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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.

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

Pros

"It enables me to cover all functionalities and monitor all selected elements over multiple servers, multiple applications, multiple IT resources, and to cover multiple users."
"Some of the things that are starting to be interesting is being able to pull in and merge the infrastructure and application data."
"Introscope was our first modern APM tool, and the application deep dive capability gave us visibility into behaviours of requests from within the app engine and code."
"The solution gives us the flexibility to create new metrics and measure whatever we need."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...there is a very easy way to deal with it by adding more servers to the application."
"Operations are able to view the performance of their applications and the real-user experience in business transactions, all through a single solution, CA Application Performance Management."
"Experience View provides a business-focused view that answers the key question as to what the customer experience is, with a minimal amount of work required."
"Support from CA has been really, really phenomenal."
"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
"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."
 

Cons

"A CA APM agent takes a lot of memory. That is one disadvantage. If you configure CA APM correctly it will still consume around 15 to 20 percent of memory."
"User interface - CA is moving towards HTML5, but still a lot is Java, old fashioned, non-customizable and not user friendly. It’s look and feel is still too technical."
"It takes a long time to get it set up and configured in your applications and running."
"There are several areas that could be improved in Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. One of the main areas is user experience monitoring, which is currently not available. Additionally, they need to develop a solution that is compatible with OpenShift 4, as their current solution only works when an agent is installed within the image, which is not possible in OpenShift 4 as it removes the agent."
"The solution is technically scalable, but it is very expensive for our business especially in the way that CA calculates the price, that is based on the number of processors."
"The cost of licensing of the product could be better."
"We ran into all kinds of problems and most of it was because of just the onboarding as our new-product education was a huge issue."
"The web-view is a good app that needs to be improved."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
"Upgrades can be quite complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"Pricing and licensing are not issues."
"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."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"The licensing costs are expensive."
"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
"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."
"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
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Outsourcing Company
20%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
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Marketing Services Firm
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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