Performance Consulting Services
— Peter Drucker
We can deliver our services anywhere in the U.S., Europe, and Asia Pacific. We specialize in working with you to set up communication channels and processes that run at your site. That way your most urgent work can be carried out remotely, rapidly, and at a lower cost to you. We routinely adjust our services so that they leverage the performance resources you already have in place.
- Free Introductory Mini Performance Evaluation
- Sizing / Consolidation Planning / Transition to New Platforms
- Post-Upgrade Evaluations
- Headroom Assessment
- Application Optimization, Application Instrumentation, & Application Performance Requirement Setting
- Data Collector Design of Readily Reusable Data
- Multi-Source Performance Data Integration & Correlation
- Performance Visualization & Expert Trend Analysis
- Additional Services Offered
Free Introductory Mini
Performance Evaluation — To introduce you to our
capabilities at Trendsthatmatter.com, we encourage you to learn more
about our free mini-evaluation based on the
Performance Audit Litany and on the T4 & Friends methodology.
Sizing / Consolidation
Planning / Transition to New Platforms — At any of
these important transition points, Trendsthatmatter.com can develop
specific recommendations for sizing the system that will meet your
needs. Or we can serve as a second opinion and a check and balance
for the projected performance of any proposed replacement systems
that you are evaluating.
Post-Upgrade Evaluations
— Our proven
"Before-and-After" methods make it possible to deliver
near-real-time evaluations and detailed comparisons any time
a change happens on your system whether it be upgrading hardware,
moving to a new version of software, adding new users or new
applications, or experiencing externally caused changes in load.
These evaluations can be planned in advance when preparing for major
hardware upgrades or other significant changes. They can also be ad
hoc, after-the-fact reviews when experiencing some unplanned change
— as long as a suitable performance history has been put into
place beforehand.
Headroom Assessment
— We can evaluate your performance history, assess
available headroom and make sure that the old saying “The
trend is your friend” applies to your most important systems.
We have extensive experience in providing these assessments for the
toughest cases with systems experiencing explosive growth.
Application Optimization,
Application Instrumentation, & Application Performance
Requirement Setting — It’s quite common to find
that the most serious performance problems and the most amazing
opportunities for performance improvement are located at the
software application level. Working with your application
programmers and designers, Trendsthatmatter.com can help you uncover
the application bottleneck and recommend solutions, which in many
cases offer order of magnitude improvements in delivered
performance. We can also help you deal with performance issues
arising from third party application providers.
Data Collector Design of
Readily Reusable Data — Most data collectors save their
data in a unique proprietary format. This means that only the
analysis and reporting capabilities that were originally conceived
when the collector was designed are available for your use. We can
show you how to speedily remedy this situation and make those vital
statistics readily available for other uses, specifically including
1) how to make it possible to use TLViz and CSVPNG and other
“friends” of T4 to extend your analysis and reporting
capabilities, and 2) how to integrate data from these proprietary
collectors with other T4 data.
Multi-Source Performance Data
Integration & Correlation — We will show you how
best to integrate your separate data sources into a usable whole
that then permits effective and powerful cross-correlations between
the independent collection agents. We call this ready re-usability
and it is a key building block of our approach to performance. The
integration we are talking about here includes the case where vital
business data such as throughput and response time and system data
can be combined together and examined for correlation.
Performance Visualization
& Expert Trend Analysis — We can train you how to
achieve the greatest productivity, time-saving, and depth of
analysis when examining multi-dimensional trend data drawn from
different sources. You can call on us to carry out a detailed trend
analysis or to offer a second opinion to one you have created
yourself. Due to the collaborative nature of the T4 & Friends
approach, we can also arrange to examine the trends together, either
in person or remotely using a web based interface such as
NetMeeting.
Additional Services Offered —
You can find additional
TrendsThatMatter.com services here.