The capacity planning and performance management disciplines demand deep technical knowledge of systems, tools, and architecture. In addition, they require business and management experience and orientation in order to design and implement a process that will reflect and anticipate the unique qualities of your organization.

The CMX group has an extensive practice in both capacity planning and performance management. These services are offered for the multi-platformed environments found in today's IS organizations. CMX consultants have in-depth experience in a wide array of capacity and performance tools on the market today, and have built their own when necessary. In addition, they have the management and business orientation and experience necessary to design the most appropriate process for your organization.


 

The CMX Group has designed and implemented capacity planning for dozens of IS organizations, most of them Fortune 500 companies. Among the capacity services provided are:

Customized capacity planning process
Developed to meet your organization's needs, including tool selection, identification of the business metrics that drive growth, and reporting requirements.
Capacity studies
Including routine periodic analyses, pre-implementation application sizing, or in preparation for a hardware upgrade or reconfiguration. These studies, as appropriate can include system modeling, workload forecasting, and workload modeling.
Complete out-tasked capacity planning services
We provide a highly professional staff to perform all of your organization's capacity functions, including internal capacity audits, business plan alignment, tool set selection, forecast creation, and periodic reporting.


 

Performance tuning services are offered to help your IT organization get the most out of the resources it has. Our staff is skilled in all of the major performance tools available on the market today. The CMX Group can help you select and implement the performance tools most appropriate to your needs, and come on site to do your performance tuning for you.

Among the performance services offered are:

Performance modeling
System configuration
System tuning
Application optimization


 

The capacity and performance management disciplines are definitely not just for mainframes anymore. As client/server applications and complex networks take on an increasingly large and significant role in most organizations, so too has the management of these configurations. The rapid proliferation of distributed systems in most organizations has far outpaced the ability of available tools and staff to manage these environments. It is only recently that tools have emerged to help manage distributed environments well.

However, the challenge in managing distributed systems reaches beyond available tools and available staff to available data. In most distributed environments, measurement data is also distributed. In order to develop a meaningful capacity plan for your distributed environment, the measurement data must be inventoried and warehoused.

The CMX Group can help you inventory your distributed measurement data, build a repository, select tools, and implement your distributed systems capacity and performance processes. In addition, the CMX Group is available to help you identify and solve pre and post implementation capacity problems that your systems may have.