Application-performance tools for SOA

Opinion
Apr 30, 20071 min

* Factors that contribute to the complexity of managing SOA applications

Application-performance tools for SOA

By Mark Lohmeyer

Organizations are adopting service-oriented architecture to ease the integration of applications, map business processes to software IT structures and establish interoperability among diverse systems.

Yet for all its promise, SOA also can complicate the IT environment and disrupt operations it is intended to improve.

Tools for application performance management (APM) can help IT departments master the complexity of SOA environments. Through active performance monitoring and expert tuning capabilities, APM can help them anticipate, identify and resolve problems quickly and efficiently.

Please click here to see what factors contribute to the complexity of managing SOA applications.

Mark Lohmeyer is vice president, product management, at Symantec and is responsible for defining the product strategy for the Server Foundation and Application Performance Management product groups. You can reach him at mark_lohmeyer@symantec.com.