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Please find below a summary of the benefits you can expect from using dynaTrace Diagnostics or Borland SilkPerformer as stand alone products or a fully integrated solution.

dynaTrace Diagnostics

• It’s the only solution available that can track the execution of a real business transaction across multiple servers and technologies – as it’s able to ‘cross boundaries’ and record the impact that each software component has on performance

• So if you are keen to optimise the performance and scalability of an application that uses a mix of web, JAVA, .NET and database technologies – we can show you how to have complete visibility of what’s really going on when a transaction executes – just imagine the time and effort this can save!

• Its all about visibility and the ability to very quickly isolate the root-cause of a potential or actual performance problem in the shortest possible time

• The tool has been designed to drill-down from a performance problem to the underlying line of code that caused it

• So whether you are a software designer, developer, tester or supporting a live application in production you can get to the fix you need in record time as well as share the problem with colleagues via the tool itself – simply email them a dynaTrace Diagnostics link and they will see exactly what you are talking about

• All this adds up to really impressive reductions in the time it takes to diagnose and fix performance problems, saving your business money at every stage of the application life-cycle and ensuring you can get new functionality into production faster and more reliably than ever!   

3.     How can dynaTrace Diagnostics help me as a software designer?

•  It’s a great way to validate that your application code is doing what you think it should be doing – in other words an ideal way to show that best practice has been employed

• Do you outsource any of your development? Are you worried about having to produce accurate documentation? If so this solution provides you with a great way to understand what you are getting and how it works – opening what otherwise may seem like a ‘black-box’

4.     How can dynaTrace Diagnostics help me as a software developer? 

• From the earliest stages of development you can be regularly tracking how your code is running and highlighting continuously where the bottlenecks are – this means that you can design in performance from day 1 when it is least expensive to do so 

5.     How can dynaTrace Diagnostics help me in QA and load testing?

• Having the ability to track both code exceptions and performance bottlenecks for any load-test is a great way to reduce the time it takes to get new functionality into production – the savings associated with getting QA and load-testing finished more quickly can be huge 

6.     How can dynaTrace Diagnostics help me as a software application support?

• Imagine being able to more quickly understand the root-cause of an application performance problem – experience shows that dynaTrace can reduce the time taken to isolate and resolve issues by 80% 

7.     How can dynaTrace Diagnostics help me when my applications are in production? 

• If a performance issue starts to affect end-users dynaTrace will raise an alert and capture very detailed diagnostic information – this information can then be passed to your application support or development teams to quickly show them the line of application code that was responsible for creating the problem in the first place 

8.     Can dynaTrace Diagnostics work with load-testing tools other than SilkPerformer?

• Yes, we are able to integrate with almost any other load-testing tool and have out-of-the-box integration with well known tools such as LoadRunner

• However, dynaTrace Diagnostics and Borland SilkPerformer have both been developed by the same team and so the integration is naturally much stronger and offers considerable benefits – please see below for more details 

Borland SilkPerformer

1.     Why Stress test at all?

• It’s the old adage  of identifying problems earlier in the lifecycle being cheaper to fix

• It is crucial  to ensure the availability of deployed applications – and all too often the major problem is scalability

• Manual testing never replicates the whole variety of conditions experienced by an application in production

 2.     Why use Borland SilkPerformer in preference to other tools?

• One of the key benefits is ease of use – this enables our clients to get going with highly reliable performance tests in record time

• Excellent commercials – SilkPerformer is both very affordable and includes more functionality as standard than its competitors

• Cost effective to run – importantly SilkPerformer requires less testing hardware in order to achieve a given number of virtual test users

• Openness – SilkPerformer is designed to integrate with other products that may already be in use by prospective customers – it is designed to become an integral part of the ALM or Application Lifecycle Management process

3.     Why integrate with dynaTrace Diagnostics in particular?

• This very tight integration allows you to correlate end-user experience metrics and application server performance data automatically for Java and .NET – allowing you to quickly isolate the underlying root-cause of a performance problem

• You can quickly understand how different versions of an application run particular transactions – in other words quickly compare Load Test A and Load Test B – dynaTrace includes a great “diffing” feature that highlights graphically exactly what has changed between versions of your code, saving a lot of time and effort

Why use both dynaTrace Diagnostics and Borland SilkPerfomer?

1.     What are the extra benefits of integrating dynaTrace Diagnostics and Borland SilkPerformer?

• Lets start with the fact that both products have been developed by the same team – so naturally every opportunity to fully integrate them has been taken

• The key benefit is that you can purchase a seamless solution for load-testing and the deepest level of performance diagnostics

  • you can now run a load-test in SilkPerformer

  • ramp up the number of virtual users until a problem is discovered

  • then select and highlight the problem in SilkPerformer

  • double-click within SilkPerformer to fire up dynaTrace

  • dynaTrace then opens “in context” so that you can then see exactly what was going on within the application server when the problem occurs

  • you can then drill-down again to find the exact line of code that caused the issue 

• So, if you need to reduce the time it takes to complete your load-tests by getting more benefit from each one – the combination of dynaTrace Diagnostics and SilkPerformer is second to none!

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