DX Application Performance Management vs. Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DX Application Performance Management
Score 9.0 out of 10
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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
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
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The 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
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
DX Application Performance Management
3.7
Ratings
69% below category average
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
7.4
Ratings
3% below category average
Application monitoring3.20 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Database monitoring3.20 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Threshold alerts3.20 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Application performance management console3.20 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Collaboration tools4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications4.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding4.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring3.20 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery4.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
User Ratings
DX Application Performance ManagementMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
3.2
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7.0
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Support Rating
2.5
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8.0
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User Testimonials
DX Application Performance ManagementMicro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
Any other APM product is vastly superior. This product's interface, lack of automated instrumentation, and just ridiculous false parity with other APM products is the laughing stock of the industry. In our use case, we have no other APM tools so we attempt to use and in 1 case out of 10 did we actually find a reported metric that was actually related to the root cause. We spent four hours parsing metric output graphs and hierarchy trees to find it. If CA is your preferred vendor and you like washing your clothes by hand instead of using an automated appliance then this tool is for you
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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
  • CA APM supports .Net and Java applications which are the strong areas of CA APM. It does very well in banking solutions where we are able to meet our business requirements.
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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
  • There is a steep learning curve with the tool which can make it at times daunting to use.
  • APM can at times be fickle with what it can and cannot track as far as performance metrics go.
  • Other than Team Center, the rest of the pieces of the tool aren't as intuitive and require more time to instrument.
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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
We have never received any support from CA on this product
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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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Alternatives Considered
CA Application Performance Management (APM) is the solution global brands trust to proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues across physical, virtual, cloud, and mobile applications. CA APM is easy, proactive, intelligent and collaborative, so every user transaction becomes a loyalty-building interaction. CA Application Performance Management is an application lifecycle management solution for businesses of all sizes while we tried to use Dynatrace but as we get more familiar with CA Wily by the time we analyzed Dynatrace, we were interested to use it and see the results how it goes.
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Return on Investment
  • APM has allowed us to customize a dashboard view for each specific application. This allows for unique monitoring of top functions and unique alerts. It is awesome for this use.
  • APM allows us better data and faster alerting compared to previous products. We moved away from another product because it was not reporting on problems accurately.
  • Once set up, APM requires little management and overhead time. The setup can be somewhat time consuming, but once setup we see no issues
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  • With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
  • Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.
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