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What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 5

APMdigest asked experts from across the IT industry for their opinions on what IT departments should be monitoring to ensure digital performance. Part 5, the final installment, offers some recommendations you may not have thought about.

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 1

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 2

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 3

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 4

SECURITY

The current software application scenario is predominantly threatened by security issues and cybersecurity risks. Security is probably one of the most critical aspects to consider while ensuring digital performance. In today's world of cyber threats, Security monitoring has become critical to safeguard apps against any unwanted and unwarranted cyber-attacks. Organizations must have a system that helps them monitor and improve the security of their applications. Digital Transformation and a robust digital interface can be offered only after ensuring all the security aspects.
Sajid Khan
Senior Director, Global Delivery, Cigniti Technologies

When processing transactions or information of your clients you must be monitoring your risk assessments and the implementation of your security measures. Maintain yourself and your team subscribed to threat alerts that will allow you to stay on top of possible risks.
Otis Gospodnetić
Founder, Sematext

Security strategy: Ensure that there is a process in place to protect the company's systems and data especially when adding or integrating applications.
Colin Earl
CEO, Agiloft

SOCIAL MEDIA

There are many metrics necessary to ensure digital performance, but there is a key metric often overlooked by businesses: social media based metrics. Data from social media monitoring has too long been considered a vanity metric, but it can have real operational value if used correctly. Coupled with machine learning algorithms, analyst teams can be alerted in real time to track and correlate social media data with changes in product demand or revenue, identifying the root cause immediately, and providing forecasting for the future. What's the value in this? Let's say a celebrity promotes your brand via social media and the post starts gaining traction, you need to quickly identify the actual business impact. That way, you can leverage the momentum in-store and online by adjusting to inventory to meet expected demand, tactically bundling products to grow basket size, etc. Social media has a huge impact on digital performance, and it is essential businesses are able to predict and manage this metric in real time.
Ira Cohen
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Anodot

ITSM SUPPORT

For organizations in the throes of executing digital transformation, understanding how users interact with IT can help improve digital performance. Employees' optimum use of digital assets is tied to how well ITSM supports them when there are performance issues. Therefore, monitoring the efficiency of your ITSM processes can identify where less-than-adequate support is leading to weaker digital performance. In general, applying analytics to ITSM will give an organization actionable data points, to determine which combination of phone, email, automation, self-help options, social channels or integration to Twitter, Facebook, or Slack are the most effective means of receiving and resolving IT support issues. For example, measuring and monitoring the resolution of calls that come into a help desk, how long queue delays are, and whether the calls resulted in an improvement in user productivity can provide an indicator of how well ITSM is enabling digital performance, or being a block.
Alan Taylor
HDM, SMM, Principal Product Manager, Ivanti

PEOPLE

Rather than focusing on technological metrics like uptime or downtime, CPU, etc. companies should focus more on the human metrics. Talent is the number one operating priority, so measuring digital performance has more to do with the type of talent within an organization. This involves considering metrics like how many senior people they have, what their bench strength looks like, how long people have been in their roles, who the top performers are and whether they're being rewarded with opportunities or accolades. Once you have your focus on your people and the criteria for success aligned accordingly, you can do anything.
Craig Williams
VP and CIO, Ciena

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Businesses that face downtime or outages risk financial and reputational damage, as well as reducing partner, shareholder, and customer trust. One of the major challenges that enterprises face is implementing a robust business continuity plan. What's the solution? The answer may lie in disaster recovery tactics such as truly immutable storage and regular disaster recovery testing ...

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Amidst the threat of cyberhacks and data breaches, companies install several security measures to keep their business safely afloat. These measures aim to protect businesses, employees, and crucial data. Yet, employees perceive them as burdensome. Frustrated with complex logins, slow access, and constant security checks, workers decide to completely bypass all security set-ups ...

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What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 5

APMdigest asked experts from across the IT industry for their opinions on what IT departments should be monitoring to ensure digital performance. Part 5, the final installment, offers some recommendations you may not have thought about.

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 1

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 2

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 3

Start with What You Should Be Monitoring to Ensure Digital Performance - Part 4

SECURITY

The current software application scenario is predominantly threatened by security issues and cybersecurity risks. Security is probably one of the most critical aspects to consider while ensuring digital performance. In today's world of cyber threats, Security monitoring has become critical to safeguard apps against any unwanted and unwarranted cyber-attacks. Organizations must have a system that helps them monitor and improve the security of their applications. Digital Transformation and a robust digital interface can be offered only after ensuring all the security aspects.
Sajid Khan
Senior Director, Global Delivery, Cigniti Technologies

When processing transactions or information of your clients you must be monitoring your risk assessments and the implementation of your security measures. Maintain yourself and your team subscribed to threat alerts that will allow you to stay on top of possible risks.
Otis Gospodnetić
Founder, Sematext

Security strategy: Ensure that there is a process in place to protect the company's systems and data especially when adding or integrating applications.
Colin Earl
CEO, Agiloft

