APM Meets BTM
Tech Horizons: dynaTrace, When BTM Meets APM
This Forrester Research report analyzes the convergence between Application Performance Management (APM) and Business Transaction Management (BTM).
Learn why they see APM and BTM converging into one type of performance management and how, in their eyes, dynaTrace with BTM exemplifies this convergence.
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Business Transaction Management (BTM) from dynaTrace is part of the company’s next-generation approach
APM system. It allows you to mange IT from the perspective of your customers and business stakeholders.
dynaTrace transforms traditional BTM and enables you to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively gain deep
insight into the end-to-end performance of every business transaction, manage service-levels with new
levels of precision, and optimize application performance in production and pre-production. The BTM
solution from dynaTrace is:
Meaningful for Business
Empower business users with dashboards that deliver new insights based on dynaTrace’s deep
view of transactions
Actionable for IT
Give production teams, architects, and developers the actionable data they need – transaction-by-transaction
– to quickly resolve issues
Accessible for All
Fast to deploy, easy to use, and low TCO makes dynaTrace BTM and APM within the reach of companies
of all sizes and fit for use in pre-production as well as production environments.
View dynaTrace CEO John Van Siclen’s
message on the dynaTrace BTM solution.
Go Beyond Business Transaction Monitoring
Traditional BTM solutions are primarily focused on monitoring transactions as they flow across the application
stack, but lack the depth to provide meaningful data they from within the application needed to better
manage the business and provide IT with the actionable data they need to rapidly resolve problems.
dynaTrace Business Transaction Management goes beyond traditional business transaction monitoring to
provide the data from deep within the application needed to actually manage business transactions.
As a result, business and IT now can receive data that’s:
Meaningful for Business
In order to appreciate the impact of application performance on the business, management needs data
that’s meaningful to their mission of managing the business. dynaTrace BTM enables you to deliver new insight to business users by providing information
about how transaction usage and revenue contribution relate to transaction performance. You can also
manage service levels with an unprecedented level of granularity. For example, you can track of the
performance of specific transaction types (e.g., login, search, purchase) or view overall application
service levels to specific users, tenants or geographies. Get the kind of business and performance analytics
that are relevant to business users, at a depth simply not available before, so business can immediately
understand the impact of performance problems on the business.
Actionable for IT
In order to resolve performance issues impacting the business, IT needs data that enables them to react
quickly and efficiently. dynaTrace BTM arms IT with the actionable transaction-specific data they need
to effectively resolve application problems – and prevent them from occurring in the first place. Automatically
generated service and application dependency maps
of business transactions enable IT to understand the impact of updates. Detailed root cause information
about poorly performing transactions allows IT to immediately diagnose and
resolve performance issues critical to your business.
Accessible for All
The dynaTrace BTM solution not only transforms traditional Business Transaction Management by adding
depth to transaction traces, it is also considerably less expensive to acquire, deploy and maintain.
Its central configuration and point-and-click auto-sensor placement assistant enable fast deployment
even when the application’s architecture is unknown, while its self-adapting capabilities keep required
maintenance to a minimum, even in the most dynamic environments. The results are twofold:
- Lifecycle approach to business transaction optimization: dynaTrace can be used not
just in production environments, but also in development and test centers to find poor-performing business
transactions early in the application development lifecycle when issues are inexpensive to fix and before
they impact customers.
- Accessible for companies of all sizes: eCommerce companies, SaaS providers, and companies
of all sizes that previously thought BTM was limited only to large financial institutions can now take
advantage of the full promise of BTM knowing that their time-to-value will be measured in days, not
months.
End-to-End Continuous Transaction Tracing
At the heart of the dynaTrace approach to BTM lies the ability to capture and to track all transactions,
across all IT tiers, automatically and continuously. dynaTrace provides continuous end-to-end transaction
tracing across all major application platforms down to code-level at production-safe overhead, starting
at with the client (including Web 2.0, Java, and .NET) client all the way through the web server tier,
through the Java / .NET application tiers, legacy (C/C++, etc.) code tiers and back into databases and
mainframes. Thus, dynaTrace is ideally suited to rapidly diagnose performance and availability problems
because it clearly identifies exactly where transactions are held up, regardless in which tier:
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