Riverbed Aternity vs UXM

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.

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.