We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Operations Management 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 our operations team to have one single application to reference when investigating issues in our environment."
"The tool is flexible enough to be customized based on customer requirements."
"The event management tool builds correlation logic and protection algorithms into a field of events that is valuable when a data center goes down."
"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server."
"The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."
"Its event management capabilities are very open and flexible. I haven't seen a use case scenario with a customer that we couldn't actually solve the problem for, so it's really good. There are some interesting things that happen in an enterprise network (things that people don't normally expect), and the event management product is very flexible. You can solve problems as far as your imagination can go with it."
"I believe that the ease of use and UI is great"
"TSOM's ability to consolidate alerts into a single location and provide filtering of alerts is great."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"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 solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting."
"More modules for less popular applications and better documentation."
"The product must provide more AI capabilities."
"The product must provide application or service monitoring features."
"The pricing could be better."
"In a large company of our size, we need multiple people in our company trained. So, I have to take the training classes. Then, I have to go and train the rest of my organization. I would prefer to say to the other people on my team, "Go to this link and..." Or, "Here's a list of training sessions that you can go to which are online and that are free." I think it would help the adoption of their product in the marketplace, personally."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could use some enhancements in the application visibility tools."
"The solution is overly complex."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"We didn't know the solution enough, and therefore, it took a while to set everything up correctly. There was a learning curve."
"The price could be improved."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The solution can be improved by expanding to cloud usage."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Stability and some performance issues exist and they need improvement."
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BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 1st in Event Monitoring with 48 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "The product is reasonably priced, but the solution is a little obsolete because it is deployed on-premise". 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". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and Oracle Enterprise Manager, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. SCOM report.
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