Featured Whitepapers

White Paper: Boost Business Agility for IBM® WebSphere®

IBM's WebSphere software is one of the most successful middleware software suites for SOA business applications in e-Commerce, Financial Services, Telco and other industries. It includes the entire middleware infrastructure, including servers, services, and tools, needed to create, deploy, run, and monitor round-the-clock, enterprise-wide Web applications and crossplatform, cross-product solutions.

By reducing problem hotspots within WebSphere before they occur in the development process or by diagnosing and repairing them when they occur in test and production can improve the time-to-value and ROI for a WebSphere implementation by as much as 50% or more. It can also ensure that users are more satisfied with the performance of new or updated WebSphere applications, when deployed. Download White Paper (PDF)

White Paper: Why You Need An APM Platform To Unify The Entire Application Performance Lifecycle

With the formation of DevOps, it's more important than ever to utilize a common Application Performance Management (APM) platform throughout the lifecycle, from concept to retirement, from end-to-end to provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention. APM platforms provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention in a DevOps environment, with the promise of substantially reducing total cost of ownership of an application over its 5 to 10+ year life.

This paper discusses the selection requirements and benefits for a common APM platform to be used for proactive lifecyclebased performance management across development, test and production. Download White Paper (PDF)

White Paper: Increase Your E-Commerce Revenue With Continuous Application Performance Management

It takes only a few seconds for an unsatisfied e-commerce customer to switch to a competitor’s website, impacting both loyalty and revenue. To attract and retain customers, e-commerce businesses need to create a world-class online experience. Customers expect fast, highly interactive, cutting-edge and visually appealing e-commerce applications. These new Web 2.0 applications, built on distributed infrastructures, are highly complex. This complexity can result in poor application performance which impacts user experience and revenue. Therefore it is vital to manage and optimize application performance to delight users. Because traditional application performance management solutions have not kept pace with the demands of Web 2.0, next generation solutions have stepped in to bridge this gap.

dynaTrace provides a next generation application performance management and optimization system to help organizations speed up their e-commerce applications and improve their bottom line. This whitepaper describes how dynaTrace enabled Zappos.com to “Deliver WOW through Service” by significantly improving its e-commerce application performance. The white paper concludes with the top 10 questions to ask when optimizing your e-commerce applications. Download White Paper (PDF)

White Paper: Continuous Application Performance Management

This whitepaper describes a new approach to application performance management (APM). Fundamental changes in the way that software is developed (e.g. agile methodologies, geographically distributed teams, and a growing reliance on third-party code) and the increasing complexity of application architectures (e.g. SOA, ESBs, heterogeneous, virtualized, and increasingly cloud-based) are rendering traditional APM approaches increasingly obsolete. A new approach – continuous application performance management – that can be deployed across the entire application lifecycle – from development through test and into production – is required. This paper explores the requirements of this new approach and describes the impact it can have not only at each individual phase of an application’s lifecycle but also as an integrated, consistent approach to ensuring application performance across the lifecycle. Download White Paper (PDF)

White Paper: Forrester Tech Horizons: dynaTrace, When APM Meets BTM

Written by Jean-Pierre Garbani, Forrester Research

Executive Summary
We live in a complex world. Growth in computing power, storage, and bandwidth is exponential. The direct consequence is that IT and business services have grown tremendously in size, diversity, and complexity. What could be managed in competency silos a few years ago by a team of skilled engineers is now way beyond what a human mind can comprehend. To maintain the quality of service expected by the business and contain escalating costs, IT needs help. IT management tools and especially application performance management (APM) and business transaction monitoring (BTM) tools should provide this help by pre-analyzing problems and issues so that engineers can esolve them as quickly and efficiently as possible. dynaTrace is one of these tools that give multiple IT constituencies a better view of applications and their performances, which leads to better service quality from application inception to production. Download White Paper (PDF)