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We performed a comparison between Akamai mPulse and AppPulse Suite [EOL] based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The most valuable feature is the solutions overall performance. It is very efficient and accurate for our usage.""Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great."

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"The speed that you can get AppPulse out there was the brightest spot of this whole process.""With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app.""It provides a lot of customer insight, understanding the customer's needs, understanding the customer's issues, and it gives me a more proactive approach to solving a customer problem before it happens.""AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications.""Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it.""It identifies transactions and flows of the operations that our customers use with our mobile application.""We can collect data about the user experience and see how the user is behaving with the app, or check the behavior of the app itself.""The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."

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"The end-to-end distributor tracing connectivity isn't there.""In the next release, I would like to see the possibility of sharing the metric from this solution with other solutions."

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"The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment.""I think they can improve the feature that identifies the operating systems, the brand of the devices, the response time, geolocalization.""The one that sticks out in my mind is some flexibility to do recurring downtime.""The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi.""It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical.""I would love if AppPulse delivered more details about my users, for example, age and sex. It could split up the users into categories based on how frequently they use my product.""It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile.""Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."

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    Top Answer:Enables dynamic injections from within the product which is great.
    Top Answer:The end-to-end distributor tracing needs some work because the connectivity from the user to the backend wasn't there. Akamai mPulse was not able to deliver on our requirements regarding observation… more »
    Top Answer:The primary use case of mPulse is for real-time user monitoring. Our use case was to observe the entire platform from the user all the way to the backend system and that's what it did. It's all in the… more »
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    Also Known As
    SOASTA mPulse
    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
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    Overview

    Akamai mPulse is a real user monitoring (RUM) solution that gives performance engineers, administrators, and developers the ability to effortlessly visualize website functionality issues and identify ways to improve processes that conventional testing protocols do not find. mPulse gives users usable scenarios to better understand how processes such as user interactions, visual progress, and third-party resources may be disrupting the overall user experience and application delivery.

    mPulse enables users to take a deep dive into the specific performance issues and complete comprehensive error analyses, to thoroughly understand the effect on critical user interactions such as conversions, page views, and more.

    mPulse gathers and delivers data on an organization's website’s performance and metrics on user web browsing experiences. The mPulse feature “Boomerang” is a JavaScript Library that monitors the website page load time. Boomerang has a unique plugin architecture and works with all websites. The Boomerang feature is embedded on each page of an organization's website.

    mPulse works seamlessly with Akamai solution Ion, so the RUM data can be instantly gathered once the Luna Control Center has been activated. Ion instantly attaches Boomerang to the organization’s web properties; there is no need to change the website code.

    Akamai mPulse Benefits

    • Third-party monitoring: mPulse enables users to effortlessly monitor and visualize the effect that third-party vendors, resources, and scripts may have on the organization’s web properties.

    • Real-time intuitions: RUM data is continually being gathered, so users are able to instantly experience changes in user performance during every critical event. Users are able to respond immediately and make corrections or amendments as needed. Additionally, mPulse integrates effectively with other third-party notification solutions, such as Slack, PagerDuty, and webhook API support.

    • Framework integrations: mPulse integrates with many of today’s popular single-page application (SPA) frameworks, such as React.js, Backbone.js, Angular.js, Ember.js, and even some custom frameworks. mPulse has the ability to also be seamlessly integrated in Non-SPA websites.

    • Intuitive feedback: mPulse gathers data and creates workable solutions so users have a better understanding of how objects, images, or even entire pages are affecting user behavior. Users can gather numerous metrics (custom or advanced) to achieve a better, more complete understanding of ways to improve the user experience with the application or website.

    • Custom metrics and timers: With mPulse, users can effortlessly create custom timers to discover important performance sessions unique to the application. The mPulse dashboard allows users to set up trackers for numerous metrics, such as:

      • First image load time
      • Sidebar load time
      • Page load times
      • Third-party resource content load time

    • mPulse Beacon API: This valuable benefit allows users to send custom metrics from mobile and web applications to mPulse. This gives mPulse greater flexibility and usability to frameworks and platforms that can make HTTP calls. Representational State Transfer (REST) interface is included and is able to be used by any web application using any language running on the platform. There is also a Beacon API library for JavaScript. This option is available from the dashboard by creating a new application and an API key.

    Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile is the first self-service SaaS solution that tracks the real user experience of your mobile apps constantly monitoring performance, stability and resource usage. The tool provides FunDex – a mobile app quality score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

    Sample Customers
    Nordstrom, Gatwick, DirecTV, MSN, SquareSpace, SAP, Lenovo, Hallmark, myspace, Intuit, Kentucky Derby, Toys "R" Us, Netflix, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Lowe's, Nike, REI, Apple, Sears, Verizon, Wendy's, Huawei
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    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm24%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer10%
    Government7%
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    Financial Services Firm29%
    Energy/Utilities Company29%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Government14%
    Company Size
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    Small Business14%
    Large Enterprise86%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise73%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business44%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise38%
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    Akamai mPulse is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 6 reviews while AppPulse Suite [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Akamai mPulse is rated 6.6, while AppPulse Suite [EOL] is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai mPulse writes "Lacking in regard to observation of the entire platform but does dynamic injections from within". On the other hand, the top reviewer of AppPulse Suite [EOL] writes "The speed in which we were able to deploy it was the most valuable area for me". Akamai mPulse is most compared with New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog and AppDynamics, whereas AppPulse Suite [EOL] is most compared with .

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