Check it out! Crittercism is featured in the Everything Guide to Mobile Apps book sold in Barnes & Noble and Amazon as paperback or eBook written by Crittercism’s VP of Marketing Jennifer Shambroom.

Expert advice on how to succeed in the mobile market! Experts estimate that mobile app revenues will nearly quadruple over the next few years, but for many business owners and entrepreneurs, figuring out how to affordably create and market an app is a daunting challenge. But it doesn’t have to be!

With The Everything Guide to Mobile Apps, you’ll learn all you need to know about creating a mobile app without breaking the bank account. In this book, you’ll discover:

• What to consider when developing an app
• Which format best fits your needs and budget
• How to stand out in the app market
• The benefits of including apps in a marketing strategy
• How creating an app can improve business revenue

From the development stage to marketing and beyond, The Everything Guide to Mobile Apps will help you develop an app that attracts more customers and boosts your business’s revenue.

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Are you facing chaos in mobile?

Do you see an increase in mobile app complexity?

Is it hard to deliver quality apps in an agile and cloud environment?

We want to hear from you!

Great news! Crittercism is featured in Gartner’s latest APM Report – Cool Vendors in APM! READ OUR PRESS RELEASE

Here’s a snippet from the report, download the full version HERE.

Why Cool: With the massive growth of native mobile applications, there are issues with platform diversity, code quality and performance of these applications. Crittercism helps by performing crash monitoring, analysis and application launch tracking. Having raised $18.7 million in funding during the past two years, the vendor is moving from monitoring application usage and behavior toward facilitating the mobile operations team, to understand and troubleshoot usage and performance of mobile applications. Crittercism was founded in 2010 by several computer science students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Johns Hopkins University, and a talented designer from MIT’s architecture program. The vendor has built a product that is relied on by a large number of mobile application providers. In order to use the service, the application must be instrumented using the software development kits (SDKs) that currently support Android, iOS, Windows Phone 8 and generic HTML5 applications. Once compiled into the application, mobile device information about the performance, usage and stability of the application are tracked, in addition to data about the device itself. This data is sent to the Crittercism SaaS infrastructure, where it is processed and resulting alerts and reporting are displayed to the application provider. Current customers include a long list of high profile mobile application providers, including LinkedIn, Netflix, Shazam, Pinterest, Home Depot, Urban Outfitters and eBay. Crittercism and its technology are widely adopted and provide value to those struggling with the emerging mobile application market. The vendor’s pricing is based on the number of monthly active users of consumer facing apps, and the number of devices for employeefacing apps.

Challenges: Forging new ground in the mobile performance monitoring space while other APM companies are also moving in this direction will be difficult and highly competitive for Crittercism. Measurement based pricing becomes difficult to sustain, especially with a growing set of features and increased data being collected. This is more of an issue because Crittercism is currently using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for its infrastructure versus a traditional data center, which would allow a lower operational cost.

Who Should Care: The current core target buyers are development organizations, application owners and application support organizations managing mobile applications. IT operations professionals should consider understanding and integrating mobile application operations groups, which normally exist in lineofbusiness groups or other application support groups. Getting ahead of technologies that will be moving to mainstream operations requires proactive thinking, and mobile APM products will help operationalize the current offshoot that mobile applications represent.

Cool Vendors in Application Performance Monitoring, 2013 15 April 2013 by Jonah Kowall & Will Cappelli

We highlight emerging APM offerings bought by multiple buyers, including IT operations, application support, development and lineofbusiness application owners. These offerings encompass an understanding of network performance, the Internet’s health and critical mobile application performance.

Key Findings:

+ The health of an application is not confined to views from the data center network alone, but also includes the Internet and mobile carrier networks.

+ Application performance monitoring (APM) as a service is evolving at a rapid pace versus APM offerings that are confined to onpremises deployment models only.

