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Alluvio Aternity vs AppPulse Suite [EOL] comparison

 

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

Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (32nd), Mobile APM (4th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (6th)
AppPulse Suite [EOL]
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Featured Reviews

Caillin Peacock - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to be a lot more agile and proactive in troubleshooting endpoint issues thanks to accurate UX scoring
There are many valuable features. If I had to single out one, it would be the UXI score. That's a proprietary Aternity score that tells you how good or bad the experience is for a user on that particular machine, for a particular app. It neatly encapsulates the pain of the user in a single score. It's very easy to find issues and then drill down further into those issues, based on that score. A lot of tools will do a similar thing, but they will do it indirectly and it's not always relevant. The Aternity score is on the money pretty much every time. The Digital Experience Index (DXI) feature is also very valuable. We've incorporated it into the KPIs for our endpoint team. We can use that as a benchmark to improve our goals and our environment, and for ongoing life cycle improvement.
it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The two most valuable features for us are its abilities to validate the customer experience and to measure performance before and after upgrades."
"The most valuable features for us are the Incident Management dashboard, Application Status dashboard, and Activity Analysis UI."
"While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications."
"Aternity easily provides visibility of all the endpoint machines to my clients."
"As a financial institution, we have a lot of applications that are either written internally or bought from a vendor and customized for us. Having a tool that lets us monitor specific transactions in those applications allows us to focus on the transactions that are important to the business."
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"The item we use the most and what upper management wants is the SLA reports. It's a good summary of how the applications are performing over time from month to month."
"There are also built-in activities that let you measure things like preview mail, open address book, and send mail. Those are the activities that we are able to get measurements on, and those are things we have not seen in other software monitoring tools."
"It provides a lot of customer insight, understanding the customer's needs, understanding the customer's issues, and it gives me a more proactive approach to solving a customer problem before it happens."
"With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications."
"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
"Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
 

Cons

"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"Being able to add custom monitoring to dashboards would be nice. Right now, if you want to monitor the value of a registry key on your systems, to get that added into the dashboard you have to reach out to Aternity so they can start looking for that value. It would be interesting if that were more of a self-serve function."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"I think the workflow needs improvement"
"They've additionally added some great color coding, but they need to explain better and drive down further on the meanings of this workflow."
"It all comes in pretty nice looking charts and things, but we have a hard time pulling out hard data, which is usually what you'll need if you're trying to be actionable."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"Right now, the user information being displayed by Aternity is received from AD. Ideally, we would like to see integration with other sources for user information, like other databases, so we are not limited to AD."
"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."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"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."
"The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing is fair."
"It's not a cheap product. There are no two ways about that. If you compare it with a couple of the other solutions operating in the space, it might be on the slightly more expensive side, but it is one of those tools where, once you've got it, you understand the true value. You will get that money back."
"Our management squeezed Aternity pretty hard on the pricing, in my opinion a little too much. I advise negotiating for sure, but I do think it left kind of a sour taste in Aternity’s mouth that we were being so pushy despite the fact that we were only purchasing a small number of licenses."
"The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry."
"In my opinion they are asking a lot for their SaaS solution, but I also know that that's the direction they're going... The current, on-prem solution is probably a fair price."
"We always try to reduce costs and purchase the Alluvio Aternity Essentials license."
"If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
"Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
"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
Financial Services Firm
24%
Government
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
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Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aternity?
The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry.
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Also Known As

Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
 

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