We performed a comparison between Alluvio Aternity and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Alluvio Aternity has various valuable features including detailed machine health and performance data, monitoring of usage patterns for desktop applications, and a UXI score for user experience. It also provides visibility of endpoint machines, monitoring of operating systems, CPU and memory utilization, and application access analysis. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is highly valued for its easy deployment of parameters through its configuration and manager tool. It also offers compatibility, straightforward initial setup, code-level visibility for quick issue resolution, transaction monitoring, reliable technical support, and a light model for monitoring servers and network items.
Alluvio Aternity could improve its reporting capabilities, asset management customization, performance counters, and database monitoring options. Broadcom DX needs better integration, an updated front-end application, improved support services, prompt addressing of CPU spikes and memory issues, automated end-to-end correlation, improved container and cloud support, and compatibility with OpenShift 4 without an installed agent.
Service and Support: Alluvio has excellent support, with a prompt and skilled technical support team. Local support is provided, but some complex technical issues may require assistance from overseas engineers. Broadcom DX has received varied feedback, with certain users expressing dissatisfaction. Suggestions have been made for improving the support, particularly around service level agreements.
Ease of Deployment: The setup process for Alluvio was praised for being excellent, uncomplicated, intuitive, and direct. It entailed deploying agents to PCs through Microsoft's SCCM solution. The initial setup for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management varied in terms of speed and complexity. Some users found it to be quick and straightforward, while others noted that it was not overly complicated yet took more time.
Pricing: Broadcom DX Application Performance Management has a pricing structure that is costly and becomes more expensive as the number of agents increases. Some users find it to be expensive. On the other hand, Alluvio Aternity is considered to have reasonable and favorable pricing. However, it may not be suitable for customers with fewer than 500 agents.
Comparison Results: Alluvio Aternity is the preferred product when compared to Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. Users find the setup process for Alluvio Aternity to be great, easy, simple, user-friendly, and straightforward. Alluvio Aternity offers valuable features such as machine health and performance data, customization options, and a user-friendly dashboard.
"Aternity's Digital Experience Management Quadrant (DEM-Q) has been a game changer for us. While knowing your own metrics is nice, if you don't know how you compare to others or what the numbers should be, then it doesn't tell you much. This solution puts that into context (if we are doing better than others or worse), which helps us prioritize where we want to focus and do improvements versus that's just how slow it's supposed to be. It's also great in communicating what we are doing and why we're doing it to our IT leadership teams, by saying, while we're pretty far behind others in certain categories, the time and changes for our prioritizations are justified."
"The most valuable feature for us is trend analysis, particularly with device-help type of events and computer help events, such as blue screens, application errors, and application crashes."
"The infrastructure data, especially the CPU and memory data, is per second, which makes it outstanding as compared to other solutions. Its licensing cost is very low for us."
"All of it, but it depends on who the end user is. The folks that support the applications, like the signatures that we've developed, it gives them feedback on their application performance."
"The most valuable feature for me is being able to monitor the productivity of every employee in the company as well as third-party, outsourced companies that work on our behalf."
"The most valuable feature is the application performance troubleshooting because Aternity is able to provide the performance from the end-user perspective. It doesn't just give the standard application logon time, etc., rather it's also able to measure the performance inside the application, the performance of specific transactions in the application, and break it down into three elements: the client time, the network time, and the server time. This gives us a lot of insights into what we need to focus on to improve the performance of an application."
"While it also provides desktop metrics, the main thing we use it for is monitoring our applications."
"Alluvio Aternity is stable."
"The APM tool allows us to monitor performance of that application, where are the pain points, where are the slowdowns, to focus on where we can fix those."
"We are able to easily and quickly find some of the problems with the applications and coding, and some of the performance problems."
"We are able to spot issues much quicker with the use of the out-of-the-box metrics given to us by CA. But we also develop that further with the use of the EPA Agent and expand what we can give and show the business by creating our own scripts. This has allowed us to develop our own self-monitoring and before anybody else sees the issue we are on hand to solve that as quickly as possible."
"We use it to create dashboards and executive view dashboards, so our higher up managers can take a look and see where our application status stands."
"We receive good transactions from it with good graphs, as well, documenting the activities of total visitors on the site. We can pull the reports and provide them to the client, as required."
"With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool"
"If we see something that we need to change or monitor, we can get it scripted pretty quickly."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"I would like Alluvio Aternity to be certified by the IRAP for petrol companies in Australia."
"I can see the location and computer model and I can see a bunch of different attributes. But one thing I can't see is the Internet Explorer version."
"Reliability: Issues interfering with the deployment and use of the product has made its use reduced in scope."
"The solution is available at a higher price than other solutions."
"When it comes to what is called creating signatures, it's not easy for a non-coding person for desktop applications. You need to run the recording and you need to have some exposure and knowledge. That is an area where they can improve. For web applications, they have the Web Activity Creator and that's an awesome and easy tool. Anybody can use it and capture the signatures. With the desktop applications it's a little more cumbersome and difficult."
"The other place for improvement, as an on-prem, non-SaaS customer, is that the system administration and management in Aternity are very difficult. They've even told me that most of their support calls come in due to configuration and system administration on their on-prem. Their on-prem solution is not easy to use."
"Aternity doesn't currently provide metrics about actual employee experience of all business-critical apps. It's something you have to build out. It's not 'canned' that way and there is a lot of configuration that you have to do to the environment to collect the data you want to collect and that is important to you."
"Reports were a lot easier in the older versions"
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"I would like to see intelligence, deep intelligence or deep analytics."
"Very often, we use tools such as Kibana or Jaspersoft for dashboards and reporting on CA APM data because CA APM’s old interfaces do not reflect well in modern displays, compared to those new tools."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"The APM upgrade procedure is a bit complicated with compatibility issues which can emerge like between agents and EM/Collectors."
"Broadcom DX Application Performance Management could improve its supportability to the current technologies and the end-to-end correlation feature should be done automatically without custom configurations. Additionally, there should not be any configuration changes to the client-side when deploying the solution."
"User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment."
"Technical support is slow to respond and also asks redundant questions."
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Alluvio Aternity is ranked 31st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 37 reviews while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is ranked 22nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 161 reviews. Alluvio Aternity is rated 8.4, while Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Alluvio Aternity writes "Not only helped us know which devices to refresh, but helped us determine if a refresh was even necessary, with factual data". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management writes "Provides efficiency in migration and DAW but requires a high level of administrator knowledge for configuration". Alluvio Aternity is most compared with Dynatrace, Nexthink, SysTrack, AppDynamics and Splunk Enterprise Security, whereas Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, BMC TrueSight Operations Management, VMware Aria Operations for Applications and New Relic. See our Alluvio Aternity vs. Broadcom DX Application Performance Management report.
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