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The Rise of Centralized Application Performance Management: Four Case Studies

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Learn how leading companies in ecommerce, transportation/logistics, financial services, and hotels/casinos/resorts have each successfully implemented a 360˚ APM solution to address very different APM challenges. Each of these Fortune 500 companies ranks among the top 4 in their industry.

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Speaker

Tom Lubinski

Founder, CEO and President

SL Corporation

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Agenda

1. Quick Overview of SL Corporation’s RTView

2. Online Retail Case Study – Complex Distributed Applications

3. Transportation Case Study – Hundreds of Branch Offices

4. Financial Services Case Study – Hundreds of Custom Applications

5. Casino Case Study – Applications Based Around Middleware

6. RTView Enables Centralized APM

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RTView™

• Used in APM, BAM, and Infrastructure Monitoring solutions since its introduction in 2002

• 100% average growth each year since

• Over 250 customers to-date

• Recent Awards– 2007 and 2008 InfoWorld100 – Start-IT Top 50 Technologies for 2008

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250+RTView

Customers

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CustomersCustomers

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8Real-Time Visibility

Case Study #1:

Business Drivers:Ensure Black Friday scalabilityQuick access to massive amounts of global metrics2-month development/deployment window

Goals Achieved:Flawless holiday season Global visibility across hundreds of serversExceeded sales plan across all geographies in down economy

One of the World’s Most Popular Online Retail Stores – Complex, Distributed Applications

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Case Study #1: Online Retail Store - Before

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Credit Check Product Catalog BillingOrder Portal Shopping Cart Inventory

Americas Only

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Case Study #1: Online Retail Store - After

RTView Centralized Monitoring and TroubleshootingDBReal-Time

Cache

ThresholdsDB Data Server

Proxy for dataMinimum installComm via Web server (Port 80)

Alert EngineThresholdsSend emailSNMP trap

Credit Check Product Catalog

BillingOrder Portal Shopping

CartInventory

Help Desk/Trouble Ticket System

Analytics

Americas

Credit Check

Product Catalog

BillingOrder Portal

Shopping Cart

Inventory

Asia-Pacific

Credit Check

Product Catalog

BillingOrder Portal

Shopping Cart

Inventory

EMEA

Aggregation & Navigation

Through TiersGroup by Region

Drill DownHierarchical

JapanCentral

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11Real-Time Visibility

Case Study #1: Online Retail Store

Centralized worldwide view of application status

Aggregation of data and navigation through tiers to determine the root cause of issues affecting performance

Preventative care – APM platform sends real-time alerts to trouble ticket system before there’s a problem

SL’s 360° APM Platform, RTView, enabled:

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12Real-Time Visibility

Case Study #2:

Leading Fortune 500 Transportation Company – Hundreds of Branch Offices

Business Drivers:Competitive advantage through more timely shipment status informationValidate SLA adherenceNeed to track data flow milestones

Goals Achieved:Flexible APM platform monitors every aspect of applications; supports SOAPreventative careFewer customer calls re: shipment statusImproved branch operations

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Case Study #2: Transportation Company - Before

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Case Study #2: Transportation Company - After

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Headquarters

RTView APM Platform

Monitoring & Management

Real-TimeCache

HistoricalDB

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Request DetailOn-Demand

Apps running and managed locally

Branch views status of shipments

Apps perform services at Branch

Custom, 3rd-party, common & legacy apps

Mini RTViewAPM Platform

Mini RTViewAPM Platform

Mini RTViewAPM Platform

Mini RTViewAPM Platform

Mini RTViewAPM Platform

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Case Study #2: Transportation Company

Data collection and aggregation at the Branches

On-demand drill-down to Branch detail by Headquarters

Mini APM platforms at each Branch give access to local metrics

360° APM Platform, RTView, enabled:

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16Real-Time Visibility

Case Study #3

Business Drivers:Applications critical to business opsCostly downtimeToo many monitoring tools – no visibilitySeveral prior single-pane-of-glass APM initiatives failed

Goals Achieved:Monitoring of entire vertical application stack including batch processesDramatic reduction in Sev1 incidents, especially relating to weekend updatesLeveraged and extended existing monitoring infrastructure

A Top-Ranking U.S. Financial Institution –100+ Custom Applications

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17Real-Time Visibility

Case Study #3: Financial Services Institution - Before

Credit FX Fixed Income

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Case Study #3: Financial Services Institution - After

Credit FX Fixed Income

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RTView Single-Pane-of-Glass APM PlatformExtends Existing Monitoring Infrastructure

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Case Study #3: Financial Services Institution

Single-pane-of-glass views that eliminate monitoring silos

Access in real-time to wealth of information by all relevant users

Custom, role-based views

Extension of existing monitoring infrastructure

SL’s 360° APM Platform, RTView, enabled:

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Case Study #4

Market-Leading Casino Entertainment Company –Applications Based Around Middleware

Business Drivers:Rewards program increasingly business-critical; 60% of revenue from “regulars”No visibility into messaging middleware or end-to-end transaction flowToo many manual steps in “personal touch”processes

Goals Achieved:Service-level visibility through middlewareViews into end-to-end transaction flowsAutomated Player Rating processPreventative care of applications

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Case Study #4: Casino Entertainment Company - Before

MessageExecution

MiddlewareServer/Broker Middleware

Server/Broker

MiddlewareServer/Broker

MessageExecution

MessageExecution

Angry Customer Calls

Infrastructure Alerts

Help Desk Application Support

TroubleshootingTools

No direct visibility into messaging middlware

Geographically Disparate Servers

Geographically Disparate Servers

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Case Study #4: Casino Entertainment Company - After

RTView Centralized Monitoring & Management

Middleware metrics relating to app performanceEnd-to-end transaction monitoringMetrics from instrumented apps via JMX/SQL

MiddlewareServer/Broker

MiddlewareServer/Broker

MiddlewareServer/Broker

MessageExecution

MessageExecution

MessageExecution

Geographically Disparate Servers

Geographically Disparate Servers

Trouble Ticket SystemApplication Support

Drill down to root cause via

middleware

Early Warning

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Case Study #4: Casino Entertainment Company

SL’s 360° APM Platform, RTView, enabled:

Visibility into middleware metrics relating to machine, component, and application performance

Visibility into end-to-end transaction flows via message execution metrics

Preventative care of rewards service infrastructure

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RTView Enables Centralized APM

Service-level views

Drill down to component-level detail

Application health

Transaction monitoring

Baseline comparison

Heat maps

Real-time alerts

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Service-Level Views

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Service-Level Views

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Service-Level Views

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Drill Down to Component-Level Detail

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Drill Down to Component-Level Detail

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Drill Down to Component-Level Detail

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Application Health

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Application Health

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Application Health

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Transaction Monitoring

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Transaction Monitoring

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Baseline Comparison

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Baseline Comparison

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Baseline Comparison

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Heat Maps

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Heat Maps

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Real-Time Alerts

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Real-Time Alerts

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In summary, RTView enabled…

Aggregation of data and navigation through tiers

Centralized and local monitoring solutions

Access to all data including existing monitoring metrics

Inclusion of infrastructure and software component metrics with end-to-end transaction information

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For more information on this topic, or to request a demonstration or evaluation of SL’s RTView for

APM platform, please visit:

http://www.sl.com/

or call (415) 927-8400