Frequently our customers experience downtime in their HPE Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/Performance Center (PC) environment for various reasons. How many do you think ever consider maintaining their HPE ALM/PC environment? Not many. You should think of your HPE ALM/PC environment as if it were your vehicle or your home. Like your vehicle or home, you… Continue reading Performance Center Maintenance: A Routine Recommendation
Month: June 2016
Correlating Business Transactions with Business Transaction Logs in APM
Over the last two decades, software development in the enterprise has changed from applications in silos to distributed and composite applications. These new solutions connect multiple services, databases, and even mainframe computers to solve more complex business problems. In this new solution development practice, the end users or computer-generated requests interact with a broad range… Continue reading Correlating Business Transactions with Business Transaction Logs in APM
Metrics versus KPIs—and the Importance of Understanding the Difference
In a recent blog, I provided an introduction to reporting and offered suggestions to help software professionals determine if their teams are using reporting effectively. I followed that up with a discussion of the importance of, and processes involved in, developing a functional reporting framework. Today, we are ready to talk about metrics and key… Continue reading Metrics versus KPIs—and the Importance of Understanding the Difference
Quality in the Application Development Lifecycle: Good Is No Longer Good Enough
As most of us know, or at least have heard, user expectations for applications are at an all-time high. For mobile and web applications, they border on astronomic. Yet, many companies are still failing to achieve the quality that users expect. Often, consumer application developers are caught in a “perform or die” scenario and are… Continue reading Quality in the Application Development Lifecycle: Good Is No Longer Good Enough