Criteria for Network Performance Improvements

A long, pending issue that being bothering the team for the past 1 year.  What surprise me is that no one has been looking or analyzing the problem till this account has handover to me 6 months ago when I joined the Company.

Prior to execute the performance testing for our web application, the team has worked out the feasibility study and proposed action plans to understand what needs to be done for the testing.  The requests from Customer includes paging segmentation (returns 50 records per page) and file compressions on the documents and images.

Beside improvements made on the application, we also have to draft out the proposed SLA on understanding what are the benchmarks/threshold values that we are looking at as part of the criteria to determine the improvements we are moving forward to work on in terms of network performance.

1. What is the acceptance criteria for the desired page loading response for a complete page (in seconds).
2. What is/are the critical pages/functions that we need to improve on for the page loading?
3. Search engine – how can we optimise the search engine?
4. What is the current network architecture network path the response packets are going through and the bottlenecks?
5. Which geographical locations that most of the users are accessing the application.
6. Which user group is badly affected by the network performance issue and their locations.

Recession-proof SOA – Is it for now?

Currently I am working on the strategy road-maps with the other Account managers to understand the common platforms we have established for our Customers and to ‘reuse’ them for new initiatives, RFP etc.  However I am lost in understanding what are the best practises that we should focus on the initiatives in improving the applications that we are to work on.  There are unclear directions from top management on what we are looking for and how to align all organisations to work towards them.

Not only we are looking into improvise SOA architecture for the integrations of existing applications, we are also facing stress from Business Development/Operations on ongoing new business opportunities and mis-aligning on the solutions to provide for the RFPs, without consulting us.  No official communication is distributed to them to engage my Organisation in participating initial RFPs’ planning and other contractual discussions.

With the likely down-term on global economics, the Organisation may not be looking forward to further align SOA strategy.  Will existing improvements on legacy applications going to be the way to sustain ongoing businesses during this economic crisis?  Or what other areas – business re-engineering their existing processes to reduce hefty IT costs on maintaining legacy systems?

1. Are we going to look into incremental improvements on existing applications?
2. Is business/operation looking at improvements on existing business processes?

Reference to understand SOA blueprint - http://www.ebizq.net/topics/soa/features/7474.html?&pp=1