THE WORLD'S TOP IT SOLUTION PROVIDERS ( Issue: 3 )

To learn more about Quest's J2EE solutions, please visit us at: www.quest.com/java

Where's the problem? Who needs to put out the fire - a system administrator or a developer? How can we prevent this in the future? These common questions emphasize how systems management directly impacts the effectiveness of IT - and, ultimately, a company's profitability.

As application complexity increases with advances in J2EE, enterprise portals and service-oriented architectures (SOA), you face tougher management challenges. You need to triage, diagnose and resolve problems, but this puts a greater burden on developers and can cause chaos in production.

Common problems include:

• Bugs that take weeks to identify
• Loosely coupled applications that make transaction tracing in a multi-tiered environment impossible
• QA is unable to recreate production problems in staging
• Inability to correlate code changes to performance
• Inability to find the root cause of production issues

Any of the problems listed above can compromise your bottom line or your operations process. When you build your own applications, you don't have a packaged software vendor to log support calls. You need an application management toolset on hand to find problems, fix them effectively and quickly, and manage change.

Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest Software helps you meet the higher expectations you have for enterprise IT. Our J2EE application management solutions solve problems from development through production support with tools for developers, architects, performance engineers, QA, deployment specialists and production support staff.

Viny Smith, Chairman and CEO, Quest Software

Our products enable better code quality and optimization, improved performance and availability, and simplified change and configuration management. Since Java and J2EE applications link existing IT systems and SOA, Quest is uniquely suited to manage multi-tiered applications throughout their lifecycle, regardless of platform or infrastructure vendor.

Keep Critical J2EE Applications Running 24x7 with Foglight® and Spotlight®
Quest's J2EE solutions provide the tools and workflow you need to keep applications running in production and fix unexpected problems almost as soon as they occur - creating a highly efficient, proactively-managed system. Foglight continuously monitors application servers and databases, detects performance degradation, then automatically alerts administrators and triggers data capture for diagnostics. Spotlight provides a real-time view of server or database performance and offers expert advice for resolution.

Diagnose Problems System-wide Down to the Line of Code with JProbe® and PerformaSure®
Quest's J2EE solutions can track a problem from an end-user transaction in production down to the line of code. JProbe drills down to diagnose and resolve memory leaks and performance bottlenecks down to the offending line of source code. PerformaSure diagnoses inefficient servlets, run-time memory leaks and slow-running SQL statements.

To learn more about Quest's J2EE solutions, please visit us at: www.quest.com/java.

About Quest Software, Inc.
Quest Software, Inc. delivers innovative products that help organizations get more performance and productivity from their applications, databases and infrastructure. Through a deep expertise in IT operations and a continued focus on what works best, Quest helps more than 18,000 customers worldwide meet higher expectations for enterprise IT. Quest Software, headquartered in Irvine, Calif., can be found in offices around the globe and at www.quest.com.

Quest Software, Inc.
8001 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618
phone: 949-754-8000
fax: 949-754-8999
www.quest.com

To learn more about Quest's J2EE solutions, please visit us at: www.quest.com/java