We have been working with the Precise products for many years. In fact, the 3 founders of AP were also founders of Precise UK, the company which launched the Precise products into the UK in 1997. Back then the reason for getting involved with the product was the unique way it could monitor applications running on Oracle without placing any overhead on the database.

At that time Application Performance Management (APM) was a relatively new concept. Most companies were only concerned with monitoring the availability of their machines or collecting networks and systems statistics but had no knowledge of how the application was performing or how end-users where being affected.

It was Precise which defined the requirements for an effective APM solution.

• Low overhead, production-safe
• Consistent, easy to understand, time-based view of resource usage
• Focus on real end-user response time
• Current and historical data
• End-to-end solution with visibility into all application tiers
• Correlation across the multiple tiers of an application
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Today, the Precise suite is still leading the rest of the market. The range of supported technologies has grown to include databases, application servers, web servers, ERP applications and storage from all the leading vendors. Similar to the original Oracle product the other Precise products employ innovative ways of monitoring the performance of the application without imposing any overhead.

If you are looking a comprehensive APM solution that provides continuous low overhead monitoring and correlation across the multiple tiers of an application with alerting, reporting and Indepth drill-down to identify the route cause of performance bottlenecks then we recommend Precise.