BMC Compuware Strobe vs Dotcom-Monitor UserView Monitoring comparison

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

• Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
• Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
• Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
• Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
• Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
• Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
• Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
• Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics

Monitor complex transactions on your website with real browsers. Record a user session interacting with a website. Monitor the functionality and performance of website features such as logins, shopping carts, searches and more. Interact with complex Rich Internet Applications (RIA) such as Flash, Silverlight and AJAX. If you can perform the action using a desktop or mobile browser, you can monitor the actions with UserView.