Apdex Alliance Holds its Second Annual Apdex Symposium at CMG'07
Full Day Conference within a Conference Focuses on Using Apdex Methodology to Measure and Assess How Effectively IT Supports Business Objectives
TURNERSVILLE, NJ, November 19, 2007 - The Computer Measurement Group (CMG), the Information Technology professionals responsible for planning, measuring and managing the world’s largest IT infrastructures, announces that the Apdex Alliance will hold its second annual Apdex Symposium at the CMG’07 on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 in San Diego, CA at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
The Apdex Alliance is the standards organization for the Application Performance Index (Apdex), a numerical measure of user satisfaction with enterprise application performance that shows how effectively IT supports business objectives. The full day ‘conference within a conference’ has five sessions featuring six speakers who will focus on technologies and processes that make Apdex work.
"We are so excited to be part of CMG’07. It is a perfect venue for us to demonstrate how Apdex can be a critical element of Application Performance Management and how it fits within the ITIL framework," said Peter Sevcik, Founder and Executive Director of the Apdex Alliance.
"CMG has a long history of leveraging service level objectives to ensure end-user satisfaction. This is achieved through application monitoring and measurement. Apdex provides a methodology to achieve this," said Michael Salsburg, Board member of CMG.
Attendees will learn to use Apdex methodology to measure and assess performance in a business context. Case studies will feature speakers with hands-on experience who will describe goals, deployment, and benefits of their Apdex implementations. APM best practices examples will be presented along with explanations for how to use Apdex to enhance APM Attendees will also see results of a benchmarking survey of how well more than 300 companies are delivering APM.
The Symposium will cover additional aspects of the Apdex methodology such as alternative approaches to defining and validating the Apdex parameters.
The complete Apdex Symposium program is available at http://www.apdex.org/ApdexSymposium2007Program.htm.
About Apdex
The Application Performance Index (Apdex) is a numerical measure of user satisfaction with enterprise application performance that shows how effectively IT investments support business objectives. It provides the simplest language by which businesses and IT can discuss requirements, set expectations, and define operating agreements. Apdex is an open standard that is managed by the Apdex Alliance a non-profit industry alliance (see www.apdex.org). The Alliance has more than 700 members worldwide who are practitioners in the art and science of APM. It is supported by the following Contributing Members: Akamai Technologies, Gomez, Juniper Networks, Keynote Systems, NetForecast, Packeteer, and WildPackets. Each of these firms is a leader in high quality application delivery and assurance.
The Computer Measurement Group (www.cmg.org) is a not for profit, worldwide organization of data processing professionals committed to the measurement and management of computer systems.
For information about and to register to attend CMG’07, go to
http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire10-Register
For more information on the conference, see the conference Web page at
http://www.cmg.org/PRNewswire10-Conference.
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