White Papers - Application Performance Management

 

Application Performance is a Business Issue
Read the Forrester Report, Best and Worst of Website User Experience, 2010 to find out why all 35 sites analyzed failed their usability test and what you can do to improve your Website’s user experience.
We’ve compiled a list of best practices, based on the leaders’ performance, for benchmarking your web & mobile site performance
When delivering SaaS applications ensure Web performance issues don't have a negative impact on your revenue and customer satisfaction. Download our 12 Step guide to learn how to ensure the health of your Web applications and the health of your business
Three monitoring pillars delivers a comprehensive and realistic view of site operations and their impact on business success. The three monitoring approaches are distinct, complementary, and equally important, each addressing core challenges you face.
Most Web performance testing and monitoring methods have not kept up with advances in technology and changes in end-user habits
When Web site owners fail to capture the true impact of these technologies in action, they leave themselves exposed to unseen business-impacting performance gaps.
Read this white paper to learn more about industry research identifying the business impact of Web performance and learn how you can leverage Web performance monitoring and analysis tools to improve your Website’s customer experience
How to measure and quantify user satisfaction with your web performance.
In a recent global survey of 474 business and IT decision makers, conducted by IDC on behalf of Compuware, respondents offered insights about their needs for effective operation of Internet-enabled business activities.
Compuware's second annual award for the best for the best performing Web and mobile sites.
Data Center Complexity: the New Normal
Companies worldwide have made major investments in SAP software to improve business-critical processes. Understand the importance of managing the entire SAP application delivery chain, from the first mile (your data centers) to the last mile (your users).
Have you made the essential investments in application monitoring that will keep your customers connected and secure? Without an effective application performance management strategy, you could be losing customers to the competition.
Understand application performance and user experience for these types of transactions is critical. Today, applications have a direct impact on company revenues, customer satisfaction and brand perception. To learn more download this whitepaper.
How to Achieve Effective Application Performance in a Virtualized World
This whitepaper addresses the Web experience challenges companies must address when adopting the cloud.
It offers perspective and best practices to achieve world-class Web performance and assist in the evaluation of cloud providers and development of cloud performance SLAs.
In this paper, we'll examine - in data center operations that involve the integration of mainframe, distributed and web-based systems - how APM influences, and is influenced by, the generally more structured tools and processes available on the mainframe.
Explore key strategies for monitoring complex Java and .NET applications to ensure IT operations maintains performance and availability end users demand.
Download this white paper to learn how Compuware's Vantage 11.5, now VMware Ready certified, can provide a complete VMware APM solution.
An EMA white paper that takes a critical look at key technologies to help ensure that your cloud investments work for and not against you.
Compuware recently commissioned a global IDC survey of 474 business and IT decision makers to better understand what performance and availability information they need to have in order to effectively operate their Internet-enabled business activities.
Don't Blindly Trust the Cloud
Finding the right Cloud Services Provider the first time is critical. This white paper helps organizations find the right CSP by providing tips for defining their requirements for a CSP, and then offering 5 best practices to choose the right CSP partner.
According to Gomez research nearly all of the Top 50 Internet retailers use third-party apps on their online commerce sites. Most providers build Service Level Agreements on availability and not performance. Learn how you can get both.
Understand what challenges businesses face when they embrace this new paradigm. By understanding where the breaking points are and how to measure them, businesses gain new insight into cloud performance before small issues become larger business problems.
Download this white paper to learn how Compuware provides an innovative approach to the application performance and availability challenges inherent in cloud computing.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) summary of research directed at capturing trends from a technology, organizational and process perspective in IT organizations moving to the Cloud.
Poor performance of cloud applications impacts revenue, delays rollouts.
An EMA white paper that takes a critical look at key technologies to help ensure that your cloud investments work for and not against you.
Compuware recently commissioned a global IDC survey of 474 business and IT decision makers to better understand what performance and availability information they need to have in order to effectively operate their Internet-enabled business activities.
It's a Mobile, Multi-Browser World
According to Forrester Research mobile commerce is booming with sales via mobile devices set to grow 40 percent per year for the next five years. Download this report to learn why tablet owners are a key component of your mobile success.
Are you meeting your customers' mobile web and app experience expectations? Download the survey now to find out.
Download this whitepaper to learn proven best practices to ensure mobile Web sites, applications and SMS initiatives perform as intended for all your end-users.
This paper addresses the top five mobile web experience mistakes you may face on the road to success - and how to fix them.
This whitepaper outlines how to embrace an "outside-in" perspective and defines testing best practices, to simplify the complex and achieve the Web performance your customers expect.
Most Web performance testing and monitoring methods have not kept up with advances in technology and changes in end-user habits
When Web site owners fail to capture the true impact of these technologies in action, they leave themselves exposed to unseen business-impacting performance gaps.
How to measure and quantify user satisfaction with your web performance.
Load Testing 1.0 Fails Web 2.0
Understand what kind of load testing will help you find and resolve website issues before your customers do.
Everyone wants more traffic to their website, right?
More Web traffic surely means more revenue, more conversions, and reduced costs. But what happens if your Website can't handle the load? What happens if the investments you make to drive traffic to your site result in reduced revenue?
This whitepaper describes why Load Testing 2.0 solutions are needed and who can benefit.
In this paper, we will draw parallels between performance testing of software systems and a person's growth, development, and eventual decline, from conception to gravestone.
Peak Online Traffic Periods are critical since more Web visitors mean more revenue opportunities.
To find out, Gomez commissioned Equation Research to conduct a study of consumer Internet usage experiences during peak traffic times.
Did your website and emarketing programs sparkle last holiday season?
By all accounts the 2010 holiday season was a smashing success; online sales grew by double digits, despite the down economy. If your website performance during peak holiday traffic times was lackluster, it's time to plan now for the 2011 holiday season.
Performance is in the Eyes of the End-User
When delivering SaaS applications ensure Web performance issues don't have a negative impact on your revenue and customer satisfaction. Download our 12 Step guide to learn how to ensure the health of your Web applications and the health of your business
Most Web performance testing and monitoring methods have not kept up with advances in technology and changes in end-user habits
When Web site owners fail to capture the true impact of these technologies in action, they leave themselves exposed to unseen business-impacting performance gaps.
In a recent global survey of 474 business and IT decision makers, conducted by IDC on behalf of Compuware, respondents offered insights about their needs for effective operation of Internet-enabled business activities.
Unify Your Application Performance Lifecycle
Here Forrester Research address' many of the issues enterprises consistently have with IT, such as applications failing to meet both functional and nonfunctional requirements, delivery delays, increased costs, and an inflexibility to change.