We performed a comparison between OpenText Operations Bridge 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."It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"The broad integration possibilities, I'd say, with any kind of product, are probably the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"It has greatly reduced the number and duration of outages as support teams are notified immediately when something goes wrong or even before something breaks."
"It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure."
"Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"From our monitoring perspective or from a visibility perspective, HPE UCMDB is a must have. It's an amazing piece of software."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"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."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"Implementation could be improved."
"What needs improvement in Micro Focus Operations Bridge is its resource heaviness because you need many resources to deploy and support it. It's a good solution for larger organizations, but for small businesses, not so much."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"We are waiting for quicker release cycles. Also containerized upgrade, so that you don't have to bring a system entirely down to make a minor upgrade, in fact, or a minor patch."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". 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 Operations Bridge is most compared with OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and PagerDuty Operations Cloud, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and SolarWinds NPM. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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