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."I like the deep-dive detail and end-user metrics data. The synthetic monitor is the best one. The best point of the new one is that there's no need for configuration. You can inject the Java script and start to change major developments in the application. This is a good approach, and we received all the data using this."
"It works irrespective of the operating system we’re running."
"It allows our operations team to have one single application to reference when investigating issues in our environment."
"It has provided us with a single location to host all events to be viewed/monitored by our NOC. This has greatly helped them to streamline their processes."
"Using the TrueSight platform we can monitor server performance and notify the customers using the integrated ticketing for events. We can let them know if there are any issues with a server, or application, or database."
"From an administrative standpoint, what stands out in TrueSight is the ability to implement quickly. When they have a requirement to monitor something, we're able to turn that on quickly in their environment. We're able to set up new apps within a day."
"The most valuable features are the rich reports, high performance, and the look and feel of the WebEx webpage are very good."
"The noise reduction for ticketing works much better than we have seen in a lot of other companies."
"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."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"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."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The solution could improve its price."
"I would like them to improve the deep-dive details, tracing, and data agents in this product. We have EUEM, an end-user experience monitoring appliance. This one's quicker than the current one, and reporting side and filtration side are very bad. There are many details we look at and explain what we receive information in the current one, but we cannot have historical data like we do with EUEM. We cannot have a powerful point to look for specific traffic from a specific application and a specific browser. We don't have it in the new one. The current BMC also needs to add the thing that control versions."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"The solution's support service could be better."
"There are some small limitations with this tool in terms of reporting dashboards that fit all of the requirements of the individual customer."
"This solution is lacking in application monitoring features. Technical support for this solution also needs improvement, particularly in product knowledge and response time."
"Deployment requires lots of resources (servers). It has too many consoles."
"It's too complex, too many servers are required, there are too many different components in the solution, and a lot of agents are required."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"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."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were 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."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
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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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