Almaden Collective IQ vs Riverbed Aternity

Almaden Collective IQ combines IT asset management and digital employee experience capabilities with artificial intelligence. Its DEX view brings together experience across devices, locations, applications, collaboration tools, and employee sentiment. The platform correlates performance, inventory, usage, and sentiment signals to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and risks before they become incidents. Business Edition AlmaAI includes predictive analytics, automated problem detection, and recommendations; AlmaIQ is a conversational assistant available through Microsoft Teams or Google Chat. ITAM tracks hardware and software inventory, lifecycles, contracts, warranties, location, depreciation, and license usage. Listed connections include ServiceNow, Zendesk, Jira, Cervello, Desk Manager, BI, ERP, ITSM, and other enterprise systems, with REST JSON APIs for integration and automation. The cloud service supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Essential Edition retains data for 13 months with two months of visibility; Business Edition provides 13 months of both, with AlmaIQ available as an add-on. Pricing is on request. Almaden is headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Brazil and the UK.

Riverbed Aternity brings together information from employee devices, applications, and networks to help IT teams find and address disruptions. It draws on actual employee sessions and correlates signals across those sources to identify possible root causes. Aternity Replay reconstructs interactions within SaaS applications, linking browser activity to device and network context without recording screens. The mobile experience offering supports Android, iOS, and ChromeOS, including rugged devices, kiosks, and point-of-sale systems; it includes diagnostics, IT service management integration, and proactive remediation. Riverbed IQ integrations support runbook actions such as retrieving installed software, checking device health events, reviewing Microsoft Teams calls, and running remediation. Aternity is available as SaaS or on premises; SaaS uses Amazon Web Services, with data stored in the customer-selected cloud region. The offering includes endpoint, application, and network monitoring, as well as path visualization and network performance monitoring. Riverbed identifies enterprise environments, including large and complex organizations, as its intended setting. Pricing is on request.