TechValidate Research on AIOps From Broadcom


Case Study: Global 500 Banking Company

Introduction

This case study of a Global 500 banking company is based on a June 2013 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.

“CA APM has brought an awakening in the APM arena. We have had quite a few application portfolio managers internally eager to deploy APM on their infrastructure to get answers to their perf/code issues.”

“We appreciate the ease of use/implementation with CA APM.”

Challenges

  • Purchased and implemented CA Application Performance Management to address the following:
    • An increased frequency of application slowdowns and downtime
    • Decreased customer satisfaction because of poor performance/outages
    • Inefficient troubleshooting and maintenance
    • The application server performance
    • The need to consolidate disparate monitoring tools into a single solution for more integrated performance management

Use Case

  • Has 500 – 1,000 agents deployed.
  • Monitors the following types of applications/services with CA Application Performance Management:
    • E-commerce web applications
    • Financial services applications (trading, banking, et al)
    • Mainframe applications
  • Uses the following CA Application Performance Management offerings:
    • CA APM (Introscope + CEM)
    • CA Cross-Enterprise Application Performance Management

Results

  • Chose CA Application Performance Management over the following competitors:
    • AppDynamics
    • BMC
    • Compuware/Dynatrace
    • IBM
    • Riverbed/Opnet
  • Achieved the following with the implementation of CA Application Performance Management:
    • Improved end-user experience
    • Reduced mean time to repair
    • Reduced the number of performance incidents
    • Improved transaction times
    • Reduced the total cost of downtime to their organization
    • Improved SLA metrics
    • Was able to devote more resources to IT innovation
  • Ranks the improvement of the following issues solved by CA Application Performance Management:
    • Mean Time to Repair: 20% to 40%
    • Number of Outages: 20% to 40%
    • Lost Revenue: up to 20%
    • Customer Satisfaction: 20% to 40%
    • IT Productivity: 20% to 40%




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