+ Analytics are intrinsic to evolving APM solutions, as the complexity and diversity of data collected requires not only sophisticated reporting, but also more sophisticated mathematical algorithms to provide the IT technician or lineofbusiness user with insight.

Crittercism is listed as one of the Top 10 Hot Tech Startups for April by CRN!

San Francisco-based Crittercism has developed a mobile application performance management system that gives IT managers a real-time view of application diagnostics data and information about application crashes for software running on iOS, Android and Windows Phone 8 mobile devices, as well as HTML5 and hybrid mobile applications. Founded in 2011 by CEO Andrew Levy, Crittercism raised $12 million in Series B funding last month, led by Google Ventures and participation from Shasta Ventures and Opus Capital. In January Crittercism scored a coup when it struck a deal to integrate its APM tools with Appcelerator’s Titanium 3.0, a leading mobile software development platform.

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Great news! Today we announced an upgrade to our Error Monitoring solution by adding integration with leading issue tracking providers JIRA and GitHub.

You now have a single dashboard to track engineering tasks, capture and organize issues, work through action items, and stay up-to-date with team activity. The integration of these two solutions into Crittercism’s platform will make your workflow significantly easier.

Crittercism is committed to helping developers and operations teams succeed with their apps. We understand that developers have constantly evolving needs that require a versatile set of tools and we are always working to expand our offering to address those needs.

As developers, we understand the challenges and look for new ways to improve the experience for building, launching, marketing and maintaining mobile apps. Our goal is to partner with the best names on the market to combine their tools with ours, and in turn deliver the best developer workflow possible, as well as with extended support capabilities.

Now when you log into Crittercism, you can send Crashes and Handled Exceptions to Jira and Github with a click of a button.

This creates a new issue on Jira and GitHub, sending over the Crash/Exception stracktrace, the crittercism user who sent the issue,  the status and  the number of times the crash has occurred for users.

The created issues in JIRA and GitHub also include a link back to Crittercism for the full details on the crash.

GitHub:

JIRA:

With the integration with JIRA and Github, you can not only identify the issues and errors in your app, but log the issues in either JIRA and Github, providing you with a seamless workflow from development to production to QA. Follow these quick steps to get started!

JIRA INTEGRATION

Set up your JIRA integration quickly with the following steps:

1. Log into Crittercism
2. Select the app that you are troubleshooting
3. Enter your JIRA username and password
4. Enter your JIRA server URL (The server definition for JIRA OnDemand is the URL for the Project and it’s the JIRA server name for on premise deployments. For JIRA OnDemand the server is usually the format of https://{subdomain}.atlassian.net.)
5. Enter your JIRA project key (The unique identifier for the project you want to link to on your JIRA server)
6. Click the SAVE button
7. You’re in and ready to go!

​Once a ticket has been created in JIRA by Crittercism, users are presented with a link to view the issue ticket in JIRA within the Crash Details page (left). In JIRA, a link returning back to the Crittercism crash report will be included as well as a stack trace and other basic diagnostic information.

Make sure you have “Issue Linking” enabled in​ JIRA for this fantastic ability. Details available at via “JIRA Docs: Configuring Issue Linking.”

GITHUB INTEGRATION

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Set up your GitHub integration quickly with the following steps:

1. Log into Crittercism
2. Select the app that you are troubleshooting
3. Click on the CONNECT button
4. Select from your projects via the dropdown to connect the project with the appropriate repository
5. Click the SAVE button
6. Click on the Issue Integration tab on the left-hand menu
7. You should be able to see all of the Github projects
8. Choose the project you want to link with the Crittercism project
9. You’re in and ready to go!

Once you’ve integrated you can easily connect a crash report with a github issue via the Crash Details page. This will create a new issue with the basic error information, stack trace, and a link back to the Crittercism crash report.

If you have any questions or issues integrating JIRA or GitHub, feel free to contact us via support.

Are you are ready to get the visibility you need into your app’s performance? Sign up for Crittercism Today!

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