Compuware Vantage Analyzer for J2EE delivers comprehensive service management for complex production environments

Compuware Corporation today unveiled Compuware Vantage Analyzer for J2EE, a significant extension to the Vantage service management solution that helps IT operations staff deliver higher levels of service to their business at lower cost. Specifically, customers running enterprise Java applications can now use Compuware Vantage to more quickly identify and isolate performance and availability problems.

"J2EE applications present a number of management challenges and quite often fail to perform to expectations once deployed. IT organisations need to identify and deploy robust solutions that enable them to derive value from their J2EE application investments," said Glenn O`Donnell, Program Director, Meta Group. "Expanding management tools across the entire application lifecycle enables organisations to more comprehensively address application and service quality and enables more agile response to changing business conditions. This fosters discipline in the organisation that drives down costs and improves service satisfaction throughout the entire IT service lifecycle."

The new capabilities extend Compuware`s application service management J2EE support and specifically enhance Vantage`s support for enterprise Java applications with end-to-end analysis capabilities, allowing enterprises to deliver excellent transaction-centric service. Together with Compuware STROBE`s Websphere Application Server and Java support for analysing applications running on z/OS, this announcement demonstrates Compuware`s ongoing commitment to helping customers solve performance problems throughout the enterprise.

"We have relied for years on Compuware Vantage to help us deliver excellent service with our mission-critical `Member`s Choice` application," said Matt Evanson, Enterprise Monitoring Solutions, Farm Bureau Financial Services. "The new Vantage Analyzer extends this proven capability by providing definitive insight into the performance of our entire J2EE application -- all the way back to the mainframe servers."

Compuware Vantage Analyzer for J2EE offers customers the following benefits:

Rapid performance problem resolution: Vantage Analyzer for J2EE provides the only end-to-end, detailed analysis that integrates measures of performance, CPU, network, SQL and memory, allowing the product to detect more problems than any other J2EE management solution. By getting the right diagnostic information to the experts in the IT organisation, Vantage helps to significantly reduce resolution times.

Detailed diagnostics with minimal set up and no impact on production Applications: Because it was built specifically for production environments, Vantage Analyzer for J2EE is easily installed, requires very little J2EE development expertise and is pre-configured to collect all necessary performance data with the lowest overhead of any J2EE performance management solution.

Prioritise problems based on business impact: Vantage Analyzer for J2EE features a high-level view that aggregates performance, throughput and CPU information for all the activity in a J2EE environment, allowing operations staff to immediately focus on the most serious problems.

"Unlike other J2EE monitoring tools that require a high level of enterprise Java development expertise and extensive configuration, Vantage Analyzer for J2EE rapidly enables customers to continuously collect information on the performance characteristics of an entire J2EE environment," said Lloyd Bloom, Vantage Product Manager, Compuware.

"Because Vantage is optimised out-of-the-box to collect the right level of information, staff with limited J2EE expertise or knowledge of an application`s code can easily get to the root of tough performance problems and ensure complex enterprise applications are delivering against the requirements of the business."

Compuware provides a full portfolio of products and services to reduce the complexity involved in developing, deploying and managing enterprise applications that deliver maximum business value. Today, Compuware announced it is enhancing its solutions for enterprise Java applications with the release of new versions of Compuware OptimalJ, Compuware DevPartner Java Edition and CompuwareVantage Analyzer for J2EE, a new addition to the company`s application service management solution.