Splunk MINT extends operational intelligence to mobile apps

The two new offerings empower Splunk customers to gain greater Operational Intelligence from mobile apps. Splunk MINT Express, a cloud service, gives mobile application developers a fast path to application intelligence with analytics on app quality, usage and performance. Splunk MINT Enterprise further extends this capability by integrating mobile application data with data in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud so customers can gain end-to-end visibility and perform real-time, omni-channel application analytics. Watch the video to see Splunk MINT Express and Splunk MINT Enterprise in action, sign up for a 15-day free trial of Splunk MINT Express and join the Splunk MINT Enterprise beta program.

“Splunk MINT Enterprise and Splunk MINT Express, the first new products from our Bugsense acquisition, not only help our customers build more reliable, better performing mobile apps but also harness mobile app data for new, strategic IT and business insights,” said Guido Schroeder, senior vice president of products, Splunk. “In a mobile-first world, mobile app performance and quality are mission-critical. At the same time, data from mobile apps that provides insights into user behavior and usage characteristics becomes even more valuable when combined with data from other channels, including web and laptop applications, to provide full visibility of user interactions across multiple channels.”

“Mobile applications have become increasingly critical to business success, but approaches to monitoring performance, usage and effectiveness tend to focus on developers or IT,” said Julie Craig, research director, Application Management, Enterprise Management Associates. “Splunk, with its mobile intelligence offerings, offers a unique approach that can support the cross channel insights needed by developers, IT operations and the business.”

Splunk MINT Express
Splunk MINT Express offers developers a fast path to mobile application intelligence. Mobile app developers can quickly instrument mobile apps and view performance and usage information in an easy-to-use cloud-based console. MINT Express enables customers to:
· Instrument mobile apps with a single line of code.
· Gain real-time insight into the performance, quality and usage of mobile apps.
· Find and fix network and transaction performance issues.

“Splunk MINT Express will help ensure that our customers obtain the best performance from our mobile offerings including, CloudCompass by Cvent, CrowdTorch by Cvent and OnArrival mobile apps,” said Al Funk, director of mobile product development, Cvent. “Splunk MINT Express will help us identify unusual app performance issues before they impact our mobile users and gain new insights into user engagement, so we can continuously improve the customer experience.”

Splunk MINT Enterprise
Splunk MINT Enterprise (beta) combines mobile application data with other data in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud to provide end-to-end visibility and correlation to enable customers to:
· Identify availability and performance issues across mobile apps, networks (LTE or Wi-Fi) and back-end systems.
· Gain additional insight into how, where and when mobile apps are being utilised.
· Compare and contrast app performance and usage with web or client-based performance and usage.
· Correlate application usage across mobile, web and other channels to identify business opportunities and patterns.
· Present new insights in real time to IT and business stakeholders using a single platform.