Henry Jennings is the Principal Engineer-Clients Services/Desktop at Sony Pictures Entertainment. An industry veteran, Henry has worked with IT teams for over two decades on improving their services support and building tangible metrics for business success. He was fundamental in his company’s shift to remote work in 2020 and has managed several large-scale IT projects across Sony.

Last month, Catchpoint was named a Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics category. Not only were our product capabilities highlighted in the anonymous set of reviews from our customers, but we were delighted to see our entire customer support team recognized for their round-the-clock assistance and the lengths they go to in order to ensure outstanding service.

For companies of all sizes, the struggle to understand and improve digital employee experience (DEX) is nothing new. What is new, however, is the working landscape we’ve all been navigating since the pandemic—where remote work has become the norm, and where the employee experience has become almost exclusively digital. As a result, businesses have implemented significant strategic changes over the past several months.

David Paul is the Director of the IT Service Desk at TRC Companies, Inc.—a leading consulting, engineering, and construction management firm that provides technology-enabled solutions to the power, oil & gas, and environmental & infrastructure markets. David has over 25 years of IT service delivery and infrastructure experience, and he was one of the key figures to lead his company’s shift to remote work during the pandemic.

IT executives, operators, and administrators can quickly assess end-user availability and performance experience based on Microsoft 365 services’ critical data from end-to-end monitoring. This eases their day-to-day tasks by reliable reporting data, troubleshooting information, and end user experience for their Microsoft 365 services.

Catchpoint detected an AWS outage earlier today, 25th November 2020. Enterprises that had their applications or services running on AWS US East 1 were impacted. Even some of the AWS products were impacted by the outage. We noticed Amazon services such as Athena slowing down at 5AM PST followed by intermittent HTTP 500 errors that started around 5:15AM PST. However, by 5:30AM PST, the fallout from the outage was evident.

Today we bring you the latest installment in our series of Employee Experience (EX) related eBooks, focused on how Catchpoint can help you guarantee optimal digital experience for your employees. In our last eBook, we looked at how you can best utilize digital experience monitoring for G Suite. In the latest edition, we demonstrate how you can use performance monitoring to ensure the optimal end-user experience for Salesforce.

Looking back to our virtual event last week, Remote CTRL, we decided to round up some of the best literature out there around employee experience and technology. As workforces around the US and the globe continue to adapt to remote working and SaaS usage keeps on rising, we wanted to know more about how I.T. teams are managing digital employee experience (DEX) and gain insight from some of the leaders in the field.

Gartner Peer Insights evaluates peer review and ratings for software and service providers. The reviews offer valuable insights for decision-makers and plays a key role in the IT buying process. Catchpoint was picked as a Gartner Peer Insights 2020 Customers’ Choice in the Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics (NPMD) category. Network performance monitoring and diagnostic (NPMD) tools aid in understanding network health, performance, and how it behaves in different scenarios.

Monday, long regarded as the worst day of the week, made good on its reputation for several thousand Slack users a few weeks ago. What started as an initial server problem at Slack during the wee hours of October 5th, devolved into a performance outage that impacted users for more than six hours.