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We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity and Nexthink based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Alluvio Aternity vs. Nexthink Report (Updated: May 2024).
772,649 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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Pros
"While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications.""DEM-Q (Digital Experience Management Quadrant) is very useful. This is where they stand out with their dashboard, because it gives us a picture of how our company is doing compared to the other businesses out there.""Desktop monitoring, and being able to understand the performance of applications that runs on the desktop.""All of it, but it depends on who the end user is. The folks that support the applications, like the signatures that we've developed, it gives them feedback on their application performance.""The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes.""Alluvio Aternity is stable.""The user experience it provides is the most valuable feature for us.""As a financial institution, we have a lot of applications that are either written internally or bought from a vendor and customized for us. Having a tool that lets us monitor specific transactions in those applications allows us to focus on the transactions that are important to the business."

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"This is a proactive management tool and we make use of the metrics, dashboard creation and complete remote actions on end user machines.""With this solution we are able to link issues to automatic actions that will solve the problem.""Performance-wise, Nexthink is very good, and with each version, it is improved.""Number of service incidents dropped by more than 20%.""I would rate the solution's stability a nine out of ten.""The initial setup is very simple.""I like everything about this product.""We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."

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Cons
"Aternity does provide performance numbers, the data. However, it doesn't tell you what you can do about it. It just presents the facts. How to interpret the data, and how to draw conclusions from a lot of the data, requires knowledge and experience. That's the part that I would hope Aternity can continue to explore and give us that kind of capability.""The thing that I think most companies like ourselves would want would be an easier way to customize custom scripts.""The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use.""Some of the dashboarding and reporting on the analytics side could be improved. I think they realize it. Obviously, some of the desktop monitoring metrics always can be improved.""Right now, the user information being displayed by Aternity is received from AD. Ideally, we would like to see integration with other sources for user information, like other databases, so we are not limited to AD.""I would like to get more granular detail. In regards to defining the applications and activities upfront, that can be challenging. Simplifying that would be a big win. One of the things that I know they are already working on is a verbose mode.""In terms of a new feature, it would be good if we could restrict a user to a specific application or server. We have several customers, and we have to set up one or two servers for each customer. We have to set up one server for production and one for the test environment. Each user at the customer level can see all applications and the data of all applications, which is not really useful and good. We should be able to restrict user access at the application level or server level.""Being able to add custom monitoring to dashboards would be nice. Right now, if you want to monitor the value of a registry key on your systems, to get that added into the dashboard you have to reach out to Aternity so they can start looking for that value. It would be interesting if that were more of a self-serve function."

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"The solution could use better automation and less coding. Since I am part of the administrative background, I'm not completely into the development side. I'm not well versed in coding.""The initial setup needs technical knowledge.""We've had some issues integrating Nexthink with the cloud, so there are some delays in bandwidth, causing it to slow down a little. If they added better integration with the public cloud, I would be more likely to recommend it to customers.""We have provided them feedback on a few changes we would like to see with how alerting can work. Rather than have somebody looking at the network, if network utilization goes above a certain point, it would be helpful if the solution issued an alert to the right people.""The stability of this solution could be greatly improved to avoid performance issues.""The tool should improve its pricing and performance. It also have nothing related to patch management.""The solution could provide more training. There should be proper documentation on the solution because even for small issues we have needed to reach out to the support team. The person who is doing all the administration work should have the proper information, but the problem is the documentation is lacking. There is no proper training or documentation available. Nexthink is holding all the information. We want to learn, but you can not without the information.""There are many limitations. If I'm using a Windows 10 system and Windows has certain restrictions, Nexthink won't be able to penetrate into the Windows OS due to those restrictions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "Our management squeezed Aternity pretty hard on the pricing, in my opinion a little too much. I advise negotiating for sure, but I do think it left kind of a sour taste in Aternity’s mouth that we were being so pushy despite the fact that we were only purchasing a small number of licenses."
  • "It’s a little on the costly side, but if you license intelligently, accounting for your various hosts connecting in through VDI or terminal servers, you can make it well worth your money."
  • "If the scale of your monitoring will be to go everywhere in an organization, a site license is key."
  • "Pricing is a bit high. Don't take that as the "be all, end all"."
  • "In my opinion they are asking a lot for their SaaS solution, but I also know that that's the direction they're going... The current, on-prem solution is probably a fair price."
  • "The pricing for the users and agents is reasonable compared to other solutions and vendors."
  • "Regarding cost, compared to other solutions, Aternity is pretty low. It's definitely lower-cost than others that we looked at, like Nexthink."
  • "The pricing is fair."
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  • "Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases. The tool can do so much that to purely compare the price in a static way to other tools in your arsenal would be a mistake. If you do a more dynamic comparison that’s based on the overall functionality and use cases possible then it comes out cheaper. You need to consider it a relative measurement against potential use cases, size of the organization, maturity of organization, etc."
  • "With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations."
  • "I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and it provided background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings."
  • "There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services."
  • "I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
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    Top Answer:The dashboard is very effective.
    Top Answer:The solution's price is pretty comparable to the industry.
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    Also Known As
    Aternity, Workforce APM, Aternity Frontline, Riverbed SteelCenter Aternity
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    Overview

    Alluvio Aternity full-spectrum Digital Experience Management provides insight into the business impact of customer and employee digital experience by capturing and storing technical telemetry at scale from employee devices, every type of business application, and your cloud-native application service.

    It also helps you resolve issues quickly by showing you response time breakdown between client device, network, and application back ends. Aternity provides AI-powered visibility into the end user experience of every cloud, SaaS, thick client, or enterprise mobile app, whether it runs on a virtual, physical, or mobile device.

