BMC Compuware Strobe vs POWERHOUSE Application Performance 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

The APM solution fully integrated with Real End User Monitoring and Synthetic Monitoring.

Be able to monitor and diagnose quickly any application performance slowdown with a fully integrated APM and User Monitoring solution. Start from the End User eyes and application response time monitoring down to code analysis and diagnostic. It has never been so easy to discover the root cause of any slow response time.

With few clics you can drill down and fix a problem to avoid any end user dissatisfaction or complain. APM is now integrated with End User Monitoring for a full understanding of what is happening. You can now monitor End User Satisfaction in production.