Actional vs AppPulse Suite [EOL] comparison

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Actional

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100% willing to recommend

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

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94% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Actional

Average Rating

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (71st), SOA Governance (4th)

AppPulse Suite [EOL]

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

it_user690762

Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Provides speed and scaling in the cloud

Provides speed and scaling in the cloud Effortless scaling Never throws away data Takes action now Delivers analytics at the speed of business Automates and speeds up system discovery I would like to see better marketing. We have used this for four years. There are no deployment issues at this…

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it_user567780

Infrastructure Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Helps me be proactive in solving a customer's problem before it even happens

This is a new solution by HP. It's less than two years, we're among the first to implement the solution, so I'm sure that there is a lot of room for enhancement and continuous improvement in the future. They have added a new feature, which was not part of the solution, which is they support what they call hybrid apps; before, it was only supporting native. That is something they work with your R & D, whereby they support this feature in the parent version of AppPulse.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"From a testing standpoint, ignoring license and cost issues, it's not a bad product."

"This tool has great scaling capabilities, i.e., no limitations."

"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."

"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."

"It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens."

"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications, for some applications we've never been able to monitor before, some older legacy applications."

"For us it is easy; it is friendly and it has information that is important for the business."

"We provide software testing services to third-party organizations with HP AppPulse, where we can see the real user experience live and identify low UI performance, stability problems, or high resource consumption on one screen."

"The benefits are the ease of integration into OMI, the speed of the deployment, and the quick ROI in value that it adds in a space where we were kind of flying blind before we had it."

"Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."

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Cons

"My concern is with Automation integration."

"There are some things I look forward to – alerts, service level management calculations, API so I can get the data from somewhere else rather than just the website, customizable time frame so I can adjust the date and time."

"In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."

"Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."

"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."

"I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex. It could split up the users into categories based on how frequently they use my product."

"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical."

"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."

"I would like to see more reporting and analytics."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It was a no-brainer from a cost perspective compared to the other tools that we buy as an IT organization."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

No data available

Construction Company

21%

Financial Services Firm

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

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Also Known As

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Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse

Overview

Actional offers intelligent solutions designed to optimize IT operations through advanced monitoring and analytics capabilities, enhancing efficiency in complex environments.

Actional is an advanced monitoring tool tailored for IT operations, providing profound insights into system performance. It specializes in real-time monitoring, offering an extensive perspective on application performance and system interactions. With intuitive analytics, it supports improved decision-making and strategic planning, ensuring operational efficiency and minimizing downtime. Its adaptable nature allows seamless integration into varied IT infrastructures, making it a vital resource for maintaining optimized processes.

What are the most valuable features of Actional?

Real-time Monitoring: Provides continuous oversight of application performance and system interactions.
Comprehensive Analytics: Delivers insights through intuitive data visualization and reporting tools.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with existing IT infrastructure to streamline operations.
Performance Optimization: Identifies bottlenecks and proposes solutions for improved performance.
Scalability: Adapts to the growth and evolution of IT environments.

What benefits and ROI can be expected from Actional?

Increased Efficiency: Reduces downtime through proactive system monitoring.
Enhanced Decision-making: Provides data-driven insights to inform strategic planning.
Cost Savings: Optimizes resources and reduces operational costs over time.
Improved Performance: Streamlines processes to enhance overall system performance.
Flexibility: Adapts to changing needs, supporting long-term sustainability.

Actional is widely implemented across industries including finance and healthcare, where reliable system performance is critical. It aids financial institutions in managing transaction flows, ensuring compliance and operational integrity. In healthcare, it supports the delivery of uninterrupted service by monitoring critical applications, ensuring they run optimally to deliver efficient care.

Aurea

Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile is the first self-service SaaS solution that tracks the real user experience of your mobile apps constantly monitoring performance, stability and resource usage. The tool provides FunDex – a mobile app quality score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Proximus, Air France-KLM, Barratt Developments, Freedom Mortgage

SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group

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