CA App Synthetic Monitor vs OpenText Business Process Monitoring comparison

Broadcom and OpenText are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Broadcom is ranked #68, while OpenText is ranked #44 with an average rating of 7.5. Broadcom holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to OpenText’s 0.5% mindshare. Additionally, 66% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

OpenText Business Process Monitoring and CA App Synthetic Monitor compete in the business process and synthetic application monitoring category. Users seem to favor the advanced feature set of CA App Synthetic Monitor despite its higher cost.

What features are offered by OpenText Business Process Monitoring in comparison to CA App Synthetic Monitor?

OpenText Business Process Monitoring provides detailed process tracking, real-time monitoring, and comprehensive support. CA App Synthetic Monitor offers sophisticated synthetic monitoring, detailed metrics, and extensive reporting functionality. Users highlight CA App Synthetic Monitor's advanced monitoring capabilities.

What areas of improvement can be found in OpenText Business Process Monitoring in comparison to CA App Synthetic Monitor?

OpenText Business Process Monitoring could enhance integration with third-party tools and improve interface design and user experience. CA App Synthetic Monitor should focus on improving the learning curve, interface design, and user accessibility.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of OpenText Business Process Monitoring in comparison to CA App Synthetic Monitor?

OpenText Business Process Monitoring offers a flexible deployment model and responsive customer service. CA App Synthetic Monitor receives mixed reviews on customer service responsiveness but provides quicker deployment options.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with OpenText Business Process Monitoring in comparison to CA App Synthetic Monitor?

OpenText Business Process Monitoring is viewed as cost-effective with a good return on investment. CA App Synthetic Monitor, though expensive, justifies the cost with exceptional performance and extensive features.

To learn more, read our detailed CA App Synthetic Monitor vs. OpenText Business Process Monitoring Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

CA App Synthetic Monitor

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

68th

Average Rating

7.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Business Process M...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

44th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

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 CA App Synthetic Monitor is 0.5%, up from 0.1% 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
Product	Mindshare (%)
OpenText Business Process Monitoring	0.5%
CA App Synthetic Monitor	0.5%
Other	99.0%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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reviewer2286675

System Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

A reliable solution for SSL offloading and to encrypt outside traffic

If you are responsible for monitoring the logs in F5, it isn't very easy. The format is complicated compared to different vendors. For example, Fortinet and Cisco have feasible formats for sending and fetching logs. Suppose I'm monitoring the logs and everything, and when I am retrieving logs from F5, I want to know whether it is regular traffic or any abnormality is happening. The logs itself is not user-friendly. It may not give you a clear way of what's happening. You have to go through different websites and work on it. You have to waste so much time on it.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn.

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.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Each had strengths in one area or another, but CA covered the majority of our needs end-to-end."

"From our experience, it really helps managers in measuring application SLAs and viewing historical performance data."

"Ability to monitor multiple application protocols."

"The stability has been very good over the years."

"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."

"Automates processes and allows reports and statistics to improve the speed at which changes and assets are managed."

"The main benefits of using OpenText Business Process Monitoring for my company include anomaly detection and proactive analysis, which enhance our monitoring capabilities."

"Product allows business analysts to create the application with very little software development time needed."

"The tool team was sort of aware of those tools to deal with. And, that helped us to deliver the project on time."

Cons

"Pricing makes little sense. We had examples where it would be cheaper to have two basic accounts than one intermediate."

"The RBMS component is limited as you can only record using Internet Explorer."

"The product has been discontinued."

"Product documentation is lacking, and sometimes, incorrect."

"The solution should offer better integration with other tools from a service management perspective."

"Customer support is pretty average and can use some improvement."

"Support has experienced high turnover recently due to HP acqusition of the former Mercury Interactive product."

"Improvements can be made to OpenText Business Process Monitoring, especially since we have faced issues with protocol support and creating scripts in past implementations."

"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."

"It doesn't have SNMP, the standard communication protocol for sending alerts."

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"On a three-year license package, it was a good deal."

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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.

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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...

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Also Known As

CA ASM

Micro Focus Business Process Monitor, HPE Business Process Monitor

Overview

IT organizations require full visibility into business-critical applications regardless of where they're hosted in order to maintain service levels and proactively deal with issues before the end-user is impacted. CA App Synthetic Monitor uses synthetic transactions to provide performance insight for these applications no matter where they're hosted: outside the firewall, in the cloud or delivered via a managed service provider (MSP). Delivered as software as a service, CA App Synthetic Monitor provides end-to-end transaction response time visibility into cloud, mobile and traditional web applications using synthetic transactions delivered by a network of 95 monitoring stations across six continents, 48 countries, 93 cities and 15 time zones.

Broadcom

OpenText Business Process Monitoring is an Application monitoring software.

Proactively and consistently monitor business processes to identify performance issues before they affect users.

Review affected service level agreements.

BPM provides consistent, predictable measurements that help you associate the business impact with its root cause.

OpenText

Sample Customers

Lexmark

United Airlines, Vodafone Ireland, TEB, The Australian Red Cross Blood Service

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