SOCIAL MEDIA

There are many metrics necessary to ensure digital performance, but there is a key metric often overlooked by businesses: social media based metrics. Data from social media monitoring has too long been considered a vanity metric, but it can have real operational value if used correctly. Coupled with machine learning algorithms, analyst teams can be alerted in real time to track and correlate social media data with changes in product demand or revenue, identifying the root cause immediately, and providing forecasting for the future. What's the value in this? Let's say a celebrity promotes your brand via social media and the post starts gaining traction, you need to quickly identify the actual business impact. That way, you can leverage the momentum in-store and online by adjusting to inventory to meet expected demand, tactically bundling products to grow basket size, etc. Social media has a huge impact on digital performance, and it is essential businesses are able to predict and manage this metric in real time.
Ira Cohen
Co-Founder and Chief Data Scientist, Anodot

ITSM SUPPORT

For organizations in the throes of executing digital transformation, understanding how users interact with IT can help improve digital performance. Employees' optimum use of digital assets is tied to how well ITSM supports them when there are performance issues. Therefore, monitoring the efficiency of your ITSM processes can identify where less-than-adequate support is leading to weaker digital performance. In general, applying analytics to ITSM will give an organization actionable data points, to determine which combination of phone, email, automation, self-help options, social channels or integration to Twitter, Facebook, or Slack are the most effective means of receiving and resolving IT support issues. For example, measuring and monitoring the resolution of calls that come into a help desk, how long queue delays are, and whether the calls resulted in an improvement in user productivity can provide an indicator of how well ITSM is enabling digital performance, or being a block.
Alan Taylor
HDM, SMM, Principal Product Manager, Ivanti

PEOPLE

Rather than focusing on technological metrics like uptime or downtime, CPU, etc. companies should focus more on the human metrics. Talent is the number one operating priority, so measuring digital performance has more to do with the type of talent within an organization. This involves considering metrics like how many senior people they have, what their bench strength looks like, how long people have been in their roles, who the top performers are and whether they're being rewarded with opportunities or accolades. Once you have your focus on your people and the criteria for success aligned accordingly, you can do anything.
Craig Williams
VP and CIO, Ciena

The Latest

According to Auvik's 2025 IT Trends Report, 60% of IT professionals feel at least moderately burned out on the job, with 43% stating that their workload is contributing to work stress. At the same time, many IT professionals are naming AI and machine learning as key areas they'd most like to upskill ...

Businesses that face downtime or outages risk financial and reputational damage, as well as reducing partner, shareholder, and customer trust. One of the major challenges that enterprises face is implementing a robust business continuity plan. What's the solution? The answer may lie in disaster recovery tactics such as truly immutable storage and regular disaster recovery testing ...

IT spending is expected to jump nearly 10% in 2025, and organizations are now facing pressure to manage costs without slowing down critical functions like observability. To meet the challenge, leaders are turning to smarter, more cost effective business strategies. Enter stage right: OpenTelemetry, the missing piece of the puzzle that is no longer just an option but rather a strategic advantage ...

Amidst the threat of cyberhacks and data breaches, companies install several security measures to keep their business safely afloat. These measures aim to protect businesses, employees, and crucial data. Yet, employees perceive them as burdensome. Frustrated with complex logins, slow access, and constant security checks, workers decide to completely bypass all security set-ups ...

Image
Cloudbrink's Personal SASE services provide last-mile acceleration and reduction in latency

In MEAN TIME TO INSIGHT Episode 13, Shamus McGillicuddy, VP of Research, Network Infrastructure and Operations, at EMA discusses hybrid multi-cloud networking strategy ... 

In high-traffic environments, the sheer volume and unpredictable nature of network incidents can quickly overwhelm even the most skilled teams, hindering their ability to react swiftly and effectively, potentially impacting service availability and overall business performance. This is where closed-loop remediation comes into the picture: an IT management concept designed to address the escalating complexity of modern networks ...

In 2025, enterprise workflows are undergoing a seismic shift. Propelled by breakthroughs in generative AI (GenAI), large language models (LLMs), and natural language processing (NLP), a new paradigm is emerging — agentic AI. This technology is not just automating tasks; it's reimagining how organizations make decisions, engage customers, and operate at scale ...

In the early days of the cloud revolution, business leaders perceived cloud services as a means of sidelining IT organizations. IT was too slow, too expensive, or incapable of supporting new technologies. With a team of developers, line of business managers could deploy new applications and services in the cloud. IT has been fighting to retake control ever since. Today, IT is back in the driver's seat, according to new research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) ...

In today's fast-paced and increasingly complex network environments, Network Operations Centers (NOCs) are the backbone of ensuring continuous uptime, smooth service delivery, and rapid issue resolution. However, the challenges faced by NOC teams are only growing. In a recent study, 78% state network complexity has grown significantly over the last few years while 84% regularly learn about network issues from users. It is imperative we adopt a new approach to managing today's network experiences ...

Image
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From growing reliance on FinOps teams to the increasing attention on artificial intelligence (AI), and software licensing, the Flexera 2025 State of the Cloud Report digs into how organizations are improving cloud spend efficiency, while tackling the complexities of emerging technologies ...