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Broadcom DX Application Performance Management vs CA Application Delivery Analysis [EOL] comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom DX Application Per...
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
162
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (29th), Container Monitoring (7th)
CA Application Delivery Ana...
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

EG
Director of Technical Part at NOS SGPS
Dashboards facilitate prompt alerts but discovery feature needs enhancement
I would recommend Broadcom DX Application Performance Management if a customer doesn't have any existing performance solution. However, ten years ago, the solution was better, and now there are many competitive options. My overall rating would be between six and seven. The product rating I would give is 6.5 out of 10.
reviewer1237194 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Director, DevOps at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Good monitoring functionality, but technical support and integration with other products need to be improved
My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances. For CA Spectrum, the integration of this product is something that needs to be improved. Even some of their point products to not integrate very well, and ADA is one of them. The user interface needs to be improved. Technical support needs to be improved.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the flexibility and how you can get any data pretty much anywhere."
"It will give us the vital solutions for all performance issues and for all J2EE and .Net applications."
"It covers from mainframe, all the way to dotcom, for example. CA currently covers Amazon, Microsoft Azure, Office 365 monitoring."
"We look forward to new features, because as technology grows we look to incorporate some of that newer technology in our monitoring solutions as well."
"It should enable you to see the usage and performance of all application dependencies like databases, web services, caching, etc."
"Attribute decoration is a unique and very powerful feature. We can add meaningful meta information based on our internal demand."
"We had for several applications performance issues and with Introscope we were in many cases able to pin-point the bottlenecks and debrief them to the development organization to improve their applications."
"I like APM because it is a complete solution that helps the production environment to identify the root cause of problems before affecting the application or services."
"The pricing is relatively low compared to other solutions in this area, and I'd go so far as to say it's even significantly less than the competition."
"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
"Technical support is excellent."
 

Cons

"We’ve been working with CA for a while on a trial and error basis, which has been painful."
"From my perspective, as I had the opportunity to evaluate CA APM compared to other vendors, one of the improvements we highlighted which would be necessary to improve the targeting interface is to make it more user-friendly and current."
"Our users lag how to identify the root cause with this solution."
"It provides access to problems, but not to the problem analysis. You cannot track the problem to the root cause."
"The reason why I am not going to 10 is documentation needs to be centralized."
"It was complex configuring the service transactions from CEM."
"It’s scalable, but not right out of the box, even though we were told it was designed to be out-of-the-box scalable."
"It could be faster. For example, when we are upgrading the product, it takes a lot of time and there are a lot of things we have to do manually."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
"Upgrades can be quite complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Setup costs are quite competitive relative to other solutions, and simpler."
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"Althougth it is a bit expensive, it is really worth it"
"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
"The licensing costs are expensive."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"The license for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management is annual. The licensing model could improve because there is not any limit to deploying the agent, there should be some limits on it."
"I'm unable to give information on Broadcom DX Application Performance Management licensing costs, but all Application Performance Management products have expensive pricing. This means that it's not only Broadcom that's expensive, and it would be an advantage if the cost would be a little bit cheaper."
"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
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Outsourcing Company
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Financial Services Firm
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Construction Company
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Marketing Services Firm
7%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The initial pricing is reasonable and competitive compared to other solutions. The challenge arises during annual renewals, as the price increase can be significant, around twenty percent or more, ...
What needs improvement with Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
The first area for improvement is the discovery feature, which should be enhanced to collect comprehensive information from applications and services. This includes using agents or scripts to gathe...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom DX Application Performance Management?
Our primary use case involves having a large dashboard with significant information for alerts, alarms, and metrics to summarize the state of critical businesses and applications. When an issue ari...
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Also Known As

DX APM, CA APM, CA NetQoS Performance Center, Wily Introscope, CA Wily APM, CA App Experience Analytics, CA AXA
CA ADA, Application Delivery Analysis, NetQoS SuperAgent
 

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Sample Customers

Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
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