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March 2006
Reflectent VantagePoint
  Featured Analyst Webcast:
> Managing Based on User Experience
Presented by Forrester Research's Jean-Pierre Garbani
   
     
  In This Issue:  
> Reflecting on...  
The Most Compelling View of Application Performance
 
> Industry Report  
Forrester Webcast: "Managing Based on User Experience"  
> Customer Profile  
Georgia-Pacific Pursues ITIL Mission with Help from EdgeSight for Desktops  
> EdgeSight Insight  

Capturing Context at the Onset of a Performance Problem

 
> What's New  

EdgeSight for Desktops 4.0 Provides a Highly Configurable and Open Platform for Application Performance Visibility and Problem Diagnostics

 
    Reflecting on...
The Most Compelling View of Application Performance
By Lou Shipley, President and CEO

Early last year an IT director at one of our customers was asked to troubleshoot some performance issues on applications being served via a Citrix Presentation Server environment—applications that were published both to remote employees and to external customers of the company who were using the applications to process information on their behalf. > More

    Industry Report

Forrester Webcast: "Managing Based on User Experience"
Forrester Research Vice President Jean-Pierre Garbani discusses application management strategies and the most current technology in this space

If you're like 87% of the CIOs surveyed recently by Forrester Research, delivering consistent end to end performance management is your number one challenge. Critical to accomplishing this is understanding performance as experienced by the business at the user level. Forrester's research also found that 74% of problems are reported by the end user to the service desk as opposed to being detected by infrastructure management tools. > More

    Customer Profile
Georgia-Pacific Pursues ITIL Mission with Help from EdgeSight for Desktops
With more than 55,000 employees and over 300 locations worldwide, implementing an ITIL initiative is no small feat for Georgia-Pacific. The leading global manufacturer and distributor of building products, paper and related chemicals is taking a phased approach to executing the plan that began with a detailed analysis of priorities, current infrastructure, existing gaps and technology requirements. > More
    EdgeSight Insight

Capturing Context at the Onset of a Performance Problem

One of the biggest challenges in troubleshooting end-user application performance problems is gaining a clear understanding of the underlying context – specifically what applications and processes are running, as well as what network connections are being employed and how these factors are impacting overall performance.

EdgeSight version 4.0 provides the ability for the EdgeSight user to take a remote snapshot whenever they see a performance problem such as a process spike in CPU or memory. > More

    What's New
EdgeSight for Desktops 4.0 Provides a Highly Configurable and Open Platform for Application Performance Visibility and Problem Diagnostics
Recently Reflectent announced the general availability of EdgeSight for Desktops 4.0. This next generation of Reflectent’s platform for application performance visibility and diagnostics features a significantly enhanced core EdgeSight engine, providing customers with new agent flexibility, richer data for more detailed analysis, and powerful reporting and data sharing capabilities. >More