Almaden Collective IQ vs UXM

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.

UXM is a digital employee experience and workplace observability platform for monitoring endpoint, application and network performance. It is intended to help IT teams find issues before employees encounter them, investigate causes, reduce software expenditure and measure IT improvements. UXM says it supports more than 100,000 endpoints, with an agent using 25 MB of RAM and 0.5% CPU. The platform includes more than 100 preconfigured dashboards and reports. AI and machine learning models can analyze collected data to identify issues and trigger automated remediation workflows. UXM connects with more than 100 third-party systems and offers native Splunk integration, including Splunk Enterprise features and Splunkbase integrations. Deployment options are on-premises or SaaS, and UXM says it is pre-embedded in Dell Wyse thin client devices. It lists support for Windows, macOS, Linux and UNIX. Web monitoring tracks page load, TTFB, FCP, Web Vitals, Apdex, code errors, network latency and bandwidth; browser extensions are available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. A 90-day free trial includes a dedicated instance for up to 10,000 endpoints without a credit card. Pricing beyond the trial is on request.