In 2017, we did a POC of two APM solutions: Broadcom (CA at the time) and AppDynamics. Both solutions were good, but Broadcom won the award due to its commercial viability and on-site support. This is why we decided to go with Broadcom.

I have worked with a number of different business software suites for application monitoring, and APM kind of got left behind a long time ago. They have been catching up as far as some of the functionalities as their competitors. You have got AppDynamics, New Relic, and Dynatrace. Some of the things that would differentiate them is just history. They have lost their foothold in the market, at least from my perspective. It is more about empowering the developers to do what they want to do.

Vendors like AppDynamics and New Relic, we're starting to see more and more of our internal customers move away from the white-glove, fully-managed model to a staff solution where they're managing their own little pieces.

We evaluated AppDynamics and HPE Diagnostics.

I evaluated AppDynamics, Dynatrace, and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tool.

There wasn't anything else on the market at that time. There have been some other players that have come in since then. CA was the first.

From other competitors and other competition that we looked into, such as Dynatrace and other vendors similar to CA, CA was a clear winner for us. Again, it's been a great product.

I was not involved in the decision process to purchase APM or in the setup. They have actually been in-house for quite some time, before my time; but I've learned to know them. I've learned their products. I've met with vendors, as well as other vendors and competitors. CA seemed to beat out everyone for our company.

I evaluated other products apart from Broadcom DX Application Performance Management. One is Dynatrace which I would also recommend as it's a very nice product. As for the other products, I can't give any other information.

I have evaluated other solutions to understand the market and which applications were leading.

Not before, but we have evaluated others since, such as AppDynamics, Optier, Dynatrace and others.

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We didn't really evaluate other options, but right now, we are in the process of doing it. Right now, we're trying to compare with AppDynamics. That's something we are working on.

There are competitors out there. When selecting CA APM, a lot of it is also the fact that, I think, it's scalability, usability, and the amount of data that it provides for the application from end to end. I don't think there are a lot of products out there that can do that.

I have gone between companies, where different companies use a different application performance monitor, and used the likes of Dynatrace. The difference between the two is the ease of navigating your way through the application. They both do the same thing, except how easy it is to use Wily. It is very intuitive in a lot of ways, which other applications are not.

Our company did evaluate another option, but I was not involved at that time.

I was not part of the process at that time.

I use many tools, such as LoadRunner, Silk Performer, and IBM. I also use AppDynamics and Dynatrace. The last two are actually the best for me at the moment because they support even the database level. CA APM does not support that much. It will only give me minimal information about the DB.

I recognize Dynatrace and AppDynamics as leaders for e-commerce application APM.

We evaluated many other vendors. We considered AppDynamics APM.

We need to be able to obtain new solutions for full feet new necessities . When there is a new technology, if the application is not able to monitoring it, we must research new technologies to enable monitoring these new technologies. Now we are looking for a news solutions.

This was the model we used when we made the change a five years ago. We also considered IBM and HPE. We chose CA APM. They do the most for us.

Other alternatives are being actively considered.

We evaluated CA APM vs AppDynamics and CA APM vs BMC.

Dynatrace and CA, these are the best vendors that we checked. They're at the top.

No other products were evaluated prior to using CA APM.

We did tests with AppDynamics, but had to discard the use of this software because to do analysis of a user experience we had to submit the data to the US, and then only return with the answer.

Yes we did.

They did a feature comparison with some other products, but we are already a mainframe shop with CA products.

HPE, CA, and Dynatrace were on our shortlist. We chose CA because we already had a previous licensing agreement, and then the functionalities and the capabilities.

Before choosing this product, we evaluated other vendors, e.g., HPE SiteScope, and SolarWinds WPM/TraceView.

Yes, IBM and New Relic.

Dynatrace and a few others were looked at by my team. I wasn’t involved in the evaluation, however.

No, it was part of a Business Partner larger purchase.

Not necessarily. Since then, we have evaluated others and they all have their strong suits. APM still tends to do a more thorough job where others may have simplified the deployment process. 

CA APM still has a strong place in the market.

