Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued) vs. Nexthink

From my point of view, when we are working with a medium package project, this Micro Focus AppPulse Suite is very useful and effective at finding problems in our activities and codes and isolating them. But when we are working on large-size projects or backend performances, it works slowly to detect issues.

Incentivized

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.

• Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
• Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.

Incentivized

• 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.

• It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
• At first it's hard to find some features.

Incentivized

• 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.

Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

• With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
• Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized