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AppDynamics Spring '17 Release Empowers Application Teams to Ship Faster and More Reliably Throughout the Modern Software Development Lifecycle
AppDynamics,
a Cisco
company and the leader in application intelligence, today announced its
Spring '17 release, including the AppDynamics Developer Toolkit and
major updates to Enterprise iQ and Business
iQ. The latest release empowers application teams to deliver
impactful customer experiences faster while laying the foundation for
unprecedented scale. Now, the entire business can quickly align around a
single goal: continuously delivering high quality mobile and web
applications faster than ever. AppDynamics customers can quickly build,
deploy, measure and improve their customer experiences regardless of the
environment.
In our digital-first world, where quality and performance are
prerequisites for brand loyalty, delivering flawless application
experiences is the key to business success. However, many businesses -
slowed by organizational misalignment and specialist tools that isolate
individuals and groups - struggle to meet increasingly high customer
expectations. This puts an enormous strain on application teams to
deliver new applications, features, and fixes faster and more reliably.
"Today, the application is the business, creating immense pressure on
organizations to deliver new experiences that 'wow' customers," said
Bhaskar Sunkara, chief technical officer and head of product at
AppDynamics. "And digital leaders continually raise the bar for what
consumers expect from application experiences. With our new Developer
Toolkit, companies can give their application teams the context of how
their code impacts the business and deliver innovation like a digital
leader."
Introducing the AppDynamics Developer Toolkit
With the new Developer Toolkit, the AppDynamics Spring '17 release
provides application teams unmatched application development lifecycle
transparency, from the code to end-user experiences and the business
outcomes. With this newfound visibility, every team member can see the
impact their work has on the business in real time, and ultimately
deliver better applications that create value for the organization. The
new Developer Toolkit spans tools for build, test, analysis and
continuous improvement:
Build. Support for new languages and development tools enables
application developers to transform ideas into better apps faster.
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Go Support - Go's (or Golang's) popularity continues to rise because
it's powerful yet easy to understand and maintain. With AppDynamics
for Go, application teams now have the patented Business Transaction
(BT (News - Alert)) detection and tracing for Go applications. They can now gain
insight with reports on errors generated by bad requests, providing
better end-to-end coverage across distributed application environments.
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Xamarin Support - Comprehensive support for Xamarin allows mobile
application developers to embed AppDynamics in native iOS and Android (News - Alert)
mobile applications and monitor and drive application performance from
a single code base.
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Android Studio Plugin - Developers can now automate the
instrumentation process for Android applications, thereby reducing
errors and making it easier for developers to deliver performant
Android mobile apps.
Integration and Test. New extensions to BTs empower app teams to
focus on the user journeys and code that move the needle the most,
improving customer outcomes and speeding release velocity.
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Developer Mode Business Transactions - With new Developer Mode
BTs, application teamsnow have deep-code diagnostics for specific
Business Transactions in both pre-production and production
environments enabling them to quickly address bottlenecks and
remediate any issues found in testing.
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Live Mode Business Transactions - Live Mode BTs deliver faster and
more accurate configuration by detecting and defining rules according
to live application data to identify critical Business Transactions.
Automated Analysis. With new crash analysis tools, applications
teams will spend less time on unplanned work and troubleshooting, and
more time building new features that can impact the business.
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Smart Crash Alerts - When instrumenting new mobile applications, Smart
Crash Alerts are set up by default to save time and effort
post-instrumentation. Spend less time configuring alerts.
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Unique Crashes in Business iQ - New crash reports in Business iQ
correlate app crashes to business metrics like conversion rates,
revenue or anything else the business tracks. Now app teams have new
visibility into crashes so they can prioritize fixing the issues that
matter the most to the business.
Smarter Continuous Improvement with Business iQ. The best apps
are continuously refined and tuned to improve the user experience. The
AppDynamics Developer Toolkit provides unmatched intelligence into
customer journeys so app teams know which updates will matter the most
to customers and the business.
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Real User Insights - New session summary dashboards track individual
customer sessions while capturing scrolls, taps and other gestures so
developers and business leaders gain unparalleled insight into how
customers experience applications.
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Mobile Scorecard - Major updates to the mobile scorecard show the
metrics that matter, at a glance. The new mobile scorecard makes it
easy to see crash rate, number of crashes, network request
performance, and error rates for every mobile application at a glance.
Enterprise iQ and Business iQ Enhancements
The Spring '17 release also features updates to Enterprise iQ that
provide powerful new capabilities and scale for modern enterprises
including:
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License Management - Provides the flexibility required for
DevOps environments by assigning licenses based on business unit. With
powerful configuration rules and a simple to read dashboard, license
keys can be easily assigned or reassigned so that teams never run out
of licenses when they need it.
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Universal Agent - Deploying, upgrading, and maintaining agents
is now significantly easier. A single package can now be deployed to
any machine that requires monitoring, and the universal agent will
coordinate with the AppDynamics controller to automatically deploy and
configure it so teams spend less time configuring and more time
innovating. Universal agent supports the Java and Machine agent types,
with other agents expected to be supported in future releases.
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More Powerful Business iQ Metrics - Baselines become even more
powerful with the Spring '17 release. By leveraging the power of the
AppDynamics Query Language (ADQL) in Business iQ, application teams
can build powerful dashboards and establish health rules faster than
ever. Now application teams have even more intelligence into how
application changes are impacting the business.
Comments on the News
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"Our most valuable asset is our customers, so our culture is
ferociously focused on ensuring results today and readiness for
tomorrow," said Jeff Brady, Program Manager at Allscripts. "To do
this, everyone in the business must understand the impact their work
has on end users. With AppDynamics' new Developer Toolkit, our
application teams are able to collaborate around delivering value
enabled healthcare IT to every line of code."
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"A frequent cause of underperforming application teams is a lack of
collaboration or common goals," said Donnie Berkholz, Research
Director at 451 Research (News - Alert). "With its new Developer Toolkit, AppDynamics
aims to help build stronger teams with more impactful results by
providing a framework for measurement and shared ownership that teams
can rally around."
Pricing and Availability
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The AppDynamics Spring '17 release is expected to be made generally
available beginning April 5.
Additional Information
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