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AppPulse Suite [EOL] vs Broadcom DX Application Performance Management comparison

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OpenText and Broadcom are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 94% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.
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    Categories and Ranking

    AppPulse Suite [EOL]
    Average Rating
    8.4
    Number of Reviews
    15
    Ranking in other categories
    No ranking in other categories
    Broadcom DX Application Per...
    Average Rating
    8.0
    Reviews Sentiment
    7.3
    Number of Reviews
    162
    Ranking in other categories
    Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (28th), Container Monitoring (7th)
     

    Featured Reviews

    it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
    it_user567780
    Infrastructure Team Lead at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
    Helps me be proactive in solving a customer's problem before it even happens
    This is a new solution by HP. It's less than two years, we're among the first to implement the solution, so I'm sure that there is a lot of room for enhancement and continuous improvement in the future. They have added a new feature, which was not part of the solution, which is they support what they call hybrid apps; before, it was only supporting native. That is something they work with your R & D, whereby they support this feature in the parent version of AppPulse.
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    Eduardo Gallardo
    Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS
    Dashboards facilitate prompt alerts but discovery feature needs enhancement
    I would recommend Broadcom DX Application Performance Management if a customer doesn't have any existing performance solution. However, ten years ago, the solution was better, and now there are many competitive options. My overall rating would be between six and seven. The product rating I would give is 6.5 out of 10.
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    Pros

    "We launched the Take It app in France last June, and we had 10,000 active users, five percent of our users experienced crashes, so we decided to add AppPulse Mobile to our app, and crashes dropped from five to 0.44 percent while during the same time period our users jumped to 120,000."
    "AppPulse Active allows us to very quickly produce synthetic monitoring for our applications, for some applications we've never been able to monitor before, some older legacy applications."
    "With Google Analytics, you choose what performance metrics you want to have reported, but with AppPulse Mobile, you have a global vision of what is really happening inside your app."
    "The benefits are the ease of integration into OMI, the speed of the deployment, and the quick ROI in value that it adds in a space where we were kind of flying blind before we had it."
    "What we learned is that the analytics are more important than the app itself."
    "It increased the customer satisfaction for the usage of my smart apps, and it reduces the number of crashes, proactively, so I know before the issue happens."
    "I tested other products but HP offers the best bang for the buck."
    "The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
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    "It is a really good, stable, flexible product, but there are no special features when I compare it with the other solutions from the other vendors."
    "The incidences raised by end users for application performance-related issues decreased from 1700 per quarter to 250 per quarter."
    "I have no specific advice except that it is a wise choice."
    "The most valuable feature of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is its very light model with monitoring of servers and network items."
    "APM is quite nice, especially with the new features in version 10."
    "It is the very best solution and will surely enhance anyone’s application performance and resource utilization."
    "Product performance is awesome; it's covering all aspects of the application with good database metrics and internal application metrics, providing tons and tons of data."
    "My organization can find the correct solution to an alert the first time around."
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    Cons

    "In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."
    "The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
    "However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
    "It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually. Unfortunately, the reporter is not that practical."
    "Currently, the information for management teams and technical teams are in the same view, but it would be useful if we could separate these views."
    "The regulations should be better customized for the kind of data that we cannot send to the SALs environment."
    "There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
    "There are some things I look forward to – alerts, service level management calculations, API so I can get the data from somewhere else rather than just the website, customizable time frame so I can adjust the date and time."
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    "The fresh technology should have been out a long time ago."
    "It's not as agile in keeping up with the direction that CA is pushing it."
    "The other thing that can be improved is that the dashboard edition in the CA APM is very limited and basic."
    "The reports are a key part of APM in my vision because it is through them that we manage to generate the evidence to direct the development team and operational support to address. However, we can not extract the information of the tool through reports. We have needed several times to use screen print screen, CTRL + C and CTRL + V."
    "Had some performance problems with a few applications and had to disable some probes."
    "I have not rated it higher because I’d like more integration and more bells and whistles."
    "I give it an eight out of 10 because it does not include all the features that I mentioned above, like intelligence."
    "I give it an eight out of 10 overall because I don't see custom dashboards. Plus, some of the stat analysis features that were explained are not that easy to use."
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    Pricing and Cost Advice

