What is Application Availability ?

Application availability is the inclination of an application to handle end user requests and to return timely and accurate responses. As business becomes increasingly dependent on information technology, application availability is a universal concern for every business, in every IT infrastructure. The need for system availability extends across all components of a network. But nowhere the availability of a system is more obvious to users or more analytical of the competence of IT managers than at the application level. The function of application availability is to meet business needs. For today’s business-critical applications, enterprises require robust, proven solutions for application performance and IT monitoring. They must be confident that they are protected, not only against physical server failures, but also from outages that affect individual virtual servers and the applications running inside them.

Web-based business applications have become an essential component of every business. These applications are mission-critical, executing various organizational business processes. Whether it is a pure Web-based multi-tier application or a front end to an existing ERP or legacy system, the availability of the application and the content of transaction output need to be monitored all time, to ensure the reliable and correct operation of the business processes. Tevron’s CitraTest APM provides a way to quickly, efficiently, and discreetly monitor the application availability, reliability, and application performance as well as capture the hard-to-get URL-to-SQL application metrics. It presents these important metrics in a manner that enables hard communication and rapid proactive or reactive detection, correction, and verification throughout the application lifecycle. By using CitraTest APM, the availability of the application has increased and improved by a few percentage points so that thousand man-hours of down-time is saved and hence results in millions of dollars in improved efficiency throughout the organization.

Through the use of Tevron’s CitraTest APM, IT Administrators can better monitor access and performance and cost effectively run IT in alignment with company objectives. As a result, Business Managers can boost up IT Performance that helps achieve the business goals through increased IT efficiency and profitability.