As applications have become a more crucial and integral part of everyday business, it has also become more important for these applications to perform at the utmost optimization and economic value.

Applications are also becoming more and more complex and complicated to maintain. IT organizations are being asked to manage these applications, implement solutions, and in some cases develop and customize them. With the mounting pressure and expectations being placed on IT departments to deliver these applications they are often facing shrinking budgets, cuts in human and physical resources.

So how does a Company accomplish this daunting task with increased limitations? The season’s new buzzwords appear. Proactive monitoring, SLA's, baselines, trend analysis, more with less. In the IT world, Application Performance Management is the new black.

The discussion will focus on Application Performance Management, and specifically how an application’s performance can affect the business. The speaker will share some ideas on how organizations across Canada are focusing their efforts on driving costs out of their business, improving customer satisfaction and even increasing revenues by effectively tuning applications to be sure they are delivering value to the business.