What is digital experience monitoring?

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) combines real-time analytics, employee sentiment data and AI-powered automated remediation to help IT leaders increase employee productivity, engagement and empowerment. It is a key component of a digital employee experience (DEX) strategy. A true DEM solution provides a holistic view of the DEX. It draws on the data an organization is already gathering and closes the gaps where data is missing. Then it translates all that information into actionable insights that drive change, improve performance and create fresh experiences.

Why Digital Experience Monitoring is a Strategic Move for IT Leaders

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•Apr 28, 2026

Top Digital Experience Monitoring Solutions for Employee Experience

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•Apr 21, 2026

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Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Be proactive

Identify and resolve issues before they disrupt the DEX.

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Increase productivity

Increase employee productivity and simplify IT management with optimized experiences.

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Improve retention

Satisfied employees are more likely to stay.  

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Customize reporting

Drill down into specific persona experiences.

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Make data-driven decisions

Make the right decisions faster about experience enhancements based on data insights.

Benefits of digital experience monitoring (DEM)

Build alignment

Foster collaboration between IT and business leaders to build a prioritized technology roadmap.

Digital experience monitoring (DEM) versus digital employee experience (DEX)

The terms digital experience monitoring (DEM) and digital employee experience (DEX) are often conflated, but in fact they mean two different things. It's important to understand that DEM is a component of a DEX strategy.

The term DEX refers to any interaction employees have with workplace technology (their digital workspace). It focuses on empowering employees to access any application, on any device, from any location. 

In contrast, DEM refers specifically to an IT organization's ability to monitor, measure, track and remediate the DEX in order to exceed employees' expectations. DEM solutions can measure multiple factors – including employee sentiment, application performance, device performance and connectivity – to identify and resolve issues and improve the performance of workplace technology. 

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Digital experience monitoring tools and vendors

There are many DEM tools on the market, ranging from comprehensive AI-powered platforms to niche solutions. It can be difficult to determine what your organization needs and what it can operate without. To help narrow the list, we've evaluated, tested, implemented and partnered with these top DEM vendors.

IR

Integrated Research, Inc. (IR) optimizes performance management and analytics for enterprise communications, collaboration, and payment systems.
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Lakeside Software

Lakeside Software provides cloud-based digital experience management.
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Nexthink

Nexthink is a software company focused on helping IT to shape smart and productive workplaces. Nexthink brings clarity to your IT department through a unique combination of real-time analytics, automations, and employee feedback.
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Omnissa

Omnissa is a comprehensive digital platform that unifies, automates, and efficiently scales the digital workspace.
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Riverbed

Since its inception in 2002, Riverbed has helped the world's largest organizations empower the digital experience and drive enterprise performance. With two industry-leading solutions – Riverbed for Unified Observability and Riverbed Acceleration – Riverbed transforms data into actionable insights across the entire digital ecosystem and accelerates performance for a seamless digital experience.
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Splunk

Splunk makes machine data accessible across an organization by identifying data patterns, providing metrics, diagnosing problems, and providing intelligence for business operations.
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ThousandEyes

Measuring and monitoring user experiences, both employees and customers, is what ThousandEyes, now part of Cisco, does by providing unmatched visibility of resources in private, public cloud and hybrid cloud networks. 
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Zscaler

Zscaler is a secure access service edge (SASE) company providing zero trust security for cloud access.
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Glossary of DEM terms: EUEM, DEX, DEEM, APM and more

Below is a list of DEM-related terms you may see when researching solutions.

  • End-user experience monitoring (EUEM): EUEM is a component of DEM. These solutions quantify end-user experiences by measuring specific metrics, such as device performance and connectivity.
  • Digital employee experience (DEX): DEX refers to any interaction employees have with workplace technology (their digital workspace).
  • DEM score: Generally, DEM scores are generated by measuring six key areas of DEX, including employee sentiment, application performance, device performance, connectivity, security and operations/support.
  • Digital employee experience management (DEEM): A term similar in meaning to DEX, it describes end-user experience management software for measuring, analyzing and optimizing experiences across digital touchpoints.
  • Application performance monitoring (APM): The practice of using software tools to monitor and manage the performance and availability of software applications, including response times, throughput and error rates.
  • Experience level agreements (XLAs): A modern approach to measuring the success of service delivery, focusing on the actual experience of the employee rather than just technical metrics.
  • Zscaler digital experience (ZDX): A cloud-delivered digital experience monitoring service built on the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™. ZDX delivers end-to-end visibility across device health, network performance and application behavior — with AI-powered root cause analysis — to help IT teams quickly identify and resolve issues for any user or application, regardless of location.
  • Software-as-a-service (SaaS) monitoring: The process of continuously tracking and analyzing the performance of SaaS applications, along with the necessary hardware.
  • Unified endpoint management (UEM) or modern device management (MDM): A consolidated approach that enables IT teams to manage, secure and monitor any application across all endpoint devices — including desktops, laptops and mobile devices — from a single platform.
  • Employee monitoring: The use of workplace surveillance and productivity software to gather information about the activities and locations of employees. 
  • AI for DEM: Artificial intelligence capabilities embedded within individual digital experience monitoring tools to improve data analysis, automate routine tasks and simplify user interactions.
  • Agentic AI for DEM: A sophisticated, autonomous AI system that can integrate and analyze data across multiple monitoring platforms, make cross-tool decisions and independently initiate remediation actions.

Get started with digital experience monitoring

IT leaders are increasingly tasked with improving the digital employee experience (DEX) at their organizations and AI adoption is raising employee expectations faster than most IT teams can respond. Many IT departments still lack the visibility, data and actionable insights to make informed decisions about enhancements. Digital experience monitoring (DEM) can help close that gap.

To learn more about DEM, request a workshop to ask our experts specific questions about DEM for your environment. If you're ready to get started, check out our IT Leader's Guide for five steps to ensure a smooth and successful implementation. 

An IT Leader's Guide to Implementing Digital Experience Monitoring

Follow these five steps for a smooth implementation of DEM and fresh employee experiences.
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•Apr 21, 2026

Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Strategy Accelerator Workshop

The shift to hybrid work has transformed how employees engage with technology, collaborate with colleagues and navigate their work tasks. To harness the full potential of this shift, organizations must understand and optimize the digital employee experience. In this workshop, you'll learn valuable insights, methodologies, data-driven approaches and practical tools to kick-start your digital employee experience (DEX) strategy and align your stakeholders.
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•4 hrs

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