What Is the Difference Between AAI and Application Monitoring or BI Tools?

Video Transcript

Let's examine the strengths of Automation Analytics & Intelligence (AAI) from Broadcom compared to Splunk and Tableau. These general-purpose tools have limited real-time monitoring, lack seamless integration, and restrict proactive interaction with live data from enterprise workload solutions.

Extracting advanced workload data in Splunk and Tableau requires skills in product-specific query languages, reducing accessibility for regular business users. When data does appear, there is limited ability to drill down, specify conditions, set alerts, or take action. These tools are simply not designed for active observation, control, and optimization of advanced workload information.

Challenges with traditional dashboard solutions

Visualizing end-to-end processes or workload-specific business groupings in Splunk or Tableau requires:

• Identifying data sources
• Performing field extractions
• Creating indexes and keys

Even after this effort, depicting dependency relationships and critical paths remains highly challenging.

Increases in average job duration are critical for businesses to pinpoint costly slowdowns, yet surfacing this in a dashboard is cumbersome. Identifying key data and generating tool-specific query functions are required, whereas in AAI, the data is easily ingested, analyzed, and available for immediate action.

The advantages of AAI by Broadcom

AAI provides:

• Pre-built dashboards, reports, and visualizations for actionable insights
• Critical path forecasting and delay prediction
• Identification of bottlenecks and job schedule optimization
• Easy SLA derivation and alerting
• Seamless, real-time calculations on millions of daily events

Modifying dashboards in traditional solutions requires constant data manipulation and analysis but will never provide the speed, contextual insights, ease of use, and proactive problem resolution of an integrated, native solution like AAI.

Summary

AAI by Broadcom delivers a purpose-built solution for workload visibility and optimization, offering key advantages over general-purpose data visualization tools like Splunk and Tableau.

Note: This transcript was generated with the assistance of an artificial intelligence language model. While we strive for accuracy and quality, please note that the transcription may not be entirely error-free. We recommend independently verifying the content and consulting with a product expert for specific advice or information. We do not assume any responsibility or liability for the use or interpretation of this content.