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Application Performance Management, or APM, refers to the discipline within systems management that focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and availability of software applications. APM can be defined as workflow and related IT tools deployed to detect, diagnose, remedy and report on application performance issues to ensure that application performance meets or exceeds end-users’ and businesses’ expectations.

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How Google Improved Application Scalability and Agility with a Virtualized Grid Environment
By : Appistry Published Date: Mar 02, 2007
This white paper describes how software-based, real-time grid environments -- i.e. application fabrics -- are successfully meeting the requirements of today's most demanding applications, delivering scalability, manageability and affordability.
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Appistry
Appistry EAF for Intelligence Applications
By : Appistry Published Date: Dec 21, 2006
Organizations serving the intelligence & defense community rely on the performance of their applications for more than revenue - national security depends upon those applications for mission-critical operations. This industry profile details how Appistry provides the reliability and performance demanded by intelligence & defense organizations.
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Appistry
Implementing a Next-Generation Platform for Geospatial Intelligence at GeoEye
By : Appistry Published Date: Feb 15, 2007
Learn why GeoEye chose Appistry EAF to reduce development and operational cost and complexity, and enhance the company's agility in meeting the evolving needs of its customers.
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Appistry
Windows Terminal Server Software Licensing Control
By : AppSense Published Date: Oct 30, 2006
Learn how AppSense Application Manager enables IT Administrators to reliably and effectively enforce software licensing policies on client devices, and therefore gain greater control over the deployment of applications in a Windows Terminal Server environment.
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AppSense
Direct Marketing Wins….with Enterprise Campaign Management
By : Aprimo, Inc. Published Date: Sep 08, 2008
LendingTree wanted to leverage and increase its strong brand awareness by putting the right tools in place to create a marketing-driven technology system.
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Aprimo, Inc.
How a $2B Software Company Uses Closed Loop Marketing to Measure ROI
By : Aprimo, Inc. Published Date: Jun 30, 2008
To keep up with the growth and volume of its business, the marketing department at a $2B enterprise software company knew they needed a next generation marketing application to track marketing program expenditures.
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Aprimo, Inc.
Leveraging Lifecycle Management for Software and Business Adapt Ability
By : Borland Published Date: Oct 02, 2006
In this white paper, you'll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects.
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Borland
Business Intelligence for Mid-Size Organizations: It's Not Just for Industry Giants
By : BusinessObjects Published Date: Jan 25, 2007
Download this step by step guide to learning how mid-size companies can benefit from Business Intelligence. You'll learn the benefits of BI and why mid-size companies need it for effective decision-making and improved results.

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BusinessObjects
Application Performance Management: Managing High-Performing, Business-Critical Web Applications
By : CA APM Published Date: Aug 22, 2008
Increasing reliance on web-based applications has had significant implications for both IT staff and business managers. IT’s primary responsibility and ongoing challenge is to provide a reliable high-performance web applications services environment, an environment that ensures the end user’s ability to successfully interact with web applications while enabling IT to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Anything less than superior application performance can have immediate consequences.
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CA APM
SOA Performance: Scaling SOA Implementations Now And Into The Future
By : CA APM Published Date: Aug 04, 2008
Many organizations look to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to provide greater business agility in the face of evolving business requirements and complex, heterogeneous information technology (IT) environments. To achieve this agility, architects implement a Services abstraction that loosely couples business Services from the underlying implementations of those Services. Building such an abstraction layer is not without risks, however—inherent in building such an abstraction is the risk of sacrificing performance and scalability to achieve the organization’s required agility.
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CA APM
Application Performance Management Demonstration
By : CA APM Published Date: Feb 15, 2008
This demo shows you how CA Application Performance Management (CA APM) helps ensure that your mission-critical Web applications are meeting performance and business objectives. CA APM provides 24x7, end-to-end monitoring and management of all transactions – across applications, business processes, services and SOAs – to identify, prioritize and resolve problems before they affect your customers and your business.
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CA APM
CA Performance Handbook Supplement for DB2 for z/OS
By : CA Mainframe Published Date: Sep 05, 2007
The CA Performance Management Handbook for DB2 for z/OS by renowned tuning experts Susan Lawson and Dan Luksetich of YL&A covers information to enhance your skills and raise awareness for databases performance management issues and tuning strategies. This supplement to the CA Performance Management Handbook provides specific information on which technologies apply to which issues and how CA Database Management addresses your most pressing database performance management challenges.
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CA Mainframe
CA Application Quality Management and Testing Tools
By : CA Mainframe Published Date: Apr 15, 2008
Automated application quality assurance and testing are fundamental to the delivery of the service levels and managed risks that are essential to delivering business outcomes you can depend on. In this context, CA’s mainframe Application Quality Management and Testing Tools send very strong messages: the tools are being actively developed and, where appropriate, integrated with equivalent tools on the distributed platforms, to help companies deliver holistic, automated, business services.
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CA Mainframe
CA Opens the Black Box: Adding Mainframe Focus to End-to-End Application Performance Management
By : CA Mainframe Published Date: Apr 02, 2008
This White Paper discusses end-to-end application performance management in the context of the impact to the business. It then highlights CA’s application quality and performance manage­ment solutions for both Web and mainframe applications, with particular focus on the integration of CA Wily with AQM Solutions’ TRILOGexpert APCTM for TriTuneTM with Performance Desktop.  It concludes with the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) perspective on the market in general, and on the CA solution in particular.
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CA Mainframe
Virtualized Applications Streamline, Secure and Manage Your Business
By : Citrix Published Date: Jan 25, 2008
Hundreds, even thousands, of applications serve as the lifeblood of each of today’s distributed global enterprises—at use in more places and in more ways than ever before. To deal with the growing complexity and cost of application deployment, maintenance and performance, organizations are looking for solutions to streamline, secure and manage delivery of their most business critical applications.
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Citrix
Five Key Building Blocks Help You Realize the Bottom-line Benefits of Predictive Analytics
By : Customer Chemistry Published Date: Jun 15, 2006
Building a top-tier analytics practice is an evolution.  The best approach is to start small, then scale with each success.  Learn how to incrementally build your analytics practice with five customizable building blocks that create a strong foundation for analytical success.

