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    Ranking
    59th
    out of 105 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    443
    Comparisons
    321
    Reviews
    0
    Average Words per Review
    0
    Rating
    N/A
    51st
    out of 105 in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
    Views
    1,518
    Comparisons
    945
    Reviews
    2
    Average Words per Review
    298
    Rating
    6.0
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    IBM APM
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    Overview

    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
    The IBM Application Performance Management portfolio provides visibility, control and automation of your mission-critical applications. It helps pinpoint the root cause of application's issue more quickly and resolve the problem. The integrated capabilities cover the five key areas: discovery, end-use experience, transaction tracking, enterprise diagnostics and analytics. It also easily monitors applications to ensure optimal performance to extend your hybrid management environment capabilities, to measure the customer experience from multiple locations and to further eliminate blind spots in your application environment.
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    Sample Customers
    Chunghwa Telecom, Helvetia, Comerica Bank, Erste Group, Bank of Ireland, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (SFBCIC)
    Mibtree, EatDrinkDeals.com, IT Performance Advisor
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm29%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Manufacturing Company12%
    Insurance Company12%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government11%
    Insurance Company5%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business11%
    Midsize Enterprise6%
    Large Enterprise82%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise66%
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    BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while IBM Application Performance Management is ranked 51st in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews. BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 0.0, while IBM Application Performance Management is rated 6.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Application Performance Management writes "Is a scalable solution, but they should focus on potentially enhancing the dashboard". BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS, Mainframe Application Tuner, Dynatrace and Broadcom DX Application Performance Management, whereas IBM Application Performance Management is most compared with Instana Dynamic APM, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager and AWS X-Ray.

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