We performed a comparison between IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature as of late has been the API integration with ServiceNow."
"Flexible architecture: You can extend the system and its capacity by attaching another cluster pair."
"SevOne has rich API capabilities, giving us the flexibility to control what we collect and customize the collection, creation, and manipulation of now metrics as necessary."
"The network data collection has been very flexible for us. It's been thorough in areas that were lacking. They have a team that I've worked with to add other pieces to it. So if it's missing something out of the box, they work with me to add it. I was able to collect that data. It's not perfect, but it's pretty thorough."
"We find that the reporting is particularly valuable in terms of not only communicating with our peer teams but also with the executives."
"One of the most valuable features is the graphs, which you can build instantly. I have used some open-source platforms in the past, but they are not as good. With SevOne, the sampling in the graph can be every few seconds, not just every few minutes, and that's really helpful. It's really fast."
"The modules and the performance management reports that come with data insights are two of the most valuable features. I also find the reports for Wi-Fi, Netflow, LAN, and WAN for monitoring to be very good."
"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"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 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 is the monitoring of Windows and Linux servers."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool needs improvement in non-Cisco SD-WAN."
"High-frequency polling is data-intensive because you're pulling more. If SevOne could figure out a way to manage the impact of high-frequency polling on the system, that would be very popular."
"One area that requires a little bit of improvement is the topology of visualization and being able to map out connections, end-to-end. It's able to do that, but it's not as impressive as we would like it to be. We would like to understand the different interface types and the connection points better, through the visualization. Heatmaps also need further development."
"We previously have had discussions on some reporting enhancements. So, we raised a feature request, which was delivered from SevOne."
"The reports are easy to configure but they are a bit outdated in terms of appearance and visualization."
"Would benefit with the addition of AI modules for proactive data insights."
"I would like to see live maps as an added feature. Also, build modules on AI and EML to provide better data insights that would proactively tell us what we should be looking after."
"Telemetry is hot these days, and IBM can improve SevOne's support for telemetry correction. Reporting is another feature that could be better. It provides the bare minimum functionality, which is good enough for most engineers, but the management isn't advanced. The new portal provides a much lighter view and better visualization, but the management is not so good."
"The price could be improved."
"The end-user components, including the dashboards, the administration console, and the web console, need to be improved."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"Application monitoring must be improved."
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IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 41st in Network Monitoring Software with 52 reviews while SCOM is ranked 11th in Network Monitoring Software with 77 reviews. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) writes "We can get a new vendor certified and monitored in our system significantly faster than before". 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 SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with LogicMonitor, Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, SolarWinds NPM, Splunk Enterprise Security and SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and Nagios XI. See our IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs. SCOM report.
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