BMC AMI Strobe vs. Fortra Robot Monitor

BMC AMI Strobe

5 Reviews and Ratings

Fortra Robot Monitor

Fortra Robot Monitor

4 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BMC AMI Strobe	Score 6.8 out of 10	N/A	BMC AMI Strobe (formerly Compuware Strobe) is is a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications that helps performance analysts pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption and prolonged execution time.	N/A
Robot Monitor	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Robot Monitor from Fortra (formerly HelpSystems) is presented as a comprehensive, in-depth monitoring solution available for Power Systems environments running IBM i alone or alongside VIOS, AIX, or Linux on Power.	N/A

Pricing

BMC AMI Strobe

Fortra Robot Monitor

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BMC AMI Strobe	Robot Monitor
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	BMC AMI Strobe	Fortra Robot Monitor
Top Pros	Pro Performance issues Pro New users Pro Performance problems	Pro Set up Pro Highly customizable
Top Cons	Minus Performance indicators Minus Comprehensive reports Minus Quite complicated	No answers on this topic

Features

BMC AMI Strobe

Fortra Robot Monitor

Application Performance Management

Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
	BMC AMI Strobe 7.2 1 Ratings 6% below category average	Fortra Robot Monitor - Ratings
Application monitoring	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database monitoring	6.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Threshold alerts	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities	6.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application performance management console	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Collaboration tools	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications	6.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting	8.01 Ratings	00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery	7.01 Ratings	00 Ratings

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	BMC AMI Strobe	Fortra Robot Monitor
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User Ratings
	BMC AMI Strobe	Fortra Robot Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BMC AMI Strobe	Fortra Robot Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend	BMC Software Inc. Compuware Strobe is very essential if you are working in a multi-system environment to constantly measure the activity of your applications. My setup involves deploying bots to perform repetitive tasks. With Compuware Strobe, I'm able to conduct early tests on codes that reduce by great margins performance issues on the development cycle; It's why I'm making a good recommendation for it. Incentivized Gray Nathan Robotic Process Automation Engineer Read full review	Fortra Instantly drill down to show all the jobs consuming CPU, temporary storage, QTEMP, I/O, transactions, faulting rates, and other metrics, for faster problem resolution. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review
Pros	BMC Software Inc. Runs detailed analysis on captured data to aid in tuning applications. It's possible to run early tests on the bots' codes to detect early performance issues. Incentivized Gray Nathan Robotic Process Automation Engineer Read full review	Fortra Auto reply to the MSGW. Robot network GUI is place to monitor all the systems at one place. Based the MSG ID/JOBS, the alerts are set up to notify the concerned person/team. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review
Cons	BMC Software Inc. Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines. Incentivized Gray Nathan Robotic Process Automation Engineer Read full review	Fortra It can have more customization More SQL features can be added Dashboard improvement Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	BMC Software Inc. No answers on this topic	Fortra I found the Robot monitoring tool is more reliable for IBM i servers. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review
Usability	BMC Software Inc. No answers on this topic	Fortra It is very easy to use and have lots of feature which makes our environment risk free. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review
Support Rating	BMC Software Inc. No answers on this topic	Fortra Quiet active whenever there is any help required either on chat support or Contact. Incentivized Nitish Kumar Consultant Read full review
Alternatives Considered	BMC Software Inc. No answers on this topic	Fortra It's a best tool/product in the market and easy to use. It serves our purpose and saves a lot time of the resource from the manual task. The main and most important is, its support team. One of the best support team I have ever seen. Their dedicated product engineer have a good knowledge over the product and helps immediately. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review
Return on Investment	BMC Software Inc. It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance. Smoothened robots deployment. Incentivized Gray Nathan Robotic Process Automation Engineer Read full review	Fortra Can monitor the systems in a central view. It's easy to maintain with better security to the robo commands. Cost effectiveness. Incentivized Srikanth Doddapaneni Lead Consultant Read full review
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