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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

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 (29th), Container Monitoring (7th)
CA Application Delivery Ana...
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

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.
reviewer1237194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved
My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We are able to see errors in the code that users would experience and then give that information to our developers to troubleshoot."
"It helps us prioritize application performance issues. It has assisted triage where we can drill down and see where exactly the problem lies."
"It has helped us to showcase business use cases better to our clients during demos or PoCs."
"Cross-VM transaction traces provide a complete "what happened where"."
"The ability to deep dive into the root cause of any given issue has always been the most valuable feature."
"Detailed alert settings give more control on when they should or should not appear."
"After we started using APM in our environment, we managed to reduce the creation of these rooms by 90%."
"The CA Introscope dashboard of applications is the view our operations team uses to quickly identify any issues within the application space especially during peak trading season like Christmas/Easter."
"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."
"Technical support is excellent."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
 

Cons

"It provides access to problems, but not to the problem analysis. You cannot track the problem to the root cause."
"CA Introscope has performance and data collection issues."
"We aren't getting the value we imagined out of the product."
"The automatic identification of business transactions need to be improved."
"The biggest area of improvement of APM is with the GUIs."
"Setup of the solution was straight forward, but our first application was too complex and therefore the first initiative failed."
"There is no auto flow diagram, and the alert mechanism is not as good when compared to other tools."
"It’s scalable, but not right out of the box, even though we were told it was designed to be out-of-the-box scalable."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"Upgrades can be quite complex."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"It is definitely expensive for what we get, but there isn't an alternate option at the moment."
"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."
"Dynatrace is the most expensive of these tools followed by AppDynamics which is "medium-expensive." CA APM is a bit lower in price than either Dynatrace or AppDynanics... In my opinion, if you can afford it, go for AppDynamics instead of CA APM."
"Depends on the size of the product you need."
"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
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Financial Services Firm
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7%
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Questions from the Community

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...
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Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent
 

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Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
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