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CA Technologies Application Synthetic Monitor Case Study

Payvision Bv Gains Deeper Insight Into Up-Time and Performance Levels

Introduction

This case study of Payvision BV is based on a June 2016 survey of CA Technologies Application Synthetic Monitor customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“With CA App Synthetic Monitor, we can show our customer our up-time as well as our performance levels.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CA Technologies Application Synthetic Monitor:

  • Challenges experienced prior to adopting CA ASM:
    • Difficulties with identifying bottlenecks to load time and performance
    • Inconsistent or poor end-user experiences
    • Root cause diagnosis

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of CA Technologies Application Synthetic Monitor that the surveyed company uses:

  • Addresses the following with CA ASM:
    • Measure end-user experience even at times when there is no real-user traffic
    • Have confidence that their worldwide user community is experiencing the application response times they expect
    • Communicate application performance to key stakeholders (users, developers, and executive management)
  • Rates CA ASM on the following:
    • Ease of use and management: very effective
    • Monitoring coverage: highly effective
    • Geographical coverage: very effective

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CA Technologies Application Synthetic Monitor:

  • Benefits achieved with CA ASM:
    • The ability to monitor systems when there is no real user traffic
    • The ability to replicate real-user behavior/ capture real-user interactions for replay, to help ensure complex services are performing correctly
    • The ability to pinpoint problems through comprehensive browser-based end-user perspective to provide optimal experience
  • Cites the following as the CA ASM capabilities that are most important to their organization:
    • Synthetic transaction monitoring
    • The public status page
  • Improved the following with CA ASM:
    • Their end-user-experience: 50-75%
  • Achieved the following with CA ASM:
    • Replicate real-user transactions to provide up-to-the-minute insight into user experience
    • Identify and resolve problem root causes before users are affected (manage end-user experience proactively)
    • Understand global user experience anytime, anywhere (understand user experience by geography)




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