dynaTrace for Financial Services

Transactions are the lifeblood of financial services companies. But the enormous complexity of today's systems present major challenges for the teams charged with building, testing, and managing the applications through which these transactions flow. Most companies spend massive amounts of their own resources to get applications to perform at acceptable levels, and even then they don't always work as expected under the volatile workloads they must cope with.

A few of our financial services customers:

When your business depends on transactions, you need a transaction-pure application performance management (APM) system that was purpose-built to handle the complexity of financial services applications. dynaTrace is the choice of many of the largest banks, insurance companies, and trading firms on the planet. Almost every one of them had previous investments in traditional APM technologies that they realized no longer met their needs. Learn more about why they switched.

How dynaTrace Helps Financial Services Firms

1Tame Distributed System Complexity

Financial transactions are often extremely complex and so are the applications that support them. A single funds transfer or policy underwriting transaction can often touch dozens of services and sub-systems. So when transactions slow down or fail to complete, the source of the problem could be anywhere. The only way to know for sure is to trace every transaction not just across every tier of the application but deeply within each tier.

dynaTrace's PurePath technology brings transaction performance accountability to even the most distributed, complex applications. Whether you chose to deploy it in development, test, production, or across the application lifecycle, dynaTrace lets you roll out advanced architectures with confidence that they will perform at the levels your users demand.

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2 Understand & Improve Customers' Experience

The competition for customers is intense in financial services, and delivering an excellent online experience can be a differentiator for your business. Lots of products will monitor users' experience, but alerting you to a problem and actually helping you solve the problem are two different things. dynaTrace not only gives you new insights into your customers' experience with your apps, but also delivers deep technical insight with every transaction so developers and architects fix problems faster than ever before.

Whether it's the free AJAX Edition, our end-to-end transaction tracing capabilities, or our easy integration with third-party monitoring products, dynaTrace delivers unique, actionable insight into the customer experience so you can make it be better.

3 Get New Releases To Market Faster

In response to increasing competition, the business is putting more and more pressure on IT to bring new features to market faster than ever before. But most organizations get bogged down by performance problems, spending 40% of their R&D resources on average dealing with these issues. dynaTrace can help you eliminate that wasted time and leave your competitors in the rear view mirror.

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4 Resolve Production Crises Fast

When transactions fail, millions of dollars can be lost. And when the app slows down, the money slows to a trickle. But production problems are a fact of life, so what you need is a system that lets you rapidly resolve crises.

Instead of sitting through another war room meeting filled with guesswork and finger-pointing, your best technical people need to be armed with the best evidence available to help them fix the problems fast. With the instant insight that dynaTrace delivers with every transaction, you’ll be able to fix production issues faster than ever and stay open for business 24x7x365.

5 Manage Business Transactions

Your customers come to your site to complete transactions, so business owners of the applications expect to know if the customers are getting what they need. IT needs to deliver this visibility, but the last thing they need is yet another system to implement and manage. What they really need is a system that allows them to monitor applications and quickly resolve performance issues.

dynaTrace bridges the gap between business and IT by bringing together Business Transaction Management (BTM) and Application Performance Management (APM) in a single system. dynaTrace gives business owners the insight they need while delivering IT the transaction-pure detail they need to optimize application performance and assure stability and scalability.

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6 Minimize Management Efforts With Auto Adaptive Monitoring, Self-Management and Auto-Discovery

The pressure to 'do more with less' is always there, particularly in lean times. Automating time-consuming activities can be the easiest way to respond to this pressure, but how? dynaTrace provides a new level of automation not found with other APM systems. No more manual problem reconstruction. No more diagnosing issues by collecting log files. No more time spent reconfiguring your APM system to keep up with your dynamic environment. dynaTrace handles a variety of time-consuming activities like these so that your organization can focus on doing what it does best.

7 Optimize Application Performance From The Outset

When it comes to performance management, the best offense is a good defense. Catching problems before they make their way into production and ruin the customers’ experience is everyone's goal. But in practice, that’s difficult to accomplish with the hodgepodge of incompatible performance tools used across the application lifecycle.

dynaTrace offers a single APM system that can be used not just in production, but in test centers and development organizations as well - so you can proactively validate architectures and eliminate performance problems early on when they are easiest to fix.