CA Technologies sponsored survey has found that a majority of enterprises are taking a cautious approach to its adoption today; the adoption rate is expected to increase in the next year driven by application complexity and the DevOps movement as more comprehensive, full-featured APM SaaS solutions becomes available.
Conducted by IDG Research Services online among members of the CIO Forum on LinkedIn during August 2012, the survey titled, “When It Comes to Application Performance, the User is Still King,” polled more than 100 IT managers and executives. The research found most organizations (61 percent) have no plans to implement APM SaaS. Twenty-four percent use APM SaaS in some capacity, but only four percent use an APM SaaS vendor to monitor all of their critical applications.
“We believe one reason for cautious adoption is that many APM SaaS offerings are limited in functionality and therefore don’t meet the needs of the enterprise,” said Mike Sargent, General Manager, Enterprise Management, CA Technologies.
Approximately 15 percent of respondents plan to implement APM SaaS within the next year, with more than half planning to have their managed service provider deliver it.
