Compare CA Spectrum vs. Operations Bridge
CA Spectrum is ranked 4th in Event Monitoring with 9 reviews while Operations Bridge is ranked 7th in Event Monitoring with 3 reviews. CA Spectrum is rated 8.2, while Operations Bridge is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of CA Spectrum writes "I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network, but I would like them to eliminate the Java console". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Operations Bridge writes "The biggest strength is its consolidation of events from various sources". CA Spectrum is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Zabbix, whereas Operations Bridge is most compared with Micro Focus Operations Manager, SCOM and BMC TrueSight Operations Management. See our CA Spectrum vs. Operations Bridge report.
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The Spectrum tool improved our network assurance levels for our business units. All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum. It is easy to understand and determine when and/or where the network is failing. The monitoring just comes to us: "Oh, there's something wrong with that machine." It tells us. There are some 50,000 machines or so, all doing different things. And if they go down we hear about it. It helps our NetOps group actually handle alarms in a way that lets them see the bigger picture of those alarms, and how they might affect our services. It helps us communicate information about the network state better to services that might be impacted by a specific network condition. As the kind of enterprise that straddles the line between telco size and enterprise size, it scales for us, because we're not all the way at telco yet. It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time. It is very stable. We have not had any major issues in over 10 years. | The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus. We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems. Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets. |
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The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units. It needs better integration with other CA products. OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc. Make it easier to certify devices. If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now. The Spectrum OneClick is a Java-based client, and that's aging. Really, before any new feature integration, I'd love to see a comprehensive rebuild of the UI. The upgrade process could be smoother. More of the steps around upgrading could be automated. A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics. | In a future release, we would like an improved upgrade process. When you upgrade it now, it first uninstalls everything and then reinstalls all the packages, which means any customization that you've done in the directories on the surface disappears. It is a very complicated product. It's difficult to manage. Nowadays, products are very easy to manage, deploy, and integrate, but Operations Bridge is very complicated to manage. Remove the dependency of Java technology. This is a feature used for admin purposes to update the modeling. |
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The cost of some of these products are a little cost prohibitive, which is unfortunate. We have to find lower cost solutions for some of the things that we have to pull in. For the most part, CA has capabilities in pretty much everything that you would need. You just have to figure out where are you going to spend the most money for what you have to actually get done. You can do all these things but, which ones do you have to do? And that's hard to choose sometimes because you want to do them all. | Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement. |
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Views 9,556 Comparisons 4,419 Reviews 16 Average Words per Review 582 Avg. Rating 7.9 | Views 2,324 Comparisons 1,037 Reviews 5 Average Words per Review 401 Avg. Rating 7.8 |
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| Micro Focus Operations Bridge, HPE Ops Bridge, HPE Operations Bridge | |
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| CA (A Broadcom Company) | Micro Focus |
Overview | |
| CA Spectrum can enable your organization to discover, optimize and improve its infrastructure and the business services running on top of it. By delivering large-enterprise scalability, robust features and superior root cause analysis, this solution can help your organization effectively manage its dynamic, complex IT infrastructure including physical, virtual and cloud environments as well as network virtualization. | Micro Focus Operations Bridge provides the ability to sense, analyze and adapt to manage IT services that support digital business. With advanced event correlation, log intelligence, predictive analytics and automation you can remediate issues across all your technologies to prioritize business targets. Micro Focus Operations Bridge consolidates events, metrics, and topology from Micro Focus and 3rd party data collectors, applies correlation across these using a dynamically updated IT service model to accelerate root cause determination and will trigger automatic remediation. |
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Sample Customers | |
| National Informatics Centre India, Banese, Olympus, AlphaServe Technologies, Sicredi | GE Money Bank, Bank AlJazira, Tech Mahindra |
Top Industries | |
Healthcare Company16% Financial Services Firm14% Insurance Company12% Retailer7% Software R&D Company25% Comms Service Provider22% Healthcare Company10% Insurance Company7% | Financial Services Firm38% Comms Service Provider31% Government15% Software R&D Company8% |
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