You have lots of data, with minimal information ?

Well this could be your state when you have lots of monitoring Tools for various applications with no integration at all.

Assume this scenario. You have a monitoring Tool for your infrastructure like Oracle database performance monitoring. You have a custom built solution for your insurance web application. Another one for your WebLogic, custom scripts already in place that does things only you know how it monitors.

Now all these give good data on the status of these applications. It may not be able to tell you that a slowing web application problem is because of excessive writes/reads in your database by some user at peak times of your web application. Well this excessive reads could be because of your backup solution scheduled inappropriately or something else.

Well you need to turn to tools that have an integrated solution that gives information out of the data that is present in all these tools / scripts.

The advantages are obvious. It gives you the visibility needed to identify bottlenecks in these applications, correct them in quick time and hence help streamline your online business experience. It also improves your application reliability and in the end ensure better ROI.