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BMC MainView vs SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence comparison

BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Mainframe Management category. BMC is ranked #3, while Broadcom is ranked #4. BMC holds a 17.6% mindshare in MM, compared to Broadcom’s 13.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.
BMC MainView
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100% willing to recommend
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100% willing to recommend
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC MainView
Ranking in Mainframe Management
3rd
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SYSVIEW Performance Intelli...
Ranking in Mainframe Management
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Mainframe Management category, the mindshare of BMC MainView is 17.6%, down from 18.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence is 13.9%, up from 11.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Mainframe Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user676302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings
MainView is used as a central point of view to control and monitor systems on the mainframe like z/OS, CICS, MQSeries IMS, or DB2.  MainView has enabled me, in the past, to solve production problems faster, or even avoid them preemptively with warnings. The integration of IMS commands is very…
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it_user507378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Applications see what's wrong with a transaction and make corrections.
I think a lot of the stuff has to zero in and make it quicker. I think overall the SYSVIEW product right now has a lot of commands. There's a lot of panels. A lot of information. What we need to do is trim it down for the applications or the avid user. A lot of what they're doing right now, they're bringing in new hires out of college. We don't want to make it more difficult to use. We want to make it easier to use. I think SYSVIEW has to sit down and look at the tool. That's what we're trying to do with them now, make it a little bit easier to utilize versus trying to remember all these individual commands. It would take something simple; develop a couple more panels, fast path panels.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Enabled me to solve production problems faster or even avoid them preemptively with warnings."
"The integration of IMS commands is very useful, because you do not have to switch to another tool to problem solve solutions."
"I use most of the SMS space management extensively, but also the features that enable me to look at dumps and different dataset allocations to the system, and performance data from the queueing and delays."
"When we changed to JES3, the programmers didn't have to know anything. The product provided the same interface with the same look and feel."
"​The stability is very reliable. We have not had any issues."
"It is easy to see if anything is wrong. The queues on the system are fast, and it is very intuitive to locate something."
"We have not had any major issues in approximately 15 years."
"Between the tech support and the person I was working with, they have been extraordinary."
"I also really appreciated all the work that everybody did to get it functional for JES3, and they continue to do so, even though IBM said they are going to do away with JES3."
"The scalability is absolutely fine."
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Cons

"An expansion for distributed systems would be great, but probably not workable."
"More visualisation and support for mobile devices would be good."
"The documentation, like installation guides and stuff, put it all in one place.​"
"The documentation format could be better. I noticed with the last release that all of the manuals were bundled into one. It used to have a separate installation guide, user guide, etc."
"They are already working on improvements. One of them is the operational intelligence, which is a lot of stuff I am trying to learn and work on right now, which SYSVIEW reports to that all the system things which are going on."
"​We are using Datacom as the database system, so maybe a little bit more integration with that.​"
"It confuses a lot of people because there are so many features, but when they see me bouncing around they say, "I didn't know it did that, I didn't know it did that." It takes a long time to find all the different features that are available."
"If a unit of work ID is associated with a CICS, a DB2, and a MQ transaction, and having that capability correlate to those different technologies via one business application transaction which would be beneficial."
"The things that I would think about would be in relation to JES3. However, I don't know if they'll be able to do much more with that because I don't know how much longer IBM is going to be supporting JES3. So I can understand not doing additional development. But if I were to suggest something it would be the JES3 initiators, the JES3 queues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If you already use other products from BMC, you might be able to get a package deal from BMC's sales department."
"Pricing is a little steep, but there are a lot of other functions that it brings together. It gives you one window to look through to get to a lot of different features. The more products you have from CA, the better pricing they have, the more you can get them doing more things for you."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
24%
Computer Software Company
13%
Insurance Company
10%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Manufacturing Company
19%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Product Reports

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Buyer's Guide
SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence
October 2024
SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence reportDownload SYSVIEW Performance Intelligence product report
 

Also Known As

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CA SYSVIEW Performance Management, CA SYSVIEW, Unicenter CA-SYSVIEW Realtime Performance Management
 

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Overview

To keep your business running smoothly, you need mainframe management that does more than just monitor and display. BMC MainView gives you the power to diagnose problems, minimize risk, and cut costs.

  • Lower costs with more efficient monitoring.
  • Find and fix problems early to prevent costly outages and slowdowns.
  • Improve availability and productivity by automating and simplifying performance tasks.
  • Streamline application performance tuning using BMC's seamless integration with Compuware Strobe.
CA SYSVIEW Performance Management offers new levels of visibility into critical business transactions that provide 24x7 monitoring for complex application environments. This real-time visibility is a critical asset to simplify mainframe performance management by monitoring against alerts, drilling down for intuitive problem identification, and basing automation on performance intelligence. Instead of using different tools, processes and people to support each environment, now there's an enterprise-wide solution that monitors the real-time performance of mainframe subsystems, providing additional integrated data.
 

Sample Customers

Costco, Dell, Apple, Citi, AT&T, FedEx, Johnson&Johnson, Comcast, Caterpillar, Vodafone, Sysco, Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Walt Disney
Tieto, Navy Federal Credit Union (NFCU)
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