Capacity Planning and Trend Analysis Software - 09 Sep 2003

Taking one-third of the vote for Best Capacity Planning and Trend Analysis Software, BMC Software's PATROL for Microsoft Windows Servers - Perform and Predict easily captured this Readers' Choice award. A reader from Houston, Texas, told us that's because PATROL Perform and Predict offers "excellent modeling and predictive analysis."

PATROL Perform and Predict's historical and real-time analysis and predictive modeling tools help IT departments identify trends and usage patterns and predict the effect of changes on their system. The product's key features include statistical and modeling analysis and multisystem workload-oriented predictive modeling. PATROL Perform and Predict helps you optimize the use of your existing systems and applications by identifying the root cause of throughput and response bottlenecks and concentrating the appropriate resources where your business needs them most.