# Connect the dots between Application and Network Performance with OpManager **Whitepaper** Traditional IT management practices are no fit for today's modern day businesses that are powered by cloud and datacenters. Today IT extends beyond your campus and more business-critical applications are served over the cloud from multiple locations. To provide an uninterrupted access to mission critical applications and the best user-experience networks and applications should no longer be managed as discrete entities. The problem with such a model is that all the performance data and events remain separate, and needs lot of manual effort to correlate them to get a clear picture of the fault. ###### This whitepaper discusses: - Factors affecting application performance. - Drawbacks with lack of visibility into your network & application performance. - Application-aware network performance management. - Visibility offered by OpManager into your network & application performance. This whitepaper discusses [ManageEngine OpManager](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/). ## Related Products - [Network Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/?relPrd) - [Bandwidth Monitoring & Traffic Analysis](https://www.manageengine.com/products/netflow/?relPrd) - [Network Configuration Management](https://www.manageengine.com/network-configuration-manager/?relPrd) - [Switch Port & IP Address Management](https://www.manageengine.com/products/oputils/?relPrd) - [Firewall Management](https://www.manageengine.com/products/firewall/?relPrd) - [Network Monitoring Software for MSPs](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring-msp/?relPrd) - [IT Operations Management](https://www.manageengine.com/it-operations-management/) - [Application Performance Monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/products/applications_manager/?relPrd)