What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning? According to a recent study, 84% of smartphone owners check their phones as soon as the alarm clock rings. As society becomes increasingly hooked on being connected anytime and anywhere, the notion of ‘work’ as a place to go from 9 to 5 is changing. For many people, the work environment is now fluid— constrained only by the number of reception bars on their wireless devices. In fact, Gartner predicts that the bring your own device (BYOD) trend will result in a 200 – 300% increase in mobile workers in 2014.

The realities of the modern IT landscape are daunting. Your business-critical applications are multi-platform, multi-tier, and span physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. To reach your end user, application transactions traverse complex networks and infrastructure that are handling ever-increasing loads. In light of this, never has it been more challenging to monitor the performance and availability of the business services that your employees and customers count on.

Read this whitepaper to see how Riverbed delivers application service levels you can count on.

As organizations rely on IT to support critical business processes to an ever-greater degree, the importance of application performance management (APM) is growing. Gone are the days when systems monitoring and management could focus on components in isolation; instead, organizations must ensure that applications are operating at top efficiency from end to end to support critical business processes. This requires a holistic focus on the end user’s application experience.

With SteelCentral AppInternals and SteelCentral AppResponse, Riverbed Technology provides products designed to help IT monitor, detect, and diagnose application performance problems, no matter where end users are located or how they access the IT infrastructure. To better understand the business value of Riverbed APM solutions, IDC recently conducted a study of Riverbed customers, examining how they deployed and are using APM tools and the benefits delivered to their IT staff and the broader business.

Download this Infographic of IDC’s analysis showing how customers are achieving a significant payback in months and the average ROI. These benefits result from improving business and IT productivity, reducing infrastructure costs, and managing risks better.

Ensuring application performance and quality is a shared responsibility across all groups within IT. Poor quality impacts IT and business performance, and increases incurred costs of maintenance. See how you can:

* Establish collaborative processes to identify and resolve bugs and performance problems early in the application lifecycle
* Expedite release cycles and ensure optimal end user experience

Insurance organizations are constantly replacing legacy systems and practices with streamlined ones that help them compete better. In the area of billing, policy and claims management, Guidewire is broadly adopted. However:

* Rollouts are complex and delicate and require a thorough analysis of identifying impacted systems and stakeholders
* Implementations require understanding improvements that can be made to existing systems that Guidewire will need to integrate with
* Complete end-to-end performance visibility of Guidewire deployment is necessary for IT to ensure 24/7 performance and availability

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In today's business world, user expectations for application performance are incredibly high. This comes at a time, when, from a developer's standpoint, challenges are constantly growing.

In particular, developing business applications today is more complex than when a single application ran on dedicated hardware with its traffic running over a corporate backbone network. Now, applications typically are comprised of multiple components, each running on different systems (virtualized, distributed, hybrid, and cloud) all interconnected using a variety of company-owned, public Internet-based, or even cellular networks.

To build such modern applications, developers could use some help. That is where application performance management (APM) solutions come in. Read this whitepaper to learn 10 ways developers can use APM to improve the quality and performance of their software.