it_user487431 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mexico Operations Manager at Tsoft
Consultant
It only took us two months to implement, with three people to make sure that the service is continually working.
Pros and Cons
  • "The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
  • "It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."

How has it helped my organization?

Our business marketing and technical aspects have improved.

What is most valuable?

The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers. They have a different views, some technical for us, and some technical for the customers. We are able to create different dashboards within AppPulse for business information. It's a great tool for different companies as we can create different mobile applications.

What needs improvement?

It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile. I have a wish list for AppPulse, but I can't remember now,. I've spoken to AppPulse about improving the tool, and it needs better reports, better dashboards, and HPE should know that it is a business tool. AppPulse needs to provide business information, not technical information. Nobody cares about crashes and the battery consumption. All the information that we need is what happened to our customers or their customers when navigating the application.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

AppPulse is just great.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's not a problem with scalability, but the size of the services and I think the scalability is from HPE and me.

How are customer service and support?

We are the first step of the technical support for our customers. We escalate all the tickets and we don't have problems.

How was the initial setup?

You don't really need too many skills to use AppPulse, or to implement it. It's easy to set up in a customer environment. We spent two two and a half months in a POC and then we implemented it across four individual channels. For electronic banking and the mobile channels, it only took us two months to implement, with three people to make sure that the service is continually working.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partners
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Managing Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Consultant
It allows us to determine whether features in our applications are valuable to our customers.

What is most valuable?

  • FunDex
  • Slice and Dice

How has it helped my organization?

It immediately enables us to see all the versions that our customers use, and helps us manage the different ones available. It helps us to figure out the day-to-day usage and preferences of our customer. There are features that we have been working on for years and we need to know if our customers are using them to determine their value.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for two years.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

There were unique challenges, but HP was able to help us with them.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues at all.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

We work directly with HP R&D, which makes it much more comfortable and responsive.

Technical Support:

They immediately helped us with every ticket we opened. They’re very strong.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We are also using One4Mobile at the moment.

How was the initial setup?

Generally it was straightforward.

What about the implementation team?

We’re a consulting company, so we are the ones who implement it for our customers.

What was our ROI?

It’s as fast as it can be.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The price charged depends on the amount of users.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck.

What other advice do I have?

In order to do a good deployment, do things in small steps and think it through, don’t do it all at once. You need to choose the right app to invest in, and you need to pick your battles.

Feel free to contact me, I’ll be happy to help.

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it_user258957 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user258957Functional Architect (Technical/Inbound Product Manager) at HP Software
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Thanks Idan for your review. We are working to integrate with many other HP offers, I am sure you'll find a lot value in that, as an HP partner.

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Consultant at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Consultant
It gives us enough technical details so we can pinpoint possible causes of what’s low and what can be developed.

What is most valuable?

The use of behavior and engagement with your app are two benefits we have gotten from AppPulse mobile. Overall the ease of the user interface has been valuable.

How has it helped my organization?

We gain understanding of how our users use our mobile apps and then we see how we can possibly improve. Its a great tool when I discuss our mobile app with both the technical guys and with our business side. The solution is easy to understand for our business side, but at the same time gives us enough technical details so we can pinpoint possible causes of what’s low and what can be developed.

What needs improvement?

There are some things I look forward to – alerts, service level management calculations, API so I can get the data from somewhere else rather than just the website, customizable time frame so I can adjust the date and time.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've used it for eight months.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Yes, but they are resolved for now based on newer versions, and the instrumentation is better already.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

There had been issues but HP have stepped up their game and things are much more stable today.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

No issues with scalability.

How are customer service and technical support?

Customer Service:

The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers. It’s a 10/10.

Technical Support:

Technical support is great – 10/10.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

It is quite easy, but we took a long time to set up because of past problems, currently it’s very easy to set up.

How was the initial setup?

We did an in-house implementation.

What about the implementation team?

ROI is hard to calculate even though there are a lot of benefits to the solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

In my opinion it’s very cheap, but there are also free applications, I still think the pricing is very low.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We looked at New Relic, Flurry, and Hockey App.

What other advice do I have?

Be in contact with HP support – you will get good support. Get the free trial and then you can see the benefits for your self – very fast and easy.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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it_user258957 - PeerSpot reviewer
it_user258957Functional Architect (Technical/Inbound Product Manager) at HP Software
Vendor

Thanks Nokkala for you review. It is great to hear such warm words on the HP SaaS and RnD support, it is a huge turnover. Also, we would be glad to work with you as a design partner on those missing capabilities you mentioned.
Haim Shuvali, HP AppPulse RnD.

it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Consultant
Helps me be proactive in solving a customer's problem before it even happens
Pros and Cons
  • "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."

    How has it helped my organization?

    It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens. I do the testing, and during the QA and the pre-production environments.

    What is most valuable?

    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.

