Lumen Cloud Application Manager vs. OpenText Business Process Monitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lumen Cloud Application Manager
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Lumen Cloud Application Manager (formerly AppFog from CenturyLink) is a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform with integrated Managed Services. The centralized platform manages workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments, allowing for greater scaling and transparency.
$50
per month
OpenText Business Process Monitor
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
OpenText Business Process Monitor, formerly from Micro Focus, is a synthetic application monitoring tool.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Lumen Cloud Application Manager
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Ratings
OpenText Business Process Monitor
9.0
1 Ratings
17% above category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Lumen Cloud Application ManagerOpenText Business Process Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Lumen Cloud Application ManagerOpenText Business Process Monitor
Likelihood to Recommend
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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OpenText
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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Pros
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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OpenText
  • Being proactive in monitoring critical business services.
  • Uses pre-saved scripts using Vugen.
  • Almost all protocols are supported by it.
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Cons
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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OpenText
  • 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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Alternatives Considered
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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OpenText
We didn't try anything else as we are satisfied with Business Process Monitor.
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Return on Investment
Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink)
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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OpenText
  • 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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