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

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

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 (32nd), Container Monitoring (7th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user567780 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
EG
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.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The FunDex is a valuable feature for our organization."
"The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
"We provide software testing services to third-party organizations with HP AppPulse, where we can see the real user experience live and identify low UI performance, stability problems, or high resource consumption on one screen."
"The application is easy to use, as it is friendly and graphic."
"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."
"Customer are able to develop more quickly versions in which users can see the application to correct and monetize it."
"The support that we get from HP is tremendous compared to other HP support – lots of good people that can give answers."
"The thing that I like about AppPulse is that it's easy application to install and an easy application to use to provide information for our customers."
"It has a random transaction trace which gives our customers the ability to look at how their transaction performs."
"Scalability is, I think, one of the strongest points of CA APM."
"Now, we know we have a problem, because there is a primary layer of alerting or metrics monitoring put in place, that is the good part."
"The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources."
"Our organization has over 21,000 agents running, and being able to monitor all those agents at the same time, with the ability to be alerted when thresholds are exceeded, means we can know when we are having problems without having dedicated people to watch monitoring screens all the time."
"It's really changing the way that we're doing our business."
"If there's something that you really need to get at that doesn't come out of the box, you can pretty easily put together some custom metrics and get those in place."
"This tool has saved the organization a lot of money, and I can see an improvement by a minimum of 3% in performance of any given application."
 

Cons

"I think the product was premature."
"The only other thing that would come to mind is the ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"It could be better if you had any of the reports that the customers asked from us, for example, punctually."
"There are some cases where the product cannot perform an analysis initially, and this may be a stability issue."
"The ability to get CI information from AppPulse into OMi."
"It needs compatibility for Windows Mobile, because I think AppPulse doesn't have Windows Mobile."
"In the next release, I would like to see heat-map tracking."
"However, false positives is definitely something you will need to watch out for."
"Upgradability to it is a project instead of a patch. If it was actually an automated process to where it just fed updates to our product that would be great. Now, we have to spin up an effort to actually upgrade the solution."
"There are more issues with the app monitoring itself, since the architecture can be a little bit confusing, and in some ways even incomplete on paper."
"The automatic identification of business transactions need to be improved."
"Yes, we encountered issues with scalability inside Team Center, a massive amount of universes, perspectives, applications."
"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."
"Lacks some integration between all the tools."
"The other thing that can be improved is that the dashboard edition in the CA APM is very limited and basic."
"Introscope scalability performance lags behind for our team, which looks after 3,000 JVMs and millions of metrics."
 

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."
"The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."
"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."
"Depends on the size of the product you need."
"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."
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."
"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
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Marketing Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Marketing Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Construction Company
9%
 

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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 Business26
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise124
 

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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, ...
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...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
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...
 

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
 

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