BMC Compuware Strobe vs Germain comparison

Compuware Strobe is the industry-leading mainframe application performance management and analysis solution for mainframe applications. With Strobe, IT departments can pinpoint application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, elongated elapsed times and reduce hardware and software costs while increasing customer satisfaction.

With Strobe, mainframe teams can:

• Locate and improve resource-consumptive database calls
• Identify tuning opportunities to reduce monthly software licensing costs (MLC)
• Resolve performance issues before they impact application service levels
• Apply analytics to captured data to produce reports showing high-resource consumption and applications that need tuning
• Measure activity of both online and batch-processing applications in single and multiple- system environments
• Identify several I/O problems, including inefficient VSAM file buffering
• Create and schedule automatic, reusable measurements
• Automatically detect performance problems by using a rolling average of CPU consumption and elapsed-time metrics

Germain is a small yet growing organization with a number of large customers (eBay, American Airlines, Nestle, Pepsi, Tele2, etc) leveraging Germain’s two software technologies: Germain APM(Application Performance Monitoring software, Real-time, 24x7, Big Data) and Germain CRT(Automated Code/Object Performance review software). Germain is 100% focused on building software technologies intended to help IT organizations proactively understand and improve the performance of their Business Applications (CRM, ERP, eCommerce, HR, Supply Chain, Business Intelligence) and underlying infrastructure. Germain APM helps Application Administrators proactively monitor Real User Experience, End-to-end Application Performance, Network, Database, Operating System performance and more. Germain CRT helps Application Developers detect bad Code/Objects that are known to cause performance issues. In 2006, Germain built a Performance Monitoring software for Siebel CRM; In 2014, Germain launched a brand new germain APM, end-to-end, real-time, big data and able to monitor performance of any Applications (custom apps built in java, .net and packaged applications like salesforce.com, WordPress site, oracle application and databases, Microsoft application and databases, etc). more info on: germainAPM.com