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PROS

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management enables transformation of complex applications into manageable systems through transaction trace functionality.
It provides comprehensive and automatic insights through standard reports unmatched by competitors.
Cross-platform transaction tracing offers end-to-end monitoring, giving granular insight into customer experience KPIs.
Agent maintenance via command center reduces the need for application team involvement, saving considerable time.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management's scalability and stability support diverse environments effortlessly.

CONS

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management needs to simplify its upgrade process and enhance documentation to avoid complexity.
Current users report challenges with integration and require improved integration with third-party content and applications.
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management should incorporate more automated and self-serve features for ease of implementation and use.
There is a call for enhancements in user experience monitoring, particularly as systems transition to cloud-based solutions.
Technical support for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is criticized for its slow responsiveness and lack of effectiveness.
 

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Pros review quotes

it_user104982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Solutions and Innovation at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 19, 2016
The ability to accomplish the identification of the root cause of problems with applications in drill-down level by integrating the suite with tools for managing and monitoring.
MP
ESM Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 11, 2022
​Deep Dive and Transaction Analysis Triage capability.​
it_user383772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Reliability Manager at Orange
Feb 7, 2016
An application is quite complicated in the environment of a software reliability engineer, because our applications are like a black box. Thanks to CA APM we are able to transform this black box to a gray box by using the transaction trace functionality services. For me it's the most valuable service of the solution.
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it_user296508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jul 17, 2016
Standard available reports provide us with an automatic insight into the top ten situations to watch. It would have been extremely difficult to program such a report ourselves, and to my knowledge no other competitor can match this functionality.
it_user488841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 31, 2016
Service maturity when you can retrieve the normal metrics for every major aspect of each module and delivering this info to the correct eyes.
it_user510261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 11, 2017
With the new feature CA Team Center is much easier to view the information of my user experience, with this unified vision, it was even practical for lay users to use the tool
ITLeadere3b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oct 16, 2017
The way these tools show the information is very useful. this is a tool that records information from Java and .NET applications, and obtain information about how many times an method has been call in a period of time (usually 30 sec), how many times respond in this span of time or is delayed or stall.
it_user572913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 30, 2017
The insight it gives into the applications that it's actually applied to, and the flexibility to do many things with those metrics, and also feed your own metrics from external sources.
it_user405561 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 12, 2017
Command center is a new feature that provides agent maintenance and support without involving the application team. It saves lots of time for APM team.
it_user610167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Apr 15, 2017
Cross-platform business transaction tracing supports the ability to monitor end-to-end performance across the stack, providing granular insight into customer experience KPIs, which are a critical success factor for organizations.
 

Broadcom DX Application Performance Management Cons review quotes

it_user104982 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Solutions and Innovation at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Aug 19, 2016
Improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current.
MP
ESM Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 11, 2022
User Experience is a BIG one. Integration of all of APM components into one swift deployment.
it_user383772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Reliability Manager at Orange
Feb 7, 2016
The product displays some graphics and sometimes we want to have some different metrics in the same graphic but it doesn't display in the same scale, so it's quite complicated to see the metrics. If the product would be able to manage a double scale, it would be perfect.
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it_user296508 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jul 17, 2016
User interface - CA is moving towards HTML5, but still a lot is Java, old fashioned, non-customizable and not user friendly. It’s look and feel is still too technical.
it_user488841 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jul 31, 2016
They need to add support for new frameworks, or at least provide a broader guide/perspectives to add them to monitoring specific agents to retrieve metrics with thresholds as a reference to guide the customer as to where they must go to achieve this.
it_user510261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Services Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Feb 11, 2017
The integration with CA Spectrum is quite difficult to create, and it is also only one way, only being used to view alarms coming from CA APM.
ITLeadere3b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Leader at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Oct 16, 2017
We need more capabilities to analyze the information that tools collects; for example, using artificial intelligence, or something like that.
it_user572913 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Analyst at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 30, 2017
I think as we're all moving forward to automated deployments, it'd be nice to have that out-of-the-box with this product.
it_user405561 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 12, 2017
The front-end representation should match other competitors such as AppDynamics.
it_user610167 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Apr 15, 2017
I would like them provide more guidance on specific tuning of monitoring options to avoid unacceptable overhead.