Data Quadrant Awards 2020

Application Performance Management

SoftwareReviews names SolarWinds AppOptics, IBM Cloud App Management, Microsoft Application Insights, and Splunk Application Performance Insights as Application Performance Management Data Quadrant Award Winners.

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Application Performance Management

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Application Performance Management Data Quadrant

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Software Experience

When distilled down, the software experience is shaped by both the experience with the software and the relationship with the vendor. Evaluating enterprise software along these two dimensions provides a comprehensive understanding of the product and helps identify vendors that can deliver on both.

Product Features and Satisfaction

The satisfaction is captured in the overall satisfaction score, which is driven by the likelihood of users to recommend the software, combined with user satisfaction across top product features.

Vendor Experience and Capabilities

The vendor relationship is calculated in a weighted average of the satisfaction scores tied to vendor capabilities (e.g. software implementation, training, customer support, product roadmap) as well as emotional response ratings toward the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair).

Gold Medalists

53Reviews

SolarWinds

SolarWinds AppOptics

Solarwinds AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces.

8.1

Composite
Score

+85

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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100Reviews

IBM

IBM Cloud App Management

IBM® Cloud App Managementt (APM) is an IT service management software designed to efficiently monitor, analyze and manage cloud, on-premises and hybrid applications and IT infrastructure. IBM's application performance management solutions can identify bottlenecks and quickly detect the root cause of your application performance problems.

8.0

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

83%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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26Reviews

Splunk

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Splunk ITSI provides a view of the high-level health and performance of applications and services. It also lets you dive deeper in investigations to helps predict outages and find the root cause of a problem faster. With machine learning capabilities, you can detect patterns to help baseline and automatically adapt behaviors for better monitoring and incident prediction.

7.9

Composite
Score

+76

Emotional
Footprint

85%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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159Reviews

Microsoft

Microsoft Application Insights

Get rich performance monitoring, powerful alerting, and easy-to-consume dashboards to help ensure your applications are available and performing as you expect. Quickly see if you have a problem, how many customers are affected, and perform a root cause analysis to find and fix the issue.

7.8

Composite
Score

+81

Emotional
Footprint

81%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

AppDynamics

Breadth of Features

SolarWinds AppOptics

Business Value Created

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ease of Customization

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ease of Data Integration

IBM Cloud App Management

Ease of IT Administration

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Ease of Implementation

Radware App Monitoring

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

SolarWinds AppOptics

Quality of Features

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Usability and Intuitiveness

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Vendor Support

Dynatrace

Vendor Capability Awards

Availability and Quality of Training

AppDynamics

Breadth of Features

SolarWinds AppOptics

Business Value Created

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ease of Customization

SolarWinds AppOptics

Ease of Data Integration

IBM Cloud App Management

Ease of IT Administration

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Ease of Implementation

Radware App Monitoring

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

SolarWinds AppOptics

Quality of Features

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Usability and Intuitiveness

Splunk Application Performance Insights

Vendor Support

Dynatrace

Other Evaluated Vendors

34Reviews

Micro Focus

Micro Focus APM

Micro Focus APM solutions provide a 360° view to ensure the performance of desktop, web, and mobile apps in your on-premise, cloud, or hybrid environments. Micro Focus Application Performance Management (APM) Solutions allow you to isolate problems real-time for all of your applications whether on-premise, cloud, or mobile.

7.7

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

76%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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16Reviews

Radware

Radware App Monitoring

Radware's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) allows you to detect application performance issues – before your customer does. Application Performance Monitoring ensures Web application performance meets your customer's expectations and consistently delivers their business SLA.

7.6

Composite
Score

+82

Emotional
Footprint

72%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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27Reviews

Dynatrace

Dynatrace application performance management monitors web scale application environments down to each individual transaction—with no gaps or blind spots—including front end, application performance, infrastructure, containers, and cloud.

7.5

Composite
Score

+81

Emotional
Footprint

68%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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28Reviews

Cisco Systems

AppDynamics

AppDynamics APM automatically discovers, maps, and visualizes your critical customer journeys through each application service and infrastructure dependency. Teams have a single source of truth to focus on end-to-end performance in the context of the customer experience, instead of monitoring individual services.

7.4

Composite
Score

+73

Emotional
Footprint

74%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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29Reviews

New Relic

New Relic APM

New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.

7.3

Composite
Score

+76

Emotional
Footprint

70%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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25Reviews

Broadcom Corporation

Broadcom Technologies APM (CA)

CA Technologies Application Performance Management solution is a performance monitoring tools you need to get ahead of customer expectations and create apps that not only meet, but exceed the expectations of your users. It’s the comprehensive visibility and control you need to find and fix performance issues, consistently optimize your apps and make customers happy.

7.3

Composite
Score

+76

Emotional
Footprint

69%

Likeliness to
Recommend

Likeliness
to Recommend

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SoftwareReviews Gold Medal Awards recognize outstanding vendors in the technology marketplace as evaluated by their users. Gold Medals are the capstone of an in-depth software evaluation report, and awarded using a proprietary, transparent methodology based on a composite satisfaction score that averages four different areas of evaluation: Net Emotional Footprint, Vendor Capabilities, Product Features, and Likeliness to Recommend. The Net Emotional Footprint Score measures user emotional response ratings of the vendor (e.g. trustworthy, respectful, fair). The top 5 vendors in a software category are eligible for awards pending composite scores achieve a sufficiently high satisfaction threshold.

Software Reports present comprehensive evaluations of software vendors on the above elements. Software buyers can use this data to make more informed, data-driven software purchasing and renewal decisions.