of business critical applications and services, it is not possible to understand (let alone guarantee) necessary application service levels from the user’s perspective. This presents many challenges ...

December 19, 2012

Industry experts - from analysts and consultants to users and the top vendors - offer thoughtful, insightful, and sometimes controversial and contradictory predictions on how APM will change and impact business in 2013 ...

October 12, 2012

Convincing the astute executive who is cautious in making an impetuous decision on an APM investment can prove to be challenging. The following are three points to consider when presenting APM's panoramic view of the enterprise and articulating its benefits ...

October 04, 2012

The value that end-user activity monitoring (EUAM) provides has become clear. By monitoring users in real time, you can help ensure application performance and identify errors before they affect anyone. However, many IT organizations continue to wrestle with how to use the data gathered from monitoring activities to increase business understanding and to enhance the quality of the user's experience ...

September 04, 2012

Imagine it's Black Friday, when all of the sudden … boom! Your most critical Web application goes awry, bringing your e-commerce operation to a screeching halt on the very day flawless performance is needed most ...

August 17, 2012

Gartner has published a new Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring.

July 25, 2012

Today, numerous internal and external audiences are using a variety of mobile devices to access business services that increase efficiency and productivity by enhancing communication and collaboration ... This article will explore strategies to enhance the mobile experience for three of the key audiences that regularly use mobile to engage with businesses: Customers, Employees and Partners ...

July 16, 2012

The recent outage of the Amazon EC2 cloud led to disruption of service for Netflix, Instagram and other major site and applications. Last year after the first major Amazon outage I posted on this site a blog post: After Amazon: 5 Ways BSM Can Protect You from the Next Cloud Outage. The points are worth repeating since we see that cloud computing is not a guarantee of better application performance ...