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    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

    DX Application Performance Management

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADX Application Performance Management (formerly CA APM, or CA Application Performance Management) is an application performance management platform designed to correlate and analyze data in real-time. DX APM supports hybrid environments and customizable failure thresholds.N/A
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    ApicaDX Application Performance Management
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    ApicaDX Application Performance Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
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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%
    Happy with the feature set
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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
    ApicaDX Application Performance Management
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Apica and DX Application Performance Management
    Feature
    Apica
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    Ratings
    DX Application Performance Management
    3.7
    6 Ratings
    72% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings3.26 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings3.24 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings3.26 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings3.26 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings4.05 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings3.24 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings4.04 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ApicaDX Application Performance Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (11 ratings)
    3.2
    (6 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)
    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    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
    ApicaDX Application Performance Management
    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
    CA Wily is well suited for monitoring the load balanced application nodes and determine their main performance bottlenecks like if problem exists in heap or in some connection issues. But I think when it comes to providing the entire report of the application, it is less appropriate as there is no way to create the entire report of the test for all the counters monitored. Also there is no way to detect some issues based on the system configuration.
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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
    • Alerting which can be customized by the end user.
    • Visualization of the metrics and data presented to provide a unique and attractive interface.
    • Flexibility to manage actions and commands that we deem important for each application. The ability to define these and customize the metrics reported for each individual application is huge for us.
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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
    • We are facing challenges to meet RFP requirements in few areas where I would recommend CA to improve.
    • We are facing challenges for non (java and dotnet application) which CA APM does not support. SAP is another solution where CA APM is not able to address our business requirement.
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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
    We have never received any support from CA on this product
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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
    We only have 1 application using DX APM, while most of other applications are instrumented using Dynatrace. Dynatrace provides a better monitoring and instrumentation for applications. The required effort to setup monitoring capability using DX APM is way more work compared to Dynatrace, also the amount of KPIs offered from Dynatrace is more than DX APM.
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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
    • Introscope is deeply utilized within the organization. However, CEM and Team Center not as much. Those that use one piece don't generally use the others. Partially because of the curve in learning how to use the consoles effectively.
    • reporting is pretty well configured and easy to setup if you know how to use the tools. So this can be easy to use and takes less time to configure for the different groups within the organization.
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