In Part Four we discussed how performance analytics can help you both troubleshoot and plan your rollouts and migrations. In this last part, I want to tackle the monitoring and alerting you’ll need to have in place when your best laid plans and preparation inevitably fall short of reality. As always, I’ll focus on Oracle Forms. Continue reading
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The Fourth Key to Oracle Forms Performance: Use Performance Analytics
In our last post we explored how quickly “as-implemented” can diverge from “as-designed,” and what this can mean when it comes to troubleshooting Oracle Forms performance issues. Today we’ll talk about how performance analytics can optimize bottlenecks and manage rollouts and migrations without creating problems somewhere else in the system or for the end users — the kinds of interaction problems we discussed previously. Continue reading
A Mixed Crowd at Velocity 2012
Recently I attended Velocity 2012, a web performance and operations conference in California where industry leaders and professionals meet and share ideas. I was able to roam the exhibit halls and speak with a lot of the vendors at their booths (and gather an impressive collection of free t-shirts in the process!). Continue reading
The Third Key to Oracle Forms Performance: Understanding How It All Comes Together
Our last post focused on user experience, and how important it is to know the right questions to ask when performance issues hit. This is no easy task, as the user experience is impacted by so many factors, from storage … Continue reading
The Second Key to Oracle Forms Performance: Manage the User Experience with Meaningful Transaction Names
In our last post, we talked about how important it was to “field deep” — to understand what’s going on at every hop, layer and stack involved in the performance equation for your Oracle Forms installation. In this post, we’re going to go shallow. We’re going to focus on the end-user experience. Continue reading
The First Key to Oracle Forms Performance: Track All Requests Through Every Hop
(First in a Five-Part Blog Series) One of the first tools that network administrators learn is often the traceroute. Hop-by-hop, it analyzes latencies and is a quick — if primitive — way to identify trouble spots in your network. It … Continue reading
Cool Vendors Grow Up
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 … Continue reading
Correlsense Announces New CEO Ken Marshall
Correlsense, a leading provider of application performance management software, announced that Ken Marshall is joining the company as CEO. Marshall brings his deep experience in leading sales, marketing, and services teams as well as driving rapid growth in emerging technology and services firms. Correlsense’s co-founder and former CEO Oren Elias will remain with the company as EVP of Strategy and Business Development. He will focus on strategic sales and partnership opportunities. Continue reading
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 continue to develop, particularly mobile and cloud. The overall economic health of US and Europe remained precarious, forcing organizations to continue trimming fat … Continue reading
Is BSM Dead?
An event occurred recently which marked the end of an era. BSMdigest, an online publication covering our space, relaunched as APM digest. What exactly does this mean? This proves that the term BSM was never well equipped for describing our industry. … Continue reading