In today's application economy, it's critical to ensure key applications — large and small — are optimized for performance, which directly translates to an enhanced customer experience and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. However, most organizations find that they have the bandwidth and budget to monitor and optimize only a small percentage (often just 5%) of their application portfolio.

This brief examines the business challenges of application performance monitoring and discusses how emerging tools can tip the scales in favor of application owners and centralized IT groups. By utilizing streaming data to dramatically simplify monitoring instrumentation and viewing it in the context of all other data collected from the infrastructure, these new tools cut through the data deluge to deliver actionable, prioritized insights that dramatically accelerate problem resolution and lead to unprecedented efficiency.