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We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and ScienceLogic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable feature that comes with Netcool/Impact is the ISPF APA support. It is inherent to Netcool/Impact, so I can use the ISPF of any other product, which I can invoke and consume through Impact, and do integrations, which is great. I run the Netcool desktop application so I can integrate with other applications in the ticketing system. It's a great ability being able to invoke ISPF and integrate.""The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file.""This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code.""It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."

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"One of the valuable features is rapid dashboards.""Power packs.""Dynamic Component Mapping is key and unique.""Science Logic provides distributed and all-in-one concept in monitoring, you can easily customize the features in this product.""When it comes to features, the power pack is the most valuable.""The most valuable features of ScienceLogic are AI and machine learning.""It has good monitoring capabilities across cloud environments, data centers, and hybrid environments.""The power flow is great."

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Cons
"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution.""For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work. Although, I don't think that there's much improvement that Netcool really needs to achieve in this area, because when we're talking GUI, Impact is able to integrate with any third-party system and it comes with ISPF APA. It's more beneficial than Netcool/OMNIbus in this respect, and it's quite easy to handle.""The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward.""Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."

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"I would like to see out-of-the-box standard dashboards for common services.""It doesn't have the complete application-level topology. It could have service topology and business service monitoring. I would like to see how business service monitoring will function with agent-based installation, and how flexible and business-oriented it is for service modeling and service infrastructure. I have a lot of experience in using business service monitoring, service topology, and service hierarchy functionalities in similar products from BMC and Micro Focus (OpenView), and I want to see how these functionalities will look like in ScienceLogic.""They should improve database issues in HA and Failover mode, and provide documentation for all users , even if they are not customers.""The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required.""From a performance perspective, it needs to improve a lot.""Admins do not have direct access to the reporting.""Addressing duplicate IPs: There is the ability to edit the DB and fix this, but adding some logic to understand them would be a plus.""ScienceLogic could improve the implementation, it could be made easier."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."
  • "Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."
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  • "Pricing between the two is quiet large therefore you can save some money if you don't require to collect all info on each device."
  • "Decide what you want to monitor and only monitor those items. Absorb other elements as you grow."
  • "Plan for adding more to it. Once you see EM7 in action, you will want to keep adding systems to monitor."
  • "It comes with the OS built in, so no need to purchase an OS license or DB license."
  • "Its price could be lower, but for what you pay, you got a lot of value from its features and functionalities. Customers always want a discount or a cheaper solution."
  • "The pricing model for ScienceLogic could improve."
  • "The solution is license-based. It's between $8 and $15, depending on what you need from the product."
  • "I'm not the best person to discuss pricing, but what I do know is that it's a use-and-go structure. You use this much storage and pay this much for it. That's how it is. Every time, we continue to add a large amount of data to the environment."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events.
    Top Answer:IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution. They are only fixing bugs. Everything is now done on the new pack, Cloud Pak. Tivoli NetCool Impact was a good… more »
    Top Answer:The primary use case of NetCool Impact is event correlation. For example, we are able to manage all the events inside Omnibus. If we want to create an integration with a ticket, we cannot use Omnibus… more »
    Top Answer:The tool is quite easy to deploy, and it offers very good support.
    Top Answer:My company has an enterprise-level contract with ScienceLogic, so it is available to my organization at a good price.
    Top Answer:The product's reporting functionalities have certain shortcomings, making it an area where improvements are required. The tool is more or less good. The tool needs to improve its APM capabilities.
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    Tivoli NetCool Impact
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    Overview
    IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is an enterprise and network management software that automates the support of business-critical functions. The software helps to enrich events with business context, provides an integrated view of data from multiple sources in context and enables custom automations.

    ScienceLogic is a hybrid IT infrastructure monitoring tool that is designed to help organizations digitally transform their companies by making the management of complex, distributed IT services easier. Using the solution’s discovery techniques, users can find everything they need in a network, gaining visibility across all vendors and technologies that are run in the cloud or data centers. In addition, the ScienceLogic solution can help users seamlessly monitor and manage cloud environments, monitor network resources, manage storage, and monitor app health and performance.

    By implementing ScienceLogic, organizations can:

    • Act on data that is shared across technologies and IT ecosystems in real time.
    • Apply multi-directional integrations to automate workflows at cloud scale.
    • View everything across cloud and distributed architectures.
    • Discover all IT components across physical, virtual, and cloud.
    • Collect, merge, and store a variety of data in a clean, normalized data lake.
    • Contextualize data through relationship mapping and machine learning (ML) for actionable insights.
    • Understand the impact of infrastructure and applications on business service health and risk.
    • Accelerate root cause analysis and execute recommended actions.

    ScienceLogic Features

    ScienceLogic has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • Visibility
    • Collaboration
    • Monitor internet of things
    • Monitor key applications
    • Storage management
    • Bandwidth monitoring
    • CPU monitoring
    • Virtual machine monitoring
    • Video conference monitoring
    • IP address monitoring
    • Data migration
    • Prevent unused capacity
    • Monitor public and private cloud
    • Monitor services
    • View performance of server environment

    ScienceLogic Benefits

    There are many benefits to implementing ScienceLogic. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

    • Single console: ScienceLogic allows you to monitor the performance of services, apps, and other resources - whether they are private, public, hybrid, or multi-cloud - from a single console. In addition, the solution makes it possible for you to also contextualize the resources and determine dependencies.
    • Spot unused resources: With ScienceLogic’s platform, you can spot unused resources so you can decommission them or distribute them to avoid congestion.
    • Unified view of interdependencies: ScienceLogic is capable of mapping relationships between infrastructure components and storage environments, giving users a unified view of the interdependencies. This enables users to determine the root causes of problems that come from their storage assets.
    • Easier app health and performance monitoring: ScienceLogic can help you identify components of apps that are vital to business operation, apply the best practice monitoring policies to well-known applications, and track where infrastructures are deployed.
    • Voice, video, and collaboration capabilities: ScienceLogic makes it easy for you to monitor call quality, collaboration stack, and endpoints.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the ScienceLogic solution.

    A Senior Infrastructure Architect says, “ScienceLogic can offer both serverless connectivity and agent connectivity. The stability of ScienceLogic is great.”

    A Senior Consultant at a tech services company mentions, “It is very easy to configure because we are using an agent-less version. You can very quickly implement a collector for monitoring device servers.”

    Sample Customers
    Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)
    Kellogg Company, Booz Allen, Cisco, Red Bull, Fidelus, Telstra, Comcast, CSC, Peak 10, HughesNet, Hosting, Datapipe, US Army, Equinix, Rite Aid, Carbonite, Sybase, Carpathia, AT&T, ePlus, Dimension Data, Virtustream, Boeing, Honeywell
    Top Industries
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Financial Services Firm30%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company10%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    REVIEWERS
    Comms Service Provider42%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    Transportation Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company19%
    Government10%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise7%
    Large Enterprise78%
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise26%
    Large Enterprise47%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is ranked 9th in Event Monitoring with 4 reviews while ScienceLogic is ranked 5th in Event Monitoring with 42 reviews. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is rated 7.8, while ScienceLogic is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact writes "Supports APA through ISPF and lets us easily integrate with other apps for ticketing purposes". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ScienceLogic writes "Great integrations, power flow, and good support". IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is most compared with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and IDERA SQL Safe Backup, whereas ScienceLogic is most compared with Dynatrace, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds NPM, Datadog and ServiceNow Discovery.

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