HomedynaTrace chosen by Gartner as Cool Vendor in IT Operations 2009
Tuesday, 24 March 2009 00:00 | 
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Lexington, Massachusetts, USA (www.dynatrace.com)
Analysis by David Williams
Why Cool: DynaTrace software is a company with U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts and was founded in 2005 in Linz, Austria. DynaTrace is a privately funded company, with approximately 100 employees across Europe and North America, and more than 100 clients. DynaTrace has built its APM reputation as a deep Java diagnostics tool for performance specialists and software architects. In February 2009, dynaTrace released dynaTrace 3, which extends its performance management through the application life cycle for Java and .NET applications. DynaTrace is in a crowded but important market where it is critical to differentiate from the competition. With IT infrastructure complexity increasing, IT organizations continue to put more focus on managing the applications.
DynaTrace 3 is one integrated system with three editions that provide APM capabilities to three IT organizational functions: application development, test and production. The development edition is sold to development teams to enable them to strategically implement APM analysis, and to aid in fine-tuning code during development. Integration with popular integrated development environments (IDEs) and build environments, such as Ant, NAnt and MSBuild, detects performance regressions early and provides continuous test metrics. The Test Center Edition integrates dynaTrace with commercial and open-source load testing solutions to reduce manual problem reproduction, and to rapidly diagnose Java/.NET issues with code-level performance diagnostics. This capability enhances test center efficiencies, for example, by enabling more applications to be tested in less time. The Production Edition provides an APM solution to monitor and report on business transaction management, global code-level transaction tracing with diagnostics, and application discovery and dependency mapping, 24/7. This product is aimed at allowing IT operations professionals to identify APM issues before they cause an outage, providing the real-time, application-centric information to accelerate diagnosis and issue remediation by troubleshooting and performance teams.
All three editions are built on a common platform and shared data system based on dynaTrace's patent-pending PurePath Technology, which enables always-on, deep-dive transactional tracing across tiers and technologies (Java or .NET) at low overhead in sensitive production systems. When these capabilities are used together, customers have an integrated system that facilitates the sharing and leveraging of APM data, dashboards and instrumentation across the full application life cycle
Although there is unique differentiation and value in each dynaTrace edition, the combination of deep code-level diagnostics coupled with how dynaTrace has integrated its APM system across the application life cycle on a common platform is what makes dynaTrace cool. Unlike traditional APM vendors that focus on monitoring production applications, dynaTrace adds rapid resolution and problem prevention to the mix, and extends these unique APM capabilities across development, through test and into production. This provides a consistent and deep set of application performance data that can be used at each step of the application life cycle, helping reduce the number of application issues that make their way into production. In addition, IT infrastructures continually change, so the APM data from deployed applications can be provided to the application development team, allowing them to fine-tune, proactively, application performance, potentially preventing outages or other scalability issues before they become bottlenecks to the business.
Challenges: Although there may be an acknowledgement of the value for a consistent integrated set of APM data to support the application life cycle, there remains, for dynaTrace, a number of organizational barriers to overcome. To sell the overall "editions" application life cycle value, dynaTrace may need to sell its products based on their individual merits for each application life cycle function (application development, test and IT operations). This would, in all likelihood, result in dynaTrace competing against a number of different products and vendors in each functional area.
Who Should Care: Application development managers, architects, quality assurance managers and IT operations performance managers who seek to reduce the time it takes to reproduce and diagnose application issues that surface under load, and who are seeking to proactively reduce the likelihood of APM issues reaching and impacting the business as the applications go into production, will find dynaTrace products of interest.
Analysis by David Williams
Why Cool: DynaTrace software is a company with U.S. headquarters in Massachusetts and was founded in 2005 in Linz, Austria. DynaTrace is a privately funded company, with approximately 100 employees across Europe and North America, and more than 100 clients. DynaTrace has built its APM reputation as a deep Java diagnostics tool for performance specialists and software architects. In February 2009, dynaTrace released dynaTrace 3, which extends its performance management through the application life cycle for Java and .NET applications. DynaTrace is in a crowded but important market where it is critical to differentiate from the competition. With IT infrastructure complexity increasing, IT organizations continue to put more focus on managing the applications.
DynaTrace 3 is one integrated system with three editions that provide APM capabilities to three IT organizational functions: application development, test and production. The development edition is sold to development teams to enable them to strategically implement APM analysis, and to aid in fine-tuning code during development. Integration with popular integrated development environments (IDEs) and build environments, such as Ant, NAnt and MSBuild, detects performance regressions early and provides continuous test metrics. The Test Center Edition integrates dynaTrace with commercial and open-source load testing solutions to reduce manual problem reproduction, and to rapidly diagnose Java/.NET issues with code-level performance diagnostics. This capability enhances test center efficiencies, for example, by enabling more applications to be tested in less time. The Production Edition provides an APM solution to monitor and report on business transaction management, global code-level transaction tracing with diagnostics, and application discovery and dependency mapping, 24/7. This product is aimed at allowing IT operations professionals to identify APM issues before they cause an outage, providing the real-time, application-centric information to accelerate diagnosis and issue remediation by troubleshooting and performance teams.
All three editions are built on a common platform and shared data system based on dynaTrace's patent-pending PurePath Technology, which enables always-on, deep-dive transactional tracing across tiers and technologies (Java or .NET) at low overhead in sensitive production systems. When these capabilities are used together, customers have an integrated system that facilitates the sharing and leveraging of APM data, dashboards and instrumentation across the full application life cycle
Although there is unique differentiation and value in each dynaTrace edition, the combination of deep code-level diagnostics coupled with how dynaTrace has integrated its APM system across the application life cycle on a common platform is what makes dynaTrace cool. Unlike traditional APM vendors that focus on monitoring production applications, dynaTrace adds rapid resolution and problem prevention to the mix, and extends these unique APM capabilities across development, through test and into production. This provides a consistent and deep set of application performance data that can be used at each step of the application life cycle, helping reduce the number of application issues that make their way into production. In addition, IT infrastructures continually change, so the APM data from deployed applications can be provided to the application development team, allowing them to fine-tune, proactively, application performance, potentially preventing outages or other scalability issues before they become bottlenecks to the business.
Challenges: Although there may be an acknowledgement of the value for a consistent integrated set of APM data to support the application life cycle, there remains, for dynaTrace, a number of organizational barriers to overcome. To sell the overall "editions" application life cycle value, dynaTrace may need to sell its products based on their individual merits for each application life cycle function (application development, test and IT operations). This would, in all likelihood, result in dynaTrace competing against a number of different products and vendors in each functional area.
Who Should Care: Application development managers, architects, quality assurance managers and IT operations performance managers who seek to reduce the time it takes to reproduce and diagnose application issues that surface under load, and who are seeking to proactively reduce the likelihood of APM issues reaching and impacting the business as the applications go into production, will find dynaTrace products of interest.
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