We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, ServiceNow, Microsoft and others in Event Monitoring."The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The ease of deployment, especially on Windows platforms, is valuable."
"The solution's reporting engine has given me detailed information on which applications or services I've either failed or about to fail in terms of the predictive makeup on Azure cloud."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"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."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"I would like to see them improve their network 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 77 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 Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI.
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