BMC AMI Strobe vs. OpenText Business Process Monitor

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.

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It is really good to have Business Process Monitor for being proactive with monitoring critical business services. And it is even more recommended along with APM. However, you will still need some training in order to configure them as they are sophisticated tools.

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• 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.

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• Being proactive in monitoring critical business services.
• Uses pre-saved scripts using Vugen.
• Almost all protocols are supported by it.

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• Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.

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• It depends heavily on Vugen so it would be great to give more courses on writing scripts in the Business Process Monitor trainings.
• When issues arise, we don't have insights into if the issue is from the script itself or if it is a real issue. Here you lose trust in determining which is right until you interfere personally. As an example, one day I got an alert from a business server and the issue was that the script didn't finish successfully and thus it kept the session opened. So the next schedule of the script will fail, not because there is a real issue on the business service, but because you need to go yourself open the application, close all pages, then log out so that the script will continue to monitor.

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We didn't try anything else as we are satisfied with Business Process Monitor.

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• It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
• Smoothened robots deployment.

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• Proactive.
• Monitors critical services by simulating every step you could use and get alerts for performance issues and availability issues.
• Has almost all the needed protocols to write a script.

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