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"The initial setup was fairly easy."

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"Because we have partnerships with other partners, I can share a bit about what I've noticed with IBM APM compared to other vendor solutions. Specifically, with IBM, the visibility into detailed process information is more tangible. On the OS level, APM displays all processes (or the top 10 processes) that are consuming CPU or resident memory. This is the most important thing that is not always available with other vendors.""I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.""The initial setup was straightforward and took minimal effort.""IBM Application Performance Management helped us increased our response time by 80% and cost 60% less.""The transaction tracking feature from IBM is the most important feature for us. It is something that provides a terrific value for us and our clients. It has a lot of data sources and agents that are collectors. It is also stable.""The most valuable feature is the breakdown that it provides, such as a description of the fields for a particular transaction.""It's easy to use."

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"There are certain aspects of the configuration that could be simplified a bit."

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"The stability is not great and should be better.""The demo that was provided to us is not working very well. At times, there are errors.""They should focus on potentially enhancing the dashboard to make it more contemporary and adding some customization options. Furthermore, there might be room for improvement in the pricing policy.""It's still missing some platforms. For example, if you look to applications itself, it is missing the interface.""With APM, we noticed that the agent can cause a lot of issues for the application, making the agent very unreliable. Many issues are happening, and we've had to discuss it with support to try and get a fix. It affects application availability, and sometimes actions fail because of the agent, degrading the performance of the application.""Its web user interface is a little bit old in comparison to other solutions, such as New Relic, and it should be improved. Its scalability and technical support should also be improved. Currently, it is scalable, but only in a vertical way. They provide good technical support, but the initial steps for a new case can be improved to fasten the resolution process.""Technical support can be slow and needs improvement."

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  • "IBM APM is one of the cheaper products on the market, while everything necessary to get started is included in the license."
  • "The licensing fees can be paid every six months or on a yearly basis."
  • "As I previously indicated, I initiated the IBM and uncovered all its elements. Consequently, I'm not inclined towards a licensing approach."
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    Overview

    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
    The IBM Application Performance Management portfolio provides visibility, control and automation of your mission-critical applications. It helps pinpoint the root cause of application's issue more quickly and resolve the problem. The integrated capabilities cover the five key areas: discovery, end-use experience, transaction tracking, enterprise diagnostics and analytics. It also easily monitors applications to ensure optimal performance to extend your hybrid management environment capabilities, to measure the customer experience from multiple locations and to further eliminate blind spots in your application environment.
    Sample Customers
    Chunghwa Telecom, Helvetia, Comerica Bank, Erste Group, Bank of Ireland, Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company (SFBCIC)
    Mibtree, EatDrinkDeals.com, IT Performance Advisor
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm31%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Insurance Company9%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Financial Services Firm18%
    Government12%
    Media Company6%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise82%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business67%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise22%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise12%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    BMC Compuware Strobe is ranked 59th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while IBM Application Performance Management is ranked 52nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 7 reviews. BMC Compuware Strobe is rated 8.0, while IBM Application Performance Management is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of BMC Compuware Strobe writes "Stable with a good database and a good interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Application Performance Management writes "A multi-functional solution but has poor stability and performance-related issues". BMC Compuware Strobe is most compared with IBM Application Performance Analyzer for zOS and Mainframe Application Tuner, whereas IBM Application Performance Management is most compared with Instana Dynamic APM, Dynatrace, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager, AppDynamics and AWS X-Ray.

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