Riverbed Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Employee Experience Management Solutions, Q4 2026
Highest possible scores across DEX visibility, application experience monitoring, and network experience monitoring highlight Riverbed’s comprehensive approach to DEX.
- By Colleen Marinelli
- 28-Oct-2026
Digital employee experience has changed.
Digital employee experience doesn’t happen at the endpoint alone. Every employee interaction depends on a complex chain of devices, applications, networks, and services. When something goes wrong, IT needs to see across that entire experience to understand where friction is happening and why.
That’s why we’re proud that Riverbed has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Employee Experience Management Solutions, Q4 2026.
For us, this recognition reflects the strategy behind Aternity 360°: bringing device, application, and network experience together to give organizations a more complete view of digital experience.
One Experience. Across Device, Application, and Network.
An employee doesn’t experience technology in silos, and IT shouldn’t have to manage digital experience that way.
Aternity 360° brings together visibility across devices, applications, and networks to help organizations understand digital experience across the technology environment employees rely on. When experience degrades, teams need to determine whether the problem starts with the device, the application, the network, or somewhere across that interconnected path.
Riverbed received the highest possible scores in 14 criteria, including DEX Visibility, Application Experience Monitoring, and Network Experience Monitoring.
As Forrester writes:
“Riverbed differentiates by bringing together endpoint, application, network, and employee-journey data to help organizations understand where digital friction occurs across end-to-end work experiences rather than viewing issues through isolated technology silos.”
That distinction is central to Aternity 360°. Understanding digital experience requires visibility across the entire technology environment employees rely on.
A Vision for Where DEX Is Going
We believe DEX is moving beyond siloed monitoring toward a more complete understanding of how people actually experience technology.
That is at the heart of our strategy with Aternity 360°. By connecting device, application, and network experience, organizations can better understand where friction occurs, what is contributing to it, who is affected, and where action can have the greatest impact.
The opportunity is to move beyond viewing individual signals in isolation and instead understand digital experience across the broader technology environment employees depend on to get work done.
Extending DEX to Every Employee
Digital experience also extends far beyond traditional laptop users. Today, work happens across mobile, rugged, shared, kiosk, point-of-sale, and shift-based environments.
This is an important part of the Aternity 360° story. DEX should reflect how work actually happens, wherever it happens. By extending visibility across the broader digital environment, organizations can better understand the experience of employees whose work and technology may look very different from that of a traditional office user.
From Visibility to Business Impact
Visibility alone isn’t enough. The real value comes from turning that visibility into insight and action.
We believe this is where DEX delivers its greatest value: translating technology telemetry into intelligence that helps IT and business leaders understand affected populations, prioritize improvements, and connect digital experience with meaningful business outcomes.
The goal isn’t simply to know that a problem exists. It’s to understand where the problem is, who it affects, why it is happening, and where action can make the greatest difference.
The Future of DEX Is 360°
Being named a Leader reflects Riverbed’s position in digital employee experience today. More importantly, we believe the future of DEX will require a more complete understanding of the entire digital experience.
With Aternity 360°, we’re bringing device, application, network, and employee experience together so organizations can move beyond fragmented monitoring to understand and improve digital experience across the enterprise.
That’s the future we’re building with Aternity 360°: complete visibility, deeper intelligence, and better digital experiences across the enterprise.
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