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    Akamai mPulse

    Score7.8 out of 10
    N/AmPulse, from Akamai, is a real-time end-user digital experience monitoring solution (or RUM, for real user monitoring) that enables the user to capture user experience data, optimize website performance, and measure ROI.N/A

    Nexthink

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ANexthink Workplace Experience is a cloud-native platform allowing IT teams to manage the Digital Employee Experience (DEX) by providing insights across devices, applications, users, operating systems, locations and organizational units.N/A
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    Akamai mPulseNexthink
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    Akamai mPulseNexthink
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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    Nexthink
    Score7 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Akamai mPulseNexthink
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    User Testimonials
    Akamai mPulseNexthink
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Akamai
    In general, if you manage a website, you must have a real user monitoring tool. mPulse is one of the leaders in the market, so if you use this product, you can count on the reliability of the product itself. Personally, I think that if you need to collect technical KPIs, mPulse is a good choice. If on top of technical metrics, you want to collect also business KPIs, potentially there are other products doing this better.
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    Nexthink
    I've been managing desktops for 20+ years and Nexthink was the missing tool out of my toolbox. Just to give some perspective, if you were building and maintaining a house, Nexthink would be comparable to switching up from a hammer and nails and to full blown using a nailgun. Nexthink is a solution accelerator and a well thought out toolset to give you the customer experience at a glance. It allows for so much more visibility just with the default set of data points the Collector (agent) gathers, which is A LOT, and grants you the ability to gather even more data with remote actions. All of this evidence cuts how the "it could possibly be this" and "maybe it's that" discussions when you're troubleshooting an issue. It may not provide the exact answer all the time, but it gives you a "compass point" on where you need to start looking to resolve the issue. Also the service monitoring, activity monitoring, and critical event thresholds really empower the teams to know when a problem is happening and they can get ahead of it before the first call even reaches the Help Desk. Nexthink is a cornerstone tool in our environment for end user experience and I'm excited to see where the go next.
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    Pros
    Akamai
    • Real time data: you can know in real time how your website is performing.
    • "What if" functionality to choose, from a business point of view, the right web pages to improve
    • Understanding what are the slow pages and seeing the impact on the global performance from a technical and a business point of view.
    • Waterfall functionality - possibility to go in details to a specific session.
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    Nexthink
    • It allows for an IT department to be proactive with finding/solving issues before they happen
    • It allows for a company to have a great tool for engaging with end users using campaigns/surveys
    • It shows the full overall picture of a device/network connections when troubleshooting user issues.
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    Cons
    Akamai
    • The creation of a specific dashboard is not easy. You can leverage the available dashboards but if you need something else is not so easy to achieve.
    • Old UI - the look and feel of the product should be improved. It seems very old.
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    Nexthink
    • The on-premise solution can be slow at times and resource-demanding even on newer laptops. (This isn't the case with the cloud offering.)
    • Some useful features are only available to cloud customers.
    • Library pack configuration could be made easier, often these packs require some customization and it's not always clear how to get them up and running after importing.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Akamai
    Generally speaking, both products allow you to not be blind on your website. Easily, you can see how your website is performing. At the moment, Blue Triangle is better than Akamai for the business part (there are more business metrics collected and many more available dashboards for consuming this kind of data). Moreover, the look and feel and the usability of the Blue Triangle portal is better than Akamai one.
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    Nexthink
    Nexthink had better integration and a better user interface. 1E did not have the engagement capability which is so critical to many of the actions we complete using Nexthink. Nexthink had better trending data capabilities. 1E did not capture and hold data the way Nexthink does so all data assumes you are able to pull information from all systems at any time. with remote systems it is unlikely you will capture all systems at the same time so it makes any actions less effective. this review was performed 4 years ago so 1E may have addressed some of these limitations but Nexthink has also grown and continues to add and improve on their industry-leading capabilities.
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    Return on Investment
    Akamai
    • Choose the right pages to optimize.
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    Nexthink
    • SCCM proactive remediation: Automatically resolving hundreds of SCCM issues per month
    • Hardware: Identification of over $5m cost avoidance by seeing a lack of usage for 128GB SSDs - no need to upgrade to 256GB... coupled with OneDrive migration packs in the Nexthink library this is valuable.
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