Compuware launches Application Performance Resource Centre

A recently launched Web site, www.compuware-resource.com, offers IT application developers free access to a host of resources to enable them to align business and IT, and implement successful IT projects that deliver real business benefits.

Leading analyst groups Gartner and Forrester Research have identified that consistent service level delivery is becoming a prerequisite for IT departments. As such, the Web site, targeted at IT decision-makers, application developers and network managers, provides a number of useful resources including white papers, industry articles, customer testimonials, analyst reports and a survival kit to enable IT departments to deliver against this prerequisite.

It also has information on Compuware`s performance solution offerings including application service management, infrastructure optimisation and service assurance. The information, which is regularly updated, will provide answers to the following challenges:

* Aligning business and IT views of business transaction performance and availability.
* Being proactively alerted to performance problems before the end-user complains.
* Quantifying the business impact of a performance problem.
* Adequately supporting the justification (in business terms) of future IT investments.

"Technology plays a critical role in any company, and IT executives are increasingly called upon to build an IT department that fosters innovation and creates long-term business value. This resource centre aims to assist them in doing just that," concludes Richard Hepplestone, application performance management consultant at Compuware.