In today's economy it is imperative that application and database developers work smarter, not harder, to meet the demands put on them by line of business owners, senior management, and the company as a whole. Due to time, money, and resource limitations it is often no longer feasible to rewrite, re-architect, or even replace applications and databases that are core to running a business as a means of achieving better performance or scalability.

It all circles back to optimization. Performance optimization is a key ingredient in the struggle to stretch an invested IT dollar to its absolute limit. From a productivity perspective, application and database performance is becoming more critical in everyday business transactions.

Read this whitepaper to learn about the 3-step 'prevent, find, fix' approach to handling performance optimization problems at any stage of the development lifecycle, as well as learn about Embarcadero's industry-leading Java™ and SQL optimization tools.