PERFORMANCE AUDIT

SDG is involved with a Fortune 5 company to do a performance audit of their most critical business applications in an advisory role. The top ten business applications were identified and audited against defined standards for the specified applications. Performance of a client/server and web systems is determined by the application architecture and the various metrics governing their performance. Tests were conducted against the network, server, client and application to determine inefficiencies in design, code and resource allocation. 

This audit analyzes and defines areas of improvement for the development of future processes and systems, as well as bottlenecks and performance degrading components. The source code is reviewed and performance metrics are measured on each and every transaction. 

The Performance Audit project provided the following benefits to our client:

• Increased efficiency in existing business applications
• Defined standards on which to model all future application development
• Identified infrastructure bottlenecks
• Saved huge amounts by making existing applications and transactions faster and taking them off the “port-to-web” list of applications
• Reduced time to generate critical business reports by a factor of 50 in some cases
• Allowed our client to spend valuable IT dollars on more appropriate B2B projects

This Performance Audit helped our client realign their valuable IT development budget towards more critical business applications