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Transforming digital success: Cisco Cloud Observability business metrics unveiled

In the dynamic landscape of digital business, the pursuit of delivering exceptional user experiences in every digital interaction continues to be a challenge. Cisco, a pioneer in full-stack observability, announced on November 28 at AWS re:Invent the release of business metrics for Cisco Cloud Observability. Let’s delve into the revolutionary landscape that this innovation is carving for both business owners and technical users.

57% of UK consumers say digital bliss a must for festive fun, Cisco survey reveals

A recent survey by Cisco highlights the pivotal role of digital applications and services in enhancing the holiday season experience. With a global increase in application usage anticipated, the report underscores the need for brands to ensure optimal performance of their digital services or risk dampening the festive spirit.

Brands must focus on digital experience to spread festive cheer this holiday season

Survey results reveal the critical role of applications and digital services during the most wonderful time of the year. Research published today by Cisco reveals that consumers around the world will be using more applications and digital services over the holiday season than ever before. But seasonal goodwill will quickly turn to festive fury if applications don’t perform as they should. And some people claim they will turn into the Grinch!

Detect and diagnose purchase abandonment with automation

By using the Experience Journey Map, users can quickly see where in the browser and mobile journey users are dropping, or where in the conversion process are users most likely having issues. Dive deeper into what may be an underlying cause, perhaps geographic or by device type rather than due to an application fault. Reduce the amount of investigative work and fix what matters most importantly, by pinpointing where and why the user experiences issues.

Streamline your CD pipeline for Cisco Cloud Observability

How can you leverage a monitoring-as-code mechanism to initiate new workload monitoring, or to create new visualizations? In this demo, see how Cisco AppDynamics can integrate with Flux CD (Continuous Delivery)—a GitOps Kubernetes operator tool that offers a simple and efficient interface to synchronize manifests within CD workflows from GitHub repositories. See how easy it is to upgrade existing software with just a few lines of code such as when instrumenting new workloads with the OpenTelemetry Agent or customizing a Grafana dashboard.

Uni Updates Episode 4: AppDynamics University is moving to Cisco U

AppDynamics University's self-paced and instructor-led training is moving to Cisco U., Cisco’s world-class learning experience platform, and will be available after December 15, 2023. What does this mean for you? If you have a Standard AppDynamics University subscription, self-paced training will be available in Cisco U. Free. If you have a Premium or Multi-User University subscription, self-paced and instructor-led training will be available in Cisco U. Essentials. In all cases, you will need to create a Cisco U. account using your AppDynamics University account email address.

The App Attention Index 2023: Beware the Application Generation

The latest App Attention Index published by Cisco AppDynamics reveals how younger consumers — “The Application Generation” — is punishing brands whose applications and digital services fail to perform. Across the world, attitudes and behaviors toward applications and digital services are evolving at speed.

Proactive monitoring with automated alerts

E-commerce DevOps teams can use AppDynamics to monitor the health and performance of their applications, receiving alerts on issues BEFORE significant business impact. Devs can use AppDynamics to provide automatic email and text notifications about such issues. In this demo, see how you can harness a custom email alert notification to view anomalous synthetic transaction events within the Browser App Dashboard, drill into the Heath Rules violation page, and link to a custom dashboard to troubleshoot an unexpected increase in synthetic end-user response time for shopping cart activity.