OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence vs PubSub+ Platform comparison

Broadcom and Solace are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. Broadcom is ranked #13, while Solace is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 96% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Solace users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence and PubSub+ Platform are products in IT infrastructure management and data streaming. PubSub+ Platform holds an advantage due to its extensive feature set, despite OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence's appealing pricing and support.

Features:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides advanced automation for mainframe systems with tools like System State Manager, automation for message traffic, and operational analytics. PubSub+ Platform offers powerful event streaming and management, supporting real-time data integration with features such as flexible topic hierarchies, seamless protocol exchange, and robust event mesh capabilities.

Room for Improvement:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence could enhance its integration capabilities and expand its flexibility for non-mainframe environments. Additionally, improving its user interface would benefit ease of use. PubSub+ Platform could increase its compliance features and simplify initial setup. It might also improve the dashboard functionality for better user experience and analytics visibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence provides a straightforward deployment for mainframe environments with comprehensive documentation and reliable support. PubSub+ Platform offers adaptable deployment options across cloud and on-premises setups, backed by responsive and knowledgeable customer service. Its flexibility makes it suitable for diverse IT settings.

Pricing and ROI:OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence presents lower setup costs, making it attractive for enterprises focused on mainframes. Its pricing structure facilitates a strong ROI due to targeted functionalities. PubSub+ Platform involves higher initial expenses but justifies them with scalable architecture and advanced features, promising substantial long-term ROI for businesses seeking comprehensive data solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

OPS/MVS Automation Intellig...

Ranking in Event Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

8.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Mainframe Management (6th)

PubSub+ Platform

Ranking in Event Monitoring

10th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Message Queue (MQ) Software (6th), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM) (2nd), Streaming Analytics (11th)

Featured Reviews

it_user351621

IT System Analyst - Lead at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

The ability to use command rules is great when our operators have repetitive tasks, but we'd like to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is.

One of the things we've been wanting to do is to be able to automate off of different highlighted messages without actually knowing what the message is. For example, we'd like to be able to create some generic automation when we receive a warning or alert message to allow, if nothing else, the automation team to know so we can contact the product owner. If there's something we can do to automate or expedite notification to the proper people, we want to try to do that.

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BhanuChidigam

Sofware Engineering Manager at Wells Fargo

Performs well, high availability, and helpful support

We use approximately four people for the maintenance of the solution. My advice to others is this solution has high throughput and is used for many stock exchanges. For business critical use cases, such as processing financial transactions at a quick speed, I would recommend this solution. I rate PubSub+ Event Broker an eight out of ten.

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Pros

"I can and interrupt what's going on, bring a job down if I need to, and bring it back up."

"Once automatic IPL has been defined, anyone can perform an IPL with very little intervention. We know that all of the components will be started correctly."

"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."

"It's very flexible. You can customize what you need to, which is good. For example, you can do your own coding inside the tool, make your own scripting tooling."

"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."

"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."

"It alerts the operators when it is time to repair the communications and the IPLs."

"The performance of it is beyond exceptional. It is probably one of the best products that I have ever worked with. It is easy to use, comprehensive, and can perform almost any task you need it to."

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"The most valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the scaling integration. Prior to using the solution, it was done manually with a file, and it can be done instantly live."

"We've built a lot of products into it and it's been quite easy to feed market data onto the systems and put entitlements and controls around that. That was a big win for us when we were consolidating our platforms down. Trying to have one event bus, one messaging bus, for the whole globe, and consolidate everything over time, has been key for us. We've been able to do that through one API, even if it's across the different languages."

"Going from something where we had outages and capacity issues constantly to a system that was able to scale with the massive market data and messaging spikes that happened during the initial stages of the COVID crisis in March, we were able to scale with 40 plus percent growth in our platform over the course of days."

"The valuable feature of PubSub+ Event Broker is the speed of processing, publishing, and consumption."

"This solution reduces the latency to access changes in real-time and the effort required to onboard a new subscriber. It also reduces the maintenance of each of those interfaces because now the publisher and subscribers are decoupled. Event Broker handles all the communication and engagement. We can just push one update, then we don't have to know who is consuming it and what's happening to that publication downstream. It's all done by the broker, which is a huge benefit of using Event Broker."

"When we went to add another installation in our private cloud, it was easy. We received support from Solace and the install was seamless with no issues."

"When it comes to granularity, you can literally do anything regarding how the filtering works."

"The topic hierarchy is pretty flexible. Once you have the subject defined just about anybody who knows Java can come onboard. The APIs are all there."

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Cons

"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."

"It’s a complex product. The initial installation is easy, but implementing various functions is a constant process."

"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script."

"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."

"Because of its age, it's a little bit difficult to modernize some of the integrations and some of the functions."

"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."

"The further expansion of the mainframe teamcenter interface. Also, the web services support is something that I am looking into."

"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."

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"The ease of management could be approved. The GUI is very good, but to configure and manage these devices programmatically in the software version is not easy. For example, if I would like to spin up a new software broker, then I could in theory use the API, but it would require a considerable amount of development effort to do so. There should be a tool, or something that Solace supports, that we could use for this, e.g., a platform like Terraform where we could use infrastructure as code to configure our source appliances."

"The licensing and the cost are the major pitfalls."

