Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. Application-centricity is everywhere, at every level. There ...

When I first started writing about Application Performance Management (APM), the technology was largely focused on root-cause application diagnostics and business transaction management (BTM).

If you were worried about the performance of cloud-based applications, here’s fair warning: You’ll probably be even more so when you consider findings from a recent survey conducted by Vanson Bourne ...

Applications at Best Buy Canada/Future Shop can be so complicated that analyzing performance takes no fewer than eight monitoring tools. Jason Kennedy, a systems management analyst at the electronics ...