| Life-Cycle Stage | Service Features | Business Benefits |
| Pre-deployment | Profile and understand the end-to-end performance efficiency of an n-tiered application
Identify & troubleshoot performance bottlenecks within the application, network or client-server platform
Optimise response-time performance of database SQL queries and application query functions
Determine optimum client-server topology
Model, predict and understand how the application will perform in a production network environment
Determine optimum WAN bandwidth capacity for user performance |
Reduce complexity and costs of performance testing
Identify application performance & scalability issues earlier in life-cycle
Improve application quality
Reduce project risk
Increase network efficiency
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| Deployment | Profile and baseline user transaction response-time performance
Profile and baseline network traffic
Set user SLA's based on user response-times
Document inherent performance "hot-spots" for post-deployment troubleshooting
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Understand & document what you are deploying
Manage user performance expectations more effectively
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| Production | Troubleshoot performance issues - "Is it the network, or the application?"
Determine the impact of the application on the network - and vice-versa
Understand how an end-to-end application system can be performance optimised
Determine impact of network upgrades or topology changes
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Isolate and solve performance issues faster, more reliably
Reduce complexity and costs associated with performance troubleshooting
Increase efficiency of internal IT resources in supporting application performance
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