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DX Performance Management vs OpenText Cloud Optimizer comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management
Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (55th), DX NetOps (2nd)
OpenText Cloud Optimizer
Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning
3rd
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the Infrastructure Capacity Planning category, the mindshare of DX Performance Management is 11.9%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Cloud Optimizer is 12.7%, down from 23.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure Capacity Planning Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
DX Performance Management11.9%
OpenText Cloud Optimizer12.7%
Other75.4%
Infrastructure Capacity Planning
 

Featured Reviews

Sandip Kheni - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
Prem Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Gives an overview of the entire infrastructure and helps with the optimization and capacity planning
It is not very easy, but it is also not very complex. You need good technical expertise to understand how to work with the product. The deployment duration depends on the scope of work. It depends on how much integration you need. This product can integrate with many other applications. It depends on whether you want to integrate or whether you want a standalone system. It depends on how many different systems you need to capture the data from. Do you want to integrate with a reporting product? Depending upon that, you have to decide. The product installation takes one or two days, but you need to define a use case for what you want to do after the installation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Spectrum is very good at monitoring all network faults and configurations."
"One feature I like about CA Performance Management is the certification of the devices."
"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."
"You can have thousands of devices inside and hundreds of thousands of interphases without a problem."
"Customer service is top-notch."
"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."
"It helps to plan how you can scale up your environment, and it gives an overview of your entire infra."
"Easy access to resources of our cloud."
 

Cons

"Product has issue collecting IP SLA data."
"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. ​"
"For CA PM, there should be a way of easily migrating the reports coming from eHealth going to CA Performance Center, since CA PC is replacing eHealth."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"I'm not a fan of many extra features since they usually burden the software and reduce its reliability."
"Some of the individual report views, the way some of the columns sort, there's room for improvement in giving us more flexibility in being able to sort reports based, for example, on what columns the metrics fall under."
"​Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"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."
"It needs to improve the capacity planning."
"It should have more reporting features. It will help in getting more reporting information."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."
"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."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."
"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."
"It depends on the agreement that you have with Micro Focus. It can be a year-based term. It can be perpetual, or it can be subscription-based. Depending upon whether you're looking for an annual or a multi-year contract, the pricing would vary. It also depends on whether you are looking for standard support or premium support."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Educational Organization
10%
University
9%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business5
Large Enterprise25
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?
The tool helps us understand network performance.
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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Also Known As

CA Performance Management
Micro Focus Cloud Optimizer, HPE vPV, HPE Cloud Optimizer
 

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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 
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