Today's interconnected systems such as fully integrated packaged applications, ESB-based enterprise platforms, and SOA make ensuring high performance from application components and solutions increasingly difficult. Organizations must support these technologies that are built and managed by distributed teams, both across organizational and geographic boundaries. This often limits an organizations ability to monitor systems to validate adherence to performance goals and Service Level Agreements.

This white paper discusses how to effectively measure and tune performance levels in an application through a virtual services environment. Explore the steps necessary to optimize your performance and load testing processes. Discover how to manage service levels at the component level, allowing development teams to ensure high performance at a system-wide level for the end user. Learn how a virtual service environment enables teams to model incomplete components, or capture live services, and simulate their behavior on a running server.