    It has many features in one solution. For example, crashes, customer behavior, it's predictive. It helps predict the behavior before it happens.

    What needs improvement?

    This is a new solution by HP. It's less than two years, we're among the first to implement the solution, so I'm sure that there is a lot of room for enhancement and continuous improvement in the future.

    They have added a new feature, which was not part of the solution, which is they support what they call hybrid apps; before, it was only supporting native. That is something they work with your R & D, whereby they support this feature in the parent version of AppPulse.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    I've only been using it three to four months at this point, so I really can't tell right now. But the solution should be scalable.

    How are customer service and technical support?

    I would say on a scale of one to five, it's three and a half. I think the product was premature. The time to providing solutions should be faster, and they need to have local presence. The time difference and everything was an issue.

    Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

    We did what we called a benchmark, or survey, and we found this solution fit our needs and requirements, in particular its ability to help in understanding the customers. 

    What other advice do I have?

    Go through the experience I did, and then you will know it yourself. But I recommend it.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    it_user739602 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Consultant
    Vendor
    It's very practical, because it's web-based, and you can have results in a couple hours
    Pros and Cons
    • "Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
    • "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."

    How has it helped my organization?

    Customers are seeing the benefits immediately, mainly in the back office. They are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it. This is the most important thing of all.

    What is most valuable?

    We are trying to monetize the customer's user experience to help them define it. In Mexico, we have many customers with a huge development demand for mobile applications. For example, the last case in which we worked was with a retail banking company. They have approximately 20 applications for the end user. We've been working with them to sell the benefits that they will have with an application which monitors and provides feedback for the user.

    What needs improvement?

    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.

    Like all solutions, you have to develop special reports.

    What do I think about the stability of the solution?

    Yeah, it's very stable. This is a web-based application, a web-based solution. You only have to put in the APK for Android, a couple of codes, lines, and you're up. So, this is a solution which sells very fast. It's very practical, because it's web-based, and you can have results in just a couple hours.

    What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

    It's not a problem. The scalability is huge.

    How is customer service and technical support?

    I worked with HPE in hardware when defining the Cloud. I have worked with HPE the organization when it started. We have been seeing, back in Mexico, the whole enterprise reduced a little bit. But we have much support from them as we are one of their best partners in Mexico, we have the platinum level with HPE. Now, we are expecting the same thing with Micro Focus

    What other advice do I have?

    The application is very practical.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    it_user482793 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Subaddress Production Management at Banco Santander Mexico
    Vendor
    Interpreting the information is easy to learn and the monitoring is valuable.
    Pros and Cons
    • "The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
    • "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."

    Improvements to My Organization

    We can understand why an application crashes, and this helps us to reduce corruptions in an application and to make it easier for a client.

    Valuable Features

     The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic. I don't have problems.

    Room for Improvement

    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.

    Stability Issues

    It's good. We don't have problems.

    Scalability Issues

    Now, we have only one application with AppPulse.

    A mobile app froze, and we have another application which we use as well. We want to integrate these other applications into AppPulse to help improve the quality of the applications and it's data.

    Customer Service and Technical Support

    It's good. People respond quickly and make it easy to understand.

    Other Advice

    For us it is easy. It is friendly and it has information that is important for the business. The most important is the GUI and interpreting the information is easy to learn.

    It is the application that helps us fix crashes and improve applications further.

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    it_user270900 - PeerSpot reviewer
    Technology Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
    Consultant
    FunDex and user screen-flow are valuable features, and our in-house setup and implementation were straightforward.

    Valuable Features

    • FunDex
    • User-flow screen: so you can see wherever you have been sending the applications.
    • User Interface was easy.
    • User response time.
    • Analytics were useful.
    • Crash Trail - Easy to understand and you see what there is enough of and have access to all the facts of your users experience.

    Improvements to My Organization

    The FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization. For example, if I am seeing user-points used by FundEx, and I understand what is missing, so using the FundEx code, I can identify where exactly the problem is and I can fix my application.

    Room for Improvement

    • Enhanced Reporting
    • Scheduling report (Email/SMS)
    • On Premises solution instead SaaS
    • User name/location tracking
    • Snapshots
    • Mobile App for AppPulse
    • Response time drill down

    Use of Solution

    We've used it for three months, and we are currently evaluating it as part of a PoC.

    Deployment Issues

    No issues encountered.

    Stability Issues

    No issues encountered.

    Scalability Issues

    No issues encountered.

    Customer Service and Technical Support

    We haven't faced any issues.

    Initial Setup

    It was straightforward.

    Implementation Team

    We implemented it in-house.

    Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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    it_user4365 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user4365VP of Marketing at Amenity Analytics
    Vendor

    As a marketer it's extremely valuable to be able to see real user behavior on the app. The reporting function alone is with the Fundex one score system makes daily reports easy to digest and take action on. It makes Google Analytics for mobile app tracking look very old. This is the next generation.

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