As a daily Pulse user and Stat creator I would like to offer my view on this if anyone might be searching for Pulse vs CCPulse+
I am disappointed we were told to install Pulse when we had to choose between CCPulse+ and Pulse.
Pulse was new, the future, better looking and the way to go. Or at least, that is what we were told and which we believed.
We installed Pulse and InfoMart for historical reporting (via Qlikview)
In hindsight I would have preferred CCPulse+ as it offers much much more than Pulse.
Sure, Pulse looks nicer and has snazzy looking wallboards, that's about it.
It does not show real time info, unless you count 10 second delay as real time.
It has no historical data option beyond 12 hour intervals. (Should at least be 24 hours imo)
Customization is not possible. You are stuck with the basic widgets, even the size can hardly be adjusted.
Documentation on Pulse is a joke.
Wallboards can only show 1 object per widget.
Creating templates and testing them is absolute hell and takes serious time and patience.
Stats and filters are not visible in Pulse from a drop down as in CCPulse, you have to manually copy paste everything from Stat Server.
If you update a shared dashboard, every Pulse user must close and reopen their dashboards to see the changes. (not sure what the "shared" part about shared dashboards is...)