    "It was a no-brainer from a cost perspective compared to the other tools that we buy as an IT organization."
    "Depends on the size of the product you need."
    "The pricing structure should be based on memory or CPU usage rather than the number of agents, as it makes the solution more expensive for us."
    "I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application Performance Management products have expensive pricing. This means that it's not only Broadcom that's expensive, and it would be an advantage if the cost would be a little bit cheaper."
    "Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
    "There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
    "All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
    "Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."
    "Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
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    Top Industries

    By visitors reading reviews
    Construction Company
    18%
    Financial Services Firm
    17%
    Manufacturing Company
    15%
    Outsourcing Company
    9%
    Outsourcing Company
    19%
    Financial Services Firm
    11%
    Construction Company
    10%
    Manufacturing Company
    8%
     

    Company Size

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    Large Enterprise
    Midsize Enterprise
    Small Business
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business7
    Midsize Enterprise3
    Large Enterprise6
    By reviewers
    Company SizeCount
    Small Business27
    Midsize Enterprise24
    Large Enterprise122
     

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    What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    The initial pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions. The challenge arises during annual renewals, as the price increase can be significant, around twenty percent or more, ...
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    What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
    The first area for improvement is the discovery feature, which should be enhanced to collect comprehensive information from applications and services. This includes using agents or scripts to gathe...
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    Our primary use case involves having a large dashboard with significant information for alerts, alarms, and metrics to summarize the state of critical businesses and applications. When an issue ari...
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    Also Known As

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite, HPE AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse Mobile, AppPulse
    DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
     

    Overview

    Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile is the first self-service SaaS solution that tracks the real user experience of your mobile apps constantly monitoring performance, stability and resource usage. The tool provides FunDex – a mobile app quality score that provides a top-level view of problems that negatively impact the user experience with recommendations to explore and fix the root cause of each issue.

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    Broadcom DX Application Performance Management offers proactive alerting, transaction tracing, and root cause analysis. It enhances end-user experience management through efficient dashboards and customizable reporting, extending monitoring over Java and .NET applications.

    Broadcom DX Application Performance Management delivers comprehensive monitoring and performance insights across cloud and Java applications. It proactively addresses issues with tools like Introscope for rapid error identification and Customer Experience Manager for end-user management. The software's dashboards consolidate performance data in real-time, helping organizations enhance debugging and incident management. Its low overhead and integration with service tools make it well-suited for production environments. However, it faces potential improvements in areas such as UI updates, agent management, automation, and seamless integration with new technologies.

    What are the standout features?
    • Proactive Alerting: Identifies issues before they impact users.
    • Deep-Dive Transaction Tracing: Offers comprehensive tracking of transactions for detailed analysis.
    • Root Cause Analysis: Expedites problem-solving by pinpointing issues quickly.
    • Introscope: Facilitates rapid error detection and resolution.
    • Customer Experience Manager: Enhances management of user experiences effectively.
    • Real-Time Insights: Provides immediate views of performance data through interactive dashboards.
    • Customizable Reporting: Offers tailored report options for specific business needs.
    • Java and .NET Monitoring: Supports a range of applications, enhancing troubleshooting efficiency.
    What benefits and ROI should users look for?
    • Issue Resolution Speed: Quick problem identification reduces downtime.
    • Performance Optimization: Enhances application efficiency, reducing costs.
    • Cost Reduction: Improves resource use and operational costs.
    • Dashboard Efficiency: Real-time, consolidated data offers transparency.

    Organizations in logistics, banking, and e-commerce implement Broadcom DX Application Performance Management to monitor performance across crucial environments. Their usage involves enhancing performance, debugging, and proactive incident management for cloud and Java apps, with management dashboards supporting greater transparency in crash analytics and server health checks, ultimately improving user experience.

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    Sample Customers

    SpeechTrans, Gulliver Group
    Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
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