Cloud computing, mobile computing and streaming are all rapidly growing but these trends add to the complexity and challenge of maintaining application performance to grow revenue, protect brand reputation and decrease costs for organizations of all sizes, a research report said.
The IDC report said managing this challenge requires visibility and deep-dive analytics across the entire application delivery chain to rapidly find and fix problems that may occur in the data center, cloud or the end user's device.
At the same time, organizations are challenged to deliver applications with more features, in shorter cycles and with fewer resources than ever before, the report said.
“Application performance management is becoming a top priority for more and more IT organizations as applications become more distributed, mobile and dynamic. More than ever, IT leaders are challenged to maintain end user service levels and to proactively detect and remediate problems before they impact the business,” said Mary Johnston Turner, research VP at IDC.
Global technology firm Compuware meanwhile said the application landscape is changing rapidly with new native mobile applications, an exploding number of cloud services, elastic cloud infrastructures and a growing business drive to bring more application functionality to market faster
“A new generation application management system that goes wellbeyond traditional data center monitoring is required,” said John Van Siclen, general manager of Compuware's application performance management (APM) business unit, which recently announced solutions in mobile, cloud, big data and streaming that address top priority IT pain points.