For Immediate Release
Realtime Publishers and Compuware Release
The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management
Industry expert Greg Shields' offers a comprehensive look at APM, an industry-leading mechanism for monitoring business services and applications
San Francisco, California, June 9, 2009—Realtime Publishers, the leader in online publishing for the IT industry, and Compuware, leading provider of software, experts and best practices to ensure applications work well and deliver business value, announced the immediate release of The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management. This excellent new eBook offers a comprehensive look at Application Performance Management (APM), an industry-leading mechanism for monitoring business services and applications. APM looks at every facet of the IT infrastructure, from the services to the users themselves, to gain a holistic understanding of what’s going on in your business applications. Using APM, you can quickly dive into the root causes of problems within your infrastructure. You will understand the level of impact associated with those problems, and will recognize and quantify the overall health of your IT infrastructure and business services.
“Today’s business services have grown complex to the point of absurdity. These services drive internal applications as well as those that service your end customers. They’re made up of multiple servers, multiple applications, and network interconnections that no one individual can monitor all the time,” explains author Greg Shields. “The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management offers a comprehensive examination of APM and how it keeps tabs on each and every component of your business services – servers, network, applications,
The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management offers the following ten chapters:
Chapter 1: What is Application Performance Management?
Chapter 2: How APM Aligns IT with the Business
Chapter 3: Understanding APM Monitoring
Chapter 4: Integrating APM into your Infrastructure
Chapter 5: Understanding the End User’s Perspective
Chapter 6: APM’s Service-Centric Monitoring Approach
Chapter 7: Developing & Building APM Visualizations
Chapter 8: Seeing APM in Action
Chapter 9: APM Enables Business Service Management
Chapter 10: The APM Cheat Sheet
This guide will be offered using the Realtime publishing model, whereby new chapters are posted as soon as they are complete in order to offer the most relevant, technically accurate information available. Realtime Publishers will offer access to the title at no charge from its industry leading Realtime Nexus eBook portal at http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com/dgapm.php. The Definitive Guide to Application Performance Management may also be downloaded as it is released on the sponsor’s website at http://www.compuware.com.
About Realtime Publishers
Realtime Publishers has set the IT-Industry standard for corporate-sponsored online publishing, creating interactive communities that employ RSS, blogs, and podcasting; electronic and printed books; white papers; video tutorials and webinars. With a who's who list of industry expert authors, a veteran editorial staff, and a leading content delivery system through its information portal, Realtime Nexus (http://nexus.realtimepublishers.com), Realtime Publishers offers the most current expert resources for IT professionals. Realtime Publishers’ sponsors include Microsoft, McAfee, IBM, Symantec, HP, CA, Novell, and Dell. For more information, please visit http://www.realtimepublishers.com.
About Compuware
Compuware Corporation maximizes the value IT brings to the business by helping CIOs more effectively manage the business of IT. Compuware solutions accelerate the development, improve the quality and enhance the performance of critical business systems while enabling CIOs to align and govern the entire IT portfolio, increasing efficiency, cost control and employee productivity throughout the IT organization. Founded in 1973, Compuware serves the world's leading IT organizations, including more than 90 percent of the Fortune 100 companies. Learn more about Compuware at http://www.compuware.com/.
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