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Alluvio Aternity vs AppPulse Suite [EOL] comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Alluvio Aternity
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (33rd), 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

Akhilesh Mishra - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead at M.TECH Solutions India Pvt. Ltd.
Monitoring end-user activity has improved visibility into device and application performance
In my opinion, Riverbed can make Alluvio Aternity better by having the same Aternity agent help in security, such as antivirus or EDR, which would be useful, allowing customers to avoid having multiple agents installed on their endpoint machines. Deploying multiple agents can use the processor and utilize memory, so it's better to go with one agent. If one agent can do end-user activity monitoring and act as an EDR, then it would be better for the end-user, allowing easy avoidance of installing multiple agents on their machines.
it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

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 feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
"The ability to monitor crash and health event issues at a user level"
"DEM-Q (Digital Experience Management Quadrant) is very useful. This is where they stand out with their dashboard, because it gives us a picture of how our company is doing compared to the other businesses out there."
"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."
"The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes."
"It improved our connection to other teams when performing troubleshooting tasks, which is huge when dealing with a large organization with multiple tiers of support and an end user utilizing an application that could have a number of things go wrong."
"The detailed level of information you are able to get on the complete environment all of the way down to a specific machine."
"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, for some applications we've never been able to monitor before, some older legacy applications."
"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."
"It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
"What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
"AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications."
"We launched the Take It app in France last June, and we had 10,000 active users, five percent of our users experienced crashes, so we decided to add AppPulse Mobile to our app, and crashes dropped from five to 0.44 percent while during the same time period our users jumped to 120,000."
"I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
 

Cons

"I want more reporting around asset management, with greater flexibility and customization ability."
"To monitor these transactions, you need to look at it, analyze it and capture it. It requires a little bit of work, but in an environment like ours, you need it to be easier."
"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."
"I can see the location and computer model and I can see a bunch of different attributes. But one thing I can't see is the Internet Explorer version."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"Signature development process requires deep technical expertise in the application and in the use of their studio tools that help you create it."
"The only thing I can say which has been frustrating are the Tableau workspace/dashboard options out-of-the-box, at least prior to version 8."
"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."
"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
"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 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 ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"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."
"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Its licensing cost is very low. That's one of the reasons why we have kept it for so long. We get more than a 70% discount on the maintenance licenses. Its cost is very low for us, but if you buy it new, it would be much more expensive at the retail price."
"The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry."
"The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
"It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."
"The pricing is reasonable for the value that it gives because it does allow you to measure the cost ramifications of direct productivity loss for spends in both your infrastructure and on endpoints."
"I thought the price for Alluvio Aternity was reasonable, but we had difficulty selling it in our market due to the minimum number of agents required for deployment, which I believe was around 500."
"The pricing is fair."
"The price for Alluvio Aternity is favorable."
"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
16%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise32
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise6
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Aternity?
Riverbed is costly in the Indian market; I would rate the pricing for Alluvio Aternity as a higher price.
What needs improvement with Aternity?
In my opinion, Riverbed can make Alluvio Aternity better by having the same Aternity agent help in security, such as antivirus or EDR, which would be useful, allowing customers to avoid having mult...
What is your primary use case for Aternity?
The main use case for Alluvio Aternity is end-user activity monitoring, which is the process I'm mainly using currently.
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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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