IT leaders are still grappling with
application management, with real-time operations, end-user
expectations and service level agreements demanding improved
application management.
Research commissioned by Quest Software questioned 100 IT
decision-makers in companies of more than 500 people, and asked
them to cite the most troublesome applications to manage.
The most awkward applications were custom Java (48%), other
sector specific applications (43%), custom applications using
Microsoft.Net (32%), and home-grown applications (30%).
Conversely, the two easiest applications to manage were
application behemoths Oracle (17%) and SAP (18%).
According to the research, two-thirds (66%) of organisations do
not use third-party
application performance management tools for their critical
applications.
One-in-five (20%) cannot afford to run them, and a further 17%
do not realise such tools exist.
Nine-out-of-10 (89%) IT managers want to provide different views
of the same performance management data sets to different
users.
Yet, almost two-thirds (64%) of IT decision-makers said their
application performance management software could not deliver this
key requirement.