We performed a comparison between OpenText Operations Bridge 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."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."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"From our monitoring perspective or from a visibility perspective, HPE UCMDB is a must have. It's an amazing piece of software."
"The event correlation is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"The integration with the ticketing tool makes sure that there is a record for every issue."
"It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is the capability of using classes within your management pack development."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"What needs improvement in Micro Focus Operations Bridge is its resource heaviness because you need many resources to deploy and support it. It's a good solution for larger organizations, but for small businesses, not so much."
"The deployment of agents on new CI should be improved. There should be some kind of automation to directly deploy them from the console. It can maybe have some more AI functions because most of the other tools are going in that direction."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"The pricing could be improved."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. 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 SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and SolarWinds NPM. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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