TechValidate Research on AIOps From Broadcom


Telco Equipment Provider Improves Performance

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise consumer services 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.

“Using Telco, we’ve gained visibility into performance issues within the whole environment.”

Challenges

  • Business challenge addressed with CA APM 10:
    • Difficult and long root-cause analysis for app performance issues
  • Challenge addressed when troubleshooting application performance issues with CA APM 10:
    • Difficulty determining what changes precede or cause 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
    • Differential Analysis that helps them quickly recognize problems and understand the most critical and recurrent problems

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
    • 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: effective
    • Monitoring coverage: very effective
    • Scalability: very effective
    • Depth and frequency of metrics: effective
    • Customizations (e.g. dashboards): very effective
  • Improved the following with CA APM 10:
    • Improved their end-user-experience more than 50%
    • Improved application performance more than 75%
    • Improved proactively preventing issues more than 50%
    • Improved MTTR for application problems nearly 50%
    • Reduced the time they spent on admin and management tasks nearly 50%
  • Experienced the following benefits as a result of adopting CA APM 10:
    • Improved the quality of the applications our organization delivers
    • Enhanced our understanding of where the problems are and which are the most important to address first
  • CA APM 10 helped achieve the following:
    • Easily deployed and managed application performance management to gain value
  • Agrees with the following statement:
    • CA APM 10 helps our organization speed and simplify the triage of application performance issues




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