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BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization vs DX Performance Management comparison

BMC and Broadcom are both solutions in the Infrastructure Capacity Planning category. BMC is ranked #1, while Broadcom is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.7. BMC holds a 33.7% mindshare in ICP, compared to Broadcom’s 10.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of BMC users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.
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100% willing to recommend
DX Performance Management
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  • 29 Comparison Views
96% willing to recommend
 

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We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization and DX Performance Management based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

BMC TrueSight Capacity Opti...
Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning
1st
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
DX Performance Management
Ranking in Infrastructure Capacity Planning
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (26th), DX NetOps (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Infrastructure Capacity Planning category, the mindshare of BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization is 33.7%, up from 32.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of DX Performance Management is 10.2%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Infrastructure Capacity Planning
 

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Appperf677 - PeerSpot reviewer
Enables us to right-size systems to free up resources, and identify performance problems down to the process level
Since I already have a sneak peek into the next releases, I'm very happy about what's going to be included. I would like to see continued support for the legacy parts of the tool, the old, seasoned parts that are very valuable to me. That is a message I continue to give to BMC: All the new stuff's great, but don't take away this really important stuff. That's my biggest fear, that I might lose some of my old functionality that is still extremely valuable. I want to make sure we don't lose any functionality, and that they just still keep delivering on what they're doing. I don't have anything more to ask than what they're offering.
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Sandip Kheni - PeerSpot reviewer
The vertical database loads faster than any other product available
We experience disconnections between the solutions own components. In the last five years, there have been many intermittent connection issues with the four components and we still don't know the reasons. The solution has issues when loading groups that have been created in the application interfaces. It would be nice to have a mobile application. In the current industry and technical word, the mobile phone is the only thing that is always in your hands. Other Broadcom products have mobile applications but the solution doesn't offer one. It would be great to view device parameters and view or download graphs from a mobile device.
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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

"The most interesting feature is certainly the simulation of the load using different servers or different KPI parameters of the business."
"We ingest a ton of business data. We are an insurance company and we have business data, like how many quotes are done an hour, and how many policies are sold per hour. The correlation engine in the new TrueSight Capacity Optimization components are wonderful. We can do correlation analysis over months of data, and then we run models to tell our business: 'If you do 1,000 more quotes an hour, we're going to have to upgrade, and we're going to need this much more hardware.'"
"Workload characterization is super important because it lets us figure things out. Many people know, for example, that with Microsoft Word, Word.exe is the executable. Everybody knows their executable, but they don't always know what it does. It also launches other things. This tool has the ability and insight to track those things, and to know: "Oh, you wanted this executable, but this one started this, so you must want this, too." And it tells you what it had to add, what it was using or was spawning."
"The solution's performance itself is very good because it is a vertical database that loads very fast in comparison to other products."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of use."
"The feature that is inherent to its core, of being able to graphically represent a trend and status, is nice."
"It saves time having it all on one place, so you do not have to jump around from different tools and try to merge the data. It is already done for you.​"
"Spectrum is very good at monitoring all network faults and configurations."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"The ability to very quickly and graphically navigate around, being able to zoom in to a timeframe, apply it to all the other panels... are all very intuitive."
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Cons

"Some of the data management is painful. Some of the new features haven't been implemented in quite the way I would like to get to levels of detail. For example, Visualizer parser doesn't take everything it should out of the Visualizer files. We've had to put in a work-around, but the work-around is not as accurate as what's in the file."
"The memory management of Java application servers should be implemented to be able to size GC and footprint."
"​Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"The quantity of views which are tied to specific metric families is too high. Also, the problem is the view doesn't tell you which metric family it uses, so you don't know why you don't see data."
"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."
"There are some areas in the technology right now, like with VMs, where we are lacking with our abilities to get inside the VM to monitor traffic within the machine."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"Install is done as root, which is a security no-no, and the database IO requirements were not stated correctly, which lead to a year of instability."
"I have mixed feeling about the scalability. I feel like there are things which are being put into UIM right now that are not being included in Performance Center that we need to see in Performance Center. We are kind of being driven to buy UIM, and I can't justify it.​"
"It could be a little easier to integrate new metrics."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Right now, the licensing structure is by server. Everybody is licensed somewhat differently, depending on how big they are, how many licenses they have."
"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."
"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."
"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. ​"
"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."
"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
18%
Media Company
9%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
32%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Educational Organization
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
 

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What do you like most about DX Performance Management?
The tool helps us understand network performance.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?
The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices.
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What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?
Spectrum's topology view sometimes does not rebuild automatically when a device is shut down and reconnected. It requires manual discovery and rebuilding of the topology, which I hope can be improved.
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Also Known As

BMC Capacity Optimization, TrueSight Capacity Optimization
CA Performance Management
 

Overview

TrueSight Capacity Optimization is a digital enterprise management solution that aligns IT resources with service demands and business priorities, resulting in on-time service delivery and optimized costs. 

Applications and IT infrastructure need to work together

  • Reserve and schedule IT infrastructure resources for onboarding applications day-one
  • Forecast and model changes in demand to adjust IT resources as needed
  • Optimize the use of cloud services with visibility for best placement and cost of service
  • Plan and optimize your Hadoop infrastructure and budget
  • Report the cost of IT resources to business and IT stakeholders


BMC

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

Broadcom
 

Sample Customers

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Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG 
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BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization vs. DX Performance Management
January 2025
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