TechValidate Research on AIOps From Broadcom


Fortune 500 Health Care Provider Speeds Up and Simplifies Triage

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 health care company is based on a March 2016 survey of CA Technologies Application Performance Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

Challenges

  • Business challenges addressed with CA APM 10:
    • Inconsistent or poor app end-user-experience
    • Difficult and long root-cause analysis for app performance issues
    • Long app performance Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR)
  • Challenges addressed when troubleshooting application performance issues with CA APM 10:
    • A need to pull in too many experts into a war room to resolve problems
    • Difficulty determining what changes precede or cause performance issues
    • Hard to spot slow growing problems

Use Case

  • Most valuable CA APM 10 features:
    • Smart Instrumentation which automatically collects deep transaction traces
    • Modern application support with added functionality for Java™, .Net, PHP and Node.js

Results

  • CA APM 10 capabilities most important to the organization:
    • Fast time-to-value when instrumenting agents
    • A simple, easy-to-use design and interface
    • Support for modern technologies (e.g. PhP, Ruby, Cassandra, Node.js, Docker, Cloud Foundry)
    • Visualizations on how application changes impact performance
    • Enhanced alerting with predictive analytics
  • Rates CA APM 10 on the following:
    • Ease of use and management: effective
    • Monitoring coverage: effective
    • Scalability: effective
    • Depth and frequency of metrics: very effective
    • Customizations (e.g. dashboards): very effective
  • Experienced the following benefits as a result of adopting CA APM 10:
    • Improved the quality of the applications their organization delivers
    • Improved how fast they are able to fix performance issues
    • Improved collaboration across their organization to determine the root cause of performance issues
  • CA APM 10 helped achieve the following:
    • Easily deployed and managed application performance management to gain value
    • Fueled collaboration across their organization to enable continuous performance and quality improvements
  • Agrees with the following statement:
    • CA APM 10 helps our organization speed and simplify the triage of application performance issues




About This Data

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