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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 (26th), Container Monitoring (7th)
CA Application Delivery Ana...
Average Rating
6.6
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

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

"I think that the most important feature is the freedom to construct the workloads for the database size we need according to number of users, data, and other criteria."
"Customer service is excellent, and every time we have opened an issue, it is resolved quickly."
"I found the solution's end-to-end analysis and flexibility most valuable."
"In many organizations I've seen this product working in, SEV1s have been reduced quite a bit, and in one particular organization, within the first 12 months, SEV1s were reduced by 90% just by introducing this product."
"APM is quite nice, especially with the new features in version 10."
"It gives us insight into the functional health of the application, if we have any hot spots."
"The executive dashboard we created gives a lot of visibility. There's no working on something for a little bit before someone knows."
"With this product, we were able to increase our applications' performance, their response times, and to improve the satisfaction of our customers."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is the fault management monitoring."
"Technical support is excellent."
"Once it is setup and seeing traffic, it is an impressive tool to show potential problems long before the general users are complaining."
 

Cons

"It should be easier to install or set everything up. ​"
"Team Center requires a number of tweaks to allow per-user/group configuration to customize the interface for groups of users, though I believe these are already in the product roadmap."
"The reason it's not a ten is because they don't focus enough on improving over time like other competitors do who have a more modern and complete tool."
"Probe-based network appliance: Add more protocols (currently only supports TCP, HTTP and HTTPS) Software / Consoles / Dashboards"
"Out-of-the-box report templates need to be incorporated."
"Mainly, what we are seeing are problems with our ability to manage all the agents across the board."
"Some of which are the inability to manage multiple hosts at the same time, configure agents in an easy fashion."
"I have a hard time upgrading CA APM. When I upgrade from one version to another, everything must be done manually."
"Upgrades can be quite complex."
"It is not the best product on the market, but it is better than the competition if you were comparing prices."
"The user interface needs improvement."
"Hard to setup right, hard to get the conversations right."
"My biggest complaint about ADA is that you have to rely on dedicated appliances."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is definitely expensive for what we get, but there isn't an alternate option at the moment."
"Broadcom is a better and cheaper option from the financial perspective. It also depends on the DLP plug."
"There is some research needed to determine licensing costs, based on the number of DataPower instances for the Nastel agent, for example."
"The licensing costs are expensive."
"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."
"Pricing and licensing are not issues."
"Negotiate a lot, but do not forget to buy the product because it is worth it."
"On pricing, CA is very competitive. I think that's going to help in the long run."
"This is an expensive solution and there is a single price to pay for licensing, with no options."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
15%
Construction Company
11%
Marketing Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
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Midsize Enterprise24
Large Enterprise124
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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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