ManageEngine DEX Manager Plus vs Riverbed Aternity

ManageEngine DEX Manager Plus collects endpoint experience data and turns it into analytics for monitoring and improving employees’ digital journeys. Its DEX Score combines performance, sentiment, and stability measures. Monitoring includes application crashes, hardware resource use, device reliability, responsiveness, and employee sentiment. The product groups related alerts into prioritized insights to support troubleshooting and root cause analysis. No-code workflows can clear temporary files, restart services, and apply fixes across device groups. Its action library includes collectors, workflows, scripts, and dashboards, with PowerShell, Batch, and CMD support. Active Directory integration can import domain-linked devices, create organizational-unit groups, and deploy agents using existing credentials. The cloud service uses a browser console and endpoint agents, with an optional distribution server for remote offices; agents are documented for Windows, macOS, and Linux. A 30-day trial covers unlimited devices, although cloud access is subscription-only. Monthly Professional Edition prices range from $49 a month for 50 computers and one technician to $634 a month for 1000 computers and one technician.

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.