"The section on observability pertains to understanding the functioning of an event crash. Instead of focusing on how the crash occurs, attention is given to the observable aspects, such as a memory pipeline where one person pushes messages and another reads them. However, this pipeline often encounters issues, such as the reader being unavailable, causing the system to become stuck and preventing the messages from moving forward. This can lead to the pipeline being permanently stalled."

"The solution could be improved by enhancing the message pooling size for persistent messages to handle both small and large messages effectively."

"For improvements, I would suggest increasing the max payload size to a limit of 100MB or more. The current max payload size is limited to 5MB."

"We've pointed out some things with the DMR piece, the event mesh, in edge cases where we could see a problem. Something like 99 percent of users wouldn't ever see this problem, but it has to do with if you get multiple bad clients sending data over a WAN, for example. That could then impact other clients."

"The deployment process is complex."

"One of the areas of improvement would be if we could tell the story a bit better about what an event mesh does or why an event mesh is foundational to a large enterprise that has a wide diversity of applications that are homegrown and a small number off the shelf."

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"The licensing is dependent on the volume that is flowing. If you go for their support services, it will cost some more money, but I think it is worth it, especially if you are just starting your journey."

"Having a free version of the solution was a big, important part of our decision to go with it. This was the big driver for us to evaluate Solace. We started using it as the free version. When we felt comfortable with the free version, that is when we bought the enterprise version."

"The pricing and licensing were very transparent and well-communicated by our account manager."

"There are different tiers where you can choose what would work for you. As a customer, you need to know roughly how many messages a month you will use."

"We are looking for something that will add value and fit for purpose. Freeware is good if you want to try something quickly without putting in much money. However, as far as our decision is concerned, I don't think it helps. At the end of the day, if we are convinced that a capability is required, we will ask for the funding. Then, when the funding is available, we will go for an enterprise solution only."

"Having a free version is critical for our technology operations use case. This is primarily because our technology operations team is a cost center in our company. They are not profit drivers and having a free version for installation will probably meet our needs. Even for production, it'll support up to a 100,000 messages per second. I don't think in technology operations that we have that many events and alerts from our detection tools. Even if I have 20 or 30 event detection products out there, they're only going to publish the things which are critical or warnings. I don't think we'll ever reach a 100,000 messages per second."

"We have been really happy with the product licensing rates. It has been free for us, up to a 100,000 transactions per second, and all we have to do is pay for support. Making their product available and accessible to us has not been a problem at all."

"The price of PubSub+ Event Broker is reasonable for the capability it offers. However, when compared to others solutions on the market it is expensive."

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Financial Services Firm

21%

Logistics Company

21%

Computer Software Company

13%

Insurance Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

35%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Also Known As

CA OPS MVS Event Management and Automation, CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation, Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation

PubSub+ Event Broker, PubSub+ Event Portal

Overview

z/OS, its subsystems, databases, middleware, applications, and software generate thousands of event messages daily. IT professionals need a tool to filter, prioritize, and respond quickly to these events before they impact availability and threaten business processing and associated service level agreements. CA OPS/MVS EMA automates processes, enabling you to resolve problems as they arise. It also automates more routine tasks, simplifying IT management and operations.

Broadcom

PubSub+ Platform supports real-time shipment tracking, IT event management in multiclouds, and connects legacy and cloud-native systems for application modernization. It's utilized for trading, streaming market data, and app-to-app messaging, enhancing event-driven architectures with reliable message queuing.

Organizations adopt PubSub+ to efficiently transport events across hybrid and cloud environments, managing audit trails and long processing tasks. The platform aids integration through dynamic data publication, event mesh capabilities, and WAN optimization. Features like seamless integration, protocol agnosticism, and flexible topic hierarchy enhance versatility. Solace Admin Utility simplifies configuration and management, while the event portal allows hybrid deployment.

What are the key features of PubSub+ Platform?

Dynamic Data Publication: Enables flexible and responsive data handling.
Event Mesh Capabilities: Facilitates efficient event transportation.
WAN Optimization: Enhances data transfer across networks.
Protocol Agnosticism: Supports a wide range of protocols for integration.
Flexible Topic Hierarchy: Allows detailed and organized data exchange.
Solace Admin Utility: Provides intuitive configuration and management.
Granular Topic Filtering: Offers precise data filtering options.
Guaranteed Messaging: Ensures reliable message delivery.

What benefits or ROI should users consider?

Seamless Integration: Reduces complexity in connecting systems.
Performance and Scaling: Supports high-load environments efficiently.
Asynchronous Messaging: Improves application performance.
Robust Support System: Provides guidance and problem resolution.

PubSub+ is implemented in industries requiring real-time data handling and integration between disparate systems. Financial institutions use it for trading and streaming market data, while logistics companies benefit from real-time shipment tracking. Enterprises apply it to modernize operations by connecting legacy systems with cloud-native applications, enhancing their architecture and ensuring data reliability across environments.

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Sample Customers

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FxPro, TP ICAP, Barclays, Airtel, American Express, Cobalt, Legal & General, LSE Group, Akuna Capital, Azure Information Technology, Brand.net, Canadian Securities Exchange, Core Transport Technologies, Crédit Agricole, Fluent Trade Technologies, Harris Corporation, Korea Exchange, Live E!, Mercuria Energy, Myspace, NYSE Technologies, Pico, RBC Capital Markets, Standard Chartered Bank, Unibet

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