Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management vs. DX Application Performance Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Manager, formerly from CA Technologies, is a unified tool for systems monitoring and analytics. It offers multiple deployment options for IT teams and MSPs .N/A
DX Application Performance Management
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
DX 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
Pricing
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure Management
-
Ratings
DX Application Performance Management
3.7
6 Ratings
69% 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
Best Alternatives
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Small Businesses
Pulseway
Pulseway
Score 8.9 out of 10
GitLab
GitLab
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Instana
IBM Instana
Score 9.0 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.1 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Instana
IBM Instana
Score 9.0 out of 10
ManageEngine Site24x7
ManageEngine Site24x7
Score 9.1 out of 10
All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
User Ratings
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(6 ratings)
3.2
(6 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
2.5
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Broadcom DX Unified Infrastructure ManagementDX Application Performance Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
Well Suited: - Multiple units (you may split Nimsoft per Groups, companies, etc.) - When your Business Teams NEED Dashboards (they'll love it after they learn how to use, for example, if they discover that the may even run SQL queries together with monitor the webpage of the application, and display business data) Less appropriate: - If you are beginning to monitor your environment (because you need to know your environment at least a little bit to check if the entire set of monitoring Nimsoft plugins will really help you or you will only use it to ping your application) - If you don't have at least one (i do recommend 2 or 3 after some short time) people dedicated to deploy and fine-tune the monitoring. The tool is really good, but if you don't have anyone working on it, you will notice that you're spending money in an elephant to kill an ant or worst, that you passed the entire year, and still have the same problems of the last year, cause no one put the hands enough time in the tool. I saw this happening during the first year when I was the only one working with the tool and still supporting the entire team.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Pros
Broadcom
  • Ease of management
  • Unified platform
  • Depth of infrastructure management. Has numerous probes which can help you monitor every aspect of your environment.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Cons
Broadcom
  • I'd like to see improvements in inventory management. Currently node management isn't as efficient as I'd like.
  • I also see a big opportunity to offer greater customization in the Detail Tab. I'd like the ability to pick and chose which metrics are displayed by default in the Detail Tab snapshot.
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Likelihood to Renew
Broadcom
Meets our business requirements
Read full review
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Usability
Broadcom
Easy to configure and use.
Read full review
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Broadcom
Exceed Expectations.
Read full review
Broadcom
We have never received any support from CA on this product
Read full review
Implementation Rating
Broadcom
Plan it out based on your requirements.
Read full review
Broadcom
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
All tools have their own gaps , some seem to do more than others, some just work better. With UIM we have found a sweet spot with features, price point, pros, cons, etc
Read full review
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.
Read full review
Return on Investment
Broadcom
  • Business Units love It - Good for them, but worse for the IT Team until we share the responsibility of the dashboards.
  • If no one put their hands on it, it will take some time to give results. I'm talking about environments with 400 devices, for example, in something about 6 months to one year, if no one is dedicated, and depending on the consulting company. Some, even certified by CA, was not good. If possible, try to use CA services directly.
  • IT Teams, after they start to notice that the tool really work, will want to monitor everything. Depending on the company, this will be more or less easy to measure, as ROI. And I'm telling this because usually IT teams don't know how to sell them to C-Levels, and the tool, because of the price, is always a motivation to questions like: "What is this tool? Do you really need it? Is there another way to monitor this?"
Read full review
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.
Read full review
ScreenShots