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."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"The product’s auto-remediation feature helps with automation."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"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."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"In a future release, they should add email notification alerts."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time 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 AppDynamics. See our IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager vs. SCOM report.
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