White Paper: Why You Need An APM Platform To Unify The Entire Application Performance Lifecycle

With the formation of DevOps, it's more important than ever to utilize a common Application Performance Management (APM) platform throughout the lifecycle, from concept to retirement, from end-to-end to provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention. APM platforms provide the foundation for proactive problem resolution and prevention in a DevOps environment, with the promise of substantially reducing total cost of ownership of an application over its 5 to 10+ year life.

This paper discusses the selection requirements and benefits for a common APM platform to be used for proactive lifecycle based performance management across development, test and production.