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Easy as 1, 2, 3 – Isolating Application Performance Problems

I can isolate the source of any application performance problems using only three pieces of information. Any guesses as to what they are? If you guessed transaction response times, you’re right, give yourself a point. Chances are you’re reading Bernd…

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How Transaction Monitoring Impacts End Customer Experience

Here’s a simple way to improve the end customer experience.  Shorten the time it takes to isolate performance issues affecting end customer payment or banking service transactions by about 65%. During last week’s webinar, Kin Lee-Yow, the Director of Technology…

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Bush planes, SEALs, family dinners and application performance management

In the Canadian wilderness, bush pilots always circle the runway before they land. Elite military units always gather extensive intelligence before executing on a mission. I always ask “who’s mad at whom?” before big family dinners. What do we all…

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Monitoring Payment Application Performance within Virtual, Cloud and Mobile Environments

Within banking and retail environments, application performance monitoring (APM) is changing.   This is because more and more service and payment transactions are originating from alternative payment applications based in Cloud, mobile or virtual environments.  Monitoring the performance of these…

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The Unified Transaction Model (UTM)

Pattern, structure, and correlation are the critical features of the latest Application Performance Monitoring (APM) offerings. Adaptable, smarter, more flexible, and automated are the new requirements. Existing management solutions are struggling to cope with the emerging challenges – system complexity,…

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