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We performed a comparison between OpenText Business Process Monitoring and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"Automates processes and allows reports and statistics to improve the speed at which changes and assets are managed.""The stability has been very good over the years."

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"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications.""The stability has been great.""It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention.""Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable.""The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring.""The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far.""It can send messages to our ticketing system.""This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."

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Cons
"The solution should offer better integration with other tools from a service management perspective.""Product documentation is lacking, and sometimes, incorrect. Having better documentation will allow business analysts and data center personnel to rely on the Micro Focus help desk less."

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"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial.""The management of the servers could be better.""Application monitoring must be improved.""The configurations could be better. There are multiple tests where you can do something, but they can be a trigger as well. The overriding methodologies are not that easy. The configurations are difficult. The configuration and thorough day-to-day operations to get them to the level you want takes some time. It's very difficult.""Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable.""The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified.""​I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes.​""The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."

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  • "The pricing and licensing are fair."
  • "Our licensing fees are approximately $30 per user, per month."
  • "If you have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, then this is part of the agreement."
  • "It is more expensive than the competition."
  • "SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
  • "We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
  • "The pricing is good, and it's part of their system center suite."
  • "We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Synthetic Monitoring is a very good capability as we can simulate the end-user interaction with the application and proactively we can discover issues before the real end users are impacted.
    Top Answer:Here are some ways that Micro Focus APM (RUM and BPM) can help you identify the root cause of application issues Real User Monitoring (RUM) collects data from real users as they interact with… more »
    Top Answer:The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location.
    Top Answer:It is the cheapest product available in the market. I rate the pricing a one out of ten.
    Top Answer:SCOM needs to improve its usability.
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    Also Known As
    Micro Focus Business Process Monitor, HPE Business Process Monitor
    System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
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    Overview

    OpenText Business Process Monitoring is an Application monitoring software.

    Proactively and consistently monitor business processes to identify performance issues before they affect users.

    Review affected service level agreements.

    BPM provides consistent, predictable measurements that help you associate the business impact with its root cause.

    SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is a cross-platform data center monitoring and reporting tool that checks the status of various objects defined within the environment, such as server hardware, system services, etc. The solution allows data center administrators to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor the operations, services, devices and applications of multiple enterprise IT systems via a single pane of glass. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes.

    SCOM Features

    SCOM has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Application monitoring
    • Database monitoring
    • Threshold alerts
    • IT Asset Discovery
    • Predictive capabilities
    • Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting
    • Application performance management console
    • Server availability and performance monitoring
    • Collaboration tools
    • Virtualization monitoring
    • Patch management
    • Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications
    • Application dependency mapping and thresholding

    SCOM Benefits

    There are several benefits to implementing SCOM. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Management and monitoring of Windows as well as Unix/Linux platforms
    • Remotely connect to Windows machines and perform administrative tasks from the console itself
    • Custom dashboard creation to help monitor the datacenter with ease
    • Agent based monitoring
    • Integrates well with other Microsoft products
    • Easy to use and reliable

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the SCOM solution.

    A Manager at a financial services firm says, “The feature I like most about SCOM is that it is easy-to-use. I find it very user-friendly. I also like the knowledge base which it has. You can find the resolution to questions or issues directly within the SCOM itself. It will alert you with a recommendation of what you need to do at the same time. This sort of self-diagnosis or prompting is one of the great values you get from SCOM compared to other solutions.”

    PeerSpot user Zahari Z., Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm, mentions, “Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications. There is a mechanism to set up a notification from the SCOM and whenever there is a drop in the availability the notification alerts not only for availability but for other issues as well. You can align thresholds according to the speed of your environment and you can have a threshold related notification, which is one of the useful features.”

    Bill W., Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government, comments, “ I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time. When we patch, things are automatically put into maintenance mode so that the numbers for our systems being down, do not count against us.”

    A Project Manager at a tech services company explains, “The feature I have found most valuable is the book feature. While we run the Sprint one we can add some setups for multiple sprints.”

    A Systems Engineer at an educational organization states, “Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.”

    Sample Customers
    United Airlines, Vodafone Ireland, TEB, The Australian Red Cross Blood Service
    Dialog Telekom
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company14%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Wholesaler/Distributor9%
    REVIEWERS
    Financial Services Firm21%
    Retailer13%
    Government10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Government11%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business24%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise67%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise23%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    OpenText Business Process Monitoring is ranked 58th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. OpenText Business Process Monitoring is rated 8.0, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Business Process Monitoring writes "Stable with good performance visibility but is a discontinued product". 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". OpenText Business Process Monitoring is most compared with Dynatrace and AppDynamics, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager.

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