We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
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IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is ranked 15th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager writes "The most valuable feature for my team is the ability to taken event feeds from all/any source tool and put them in a single pane of glass. It's being replaced for our work by another Tivoli tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager vs. SCOM report.
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