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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ACompuware Strobe, later acquired by BMC, was a performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications used to pinpoint application inefficiencies causing excessive CPU consumption. The product has reached end of life.N/A

    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AThe Micro Focus AppPulse Suite was an integrated solution of synthetic, real-user, and diagnostic monitoring for UX, that included Micro Focus AppPulse Active synthetic monitoring for SLA, Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile for real user mobile experience, Micro Focus AppPulse Web for web app availability monitoring, and Micro Focus AppPulse Trace for transaction and code-level performance issues. The suite of products have been discontinued and are no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
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    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Compuware Strobe (discontinued) and Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Compuware Strobe (discontinued)
    7.2
    1 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
    7.4
    1 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Application monitoring7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Database monitoring6.01 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Threshold alerts8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities6.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Collaboration tools8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications6.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding8.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring7.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery7.01 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
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    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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    From my point of view, when we are working with a medium package project, this Micro Focus AppPulse Suite is very useful and effective at finding problems in our activities and codes and isolating them. But when we are working on large-size projects or backend performances, it works slowly to detect issues.
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    Pros
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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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    • Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
    • Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.
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    Cons
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    • Does not collect all performance indicators(toolchain measurements) in early CI pipelines.
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    • It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
    • At first it's hard to find some features.
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    Support Rating
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    Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.
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    Return on Investment
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    • It has helped us identify issues affecting our and our clients' applications' performance.
    • Smoothened robots deployment.
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    • With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
    • Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.
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