Compuware Announces APM Innovations

Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, has announced a new major release of its integrated application performance management (APM) solution, the Compuware Gomez platform. The Gomez Fall 2011 Platform Release extends Compuware’s APM leadership by introducing eight industry-first innovations across its SaaS and on-premises APM products that help customers optimise application performance to save money and time.

“Over the last three years, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has seen the importance and need for User Experience Management (UEM) steadily growing among enterprise organisations, said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President at EMA. “These requirements have been accelerated by the rise of cloud computing and virtualisation, where UEM becomes the ultimate baseline for effective service delivery. Compuware’s ongoing leadership in UEM is strongly enhanced with the new Gomez Platform 2011 Fall Release, which also broadens its range of support to critical mobile environments, which are increasingly redefining the point of entry for the end-user population.”

Compuware’s latest release of the Gomez platform expands performance visibility and deep-dive analytics across the entire application delivery chain—from the First Mile to the Last Mile—to rapidly find and fix problems that originate inside or outside the datacentre. This enables organisations to optimise their web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications quickly before the end-user is impacted.

New features and capabilities in the Gomez Fall 2011 Platform Release include Gomez Mobile Real-User Monitoring (RUM) Conversion Analytics, integration with Google Mobile Page Speed, Mobile Synthetic Monitoring Network and Adaptive Streaming Support.

The power of Gomez synthetic monitoring has been expanded by integrating with dynaTrace’s PurePath Technology to significantly accelerate problem root cause analysis. It couples Gomez’s synthetic monitoring platform with dynaTrace’s best-in-class deep application visibility and diagnostics. It also offers 360° Web Load Testing.

Browser Real-User Monitoring User Satisfaction Map is the new map-based interactive interface that allows visualisation of end-user satisfaction. Gomez now correlates network performance issues to applications, transactions and individual users, providing a unified view of how network performance impacts end-user experience.

SAP Application Analysis delivers detailed analysis of both thick-client (R/3) and web-based (NetWeaver) instances of SAP applications.

The Datacentre Real-User Monitoring Performance Analytics and BSM Third-party Integration capabilities have also been expanded.

“Businesses today depend on high-performing applications to drive revenues, customer satisfaction and brand equity, so the need to optimise application performance is greater than ever,” said Bruce Reading, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Compuware’s APM business unit. “In this new release, we continue to meet this demand by providing our customers with unbeatable insight into application performance across the entire application delivery chain," said Reading.