EMA PUBLISHES LATEST RESEARCH REPORT ON APPLICATION PERFORMANCE
Troubleshooting a top priority, security a top initiative in Application Performance arena
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 13, 2006, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), the leading independent IT management research and consulting firm, today announced key findings from its recent in-depth and independent study on Application Performance. The 106-page report, “Managing Application Performance Over the Network: An Assessment of IT Issues and Priorities,” expands on reports from 2000 and 2003 to address a wide range of new technology issues, management challenges, and organizational and process concerns that the prior reports did not cover. EMA is offering this report for purchase, as well as free access to a number of other Application Performance resources at www.enterprisemanagement.com
For this study, EMA’s vice president Dennis Drogseth interviewed more than 100 individuals over the course of Sept. and Oct. 2006. Participants were asked an extensive set of questions regarding IT issues and priorities in managing applications over the network, such as:
How effective is the collaboration between the application and network management organizations?
What organizational and process changes are likely to occur?
What issues are keeping IT organizations up at night?
“Managing the performance of business-critical applications over the network is becoming more relevant, more critical and more complex” said Drogseth. “Moreover, it is increasingly becoming a cross-domain requirement that includes both the data center and the Network Operations Center (NOC). Since we first started our research on Application Performance six years ago, we’ve discovered that the biggest apparent difference is the accelerated growth in complexity, service variety and speed that today’s IT organizations must address to successfully deliver application services over the network.”
Some of the key findings from this report include:
Organizational Transformation: Fully 64 percent of the respondents claim that their IT organizations have made organizational changes deliberately targeting superior collaboration between network and application management teams.
The Rise of Configuration Management: Findings support a growing trend to recognize that visibility and control of configuration changes – in both network and systems components – can have a profound positive effect on ensuring application service performance.
The Perceived Imminence of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): SOA is substantially on the minds of those in IT responsible for managing applications over the network. Only 12 percent said they weren’t interested in SOA, and 43 percent believed there were plans for SOA deployment within a year.
Product Stability is Number One: In a question directed at feature priorities for choosing solutions to manage applications over a network, product stability and technical support came in first and second. This is a striking indictment of management toolset providers too eager to embroider advanced functionality before stabilizing product.
EMA’s Dennis Drogseth will share highlights from his recent research on trends in Application Performance in a free, one-hour Webinar titled “Successfully Managing Business-Critical Applications Over the Network” to be held on Wed., Jan. 17, 2007, at 2 p.m. ET. To sign-up for the Webinar, click here.
