We performed a comparison between OpenText Operations Bridge and Splunk Enterprise Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Operations Analytics solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."From our monitoring perspective or from a visibility perspective, HPE UCMDB is a must have. It's an amazing piece of software."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward. It's not complex at all."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"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."
"It helps us uncover bottlenecks in the network."
"The solution helped reduce our alert volume."
"The technical support is among the best in the market."
"We have a one stop dashboard for health of some of our services where you can click in and it takes you to other dashboards that have custom near real-time metrics that show the application's health."
"I like the Splunk dashboard and search engine."
"My favorite example of improving of organization is saving a $60k/mo in payroll fraud and $10k/mo in wasted API credits by using simple searches and clear reports."
"Splunk has give us the capability to easily track problems and their status."
"The initial setup isn't overly complex."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"Our issues are largely support related due to where we are and the knowledge base that we have here. This issue relates both HPE in general and to the technical products."
"Implementation could be improved."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"Remove the dependency of Java technology. This is a feature used for admin purposes to update the modeling."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Some of the queries are difficult to run and have room for improvement."
"Integrating tools and creating use cases could be easier. It's hard for a junior security engineer with only a couple of years of experience to write use cases. They can do it, but it's much easier in a solution like IBM QRadar. Setting conditions is like a multiple-choice type of thing. It's a more user-friendly process."
"Custom visualizations are real hard. While the default visualizations are good, creating enhanced visualizations are complex."
"Enterprise security: Splunk must work on clarifying the solution to customers and explain how to gain more from it."
"From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs."
"It requires a significant amount of relatively complex architecture once you push past the single server instance."
"Licensing costs can be a barrier for those with limited budgets."
"Splunk could have more built-in use case presets that customers can build on and customize."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 11th in IT Operations Analytics with 44 reviews while Splunk Enterprise Security is ranked 1st in IT Operations Analytics with 240 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while Splunk Enterprise Security is rated 8.4. 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 Splunk Enterprise Security writes "It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query ". OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with SCOM, OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server and PagerDuty Operations Cloud, whereas Splunk Enterprise Security is most compared with Wazuh, Dynatrace, IBM Security QRadar, Elastic Security and Microsoft Sentinel. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. Splunk Enterprise Security report.
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