How Does APM Help?
APM solutions allow organizations to identify, prioritize and act on initiatives that realign the application portfolio with business goals. They do so by trending technical and business metrics regarding enterprise applications’ value, cost and risk. This information is then presented back to the right level within your organization to facilitate decision-making and implementation. Your preferred APM solution should automate the collection of technical metrics regarding the health and maintainability of enterprise applications. To ensure that information is always current, the APM solution should include a facility to refresh these metrics on a rapid, ongoing basis. It should also be able to assess a diverse range of application environments. After all, the typical application portfolio contains everything from Cobol and Assembler to Visual Basic and Java. This data can be supplemented by business-level metrics regarding the value of these applications for the enterprise. By surveying
