Updated software monitors and manages Microsoft applications such as SharePoint Server, Dynamics CRM as well as infrastructure elements including BizTalk Server and SQL Server.
Management software maker dynaTrace introduces the third-generation of its application performance management software that will help Microsoft application users better manage SharePoint, SQL Server while integrating with products such as Systems Center Operations Manager.
Companies relying on Microsoft applications such as SharePoint might want to take a look at updated software from application performance management (APM) vendor dynaTrace, which recently enhanced its product set to provide complete coverage for the Microsoft stack.
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The company recently made available the third-generation of its continuous APM system that now applies its dynaTrace’s PurePath transaction tracing technology further into Microsoft-centric environments. Now with new and updated support for Microsoft applications such as SharePoint server and Dynamics CRM and infrastructure components liked BizTalk Server and SQL Server, dynaTrace 3.2 is able to track and monitor transactions throughout an application’s path across an environment. This capability helps application developers find potential problems before releasing an application to production environments, but also enables IT managers to catch performance issues sooner, according to dynaTrace’s Eric Senunas, senior director of marketing and communications.
“Before this tool, customers couldn’t see into the granular data to really understand performance,” Senunas says. “Now we are supporting .Net out of the box and providing enterprise-caliber application performance management capabilities for the full Microsoft stack, from the browser to the application and into the environment.”
DynaTrace 3.2 software now features sensors and dashboards that provide information captured by the dynaTrace system in an easy-to-understand format for various members of the IT department. The software relies upon agents installed on Java, .Net and SharePoint servers, for instance, that communicate with a central server. The product architecture enables dynaTrace 3.2 to follow transactions in and out of virtual environments, capturing the entire path for troubleshooting and performance analysis. The software, typically sold to development teams, can be applied to production environments, Senunas says, providing in some customer cases an 80% to 90% improvement in mean time to repair.
“The PurePath technology provides full transaction path and context data, which points out the problem and what was happening at the time of the problem,” he says.
Available now, dynaTrace 3.2 can be priced starting at $10,000 on the low end. The company also offers a free for download version of its product, dynaTrace Ajax Edition. The free version lets companies see application performance from the browser and offers customers a peek at what the full product can do, according to dynaTrace.
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