Forrester recognizes Compuware for APM tools

BANGALORE, INDIA: Compuware Corporation, a technology performance company, on Thursday announced that it has received top scores from Forrester Research for its Application Performance Management (APM) offering.

The research firm in its December 2011 report — Market Overview: Application Performance Management, Q4 2011 — said it has evaluated 26 vendors on APM functionality based on its APM Reference Model and Compuware received the highest score possible in eight out of 10 categories and the second-highest score in the other two categories.

Vendors were evaluated in such as end user experience monitoring using a passive appliance, response time monitoring using a scripted robot or active agent, transaction tracing and mapping and application monitoring etc.

“Compuware offers a full complement of end-user monitoring solutions, from subscription services to a multiprotocol passive appliance, and the ability to monitor phones and tablet devices in real time,” Forrester vice president and principal analyst JP Garbani said in the report.

“To this impressive list, Compuware has now added dynaTrace, which brings always on, end-to-end transaction tracing and monitoring to complement the Compuware Gomez platform, which includes Gomez SaaS products and on-premises products,” he added.