Yes, we also looked at Dynatrace

I don't remember back then because I actually wasn't involved in the decision making process. Since we've used it, we are constantly looking at other tools. We looked just to evaluate. We've evaluated a new solution at Dynamic and Dynatrace and a BMC solution or whatever they call it. We were impressed.

I have looked at other products. I've looked at AppDynamics. They have a pretty interesting looking product, but as far as for our organization, I think we're pretty happy with CA APM.

When selecting a vendor, support and the relationship are very important – we have a good one with CA – as is familiarity, as well. We have a lot of people who are familiar with CA's products, and they're fairly happy with them.

The product was being utilized when I was first exposed to it.

We also looked at Oracle Enterprise Manager.

We evaluated other solutions, such as AppDynamics.

I think it is above a lot of the other monitoring solutions that are out there.

We have seen other competitors and what they provide. It is not as good as what CA APM provides. 

Before choosing this product, we did a proof of concept for Zenoss. We felt CA APM is agile and aptly engineered to meet our requirements.

We've checked out AppDynamics, and Microsoft Operations Manager, which is an APM solution as well, but it leans more towards the cloud.

We checked all the major competitors in this area. We chose this because it was the only one that was compatible with all our technologies.

It was a management decision 5 years ago as they wanted to work with CA.

• AppDynamics
• DynaTrace

We did evaluate several other products. Solutions from BMC and Microsoft were evaluated but fell short of our total monitoring needs.

I know the competitor's solutions, but CA APM is more complete and they have an interesting and challenging roadmap.

We didn't look at anything else.

No other vendors were looked at. APM was part of an enterprise contract deal. We had several other CA products and CA offered APM as an add-on to our contract, which increased our costs, but the vice-president and CEO and CFO thought it would be worth it. It's been five years and we're doing pretty well.

We have had big discussions about changing, but we have recently decided not to. We are staying with them for now.

The quality of software is one of the main criteria that we consider when evaluating a solution.

We looked at other solutions, namely AppDynamics and Dynatrace.

We did not evaluate other products before choosing this product.

We tested IBM Tivoli based solutions – it was a logical choice since we use IBM WebSphere. However, the tools were difficult to use and the whole user experience was just awful. We then piloted CA APM (CA Wily back then) and everybody fell in love with the console and the information it provided.

I was not involved in the selection process, but I know they also looked into the Compuware solution.

My domain experience is with CA Service Assurance Tools. I have worked with other CA products like CA Spectrum, eHealth, NetQoS, CA UIM (Ca Nimsoft). Hence this was my 1st preference and it stood by CA standards.

Yes, Dynatracer and AppDynamics, but i prefer CA APM because of the Customer Experience feature, we are a financial institution, we use the CA CEM to Marketing actions, financial and etc. I think the Customer Experience of the CA CEM is the best in the Market.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

A few 24/7 Web monitoring solutions were evaluated for comparison.

Back in 2009/2010: HPE Diagnostics, Dynatrace; 2016: AppDynamics.

No. The president, my boss, told me to test APM, and find a solution with our product. 

AppDynamics.

We also evaluated IBM ITCAM.

We didn’t evaluate other options as this was pre-determined via our group administration.

Yes, I evaluated others as well - dynatrace. I also read Gartner's APM report.

This product was referred to me.

Before choosing this solution, we tested AppDynamics.

I searched for open-source software, but I could not find one that provides a complete 360 degree view of application performance.

Oracle BPM, IBM Tivoli BSM, Compuware BSM, and BMC.

No other options were evaluated.

We also looked at AppDynamics.

I also evaluated Compuware, Lucierna and Oracle.

We did not evaluate other solutions. We selected this five years ago as there were no other such options.

We did not evaluate any other solution.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

I was not aware of any evaluation of other products.

We evaluated Dynatrace and HPE Diagnostics.

We did not evaluate other options, since there were no other solutions that we knew about with the capacity for end-to-end analysis.

I also evaluated AppDynamics, BMC Software, Compuware - Dynatrace and Microsoft – SCOM Avicode

We also looked into Aternity.

We did not evaluate other options.

Yes. Other Products were evaluated. This product was found to be a close match to our requirements.

We did look at alternatives and all customers made bids.

AppDynamics, BMC and New Relic solutions.

• Dynatrace
• AppDynamics

No.