    Aternity Features

    Aternity has many valuable features, including:

    • Automatic discovery of every application in your enterprise portfolio, including SaaS and Shadow IT apps.
    • Click to render - measuring users' interactions with applications in the context of a business process.
    • Change validation - validating the impact of any type of device, application, or infrastructure change on end user experience.
    • Self-healing - automated remediation actions to recover from the most commonly expected user experience issues.
    • Anomaly detection - proactive notification of end-user issues
    • Transaction tracing of distributed applications - including cloud-native apps, via OpenTelemetry
    • Application troubleshooting - identify the cause of application issues

    Aternity Benefits

    Some of the biggest advantages the Aternity offers include:

    • Resolve problems quickly: With Aternity, you can monitor client-side latency, analyze the health and key metrics of the end user’s device, and correlate app performance to the virtual systems they are running on.
    • Reduce virtualization sprawl: Aternity helps you eliminate under-utilized resources with its ability to correlate the inventory of virtual desktop infrastructure to actual usage.
    • Experience level agreement (XLA): Aternity’s XLA feature can help your organization prove quality of service. Specifically, the XLA validates that business activity performance across all applications meets expectations by geography, department, and data center.
    • Mitigate IT transformation risk: Aternity helps you achieve success of both strategic and tactical IT initiatives.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Aternity users.

    PeerSpot user Ryan P., Head of Cyber Security Engineering & Oversight at a media company, says, "The most valuable thing that you get from Aternity is very broad visibility. You get visibility of your network, of your endpoints, of your software usage, your application performance, capacity, in one pane of glass. We had 20 to 30 IT tools, including application performance monitoring, network monitoring, security, endpoint detection, network protection, capacity management, service management — every kind of monitoring you can imagine. But Aternity was always the first place that I turned for anything, because you can see everything in it."

    An Endpoint Administration Manager at a financial services firm mentions, “It gives you the ability to filter the comparison by geography, industry, or company size.” He also adds, “We have absolutely seen ROI. It's really given us a very high level of visibility that we've just not ever had.”

    A Regional Network Manager at a recruiting/HR firm comments, "Aternity provides metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps, rather than just a few. It does some out-of-the-box monitoring for the Office suite, but you can create custom monitoring for any of your applications, whether a web client or a desktop application."

    A Sr. IT Manager at a manufacturing company states, "The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."

    Nexthink is a software solution company that focuses on helping IT workplaces by providing revolutionary insights into employees’ daily technology experiences. Nexthink offers IT departments a unique combination of automation, real-time analytics, and employee feedback. In order for IT departments to tell how employees use their services and how those services influence their productivity, Nexthink delivers a Digital Employee Experience Management platform. IT teams can now proactively measure and manage the digital employee experience.

    Nexthink is closing the widening and costly visibility gap by freeing up IT teams to advance from reactive problem-solving to proactive optimization. By providing real-time visibility into the technology that employees use, the support process is streamlined through powerful automation capabilities, which will lead to improved employee engagement, no matter where they work.

    About the Nexthink Experience

    Nexthink aims to eliminate the barriers to a better digital experience by accelerating innovation across all endpoints. How does Nexthink work?\

    • Analyze: Nexthink captures and visualizes event-level data so the user can be on top of connection failures, application crashes, and software installs. Nexthink Analyze also gives the user the ability to correlate employee sentiment with technical metrics. Those metrics can be quantified, and the user can improve employee sentiment through the given score.
    • Act: Using an extensive catalog of one-click, automated actions, users can fix common IT issues and give their support desk the ability to resolve incidents remotely. In addition to automated fixes, users can install software and update critical services quickly through customized remediation scripts.
    • Engage: IT teams engage in a two-way communication tool to help with submitted tickets. With an attention-grabbing notification, employees will become aware of critical information and can then fix problems more quickly.
    • Integrate: Personalize and enhance your business and IT processes with a large range of integrations and connectors. Users can import and export data, optimize ITSM solutions, authorize employee chatbot self-healing, and enhance Service Desk efficiency.
    • Application Experience: Users can combine Real User Monitoring and Digital Employee Experience to gain the visibility and actionability needed to manage these applications properly.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Nexthink is a leading solution in digital employee experience management software because it gives valuable advice and actionable steps into employees’ daily experiences.

    A tech specialist at a tech services company writes, "The initial setup is very simple."

    A second-level support team leader at a consultancy agency notes, "The solution’s visualizations are very good. It's very easy to use them... We can give our senior managers, our directors, and our partners a dashboard at a very high level. They can very easily start to drill down by clicking through the dashboard and find stuff that doesn't look right. And our technical teams can use the same thing to identify problems in specific locations."

    Sample Customers
    Maersk, SwissRe, Travis Perkins, Michelin, National Instruments, Simmons & Simmons, Lighthouse Guild
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    Healthcare Company13%
    Legal Firm10%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
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    Buyer's Guide
    Alluvio Aternity vs. Nexthink
    May 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Alluvio Aternity vs. Nexthink and other solutions. Updated: May 2024.
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    Alluvio Aternity is ranked 3rd in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) with 37 reviews while Nexthink is ranked 1st in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) with 21 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Nexthink is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nexthink writes " A monitoring tool that helps save the time of its users with its features while offering a reasonable amount of stability and scalability". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, SysTrack, AppDynamics, Azure Monitor and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Nexthink is most compared with SysTrack, ControlUp, Liquidware Stratusphere UX, ConnectWise Automate and Netskope Digital Experience Management. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Nexthink report.

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