New Research Finds Top Performing Companies Are Establishing Application Performance Thresholds

Top Performers Achieved 99.6% "Average Availability of Critical Business Applications" Improvement Compared With the Industry Average of 96.9%


BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 19, 2011) - The traditional data center-enclosed application infrastructure now extends beyond the corporate firewall to applications running in the cloud and increasingly to a mobile base of end users. In response, companies are placing emphasis on managing application performance across the evolving application infrastructure. New research, "Extending APM: Managing Application Performance Inside and Outside the Corporate Firewall," announced today by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), finds that top performing organizations share the following characteristics:

  • 83% combine application, server, and network performance monitoring
  • 74% use real-time analysis of network transactions for practical troubleshooting
  • 67% are able to associate user transactions with business methodologies

Aberdeen's analyst notes that, "In an increasingly complex IT environment, sophisticated tools for monitoring application performance ensure that quality of service is maintained throughout the application infrastructure. Cloud and virtualized infrastructures present challenges in that applications are generally running outside of a company's direct control or are distributed dynamically across multiple IT resources." An increasingly diverse set of monitoring tools allow companies to examine performance at many different points in the processing of business transactions, from the end user's desktop to the server.

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