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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Apica

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AApica is an observability cost optimization provider helping IT teams gain complete control over their telemetry data economics. Apica Ascent processes all observability data types including metrics, logs, traces, and events while optimizing observability costs.N/A

    Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis

    Score6 out of 10
    N/ABroadcom Application Delivery Analysis is an application performance management tool designed to prove how well a network delivers applications to users with application delivery analysis of performance and availability of SLA measurements.N/A
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    ApicaBroadcom Application Delivery Analysis
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    ApicaBroadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ApicaBroadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Apica and Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    Feature
    Apica
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    Ratings
    Broadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ApicaBroadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    In-Person Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Online Training
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    Implementation Rating
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    ApicaBroadcom Application Delivery Analysis
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apica
    As I use this for only my area, it is very well suited to what I need it to do. Apica Synthetic monitors two different web applications in a time interval that is easily customizable for uptime and latency. These are critical indicators for a cloud-based point-of-sale system. We need solid uptime and limited latency across the enterprise.
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    Broadcom
    Look no farther than this tool if you need an API testing solution that also includes service virtualization. This technology also forces you to move your testing lifecycle to earlier stages of development, which improves the overall SDLC.
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    Pros
    Apica
    • Auto alerts trigger if any issue is identified
    • Graphical representation of the health of applications
    • Good product support from the team
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    Broadcom
    • This is an excellent tool for implementing Service virtualization in your own and/or third-party web services. This ensures that our automation and performance test environments are always available and consistent.
    • This application also aids in the setup and maintenance of test data, which is an important component of test automation.
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    Cons
    Apica
    • It's very clunky. Infrastructure is large and very difficult to upgrade.
    • SaaS and On-premise versions are different. There is an LDAP integration but users can only be assigned to one group (i.e. department). If you are in 2 departments, you need 2 separate logins.
    • Update: they now offer federated logins
    • It filled a gap in monitoring for us, but we're looking to move on.
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    Broadcom
    • This tool has a license fee and is not free. Many open-source tools provide free API testing solutions, therefore turning some of this tool's features open-source might be beneficial.
    • The tool's load testing component is not integrated and instead relies on the free Blaze meter.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apica
    We trust the results that Apica Synthetic has achieved. Real-time alerting is critical to our clients and with limited resources, we can't handle many false positives; Apica Synthetic is the only solution that provides both of those features.
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    Broadcom
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Apica
    As per my experience while using it. Thanks!
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    Broadcom
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    Support Rating
    Apica
    Apica Synthetic is very effective while configuring the account setup for any of the database/UserID.
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    Broadcom
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    Implementation Rating
    Apica
    Easy for implementation in our Infrastructure, Easy for troubleshooting the issue and Easy to use as well.
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    Broadcom
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apica
    We were using different monitoring tools for different requirements (e.g.,Nagios and Checkmk for infrastructure issues) and we were in need of a tool for service and API monitoring for which we were using ThousandEye. But alerts were 60-70% valid irrespective of conditions like network issues. But Apica Synthetic's alert mechanism is a perfect fit for our department. It helped us to reduce unnecessary/false alerts and a number of wrong tickets.
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    Broadcom
    Along with the Parasoft SOA tool, it is unquestionably among the top leaders in API testing and virtualization. Many open-source API testing libraries are free, including Rest Assured, Karate, and even Postman and SOAP UI, which goes against CA.
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    Return on Investment
    Apica
    • My department is not charged for Apica Synthetic so no ROI, but from a customer service perspective, we can react to an outage and repair it faster than our customers can report the outage.
    • Our vendor's own monitoring tools are not as accurate nor as timely as ours. They rely on us telling them, from Apica Synthetic, that they have an issue.
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    Broadcom
    • In our group, this instrument produced a high return on investment. We saw a considerable reduction in downtime in our test environments thanks to service virtualization.
    • In addition, service virtualization reduces the expenses of interacting with third-party services, which is common in low-cost contexts.
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