Performance Optimization

West Monroe Partners provides an approach that helps optimize application performance in the short term, while guiding application investments more effectively for the long term. Our unique approach to optimizing application performance and scalability is based on more than a dozen quality-of-service attributes -- factors such as security, reliability, flexibility, and more -- that determine whether a system is supporting key business goals.

We can help you apply a variety of best practices to optimize application performance:

Application profiling and testing

We utilizes best practices and specialized tools to assess an application's design and current performance, profiles the application's performance when implemented, and demonstrates the application's performance under stress conditions or expected future loads.

Load testing

Load testing assesses how an application performs under various loads, including future or expected loads. Using an established approach, West Monroe Partners:

• Creates automated test scripts using in-house or external tools.
• Builds a test environment, or preparing the in-house environment for a test.
• Executes load tests and gathering results.
• Analyzes results to understand the application's performance and stress response under load.

Network profiling

Network capabilities, like applications, also can affect the ability to deliver against key business goals. Using similar techniques, West Monroe Partners can analyze network performance under current and/or anticipated future conditions -- providing an accurate assessment of the network?s performance and response under certain loads and offering recommendations to improve reliability, scalability, or other vital attributes.

Performance triage

Performance triage, or architecture assessment, provides insight into an application's design, construction, and implementation. West Monroe Partners' architects review code and interview key stakeholders to gain an understanding of the application--from current design decisions and implementation actions, to data communication and infrastructure, to project management and quality assurance/testing. We compare architecture with desired guiding principles and quality-of-service attributes and determine whether development procedures, application code, object models, and application architecture adhere to industry best practices.

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