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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

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AppPulse Suite [EOL]
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    94% willing to recommend
     

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    Categories and Ranking

    AppPulse Suite [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.4
    Number of Reviews
    15
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Number of Reviews
    22
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
     

    Featured Reviews

    it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
    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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    Anton Kasimov
    Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
    Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.
    I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps
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    We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
     

    Pros

    "It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application."
    "Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office."
    "The FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization."
    "The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process."
    "Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
    "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."
    "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 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."
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    "The extensive monitoring tools embedded in Foglight are a real asset."
    "The product has improved the way we respond to database issues as it has made us more proactive."
    "Sometimes we can solve problems before they occur."
    "Foglight is the best overall solution we use, but it doesn't do everything we need or doesn't provide the best solution to everything we want to monitor."
    "We have no hard figures on the ROI on this product, however having the system has saved us time in terms of debugging and getting to the root cause of issues."
    "Foglight has been our go to monitoring tool for several years in the DB2 and Oracle space."
    "Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."
    "Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."
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    Cons

    "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."
    "However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
    "I think the product was premature."
    "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."
    "In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."
    "It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
    "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."
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    "The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."
    "South African skill is scarce"
    "I recall that the lay-out was rather dull when I used this particular version of Foglight."
    "We had stability issues for FTR. The player used to get hung while running the robot scripts."
    "We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."
    "In an older version of Foglight, we were not able to get any of our custom agents to work properly so that feature was not as much use as we had initially hoped and haven't tried using since."
    "The version compatibility needs work."
    "The upgrade process could use some fine tuning. I have done an upgrade of the system as well as addedupdated agents, and sometimes that process is a bit cumbersome, and does not go as planned."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "It was a no-brainer from a cost perspective compared to the other tools that we buy as an IT organization."
    "Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."
    "Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."
    "I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."
    "The price is expensive for us."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Construction Company
    17%
    Financial Services Firm
    16%
    Manufacturing Company
    14%
    Outsourcing Company
    8%
    Outsourcing Company
    17%
    Marketing Services Firm
    11%
    Construction Company
    10%
    Healthcare Company
    7%
     

    Company Size

    By reviewers
    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business7
    Midsize Enterprise3
    Large Enterprise6
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business3
    Midsize Enterprise7
    Large Enterprise13
     

    Comparisons

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    Compared 14% of the time
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    Compared 9% of the time
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    Compared 9% of the time
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    Compared 17% of the time
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    Compared 16% of the time
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    Compared 15% of the time
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    Also Known As

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
    Foglight, Dell Foglight
     

    Overview

    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
    Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.
    Quest Software
     

    Sample Customers

    SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group
    Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com
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