I was excited to see the recent news that Gartner analysts Jonah Kowall and Will Cappelli will be writing regular “cool vendor notes.” They offer great insight into the emerging players in our industry. This also marks the moment when … Read more
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An Introductory List of Oracle Monitoring Tools
What tools provide visibility into the performance of Oracle technologies? After doing a Google search we realized there has not be a list compiled which outlines various solutions. This introductory list is a first attempt to organize the various Oracle solutions. Read more
Mastering P2V: Best Practices for Maintaining Service Levels upon Migration
No doubt you are familiar with the established benefits of virtualization: improved efficiency and resource availability at a lower overall cost. Many IT departments, however, have discovered that virtualizing applications can create new and unexpected performance problems. Read more
Clabby Analytics Highlights SharePath 2.5 In Recent Report
Clabby Analytics has previously highlighted SharePath’s non-intrusive approach and easily implemented architecture in past reports. These factors have not changed with 2.5 – and Clabby agrees. Read more
The APM Market Is Not For Chickens
I’ve been SVP of Sales at Correlsense for three years, and in this time I’ve had a lot of opportunities to meet with the clients. These are the people in the trenches using, or hoping to use, APM as their primary weapon against all the “interesting” situations that arise when managing applications in production. Read more
Aligning Service and Product Strategy
If you’ve been reading my blog posts, you know that I love my product. We all do here. But we also know that there are competitors out there doing a good job as well. The APM industry is quite competitive, with several companies saying very similar messages. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish one product from the next. Read more
Five Keys for Performance Management of Oracle Forms and E-Business Suite
Today’s APM tools do not provide sufficient capabilities to perform real end user monitoring of Oracle applications. While these tools can track basic performance data, most solutions do not cover the entire Oracle E-Business Suite technology stack and it can … Read more
Best Practices for Managing SaaS Applications
The proliferation of SaaS applications like Salesforce.com is creating a host of new management challenges. For example, how do you measure the performance of applications you don’t host? What real-time data do you have to communicate with business stakeholders? How will you know if SLA commitments are being met? Read more
Traveling Transaction Modeling
Over the past few years, traveling has become a major part of my life. I travel a lot for business, so I’m on the road a good chunk of the time. One of the most interesting (and daunting) things about getting from point A to point B is planning the route. This is most difficult when I have a meeting in New York City, because there are four possible (and reasonable) ways to get there. I could fly, go by rail, drive or take a bus. Read more
3 Big Trends on My Mind
It’s safe to say we’re in the midst of big trends emerging in the IT industry. Technologies continued to develop, particularly mobile and cloud. The overall economic health of US and Europe remained precarious, forcing organizations to continue trimming fat and improve efficiencies. IT professionals are learning to do more with less and reevaluate how their organizations are structured (think DevOps). Here is a brief discussion of the three big trends in IT today. Read more
