DX Performance Management vs NetCrunch comparison

Broadcom and AdRem Software are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Broadcom is ranked #56 with an average rating of 8.5, while AdRem Software is ranked #85. Broadcom holds a 0.2% mindshare in NMS, compared to AdRem Software’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of AdRem Software users who would recommend it.

DX Performance Management

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

NetCrunch and DX Performance Management are competing in the network monitoring and management software domain. DX Performance Management is often seen as having an upper hand due to its superior functionalities, particularly for businesses seeking advanced solutions, while NetCrunch is preferred for its pricing and support.

Features: NetCrunch provides real-time network status monitoring, flexible alerting, and integrated monitoring that suit small to medium-sized networks. On the other hand, DX Performance Management offers in-depth analytics, application performance monitoring, and scalability that align well with larger enterprises.

Room for Improvement: NetCrunch can enhance its analytics capabilities, user interface design, and expand its scalability options. DX Performance Management may improve its deployment ease, simplify its feature integration, and reduce its initial cost burden to attract a broader audience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: NetCrunch is known for its straightforward deployment process and responsive customer service, which appeals to those looking for a less complex setup. DX Performance Management has a more involved deployment process due to its intricate functionalities but supports comprehensive integration.

Pricing and ROI: NetCrunch generally offers a more competitive setup cost, leading to quicker ROI for smaller enterprises focused on essential monitoring. DX Performance Management typically requires a higher initial investment but offers significant long-term ROI for larger companies utilizing its advanced capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

56th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), DX NetOps (2nd)

NetCrunch

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

85th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (26th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (63rd), Log Management (77th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NetCrunch is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Sandip Kheni

Lead Developer at STL - Sterlite Technologies Limited

The vertical database loads faster than any other product available

We experience disconnections between the solutions own components. In the last five years, there have been many intermittent connection issues with the four components and we still don't know the reasons. The solution has issues when loading groups that have been created in the application interfaces. It would be nice to have a mobile application. In the current industry and technical word, the mobile phone is the only thing that is always in your hands. Other Broadcom products have mobile applications but the solution doesn't offer one. It would be great to view device parameters and view or download graphs from a mobile device.

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Reginald Pierre

Senior Systems Administrator, Technical Lead at Connectivity Wireless

A network monitoring platform with a useful reporting feature, but permission-based options could be better

The initial setup is fairly easy. Most of it's wizard-based. You don't have to be a rocket scientist to set it up. But if you don't know certain things related to protocols and everything else, it might be difficult. If you know how SNMP works, it'll be fairly simple to set up.

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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

"We have been able to get a little bit better at seeing more things in real time and more just in time, so we're less reactionary."

"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."

"It is the gathering of the whole performance data in our environment and our network environment, for us and our customers."

"Customer service is top-notch."

"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."

"It saves time having it all on one place, so you do not have to jump around from different tools and try to merge the data. It is already done for you."

"It can be easily integrated with other systems and is powerful enough to collect data from a large number of devices."

"The out-of-the-box dashboards are valuable, in terms of being able to visualize performance data in ways that we haven't in the past."

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"Reporting on NetCrunch is pretty good. It's very similar to SolarWinds. It's just a different interface. The majority of everything there was beneficial."

Cons

"I would like to have more tasks, graphs, and possibilities for linking to the graphs and reports added to the solution."

"This solution is not very scalable."

"Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected."

"When it goes through discovery, or whatever it is doing in the back-end that slows it down, sometimes we get some failures with it. "

"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."

"We would like to be capable of reporting network performance with a report strictly focused on the times outside business hours, which CA PM does not currently support. We have discontinued the use of the Business Hours Filtering until CA engineers are able to resolve or offer guidance."

"We experience disconnections between the solutions own components."

"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."

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"I didn't care for the role-based, permission-based options, which were not the best."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. "

"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."

"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."

"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."

"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

28%

Computer Software Company

12%

Manufacturing Company

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

13%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?

The tool helps us understand network performance.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?

The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices.

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What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?

Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.

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Comparisons

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CA Performance Management

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Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom

NetCrunch is the complete network monitoring solution for monitoring traffic, topology, devices, systems, logs, and services. It's policy, and template-based configuration makes managing thousands of nodes a breeze. It automatically generates layer-2 maps and manages monitoring dependencies. NetCrunch supports major operating systems, virtualization platforms, and the Cloud. Complete SNMP support with 8,700+ MIBs included and a built-in MIB compiler.

AdRem Software

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG

AER Kooperation, AON Corpration, Advance Financial services, Airbus SAS, Bauer Net consult, Banco Soal, Bertelsmann, Burke County public, COF training services

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