(also known as corporate performance management"Introducing the CPM Suites Magic Quadrant", Lee Geishecker and Frank Buytendijk, 2 October 2002, www.gartner.com, M-17-4718 enterprise performance management, organizational performance management, or performance management) a management approach which encompasses a set of processes and analytical tools to ensure that an organization's activities and output are aligned with its goals.

In the fields of information technology and systems management, application performance management is the monitoring and management of the performance and availability of software applications.