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Application Performance Management
Application performance management (APM) is the monitoring and management of performance and availability of software applications. APM strives to diagnose application performance problems to maintain an expected service level.
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RTView offers a middleware monitoring solution. This solution brings much-needed observability to complex technology stacks.
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Dynatrace differentiates its APM solution through ease of deployment. As IT environments continue to become more complex, leading enterprise software vendors will improve their solutions to be more plug-and-play.
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Germain Software
Germain APM
The best and the cheapest! User, Process and Technology (software, hardware, network) uptime and performance monitoring, issue root-cause analysis (down to the transaction, code, sql, component, etc), and unlimited Automation platform (Alert, auto-resolution, auto-data update, auto-restart of technology, synthetic clicks, python/shell/perl...script execution, sql execution, etc), real-time, 24x7 and our help for free.
8.7
Composite Score
8.8
CX Score
+94
Emotional Footprint
90%
Likeliness to Recommend
57
Reviews
Stackify
Stackify Retrace
Stackify APM+ moves beyond traditional APM solutions and gives you immediate, real-time code-level visibility allowing developers to easily identity top performance offenders and fix issues before they impact the business performance or customer satisfaction.
8.3
Composite Score
8.4
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
85%
Likeliness to Recommend
31
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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
8.3
CX Score
+85
Emotional Footprint
81%
Likeliness to Recommend
53
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IBM
IBM Cloud App Management
IBM® Cloud App Management (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
8.2
CX Score
+81
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
100
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Dynatrace
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.
7.8
Composite Score
8.1
CX Score
+84
Emotional Footprint
71%
Likeliness to Recommend
30
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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
8.0
CX Score
+81
Emotional Footprint
81%
Likeliness to Recommend
162
Reviews
Radware
Radware Alteon Analytics
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.
7.8
Composite Score
8.1
CX Score
+83
Emotional Footprint
73%
Likeliness to Recommend
17
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Splunk
Splunk APM
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.
7.8
Composite Score
7.6
CX Score
+73
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
28
Reviews
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
8.0
CX Score
+82
Emotional Footprint
76%
Likeliness to Recommend
34
Reviews
New Relic, Inc.
New Relic APM
New Relic’s SaaS-based Application Performance Monitoring helps you build, deploy, and maintain great web software.
7.5
Composite Score
7.7
CX Score
+78
Emotional Footprint
71%
Likeliness to Recommend
30
Reviews
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.
7.5
Composite Score
7.5
CX Score
+74
Emotional Footprint
75%
Likeliness to Recommend
30
Reviews
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
7.6
CX Score
+76
Emotional Footprint
70%
Likeliness to Recommend
25
Reviews
Virtual Instruments
VirtualWisdom App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management
The VirtualWisdom App-centric Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) platform provides real-time and historical insights into the performance, availability, health and utilization of your data center infrastructure–across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
7.9
Composite Score
8.5
CX Score
+83
Emotional Footprint
81%
Likeliness to Recommend
8
Reviews
Instana
Instana
Monitor any application, service, or request with Instana Application Performance Monitoring.
7.9
Composite Score
7.7
CX Score
+80
Emotional Footprint
76%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
Metricly
Metricly (Now CloudWisdom by Virtana)
Metricly is a SaaS-based adaptive monitoring solution that helps organizations monitor cloud services, applications, infrastructure, and public cloud costs.
7.8
Composite Score
7.9
CX Score
+81
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
8
Reviews
One Identity LLC
Foglight Hybrid Data Center Performance Management
Quest Foglight, is a complete application and website monitoring platform that specializes in risk assessment, diagnostics, user management and server monitoring in order to ensure your online business infrastructure is secure. Foglight Hybrid Data Center Performance Management optimizes the configuration, performance and utilization of your cloud, hypervisors, virtual machines (VMs) & storage to gain visibility across your entire hybrid infrastructure The Quest Foglight software minimizes the risk of potential downtime.
7.5
Composite Score
7.3
CX Score
+71
Emotional Footprint
77%
Likeliness to Recommend
10
Reviews
Riverbed Technology, Inc.
Riverbed SteelCentral APM
Riverbed SteelCentral Application Performance Management (APM) solutions give you the end-to-end visibility and actionable insights to deliver high-performing apps for your end users. But to quickly realize the benefits of your APM solutions, you need a comprehensive primer and expert guidance on how to quickly operationalize the solutions within your environment.
6.9
Composite Score
6.5
CX Score
+60
Emotional Footprint
68%
Likeliness to Recommend
12
Reviews
BMC Software, Inc.
BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager
TrueSight AppVisibility is an APM solution, powered by AIOps and designed for IT operations, that correlates application performance, digital experience and infrastructure resources to continuously improve services that depend on multi-cloud infrastructure.. TrueSight App Visibility Manager goes beyond application performance monitoring to provide deep insight into your users' experience. In addition to tracking and measuring user activity at the individual or location level – on premises or off – it filters data to ensure you have the information you need to keep users happy and applications healthy, without the unnecessary noise.
6.9
Composite Score
6.0
CX Score
+52
Emotional Footprint
76%
Likeliness to Recommend
5
Reviews
Apica Systems
Apica Synthetic Monitoring
Apica Synthetic proactively monitor your websites, applications and APIs around the clock and identify availability and performance issues before they affect your customers.
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Composite Score
8.2
CX Score
+88
Emotional Footprint
89%
Likeliness to Recommend
1
Reviews
Automai
Automai AppsWatch
AWith its front end robot technology, AppsWatch automates monitoring of all your applications in any environment. AppsWatch runs even when real users are not around. Alerts you of problems before users have a chance notice them.
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Composite Score
7.7
CX Score
+79
Emotional Footprint
70%
Likeliness to Recommend
3
Reviews
Nastel
Nastel AutoPilot M6
Get real-time visibility, predictive alerting, sub-second analytics and resolve the right problem, right now before anyone notices with Nastel AutoPilot M6.
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Composite Score
--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
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Blackfire
Blackfire
Blackfire empowers all developers and IT/Ops to continuously verify and improve their app’s performance, throughout its lifecycle, by getting the right information at the right moment.
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Composite Score
7.5
CX Score
+87
Emotional Footprint
83%
Likeliness to Recommend
4
Reviews
Tevron
CitraTest APM
CitraTest APM® is an all encompassing APM solution that addresses the needs of End-to-End Response Time Monitoring, Availability Monitoring, and SLA Enforcement with full support for EVERY application.
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CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
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Idera Software
Idera Precise Application Performance Platform
IDERA empowers database and IT professionals to monitor & manage data center environments with complete confidence. For deep-dive monitoring of off-the-shelf application stacks, such as SAP and PeopleSoft, the Precise approach is optimal.
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--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
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Sherrill-Lubinski Corporation
RTView Enterprise Monitor
RTView Enterprise Monitor is an easy-to-use, easy-to-implement application monitoring solution designed to provide an end-to-end view of the health state for your most business-critical applications and the software and hardware that support them, including middleware, database, virtual machines, host and network.
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--
CX Score
--
Emotional Footprint
--
Likeliness to Recommend
0
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RTView offers a middleware monitoring solution. This solution brings much-needed observability to complex technology stacks.
Latest Research
Dynatrace differentiates its APM solution through ease of deployment. As IT environments continue to become more complex, leading enterprise software vendors will improve their solutions to be more plug-and-play.
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APM vendor Dynatrace is offering a service to help its customers improve their SDLC. This offering aligns with an overall shift in the IT marketplace.
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Dynatrace offers digital business analytics in addition to full stack end-to-end monitoring. The tool’s capabilities work to bridge the gap between infrastructure & operations teams and the business side of the house.
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Stackify has changed the pricing model for its APM tool, Retrace. This change in pricing is in line with usage-based shifts in technology along with changing architectures.
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Announced on December 31, 2019, BeyondTrust named Tenable as the successor to its Vulnerability Management suite.
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Crosscode is an application analysis and dependency-mapping tool. This kind of tool will become increasingly prevalent as an important component of DevOps toolchains.
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IBM reported Q3 2019 revenue and earnings that failed to meet analyst revenue expectations. With a revenue of $18.03 billion, versus an expected $18.76 billion, it missed the target for the twenty-seventh time under CEO Ginny Rommety.
Latest Research
Dynatrace has filed for an IPO. IT professionals making APM purchasing decisions may benefit from the increased transparency when Dynatrace goes public.
Latest Research
Application performance management (APM) is hard, but necessary. The vendor space is expanding because it addresses a real need.
Latest Research
Application portfolio management (APM) is typically characterized as a subset of application lifecycle management (ALM). However, we see this capability included more often in enterprise architecture tools than in ALM software.
Latest Research
The immense sprawl of products and product versions across the organization complicates manual inventory collection practices. Automated discovery and inventory tools help alleviate this challenge, but they do not negate the importance of end user and stakeholder collaboration and application capability mapping.
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