Case Study: Jewish United Fund achieves streamlined application performance management and faster error diagnosis with AppDynamics

JUF Streamlines Application Performance Management with AppDynamics

The Jewish United Fund (JUF), a major nonprofit that funds social services for Chicago-area residents and beyond, depends heavily on its customer-facing donations site and an internal donor-management system. With nearly 30 applications in production, the engineering team struggled to measure and diagnose application errors and performance issues efficiently, often relying on manual searches through log and database tables.

JUF deployed AppDynamics across its application stack to provide a single, intuitive UI for performance monitoring and error capture. The tool quickly pinpointed root causes, surfaced uncaught exceptions, and let engineers send precise diagnostics to developers, turning troubleshooting from a reactive chore into a proactive, lower-cost process that delivered clear ROI across the team.

Jewish United Fund

Teresa Nguyen

Senior Software Architect