Superior Performance is vital
l Competitiveness in the marketplace
l Providing service to your customers
• Both internal & external
l Reducing costs/avoiding costs
• Tune or buy hardware
l Time is money
• The system is slow today…
In today’s competitive economic environment we can’t be complacent about performance. Information is critical to the success of your company, and the ability to both retain existing customers and get new ones may determine long term growth. The enterprises that can deliver information quickly will grow and thrive – those that cannot, may either cease to exist or will be swallowed by other more aggressive corporations.
Ever increasing processor capacities are often driven more by application in-efficiencies and other performance related problems than by true volume demands. Throwing multi-million dollar hardware solutions at performance problems has become the norm.
If corporate stockholders ever became aware of the magnitude of corporate waste and in-efficiencies, many corporate officers might find themselves on the receiving end of legal actions – and many boards of directors would be replaced.
Some reasonable amounts of system and application tuning can provide dramatic paybacks at many companies. The multi-million dollar tuning success stories exist – and should receive more press than the large system failures.
If management could only become truly aware of the opportunities, and reward people (monetarily) for improving performance – they would be amazed at the results and long term savings.