As I said before, Speed is King. Business requirements for applications and architecture change all the time, driven by changes in customer needs, competition, and innovation and this only seems to be accelerating.

As I said before, Speed is King. Business requirements for applications and architecture change all the time, driven by changes in customer needs, competition, and innovation and this only seems to be accelerating.
Information Technology (IT) has always relied on monitoring to provide an understanding of how systems perform over time. The basics has always been to collect a series of metrics and to build an algorithm that shows how these metrics are related, and then to show when a system is either reaching the limits of its capacity or is likely to break.
BTM or Business Transaction Management vs. Business Transaction Performance - two terms aimed to describe the current state of the affairs in what Gartner calls Transaction Profiling.
Ever since I came across the term BTM I questioned whether the term actually reflects what vendors do in this space.