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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    DX Application Performance Management

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADX 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

    KANA Express, discontinued

    Score3.3 out of 10
    N/AVerint Express (formerly KANA Express) was a cloud-based multi-channel customer engagement / experience platform that was owned and supported by Verint since that company's 2014 acquisition of KANA Software. The product has since been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    DX Application Performance ManagementKANA Express, discontinued
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    DX Application Performance ManagementKANA Express, discontinued
    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
    DX Application Performance ManagementKANA Express, discontinued
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of DX Application Performance Management and KANA Express, discontinued
    Feature
    DX Application Performance Management
    3.7
    6 Ratings
    72% below category average
    KANA Express, discontinued
    -
    Ratings
    Application monitoring3.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring3.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threshold alerts3.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application performance management console3.26 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration tools4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring3.24 Ratings00 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting4.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    DX Application Performance ManagementKANA Express, discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.2
    (6 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.5
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    DX Application Performance ManagementKANA Express, discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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.
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    If your business has more than 50 users, don't use KANA Express. User management and setup is not intuitive, and back-end email management takes a large amount of time. If your business emails more than one recipient and expects replies from more than one recipient, don't use KANA Express. The system is built for one-question-in, one-answer-out. Anything more than that requires extra customization or is impossible, according to their development team. If managing your inbound email either internally or externally is critical to your operations, don't use KANA Express. Downtime is more frequent than is acceptable, and their Netherlands advanced support team's hours make down-time in the western hemisphere a lot longer than it needs to be.
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    Pros
    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.
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    • Allows you to manage multiple email queues with different business rules.
    • User interface is somewhat intuitive, allowing users to navigate fairly easily.
    • Admin controls allow for a considerable variety of customization.
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    Cons
    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.
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    • KANA Express is NOT set up for business models where email is conversational and involves multiple recipients and responses. If your business model is one-question-in, one-answer-out, then KANA Express will probably work for you.
    • Since signing on with them, KANA Express' support team has been severely lacking in expertise and acceptable turnaround times, especially when the platform encounters a system-wide issue to leads to downtime. Our assigned sales contacts jumped ship with the company almost immediately after we went live, which is never a good sign.
    • Admin panel and functions are very antiquated and not user-friendly at all. Email management through the admin tool lacks crucial insight that prevents admin users from being able to easily route and manage emails. Our organization had to write our own KANA user guides that KANA Express then took and started using themselves and for other clients.
    • The KANA Express platform does not have proper spam or auto-reply management tools. Admin users must manually turn off the KANA Express auto-response emails in order to prevent email loops with other parties' auto-responses.
    • Analytics options are lacking. Admin users must run at least three separate reports in order to gather appropriate insight as to user activities and metrics.
    • Email queue/user set up is not intuitive. If adding a new queue or user, all users must be manually adjusted to include that new queue. There is no mass-edit tool for KANA Express users.
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    We have never received any support from CA on this product
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    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.
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Discontinued Products
    • KANA Express was originally presented as an excellent alternative to Fastraq, an email management system that was in EOL during the time we were shopping for alternatives. Unfortunately, our originally planned ROI was not achieved due to lost functionality and broken sales promises, leaving us with an email management system that's built more on workarounds than out-of-the-box solutions, requiring considerable time for admin activities that could be avoided by a better-designed system.
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