Marking its first major release since becoming an
independent company, Precise has launched version 8.5 of its
eponymous Transaction Performance Management (TPM)
solution.
TPM, in Precise’s view, is an evolution of Application
Performance Management (APM) whereby
IT is measured
by transaction performance such as like business is measured by
transactions.
Precise’s approach is to optimise the performance and
availability of enterprise applications in order to identify and
help correct performance problems before they affect business.
The company’s modus operandi is to provide solutions that align
with the dynamic whereby
IT departments are tasked with having to do more with less
resources and where, in its opinion, IT has shifted focus from
building to fixing.
“We have worked closely with our customers around the globe
during the last year. With the economical downturn we have seen our
customers shift from building new infrastructure to making what
they already have work better,” explained Mark Kremer, CEO of
Precise. “Our customers tell us that they look to Transaction
Performance Management to help them provide the same or better
levels of service at significantly lower costs.”
Kremer added that it was vital for technology suppliers to
understand their customers' short term needs as much as their long
term strategies. Focusing on customers in the retail segment he
added, “”We need to understand the need to have a short term view;
there’s a need to measure the cadence of [customers’] business.
Retailers can’t wait for next Christmas to analyse their
performance data.”
The new version 8.5 is designed to collaborate around a central
view of service level agreements expected by the business and to
keep business-critical systems available and running at peak
performance.
One of the key aspects to the new release is the extension of
the concept of TPM to the
storage tier, managing transaction performance for composite
applications, also offering a performance management solution for
DB2 environments. Kramer commented, “firms can’t buy big iron [to
solve storage problems] anymore. So the key is how to improve
storage without [large expenditure].”
Precise 8.5 also offers new, centralised administration and
automated deployment capabilities design to allow smaller, less
experienced teams to effectively manage large deployments.
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