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Societe Generale Quickly Identifies Issues with CA APM 10

Introduction

This case study of Societe Generale is based on a March 2016 survey of CA Technologies Application Performance Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“With CA APM 10, we can graphically show application issues in less time!”

Challenges

  • Business challenges addressed with CA APM 10:
    • 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 knowing when and where to act to solve performance issues

Use Case

  • Most valuable CA APM 10 features:
    • Team Center Timeline that improves triage by showing the impact of change and helping them locate where performance problems started
    • APM Command Center that provides simple management of thousands of agents
    • 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
  • Rates CA APM 10 on the following:
    • Ease of use and management: very effective
    • Monitoring coverage: very effective
    • Scalability: effective
    • Depth and frequency of metrics: effective
  • Improved the following with CA APM 10:
    • Improved application performance: more than 75%
    • Improved proactively preventing issues: more than 75%
    • Improved MTTR for application problems: 75-50%
    • Reduced the time they spent on admin and management tasks: 75-50%
  • Experienced the following benefits as a result of adopting CA APM 10:
    • Improved how fast they are able to fix performance issues
    • Enhanced their understanding of where the problems are and which are the most important to address first
  • CA APM 10 helped achieve the following:
    • Proactively manages the user experience to create a competitive advantage for their business
  • Agrees with the following statements:
    • CA APM 10 helps their organization speed and simplify the triage of application performance issues




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