Both Avada Software Infrared360 and Akamai mPulse are powerful tools for IT infrastructure management, but Akamai mPulse seems to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and extensive capabilities, despite higher setup costs.
Features: Avada Software Infrared360 is praised for its robust monitoring and alerting capabilities, comprehensive visibility, and control. Akamai mPulse offers detailed performance analytics, real-time insights, and actionable data for optimization.
Room for Improvement: Avada Software Infrared360 users suggest enhancing integration options, improving scalability, and refining data accuracy. Akamai mPulse users recommend expanding reporting capabilities, refining data accuracy, and enhancing its current features.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Avada Software Infrared360 is noted for its straightforward setup process and reliable customer support. Akamai mPulse deployment is highlighted for its comprehensive documentation, though users report varying experiences with customer support quality.
Pricing and ROI: Avada Software Infrared360 is generally found to be cost-effective with positive ROI due to its stable performance. Akamai mPulse, while more expensive, is viewed as worthwhile by users appreciating its advanced features, offering better ROI despite higher setup costs.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Akamai mPulse | 0.6% |
| Avada Software Infrared360 | 0.4% |
| Other | 99.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 1 |
| Large Enterprise | 6 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 4 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 5 |
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
Avada Software specializes in Enterprise Middleware solutions. Founded by some pioneers in SOA, MQ and J2EE technology, Avada’s Flagship product, Infrared360, is a holistic & innovative private cloud enabled portal providing self-service administration, monitoring, load testing, auditing & statistical reporting for Enterprise Middleware including IBM’s middleware stack of MQ, IIB (message broker), WAS, and Datapower, as well as other applications servers such as JBoss, TC Server, Weblogic, and other messaging technologies such as Tibco EMS and Kafka*.
Accessed via any web browser on any device, Infrared360 is a single web application, yet scales to 2500+ endpoints without deploying anything (no agents, no scripts) to those endpoints.
Using trusted ‘spaces’ and delegated visibility and control, the portal uniquely provides different business units or even different application users virtual ‘spaces’ in which to work. Within those spaces are only the objects and resources the user has been granted visibility. Role policy dictates permissions on those resources.
It is the ONLY Enterprise Messaging Solution with a built in SOA engine that lets you leverage internal and external services for managing and correcting problems within your middleware messaging environment.
*Kafka coming soon
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