The Simalytic Modeling Technique: Overview for Application Performance Analysis

Abstract

The Simalytic^™ (Simulation/Analytic) Modeling Technique¹ provides a modeling framework to connect the parts of a computer application together. This technique uses a general purpose simulation tool as an underlying framework and the results of analytic platform-centric modeling tools to represent individual nodes in an enterprise model of the application, leveraging the modeling tools already being used by many organizations for the individual nodes. The technique addresses performance analysis and capacity planning of complex application designs that incorporate client/server systems, either as new functions or as front-ends for legacy systems. The performance analyst needs to take an enterprise view of the application and predict its performance from the user’s point-of-view. Planning the capacity of client/server applications requires a tool for understanding the application performance at each of the nodes as well as the inter-relationships between them. The Simalytic Modeling Technique provides a tool to understand those relationships.

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