Testimonials

European Distribution Company

“Extending Performance Surveyor to other sources of data in order to deliver higher business views and value couldn’t be any easier! I literally just point it at the additional database, such as VMWare Virtual Center data, and then do a simple “cut/paste” from existing functions in Performance Surveyor that I might want to apply to the new data. Then I have a new analysis module available for use against these new metrics! The graphical user interface’s ability to automatically “discover” the changes that I make really makes customization a snap.”
– Performance Analyst, Multi-national European Distribution Company

Worldwide Service Delivery Company

“I have been using Performance Surveyor for about a week now and it keeps amazing me! Its absolutely brilliant!  There are so many automation options which can be used and the publisher is also very cool.”
– Performance Assurance Analyst, Worldwide Delivery Service Company (UK)

Large Financial Services Company

“I just met with my management the other day and told them we need to rollout BMC Performance Assurance and Performance Surveyor to more of our organization: in it we have a complete performance and capacity solution: real time, historical, analysis, modeling, correlation, reporting… something that can span management AND technical geek reporting requirements”
– Performance Analyst and Capacity Planner for large financial services company

Large Brokerage Company

“Performance Surveyor is the only solution I’ve ever seen that can provide repeatable management reporting of performance and capacity that also meets the needs of the techies… All the other approaches have poor data handling, are far less open and more restrictive, and I’d have to hard-code access into each/every separate database, etc.”
– Analyst/Planner for large brokerage company

Global Financial Services Company

“There were really 3 reasons we bought Performance Surveyor: it was the first tool that we’ve seen that could provide management AND customer reports in a way that they understood, and also publish them… complete reports, not just graphs

The automation and repeatability involved – [the reports] get generated with no errors, it saves a lot of time, and we just get more done.

We used to spend 20% of our time doing analysis and 80% mechanics of reporting on that analysis; with Performance Surveyor, we flip that equation around and can now focus more on the important and hard to do analytics instead of the simplistic, but very time consuming mechanics of reporting results

And, I know I said three, but fourth, a lot of what I do can be automated with Performance Surveyor so that I can encapsulate my expertise into Performance Surveyor so that more junior personnel can be useful planners or analyzers from day one.”
– Analyst/Planner for global financial services company

Financial Services Company

“The business decision was pretty straightforward to buy it. We had been benchmarking some online and batch scenarios in our Server Engineering group. I used Performance Surveyor to analyze multiple iterations of the performance tests, and [to automatically] issue reports that showed the incremental changes across each test as well as against the production environment in order to make the best decision in Server Engineering. After I showed the VP of Server Engineering these reports, he went to the Sr. VP of Infrastructure Engineering and Operations and told them we had to buy this solution. These are uses that BPA and Predict aren’t directly designed to handle, but together with Performance Surveyor it is a great new combination.”
– Capacity Planner for Financial Services Company

Worldwide Transportation Service Company

“Performance Surveyor really should live on top of all other toolsets that gather data over time. Your federation approach is excellent. The only other way to do any type of analysis and reporting like this across performance and business data, is to write a bunch of custom scripts or SAS® code, and cut and paste manually with a charting tool, like Microsoft Excel – but that takes forever, is expensive, won’t scale, and isn’t as flexible.”
– Capacity Planner for Worldwide Transportation Service Company.

Large Financial Services Company 2

“With Performance Surveyor, almost any customer can do performance analysis and capacity planning. ITIL-compliant Capacity reporting. All that is needed is collected performance data!”
– Capacity Planner for Large Financial Services company

“Before Performance Surveyor, it would usually take me about 40 hours to generate a complete set of monthly capacity reports across 10 different application clusters on many hundreds of servers. Now, I can not only get better and more comprehensive analysis, I can do it on 18 different application clusters, over 4 times as many servers, and get it all done in just under 3 hours of my time!”
– Lead Planner for Large Brokerage Company

Large Regional Freight Distribution Company

“With Performance Surveyor, I can finally and easily ‘pre-can’ all the steps needed to understand what is truly important from a capacity standpoint. This means that other members of our team, who are not capacity experts, can now accomplish many things I used to have to do! It is like I’m training a team to follow in my footsteps!”
– Sr. Capacity Planner for large, regional freight distribution company

Large US Insurance Company

“I really love your product and think it is a huge improvement over other products out there.  If you ever want me to talk with someone about it and what it brings, just let me know.”
– Sr. Capacity Planner for large US insurance company

Large regional Energy Company

“Within the first 20 minutes after we installed Performance Surveyor, it automatically found a potential memory leak in a key business application that ran on over 200 servers. This memory leak would have brought us completely down about 6 weeks later if we didn’t address it! This problem was never discovered with comprehensive application stress testing during development and test! Amazing!”
– Performance Analyst, large regional energy company

Large Financial Services Company 3

“There were three reasons we bought Performance Surveyor. [One of them was] the automation and repeatability involved – our standardized reports get generated consistently and automatically with no errors, it saves us a tremendous amount of time, and we just get more done. We used to spend 10% of our time doing analysis and 90% on trying to report on that analysis. Performance Surveyor changes everything for us, now we can spend more time on the important and valuable analysis instead of the simplistic, but very time consuming mechanics of reporting results
– Analyst/Planner for large financial services company