With a new appreciation for IT, the business side of the enterprise has had greater willingness to leverage the application portfolio that will enable it to accomplish business goals. Unfortunately, at the same time, applications have become much more difficult to monitor, as they are more redundant, distributed and dynamic.

As a result, a new approach to application performance monitoring (APM) is essential. In this informative resource, Gartner Research assesses the current APM market and examines the five dimensions of functionality.

Continue on to learn why it’s important to integrate all five of these functional dimensions. And as a bonus, read a brief study of 30 different vendors- including HP, IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle- and their APM strengths and weaknesses.