New Research Finds Top Performing Companies Achieved a 39% Improvement in Application Response Times, as Opposed to the Industry Average of 12%

BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 8, 2010) -  By integrating the experience of end users with application design, companies in Aberdeen's study have improved application performance, reduced complaints from end users about application issues, and have noticed an overall increase in the quality of the end user's experience. The latest research report, End-User Experience Monitoring and Management, announced by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (NYSE: HHS), finds that companies that implement monitoring of the user's experience also see improvements in application availability and response times, increased visibility into the performance of business transactions, and a reduction in the average time it takes to find and repair application issues.

The research report delivers hard-hitting facts based on responses from over 170 companies, and investigates the steps that top performing companies have taken to use the experience of end users to improve their business.

The report reveals the strategies top performing companies use to meet their application performance management requirements. Aberdeen's research found:

• Sixty-five percent (65%) of top performing respondents use the experience of end users as part of application design or changes
• Forty-seven percent (47%) of companies that are successful in monitoring the experience of end users had continuous visibility into the performance of revenue-generating transactions, as compared to 23% of all others

"Today, companies want to move beyond traditional measurements of application performance," says Jeff Hill, Research Analyst and author of the study. "Companies are looking for a solution provider with a demonstrated success in implementing solutions, superior customer service and training, and deep domain expertise that offer the ability to integrate the experience of users into business-critical applications and processes."

You can access a complementary copy of the End-User Experience Monitoring and Management report from Aberdeen Group's website. 

For more information on this report, please contact kevin.permenter@aberdeen.com or jeff.hill@aberdeen.com.

A complimentary copy of this End-User Experience research report is made available due in part to the following underwriters: Knoa Software and Tevron.

Visit Research.Aberdeen.com for additional access to complimentary Information Technology Research.

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