IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management

Manage and optimize application and infrastructure performance

IBM® SmartCloud™ Application Performance Management intelligently manages traditional IT, virtualized, cloud and hybrid environments. It gives you the ability to quickly determine the root cause of critical cross-platform applications while meeting demands to develop new applications and modify existing ones. You gain the visibility, control and automation you need to manage today’s more complex and interdependent applications throughout your enterprise.

IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management provides:

End-user experience management to help you understand how the application is performing from the user’s perspective.
Transaction tracking so you can understand how the application is performing during an actual business transaction.
Diagnostics for root cause analysis of bottlenecks and performance degradations.
Analytics to provide insight and help you manage dynamic trends.
Discovery of application components in system environments.

End-user experience management

Tracks end-user experiences throughout heterogeneous environments.
Provides non-invasive user monitoring to help ensure compliance with service level agreements.
Is designed for easy deployment.
Can extend to certain applications running on mobile devices.

Transaction tracking

Identifies and isolates performance problems.
Helps accelerate the repair process to minimize business impact.
Supports agentless technology. Agentless tracking allows you to quickly deploy transaction tracking throughout the entire IT infrastructure for critical applications and services.
Also supports agent technology. You can selectively deploy agents to provide more data.
Provides impact analysis dashboards, which identify users affected by a failed transaction.

Diagnostics

Facilitates diagnosis and repair of application performance issues.
Helps determine the performance issue and root cause, and then accelerates the repair process to help minimize business impact.

Analytics

Provides predictive analytics and capacity planning for proactive management.
Uncovers hidden trends and patterns.
Includes forecasting, trending and capacity analytics to help reduce outages, improve performance and optimize utilization.

Discovery

Provides visibility into the components of composite applications and helps speed problem resolution.
Helps you identify composite applications components and automatically maps transaction topology.

IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management resources

White paper: IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management for Dynamic and Cloud Infrastructures
EMA discusses the challenges of managing applications in highly dynamic IT environments such as public and private clouds.

Solution brief: Move beyond monitoring to holistic management of application performance
Discover how to gain actionable insights to optimize performance and minimize issues.

Analyst report: Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring
Learn why Gartner has recognized IBM as the leader in application performance monitoring software.

Analyst report: EMA Radar for Application Performance Management (APM) for Cloud Services
Read why IBM SmartCloud Application Performance Management has been awarded “Best Cloud Vision and Design” by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).

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