Introscope 7.CA has announced the availability of Introscope 7, the industry's most advanced solution for monitoring and optimizing the performance of business-critical web applications. Introscope 7 includes a new highly scalable architecture to help manage the world's largest and most complex deployments of web applications, intelligent automation to enhance usability, and the industry's most comprehensive visibility into transactions and business processes for rapid problem resolution. Introscope 7 will also support a new solution for managing .NET applications, scheduled for release later this year by CA's Wily Technology CA Wily Technology, formerly Wily Technology, Inc., was purchased by CA, Inc. (NYSE: CA) in March 2006. Overview According to analyst firms including Gartner Group, CA Wily is a market leader in Application Performance Management. division. "Control over web applications is essential for both IT and business success," said Dick Williams
Richard Hirschfeld Williams (born May 7, 1929 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former player, manager, coach and front office consultant in Major League Baseball. , senior vice president and general manager of CA's Wily Technology Division. "With Introscope 7, organizations can manage and optimize optimize - optimisation the largest applications across the most complex environments--including Service Oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. Architectures and heterogeneous infrastructures. By collaborating with our customers, we have put more of our application management expertise 'in the box,' by adding advanced analytics and automatic baselining features in addition to significant usability enhancements." Introscope 7 is a single source of application performance information for all IT and business stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. . It provides a common language that senior management, line-of-business managers, operations personnel, system administrators, QA and development teams can use to help ensure that applications are successfully achieving business and performance goals. The flexibility of Introscope allows both expert and non-expert users to utilize performance data collaboratively for application health and availability monitoring, incident triage triage Division of patients for priority of care, usually into three categories: those who will not survive even with treatment; those who will survive without treatment; and those whose survival depends on treatment. , Service Level Agreement (SLA (1) (StereoLithography Apparatus) See 3D printing. (2) (Service Level Agreement) A contract between the provider and the user that specifies the level of service expected during its term. ) management, Sarbanes-Oxley and ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). compliance, trend analysis and capacity planning Determining the required future configuration of hardware and software for a network, datacenter or Web site. There are numerous capacity planning tools on the market used to monitor and analyze the performance of the current hardware and software. . "Web applications are important customer touch-points for our business," said Ulf Jentler, IS E-business support, Principal Financial Group. "We have invested in a number of technologies, including Introscope from Wily Technology, to ensure our web applications achieve optimal performance and are conveniently available anytime our customers want them." Deep End-To-End Visability From A Single Solution Introscope 7 provides a combination of deep transaction visibility, real-time views of application performance and customer experience with always-on diagnostics. New features include: Highly Scalable Architecture -- Enables a single point of management for highly complex, heterogeneous application environments through clustering of Introscope Enterprise Managers. Customer Success Management -- Assures success of customer transactions through enhanced integration with Wily Customer Experience Manager. Expanded Data Views -- Accelerates problem identification with searches based on response time, transaction volume or other performance criteria. Dynamic Instrumentation -- Allows for on-trie-fly instrumentation and parameter (1) Any value passed to a program by the user or by another program in order to customize the program for a particular purpose. A parameter may be anything; for example, a file name, a coordinate, a range of values, a money amount or a code of some kind. editing. Cross-Process Transaction Tracing -- Provides deep end-to-end visibility and rich root-cause analysis of problems with sophisticated transaction tracing across multiple JVMs. Enhanced Liability Introscope 7 also includes new tools and views that enable staff with less knowledge of application code to contribute to the management of web applications. New features enable the automatic discovery, monitoring, triage and baselining of an application environment with zero configuration. |
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