Broadcom vs SmartBear

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Broadcom
Based on 2287 reviews.
SmartBear
Based on 205 reviews.
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Overview
Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.
SmartBear Software is a software company which provides tools for software developers, quality assurance engineers and IT professionals. SmartBear Software is the unification of AutomatedQA, Eviware, the original Smart Bear Software and Pragmatic Software. Currently, SmartBear provides code review, automated testing, performance/load testing, API testing, performance profiling and development management tools. These include:
Sample Customers
Broadcom DX Application Performance Management
Lexmark, Intermountain Healthcare, National Australia Bank, BBVA Compass Bank, Innovapost, Dansk Supermarked Group, U.S. Cellular, Orange, Cetip
CA App Synthetic Monitor
Lexmark
DX SaaS
CNN
Cross-Enterprise Application Performance Management
NIIT Technologies, Cetip Safeguards
Broadcom Service Virtualization
Union Bank, Swisscom, Autotrader, KPN, ING Bank, Best Buy, American Family Insurance, TESCO, Telefonica, Molina Healthcare, California DMV, Aktia, City Index, Con-way, DirecTV, GRU Airport, Liquidnet, NAB, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, TIM Brasil, 
Layer7 API Management
1. IBM  2. Microsoft  3. Oracle  4. Salesforce  5. SAP  6. Cisco  7. Dell  8. HP  9. Adobe  10. VMware  11. Accenture  12. Capgemini  13. Deloitte  14. PwC  15. Ernst & Young  16. Infosys  17. TCS (Tata Consultancy Services)  18. Wipro  19. Cognizant  20. HCL Technologies  21. Tech Mahindra  22. Fujitsu  23. Hitachi  24. NEC  25. NTT Data  26. Ericsson  27. Nokia  28. Siemens  29. AT&T  30. Verizon  31. Vodafone  32. Orange
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer
Williams, Rabobank
Runscope
Twilio, Microsoft, Adobe, Okta, Tesco, Charter Communications
CA Plex
Vodafone Turkey, State of Oregon, DHL, Rogers Communication
CA Verify Automated Regression Testing
IHS Markit, ICICI Lombard, AusNet, Autotrader, Intergrupo
ReadyAPI Test
Apple, Cisco, FedEx, eBay, Microsoft, MasterCard, Pfizer, Nike, Oracle, Volvo, Lufthansa, Disney, HP, Intel, U.S. Air Force, Schindler
SmartBear TestComplete
Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.
Bitbar
Rovio, Paf, Supercell, NITRO Games, Seriously, AVG, Google, Bosch, Yahoo, Microsoft, Yandex, Mozilla, eBay, PayPal, TESCO, Cisco WebEx, Facebook, LinkedIn, skype, Subway
SmartBear TestLeft
American Red Cross, CISCO, HONDA, ADIDAS, TBC bank
CrossBrowserTesting
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Accenture, Sony, Los Angeles Times, ADP, Verizon, T-Mobile, Wistia
ReadyAPI
Healthcare Data Solutions (HDS)
AlertSite
JetBlue, Payless ShoeSource, Hilton Inc., StubHub, Symantec, Newegg, Sapient, AstraZeneca, Dell, Quest Diagnostics
CucumberStudio
Cisco, Cardinal Health, Intuit, Smartbox, Accenture, Deliveroo
Zephyr Enterprise
Hyundai, Fujitsu, Google, David Jones, Burger King, Ingenico, Websense, Dow Jones, Harris, Saab
ReadyAPI Virtualization
Zurich Insurance Group
SwaggerHub
Sonic, Zuora, Woolworths, CrowdFlower
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Top Industries
Educational Organization
21%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
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