AppNeta by Broadcom vs Eggplant Test comparison

"We have peace of mind that our redundant circuits are fully operational and ready to take VoIP calls if they are needed."

"Every experience that I have had with them has been outstanding."

"The product helps us understand networks and user experience. It helps us to understand the issues."

"The solution's technical support is very good."

"It has helped us to see issues or problems rather than having a customer report them."

"Since we implemented it, we've seen multiple performance improvements, which in turn results in increases in revenue and efficiency."

"A lot of times one of the AppNeta transactions showed that there is an issue, whereas everything seemed to be working properly. Once we dug into it, we realized that it really was highlighting a problem that otherwise we would not have seen."

"The main feature that we use is what they call Delivery, which is the testing of network paths end-to-end."

"It provides very strong cross-platform support."

"The main feature of Eggplant Test is that it can do fully automated web testing and app testing."

"It provides very strong cross-platform support."

"It has definitely improved the quality of our software."

"GUI testing is the strength of the tool, we have been satisfied with the tool, and not only the tool, but the service behind it, as the tool works as expected and the response from eggPlant, as a company, has been quick and substantial."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to create code from a flow chart, and then run the code through it."

"GUI testing is the strength of the tool. The tool works as expected, and the support response from eggPlant, as a company, has been quick and substantial."

"It has enabled true end-to-end testing."

"I think some of the product's documentation has shortcomings and needs improvement."

"AppNeta by Broadcom needs to add more features to its dashboards. It also needs to work on providing out-of-the-box reports."

"The VMware version doesn’t support video, so we have to ship hardware to remote locations."

"Billing does not have a user friendly format that allows you to break down the billing of sub-companies and be able to see them with what has been spun up, what subscriptions are currently in use, what has been added new that month and to pull that in an easy to read and easy to import format."

"Because of the nature of how AppNeta works in terms of using bursts to depict how a network path performs, it is hard to correlate 24 hour performance 100% accurately."

"It needs more improvements in monitoring of video streaming performance as well as more layers of breakdown in the front end performance."

"They should try and make diagnostics run a bit quicker. When the problem occurs on a network, AppNeta runs automatic diagnostics on the end-to-end path. The path it was testing only to the destination, it now runs the same test to all of the devices and all the intermediate devices. Depending on the number of intermediate devices, it can take several minutes to run. If we're trying to find or diagnose a problem that only lasts two or three minutes, it may be that the diagnostics is still running by the time the problem is cleared. The only thing, which I have also mentioned to AppNeta in the past, is that there should be much faster and much more lightweight diagnostics, which can be completed within 30 seconds or one minute, rather than in 5 to 10 minutes."

"An area of improvement would be to move back towards what AppNeta used to have directly before the Broadcom acquisition."

"There was no free trial in it."

"Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence could improve by lowering the price."

"eggPlants data input is text based and does not easily conform to data driven test, and this makes data management painful."

"In terms of additional features, it would be helpful to have one package for all testing. You have the manager, the AI, then you have functional, and about 10 different packages for installing."

"Its performance and stability could be better."

"We found that we had issues regarding the VPN setup, which is one of the reasons that we did not purchase this solution."

"Its performance and stability could be better."

"If one area could be improved, it would be some of their documentation. In particular, some of their online help and user support documentation is a little bit out of date and could be revised and updated on a more frequent basis. Other than that, I haven't really found any issues or problems."

"The small probe is probably around $3,000 and the very large probe that they make for massive data centers might be $50,000 or $60,000. It's a subscription model, so the payment is per year."

"I inherited this from a different version, and I haven't yet gone through a renewal because we had purchased three years upfront. So, to me, that still remains to be seen. Once it comes up for renewal, we'll see what happens. Especially because now it is Broadcom, it is going to change anyway."

"I find the solution's price to be fairly good."

"Broadcom software is always a little expensive because they provide quality."

"It's worth the money."

"AppNeta by Broadcom is not expensive."

"We typically don't get involved in the commercial side, but the list price is probably something like $3,000 for a small probe. However, that gives all of the features that the probe can do, whether or not you use them. In the old days, up until two or three years ago, each of the separate features was a separately licensable module so that you could add things that you wanted, and you didn't have to add things that you didn't want. They've changed all that now, and everything the probe can do is a part of the base license."

"End-to-end testing isn't possible for us because of the licensing problems. It's very expensive, so we only have two development/execution licenses."

"Eggplant Test is a very expensive solution."

"It is scalable, but it is a matter of money in the pocket. You can scale it, but then you have to have additional licenses. The licensing approach of eggPlant is not the best."

"This solution is expensive when compared to the market. However, the reason it is more expensive is because of its stability, high performance, and for its support of any technology."

"It probably has a yearly license."

"Make a smart decision about the number of developer- and execution-only licenses you purchase to maximize your budget. We found that going heavier on execution-only licenses has been a way to reduce our costs and maximize our ability to benefit from the software."