On February 2, Compuware released its annual Best of the Web 2011 report recognizing the year’s website and mobile site performance leaders across a variety of industries. What made these companies winners, and how are they able to deliver fast, reliable mobile site experiences that set them apart from their competition?

Within banking and retail environments, APM is changing. This is because more and more service and payment transactions are originating from alternative payment applications based in Cloud, mobile or virtual environments. Monitoring the performance of these new services and payment applications is just as critical as traditional services that have been integrated within POS terminals, or ATMs. But gaining real-time visibility into the performance of these off-premise applications can be tricky for a number of reasons ....

There’s been lots of talk about Business Intelligence (BI) and the use of predictive analytics in analyzing Big Data for the purpose of identifying long-term business trends. But what hasn’t been talked about is the emergence of predictive analytics for IT as it relates to solving critical application performance problems created by virtualization and the proliferation of IT and application monitoring tools ...

Today's IT infrastructure, systems and applications — as well as the business operations they support — are more complex than ever. Subsequently, this means that the amount of configuration information in IT environments is staggering. Ensuring high performance for IT environment requires staying on top of an ever growing collection of configuration information and environment content ...