“Using [Precise] i3 in the test and user acceptance phase of a new application, we can base line performance before we release it, and pick up any problems. This ensures Casema adheres strictly to the service levels we have agreed to with our business units.”

Aad van Boven Senior Manager IT Operations, Casema

A new Precise. A new approach. A new release.

The Rise of the Machines

Automation is all around us: kiosks at the airport, payments on mobile devices, and shopping via the internet. This translates to more machines, more transactions, and fewer human agents. In this new world, machine performance equals business performance.

More transactions, crossing more application tiers, creates more complexity. Making it work is not for the faint of heart. We live in a brave new interconnected world, where the age-old Application Performance Management (APM) problem is still unsolved.

Introducing Precise 8.5

Precise 8.5 marks a turning point in the ongoing effort to manage these machines. It extends the reach of Transaction Performance Management (TPM) to more of the machines and systems in your complex datacenter. It also helps automate infrastructure management, allowing fewer human agents to support more of the transactions that are critical to your business.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership

The explosion in datacenter and application complexity has left IT with hundreds of servers and applications to manage. The size and scope of these environments requires a new level of sophistication and automation to enable IT teams to work smarter, not harder.

Consolidated Performance Management

Custom applications. Packaged applications. Databases. Storage. The number of interdependent solutions floating around your enterprise typically means IT must own tools to manage the performance of each one. This “one-app, one-tool” mentality increases application support costs, and undermines IT’s ability to work together when solving performance problems. Precise 8.5 consolidates performance management into a single, integrated solution. This eliminates complexity, reduces maintenance contracts and eases inter-team communication, allowing IT to provide a higher level of service.

Infrastructure Management: Centralized, Scalable & Secure

Who’s managing your management solution? With Precise 8.5, we’ve increased scalability and security, and reduced the amount of effort required to manage the Precise infrastructure. A centralized dashboard allows you to initiate and track Precise deployments. Custom tagging and reporting allows you to group infrastructure components according to your needs. Want to see all the Precise components located in the New York datacenter? How about all the nodes owned by the Finance department? No problem. Coupled with our new federated configuration model, it’s easy to target the right configurations at the right environments. Precise 8.5 reduces the management burden on your already busy IT staff.

More Transaction Performance

Transactions have become more important, and more complex. To keep up with the accelerating pace of business, more transactions must pass through the same infrastructure. Instead of “throwing hardware” at the problem, Precise 8.5 helps you optimize transaction performance on the infrastructure you already own.

Managing Composite Applications

Composite applications are here. Loosely-coupled and ever-changing, these applications wreak havoc on traditional APM toolsets. Our unique transaction perspective allows Precise 8.5 to manage complex application requests, even those incorporating Web Services, Remote Method Invocation (RMI), and .NET Remoting.

No Blind Spots

Heterogeneous environments aren’t always planned, but they should always be managed. Precise 8.5 includes enhanced support for IBM DB2 and Sybase Replication Server, which means fewer transaction blind spots for your IT team. And, Precise 8.5 also boasts the only solution available to track these transactions deep into the storage tier, mapping requests back to the logical and physical storage devices that support them.

Learn More

For more details on what’s new in Precise 8.5, please see the release notes included with the product download.

For more information on all of Precise’s Transaction Performance Management solutions, visit us at www.precise.com.

How do I get Precise 8.5?

All customers on active maintenance are automatically entitled to access Precise 8.5. Please visit my.precise.com, our customer support portal, or call Precise Support to obtain download links.

Symantec APM Customers

Precise provides migration and support programs for current Symantec APM customers.

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