Top Tools for Producing a Great Mobile App Experience

Top Tools for Producing a Great Mobile App Experience

Content- With the entire world going mobile and the availability of omnichannel solutions, it is now very important for every business to make sure that every aspect of the end-users mobile experience is catered to.

Application Performance Management (APM) tools for mobile offer enhanced visibility into the performance of the mobile app and helps in finding and resolving the issues which affect the experience of the users. Generally, these tools offer network monitoring, crash reporting, and interaction monitoring to ensure that the users are satisfied with every aspect of the app.

As per the user community of IT Central Station, some of the most important factors when selecting a mobile APM include enhanced monitoring abilities, data visibility, and in-depth trend analysis. On the basis of these factors, we have listed some of the best mobile APM’s.

1. AppDynamics                                               

With the help of AppDynamics, one can effectively manage transaction profiling, application mapping, real-time analytics and deep diagnostics.

The tool also allows businesses to understand the interaction between the server and mobile app by providing insights at the code-level about the distribution of application processes across databases, servers, queues, caches and 3^rd party services. Moreover, as the tool is SaaS-based, all the team members can easily access the tool anywhere and at any time. 

2. New Relic

New Relic is a renowned software analytics company which does an excellent job of making sense of several billions of metrics of millions of applications. In simple words, they help app developers understand their data.

Their advanced analytics offer business insights from millions of metrics that your application is producing, like mobile activity, clickstreams, transactions, and user experience. The most important benefit of New Relic is the transparency that it provides to help businesses track and fix the errors to ensure that their mobile application remains active and continues to satisfy the users.

3. Dynatrance

Dynatrance makes use of its patented PureStack Technology and PurePath Technology to correlate the health of host and guest infrastructure to the individual transactions of the application along with insights about the affected end-users.

Moreover, the application can also capture the timing and context at the code-level for all the end-to-end transactions. It allows businesses to see the bigger picture, allowing them to take right decisions at the right time by providing visibility across every channel which your users touch and enable you to holistically leverage all the data.

4. Logic Monitor

Logic Monitor is an agent-less monitoring service for secure and comprehensive systems. It supports more than 100 technologies which are grouped into devices and servers, virtual cloud machines, users and websites and services and apps. It has an excellent web portal with custom dashboards, configurable alerts, customizable reports and a lot more.

Apart from monitoring, it also collects and displays the data and allows you to create custom dashboards with 600+ LogicModules which offer correlations, graphs, and alerts. The only slight drawback of Logic Monitor is its price. The company determines the price for Logic Monitor on a customer-to-customer basis. You’ll have to get in touch with them to know its price. For a tool that is this capable, it definitely is worth the effort.

5. SmartBear

AlertSite from SmartBear ensures the quality of application by actively monitoring the mobile, web, APIs and SaaS application with the help of its monitoring nodes spread throughout the globe. It enables you to improve the experience of the users and easily detect and fix performance related issues before they even affect the experience of the users and your business.

SmartBear also offers a number of other tools for functional testing, collaborative development, and performance testing to help application developers ensure maximum quality throughout the lifecycle of the app.

6. MMSoft Pulseway

Pulseway from MMSoft is an excellent IT management solution which offers enhanced mobile capabilities. It has enhanced features in areas like infrastructure management, application performance management, and asset management. It also comes with a powerful desktop client which offers a subset of all the important information which is generally only available through a web-based interface with other tools.

The SaaS-based tool leverages the design choices for enhanced ease of use and offers a highly mobile-friendly feel. However, a major drawback of Pulseway is that it only supports Microsoft SQL Server for the purpose of database monitoring.

7. Rollbar

Rollbar can collect all the errors in your mobile and web application with the help of stack tracing technology in several different languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, and across several different platforms like Node.js and Django. As a matter of fact, any system which responds to JSON and HTTP can be used with Rollbar.

It also allows you to manually report the events and exceptions. It provides a live view of the errors up to the last few seconds, allowing you to resolve the problems faster. Moreover, it also tracks whether or not the problem is actually resolved and enables you to follow up with the customers to ensure that they have an amazing experience.

8. Quest Foglight

Foglight from Quest is an integrated customer- and transaction-centric application monitoring tool which allows you to retain customers, reduce abandonment and significantly improve the revenue streams by optimizing the performance of the mobile application.

With the help of its patent-pending TransactionDNA technology, it blends the business context with in-depth technical monitoring allowing you to unify data and users within structures model created around transactions. Its intuitive and powerful dashboards with pre-fixed dimensions allow you to tackle all the big data related problems with the help of actionable insights.

With mobile now enjoying a widespread popularity, it is integral for every business to make sure that they offer the best mobile application experience to their customers. The APM’s mentioned above provide businesses with an enhanced way to monitor their apps and take necessary actions instantly to provide the best to their customers.

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