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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs OpenText Business Process Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
35th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Container Monitoring (8th)
OpenText Business Process M...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
44th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is 0.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Business Process Monitoring is 0.5%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management0.8%
OpenText Business Process Monitoring0.5%
Other98.7%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

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.
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Marco Technology
Proactive monitoring boosts system reliability but requires improved protocol support and script customization
Improvements can be made to OpenText Business Process Monitoring, especially since we have faced issues with protocol support and creating scripts in past implementations. Creating a proactive request requires a specific skill set, so a template for scripts that work across various protocols should be recommended. The dashboard of OpenText Business Process Monitoring is good enough, but in my operational environment, it is not sufficient. Therefore, I have had to customize everything beyond the package, utilizing Prometheus and Grafana to render more dashboards.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It helps the developers with performance testing, production pro-active monitoring and troubleshooting."
"We don’t have performance bottlenecks or leaks in production any more and act proactively to prevent their occurrence."
"CA APM is very scalable and used in a clustered environment because it supports more than its technical capacity."
"Product performance is awesome; it's covering all aspects of the application with good database metrics and internal application metrics, providing tons and tons of data."
"CA APM not only does root cause analysis, but it is smart enough to proactively identify an issue that could happen and advise me to do something to prevent it."
"Technical support is very helpful and supportive."
"It will give us the vital solutions for all performance issues and for all J2EE and .Net applications."
"In many organizations I've seen this product working in, SEV1s have been reduced quite a bit, and in one particular organization, within the first 12 months, SEV1s were reduced by 90% just by introducing this product."
"Ability to monitor multiple application protocols."
"Product allows business analysts to create the application with very little software development time needed."
"Automates processes and allows reports and statistics to improve the speed at which changes and assets are managed."
"The stability has been very good over the years."
"The main benefits of using OpenText Business Process Monitoring for my company include anomaly detection and proactive analysis, which enhance our monitoring capabilities."
"The tool team was sort of aware of those tools to deal with. And, that helped us to deliver the project on time."
"What I find most valuable is that it has synthetic monitoring that you can run from different geographies and identify, as it’s more proactive monitoring than reactive monitoring, so it'll alert customers before they find out things are not working, and proactive monitoring is very helpful to most of our customers."
"The solution is very good at showing users ways to use a user action on a website and to see the performance."
 

Cons

"The customer experience management can be improved by making it possible to track down the user actions on a single page."
"The other thing that can be improved is that the dashboard edition in the CA APM is very limited and basic."
"From my perspective, as I had the opportunity to evaluate CA APM compared to other vendors, one of the improvements we highlighted which would be necessary to improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"System incident analysis and performance monitoring need improvement."
"The installation could be improved. Also, they need to concentrate more on the cloud for cloud monitoring."
"When we made the upgrade to 10.3 we have some problems with the new version."
"The upcoming changes for the deployment process of the agent will help a lot, in that others have gotten to that point first.​"
"Mainly, what we are seeing are problems with our ability to manage all the agents across the board."
"Improvements can be made to OpenText Business Process Monitoring, especially since we have faced issues with protocol support and creating scripts in past implementations."
"It doesn't have SNMP, the standard communication protocol for sending alerts."
"The product has been discontinued."
"Support has experienced high turnover recently due to HP acqusition of the former Mercury Interactive product."
"Product documentation is lacking, and sometimes, incorrect."
"The solution should offer better integration with other tools from a service management perspective."
"Product documentation is lacking, and sometimes, incorrect. Having better documentation will allow business analysts and data center personnel to rely on the Micro Focus help desk less."
"Customer support is pretty average and can use some improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"All discounts are case by case to accommodate the client's budgets."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."
"Pricing and licensing are not issues."
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"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."
"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
"On a three-year license package, it was a good deal."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Marketing Services Firm
13%
Performing Arts
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Performing Arts
11%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise124
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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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Business Process Monitor?
I find OpenText Business Process Monitoring quite expensive, and while it feels expensive, I see it as an affordable investment overall.
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Business Process Monitor?
Improvements can be made to OpenText Business Process Monitoring, especially since we have faced issues with protocol support and creating scripts in past implementations. Creating a proactive requ...
What is your primary use case for Micro Focus Business Process Monitor?
The idea behind OpenText Business Process Monitoring since the beginning is very good, as it is proactive. We do not wait until the system crashes or misbehaves; we put the application request into...
 

Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
Micro Focus Business Process Monitor, HPE Business Process Monitor
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
United Airlines, Vodafone Ireland, TEB, The Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs. OpenText Business Process Monitoring and other solutions. Updated: March 2026.
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