AIOps From Broadcom Phoenix Contact Finds CA APM 10 the Most Important Tool for their DevOps Strategy

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Phoenix Contact Finds CA APM 10 the Most Important Tool for their DevOps Strategy

Introduction

This case study of Phoenix Contact GMBH & Co. KG is based on a March 2016 survey of CA Technologies Application Performance Management customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“CA APM is our most important tool for our DevOps strategy”

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)
- An inability to provide a continuous feedback loop for Dev & Operations
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
- Difficulty knowing when and where to act to solve performance issues

Use Case

Most valuable CA APM 10 features:
- Team Center Perspectives that simplify complex app topologies through task relevant views based on attributes
- Team Center Timeline that improves triage by showing the impact of change and helping them locate where performance problems started
- Differential Analysis that helps them quickly recognize problems and understand the most critical and recurrent problems
- APM Command Center that provides simple management of thousands of agents
- 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:
- A simple, easy-to-use design and interface
- Visualizations on how application changes impact performance
- Guided steps for triaging application issues
- Enhanced alerting with predictive analytics
Rates CA APM 10 on the following:
- Ease of use and management: very effective
- Monitoring coverage: highly effective
- Scalability: highly effective
- Depth and frequency of metrics: highly effective
- Customizations (e.g. dashboards): very effective
Improved the following with CA APM 10:
- Improved their end-user-experience: 75-50%
- Improved application performance: more than 75%
- Improved proactively preventing issues: more than 75%
- Improved MTTR for application problems: more than 75%
- Reduced the time they spent on admin and management tasks: more than 75%
Experienced the following benefits as a result of adopting CA APM 10:
- Improved the quality of the applications their organization delivers
- Increased their speed of delivery of new applications
- Improved how fast they are able to fix performance issues
- Accelerated their feedback cycle between operations and development to address performance issues
- Enhanced their understanding of where the problems are and which are the most important to address first
- Enhanced their understanding of changes that happened which caused a performance issue
- Improved collaboration across their organization to determine the root cause of performance issues
CA APM 10 helped achieve the following:
- Proactively manages the user experience to create a competitive advantage for their business
- Utilized system intelligence through advanced analytics and smart instrumentation for more rapid triage
- Fueled collaboration across their organization to enable continuous performance and quality improvements
Agrees with the following statements:
- They have improved end user experience and gained better visibility into the applications with CA APM 10
- CA APM 10 helps their organization speed and simplify the triage of application performance issues
- CA APM 10 helps them protect their experts with less need to bring everyone into the war room

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Phoenix Contact Finds CA APM 10 the Most Important Tool for their DevOps Strategy

Introduction

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