Predictive Analytics for IT: Ensuring Future Performance
Traditional performance management tools detect, diagnose and help resolve application performance problems quickly when they threaten to harm the business. However, these applications are designed to address only near-term concerns - not to forecast performance into the future. More often than not, performance problems are being patched, not fixed, while troubleshooting continues on a daily basis. This is because only a "past-and-present" focus is available with no forward-looking predictive capability.
These tools typically provide little or no assistance for forecasting the impact of growth plans, hardware upgrades and consolidations, or merger and acquisition activity on service delivery and performance. A firm understanding of what will happen in the future is required to optimize the use of existing infrastructure and support new and upcoming performance requirements throughout the organization.
Predictive analytic solutions add significant value to more traditional application performance management tools. While today's focus is on "plugging the leaks," predictive analytics allow you to "steer the ship." IT management and staff can readily understand how applications and infrastructure will respond to the inherent changes brought about by:
- Additional users
- Increased transaction volumes
- Application and database design changes
- Hardware changes
- Ever-increasing system complexity
The BEZ predictive analytics for IT solutions also allow you to use the performance data captured from other sources to directly feed predictive forecasts of evolving requirements.