AppCritical Overview

The AppCritical Solution – An Overview

The Apparent Networks AppCritical solution gives enterprises and managed service providers a new and more effective way to gain insight into their networks and the applications that depend on them. AppCritical enables IT teams to track in real time the performance and service quality their networks are delivering – not just their availability. 

Unlike traditional network management tools that look in detail at individual devices, AppCritical gives users complete visibility into their network infrastructures.  It analyzes the entire, end-to-end network path used by an application without any breaks or blind spots.  AppCritical’s breakthrough technology even lets IT teams see inside their service providers’ networks to determine exactly how that network is performing and whether or not it is affecting their application traffic and their end users.  This industry-first capability unlocks more definitive performance and service quality information, enabling more decisive problem solving. 

AppCritical lets network teams answer the fundamental question – “Is it the network or the application?”  It delivers meaningful and actionable information in plain and simple terms so network teams can share it with their business-side colleagues.  AppCritical establishes a common framework in which IT and business teams can move from conflict to collaboration, and leverage IT investments to the organization’s greater advantage.  That’s the AppCritical difference.  

AppCritical Benefits

The AppCritical solution enables network teams to: 

• Gain new insight into how network performance and service quality impact critical applications.
• Monitor and measure the quality of the end user’s experience in real time.
• Get a complete, horizontal view down the whole network path to augment the vertical, device-centric views offered by traditional network management tools.
• For the first time, see inside their service providers’ networks; know immediately about problems in a service provider’s cloud, impacting their application traffic and their end users – and how to fix it.  That’s visibility IT teams have never had before, and is offered by no other product today.
• Be able to give fast and accurate answers to the tough question: “Is it the network or the application?”
• Provide business-side colleagues with meaningful and actionable information in plain and simple language.
• Deliver definitive information and take decisive action that moves IT from being reactive to proactive, from always being in conflict with constituents to promoting better cross-functional collaboration. 

AppCritical Brochure [pdf]