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CA Technologies Application Performance Management Case Study

Fortune 500 Financial Services Gains Comprehensive of App Performance

Introduction

This case study of a Fortune 500 financial services company is based on a June 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.

“The selection of CA APM was made prior to my joining the company, but we have evaluated Dynatrace and AppDynamics over the past few years to see how their APM solution compares to CA’s. CA APM has enabled our operations team to get a more comprehensive view of application performance and health for several of our product lines and empowers them to identify and isolate performance problems quickly, which aids in reducing MTTR and ensuring our customers are satisfied with the services we provide.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select CA APM:

  • 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)

Use Case

“CA APM helps our organization speed and simplify the triage of application performance issues.”

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CA APM:

  • Troubleshooting application performance challenges solved by CA APM:
    • Needing to pull in too many experts into a war room to resolve problems
    • Difficulty in knowing when and where to act to solve performance issues
  • Top CA APM capabilities:
    • The ability to proactively manage user experience
    • The ability to visualize application performance across mobile to mainframe
    • The deep diagnostic details on transaction performance
    • The automatic collection of transaction traces
    • The ability to create customized dashboards
    • The broad coverage of application infrastructure components
  • Rates CA APM’s features compared to the competition:
    • Monitoring coverage: highly superior
    • Depth & frequency of metrics: significantly superior
    • Customization (e.g. dashboards): highly superior
    • Scalability: highly superior
  • Improved the following with CA APM:
    • End-user-experience: > 75%
    • Proactively preventing issues: > 75%
  • Benefits realized since adopting CA APM:
    • Improved the quality of the applications their organization delivers
    • Improved the ability to fix performance issues faster
    • A clear understanding of where problems are located and which are the most important to address first
    • Improved the ability to collaborate across their organization to determine the root cause of performance issues




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