ProactiveNet and Coradiant Partner: 33% + 33% = 66%

ProactiveNet and Coradiant Partner to Provide Real-Time Web Application Performance Analytics

ProactiveNet and Coradiant have announced a technology partnership and the seamless integration of their two products. The strength of the ProactiveNet solution has always been its ability to correlate degradation in back end infrastructure metrics with performance data. Unfortunately, ProactiveNet has always relied upon scripted synthetic agents to generate performance information, which has several drawbacks (see "Why Is Measuring applications Performance With Scripts a Bad Thing)." The strength of the Coradiant solution is that it can gather real application performance metrics on every transaction issued by every user. Unfortunately in order to accomplish this task, you have to insert the Coradiant appliance into your network via either a network tap or a mirror port on your switch (and of course pay the extra money for the appliance).

While this is good progress for both companies, at the end of the day it still leaves them 33% short of a true APM solution. A true APM solution must incorporate true response time measurement, with back end infrastructure root cause analysis, and also provide insight into the applications layer of the system should the problem reside there. This solution might be appropriate for enterprises that run packaged applications and who therefore have no access to the underlying source code, but it is still 33% short of the mark for any enterprise that has custom developed applications as a part of the mix.

Bernd Harzog
CEO
APM Experts
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