dynaTrace software has announced the release of dynaTrace 3. As companies continue to develop and deploy more sophisticated enterprise SOA, Java and .Net applications across the globe, the requirements for APM solutions have significantly expanded. dynaTrace 3 is designed to meet the new demands of performance management across the full application lifecycle.

Some of the new features include:

• Global transaction tracing with deep diagnostics for Java and .Net applications: Developers, test and production operators can trace business transactions across geographically distributed applications to find and prevent performance issues before they happen
• 24x7 performance management for demanding environments: dynaTrace scales across large server clusters and virtualized environments and will meet the demands of your changing production environments
• Advanced automation: Out-of-the-box integration into popular build systems and automated problem documentation enables users to eliminate manual, labor-intensive costs
• Open, standards-based integration interfaces and extension framework: A new OSGi/open source based plug-in model, combined with SOAP and JMX management interfaces allow companies to integrate dynaTrace with a company's existing systems, saving time and money while preserving existing investments

dynaTrace 3 is introducing three fully integrated editions of the product specifically tailored to the needs of development, test and production:

• Development Edition: Provides development teams with visibility into the dynamic behavior of their distributed software architectures for proactive analysis and tuning during development. Integration with popular IDE's and build environments such as Ant, NAnt and MSBuild detects performance regressions early and provides continuous test metrics. With this edition, companies can now make performance management a strategic component of the development process. Developers can find and fix performance issues sooner saving time, money and resources.
• Test Center Edition:  Integrates dynaTrace with major commercial and open source load testing solutions such as LoadRunner, SilkPerformer, Visual Studio Team System and JMeter to eliminate manual problem reproduction and to rapidly diagnose Java/.NET issues with code level performance diagnostics. With this edition, test professionals can dramatically reduce the time spent finding, reproducing and documenting performance issues, resulting in reduced testing cycles and higher quality test results. This increases test center productivity, enabling more applications to be tested in less time while also increasing test coverage.
• Production Edition: Provides production teams the most advanced application performance management solution including 24x7 business transaction management, always on global code-level transaction tracing with deep-dive diagnostics, and application discovery and dependency mapping while enabling remote developers to rapidly diagnose and resolve issues. With this edition, production IT professionals can pin-point performance issues, provide detailed issue documentation to development, and reduce mean-time-to-repair.

All three editions are built on a common platform and shared data system based on dynaTrace's patent-pending PurePath technology. When used together, customers have an integrated APM solution across the full application lifecycle.