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Availability and Performance Monitoring
Reducing day-to-day business interruptions due to end user system problems not only improves
business performance but also improves employee morale and productivity. Understanding where
those problems are before they become a serious issue is extremely important to any company
regardless of size.
Description:
The Availability and Performance Monitoring Offering monitors the application service delivery that
end user communities receive and experience through the use of an Application Performance
Management (APM) technology.
ITPMG redefines end user experience management by utilizing the industry's first patented Frontline
Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform®. The FPI Platform is designed to dramatically reduce
business disruptions and significantly increase end user productivity.
With APM, enterprises benefit from proactive IT management through self-learning, preemptive
problem detection, and right-time decision support. By uniquely transforming every desktop - real or
virtual - into a self-monitoring platform that is user-experience aware, the patented FPI Platform
arms with real-time business intelligence on how application performance and usage impacts
business results, and provides a path for constant improvement.
Using anomalous behavior algorithms, the Availability and Performance Monitoring Service
offering dynamically creates End User Performance Intelligence - data that operators can interpret
and act upon within moments of detecting a problem. This includes granular performance
information by group, location and time.
The result is a real-time aggregation, analysis, and correlation of all the performance metrics that
define and impact real end user experience. By transforming end user experience metrics into
actionable business intelligence, APM becomes a strategic business enabler. End user performance
intelligence is enabled by self-learning, statistical modeling of dynamic performance baselines,
preemptive problem detection, dynamic isolation of impacted users, and automatic identification of
business impact and probable cause. With end user performance intelligence, enterprises rapidly
gain the agility required to address end user issues before they impact business results.
The service offering agents reside at user end points, continuously gathering and aggregating
measurements into real-time data IT can understand and use. The solution does this without
interfering or interrupting end user activity. Data is then automatically organized by business
groups, giving IT an accurate perspective on end-user performance.
Unlike other solutions, our solution empowers IT by highlighting probable causes based on
end-user environmental data, such as operating system, subnet, location, DNS and others. We
automatically ensure that the probable cause analysis is credible given the problem. Therefore, IT
can eliminate unlikely causes immediately and focus on the most likely factors, speeding resolution.
With our alerts, IT can see exactly which users and which transactions are having
problems, shedding light on whether the problem is isolated or enterprise-wide
For example in a call center environment, ITPMG tracks the actual application performance of Siebel
that CSRs experience. If application performance problems occur, our offering figures out the scope
of the problem, what groups are impacted, and its probable cause (e.g. desktop, network,
application, or Citrix). All this happens before the CSRs even realize that the system is performing
sluggishly so their productivity isn't impacted.
The intelligent way to manage end-user experience
With our solution, organizations can minimize the costs and damage associated with business application interruptions. The
ITPMG solution automates and simplifies fault-detection and analysis of application performance, utilizing powerful end-user
monitoring to help IT address performance issues before they impact your business.
Major research firm recommends measuring performance from the perspective of end-users
In a recent major research company poll, the majority of respondents measure application availability by components,
rather than by affected users. The research company recommends measuring from the perspective of the users, thereby
eliminating a discrepancy that can create a mismatch of data, creating confusion over true performance measurements.
"Poll Reveals Buying Preferences for Availability and Performance Monitoring" (April 2005).
If you can't see your users, you can't see the problem
Using traditional application management solutions, IT has no way to detect end-user performance problems, analyze
potential causes and resolve them quickly. This problem is widespread. According to Forrester Research, 74% of end-user
problems are not currently detected by IT.
Application performance issues impact:
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What makes the ITPMG solution different?
Focus on end-user data: Today's AM solutions ignore the most important information element - the end-user. For the most
part, they monitor back-end components only and treat each component independently.
Currently, IT has to choose between solutions that can't provide real-world, end-to-end coverage. These include:
• In-depth monitors: These reside with a single user, and don't give IT a clear understanding of the business impact
•.of the problem, or its scope.
• Network-centric "sniffers": These reside a good distance from the end user, limiting access to crucial user
•.performance data. This approach to end-user monitoring usually involves network layer analysis, not application layer
•.analysis, - limiting IT personnel from measuring true business activity performance.
• Synthetic testing: These use a robot system to measure performance under simulated conditions. However, what
•.appears to be normal under test conditions may vary widely from real-world user experience. Some transactions, such
•.as trades, cannot be tested synthetically, leaving significant blind spots. Synthetic testing requires up-to-date
•.scripting, another time-consuming and costly IT management task.
• Number of people affected
• Business groups impacted
• Business priority
• Common factors
• Business transactions impacted
• Probable causes
• Detect true performance problems
• Identify exactly who is affected and define problem scope across single and multiple sites/departments
• View application performance levels by department, location and time
• React quickly according to business relevance
• Rapidly resolve the problem through probable cause analysis before it impacts end user productivity and satisfaction
• Reduce costly help desk calls
Performance Intelligence
ITPMG provides actual, actionable information that enables IT operations teams to:
ITPMG Delivers Answers
You get detailed information on:
Performance Benefits:
• Reduces Business Downtime
•...-- IT responds to application degradation BEFORE business is impacted
•...-- Prioritizes IT response based on business relevance
• Reduces MTTR & Cost of Operations
•...-- Saves hours/days in detection and analysis
•...-- Minimizes number of IT personnel needed for resolution
•...-- Ensures ROI on planned infrastructure investments due to production evidence
•...-- Increased application adoption, user productivity and business process optimization based on precise insights into
•.......how users use their applications
Move from a reactive to a proactive mode
Rather than examine performance problems from the data center and infrastructure side alone, we capture real end-user
experience. We provide the last mile visibility that traditional monitoring tools can't provide - and requires minimal effort
to set up and manage.
Powerful, scalable, cost-effective and easy to deploy, we can improve the effectiveness of your operational teams
responsible for key business applications.
Target Audience:
CIO (primary), Network Operations team.
IT executives who have the responsibility for application service delivery issues resolution and problem and incident
management.
Frontline Performance Intelligence (FPI) Platform®, is a trademark of Aternity, Inc.
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