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."Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events."
"It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"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."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"The stability has been great."
"The solution is used for monitoring the hardware inventory. For instance, it helps with the whole operational monitoring view for the company's infrastructure."
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It's easy to use."
"The initial setup is a little bit complex."
"We are waiting for quicker release cycles. Also containerized upgrade, so that you don't have to bring a system entirely down to make a minor upgrade, in fact, or a minor patch."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The setup process can get a little bit complex."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"The price could be improved."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"The console feature is very poor, and it would be very good for us if this were improved."
"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."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 3 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 13 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Has instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "We can monitor all the VMs in our environment and access full insight reports for all the VMs, but the solution is not stable". OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with OpsRamp, Splunk Enterprise Security, IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, BMC Helix Monitor and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, ManageEngine OpManager and New Relic. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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