Ensure that your monitoring system has these components

A strong monitoring system is required for all the businesses which deliver their products and services through applications. Constant and consistent monitoring of all applications in your organization will ensure that service level agreement conditions are upheld. If you are looking for a monitoring system for your business applications, you need to ensure that all your business requirements are met with. Some important components of a good monitoring system are as follows:

• Monitoring from the end users’ perspective
  
  A good monitoring system considers all the factors which affect the end users’ experience from not only within the firewalls but from outside them as well. The IT team can not only ensure that end users have a smooth experience by eliminating all problems in applications, they can also meet service level agreement conditions through such a monitoring system.
  
• Monitoring from end to end
  
  Your monitoring system needs to not only point out that there is an error in applications, it also needs to guide the IT team to where the problem lies exactly. Look for an appropriate monitoring system which monitors all processes from end to end. This will make the process easy for your IT department and help you with fulfilling the service level agreement terms. You should also support your monitoring system with a good performance testing tool, which will help you improve the performance of your applications.
  
• Ease of use
  
  Ensure that your monitoring system is easy to use, so that it doesn’t take up a lot of time of your staff in deployment and analysis. If the tool you deploy is too complicate or time consuming, it will fail to serve its purpose as an independent tool.
  
• Reliable
  
  If you want a monitoring system for the long run, look for an experienced service provider, which provides customized solutions. Getting a reliable tool from the beginning will ensure that you are able to meet end user expectations and are well equipped for future performance problems as well. The combination of a strong monitoring system with regular performance testing will ensure that you meet all service level agreement terms with ease.

There are a lot of service providers in the market today which provide reliable monitoring systems for small and mid-sized businesses. Search for a reputed service provider who will become your long term partner in solving application performance issues.

Tevron's APM Solutions Directly Address the Critical IT Issues Identified in Aberdeen's Recent End-User Experience Monitoring & Management Research

Nashua, New Hampshire, September 14, 2010 - Tevron’s APM solutions directly address the key critical IT needs identified in Aberdeen’s End-User Experience Monitoring & Management Research

Some of the key findings from this Aberdeen research include:

• 53% of application issues were uncovered through end-user experience monitoring
• 48% improvement in mean time to repair application performance issues found through end-user experience monitoring
• 42% increase in visibility into critical business transactions
• 15% decrease in the number of end-user complaints about application performance

"Best-in-Class companies discovered more than half of application issues before end users were affected. Leveraging solutions like Tevron's CitraTest APM for end-to-end monitoring of applications on the desktop, the Best-in-Class enjoyed an average of 15% reduction in user complaints" says Russ Klein, VP and Director of IT Research, Aberdeen Group. This solution delivers unmatched proactive monitoring, transaction monitoring, real-time alerting, real-time monitoring, application availability, application performance, IT Service Management, Business Service Management (BSM), and SLM. Every environment, every business process, and every application is supported. Compared to the legacy management products available on the market, this solution is more scalable, more flexible, supports all environments with a single technology, more cost effective, and easier to maintain and deploy.

To learn more about Tevron’s automated testing & monitoring solutions or to request additional information, please call +1.702.518.7435, email sales@tevron.com or visit www.tevron.com.

ABOUT TEVRON

Tevron® is a global leader in APM and Automated Testing. Through our all encompassing customer-centric vision and advanced technology, our APM & Testing Solutions allow the unique flexibility of supporting every application across the enterprise with one methodology delivering the ability to test, monitor, enforce SLAs, and optimize performance with confidence and ease. Founded in 2001, Tevron® is a global organization and is privately held. Our vast and diverse ranges of customers are global leaders and include companies such as Alcon Labs, Alverno, Northrop Grumman, Xerox, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, and Lucent Technologies, to name a few.

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Performance testing: Importance and objectives to keep in mind

Organizations which depend on applications for mission critical activities are increasingly turning to performance testing to overcome bottlenecks. Through effective performance testing, such small and mid-sized businesses can evaluate whether their application performance is up to the established standards. It also helps them in avoiding down time which affects bottom lines of their business. Such a defined performance testing process ensures that all service level agreement conditions are met. The following are some importance and objectives of performance testing to keep in mind.

Importance of Performance Testing

• If mission critical activities depend on applications, performance testing improves the overall quality of services which are provided


• Performance testing is needed to make sure that all applications are running on time so that end users do not face any problem and have a smooth and satisfactory experience


• It also helps in meeting the terms of the service level agreement


• Clients can be satisfied by providing them with a fast and reliable application through performance testing of all important applications

Objectives of Performance Testing

• Helps when IT teams need to compare the performance of multiple applications


• Performance testing minimizes application costs


• Enables faster response time of applications


• Is useful in spotting application bottlenecks and solving them


• Helps in meeting service level agreement terms


• Through performance testing, IT teams can meet application criteria set by a company and its clients

The importance of performance testing in a business setup cannot be over stressed. Most of the small and mid-sized businesses have started using customized packages from experienced vendors for testing their applications. Spotting the need for custom performance testing solutions, a lot of APM vendors have also entered the market. A customized performance testing solution will not only help in spotting and eliminating application performance issues, it will also help with service level agreement conditions.