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Customer Chemistry
Improving .NET Application Performance and Reliability with Managed Database Data Connectivity
By : DataDirect Technologies Published Date: Apr 13, 2007
In this paper, SQL Server MVP and SSWUG co-founder Stephen Wynkoop explores common misperceptions about data access technologies, describes the optimum architecture for ADO.NET data providers, and highlights key selection criteria for developers.
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DataDirect Technologies
Performance at the Application Layer Requires Flexibility
By : DataSynapse Published Date: Dec 21, 2006
Today's business drives application use, but it is how these applications are deployed and managed that can deliver differentiation value to the business. Whether your challenge is one of scale, optimization, heterogeneity or complexity – learn how flexibility can be built in at the application layer.  Download this analyst bulletin today!
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DataSynapse
The Importance of Application Management
By : Dell Published Date: Dec 04, 2007
Efficient desktop application management is essential in normal day-to-day operations of any company. Whether you are introducing a new application or implementing an OS migration, the goal is the same: minimize disruptions and ensure user productivity throughout the process.

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Dell
Self-Tuning Disk Drives Eliminate Performance Bottlenecks and Heighten ROI
By : Diskeeper Corporation Published Date: Jun 08, 2007
The size of today’s hard drives boggles the mind. Coupled with this surge in disk capacity is an explosion in file sizes. And multi-MB PowerPoints, MP3s and PDFs litter the hard drive. The problem is that drive I/O speed has not kept up the pace. As a result, it has developed into a serious bottleneck in system performance.
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Diskeeper Corporation
The Impact of Disk Fragmentation
By : Diskeeper Corporation Published Date: May 30, 2006
While there is little dispute among IT professionals regarding the impact of disk fragmentation on system performance, no independent guidelines exist to recommend the frequency of defragmentation across an infrastructure. This white paper will outline the results of testing, draw conclusions, and make recommendations regarding managing fragmentation across your infrastructure.
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Diskeeper Corporation
Why You Still Need Assured Application Delivery and Application Delivery Networking
By : F5 Networks Inc Published Date: Sep 08, 2008
VMware Infrastructure products provide the next generation virtual platform for the new data center, but they don’t virtualize the network or application delivery. F5 BIG-IP LTM works with VMware to provide truly virtualized Application Delivery Networking.
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F5 Networks Inc
How a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Can Transform Your Shop Floor Operations
By : High Jump Software Published Date: Aug 07, 2008
Special Report for Discrete Manufacturers: How a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Can Transform Your Shop Floor Operations Ever wonder exactly what an MES can do?  Want to learn how manufacturing execution software will benefit your company? Discover answers in this guided tour of a best-in-class MES.
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High Jump Software
Application Platform Optimization
By : HP Published Date: Nov 27, 2007
This paper outlines a ready-made solution that delivers comprehensive infrastructure optimization in accordance with Microsoft’s APO model. Using HP PolyServe software in conjunction with HP BladeSystem c-Class products and Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise Edition, organizations can attain Dynamic Infrastructure capabilities while reducing server counts by 50%, decreasing configuration and management time by up to 75%, and providing high availability to all servers and SQL Server-based applications.
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HP
Application Server Choices: Important Considerations in Selecting an Application Server
By : IBM Published Date: Aug 25, 2008
With a dizzying array of applicatio