ScienceLogic Other Solutions Considered

Siva Jp - PeerSpot reviewer
Principle Architecture at LTIMINDTREE

The solution can be compared with OpsRamp and LogicMonitor. These tools have robust security standards as part of platform consumption. They are DoD-certified and have a lot of encryption standards. There are no Java components in these tools. Customers do not consider products based on Java because of the recent vulnerabilities in Java. The tools have the advantage of having non-Java components.

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Farouk AYAD - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Enterprise Architect at Capgemini

When we evaluated solutions ScienceLogic was positioned first because it fits our use case and the potential of the new feature. We are looking to use AI and machine learning.

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it_user449121 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Our team evaluated SolarWinds as well as ScienceLogic. From a pricing perspective, ScienceLogic was superior. Also, the deployment of ScienceLogic was better suited to our Managed Service Provider environment. Having to establish Site-to-Site VPNs for all of our clients would significantly increase the deployment time. The phone-home collector available from ScienceLogic is an excellent solution for any MSP.

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it_user200376 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Analytics with 1,001-5,000 employees

We researched for 3-months in order find the best hybrid IT monitoring platform for our needs. I did an analysis of 25 distinct vendors comparing 100 different capabilities and 100 separate security concerns. After the completion of the analysis, I put the top 3 providers in a weighted average spreadsheet hiding their names, to ensure an unbiased result.

We were looking for a monitoring platform that, beyond supporting our hybrid IT needs, could provide separate dashboards to individual contributors, dramatically reduce costs, proactively alert when potential problems were approaching, and significantly cut the time it took to perform root cause detection.

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PV
Senior Infrastructure Architect

We decided to use ScienceLogic instead of IBM tool monitoring which we evaluated.

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it_user200361 - PeerSpot reviewer
Internal Systems and Tools Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees

In the end, the level of coverage, ability to scale, and built-in multi-tenancy gave ScienceLogic’s platform the edge in our comparative analysis.

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it_user200583 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, but we ended up to an extended evaluation of this product and none of the other ones we found offered the broad range of features.

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it_user203946 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Systems Integration at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, we looked at SevOne, HPOV (NNM + OVO), SMARTS + Watch4Net, plus a few others. We also weighed open source products like Nagios and OpenNMS.

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it_user203946 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director of Systems Integration at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We interviewed many different vendors looking for the right solution to meet our requirements. We narrowed it down to a couple candidates and actually did a bake-off at our offices.

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it_user743244 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Cloud & Data Center Technology with 1,001-5,000 employees

When we first looked them, we compared EM7, Nagios, SolarWinds, and a handful of homegrown solutions.

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PR
Chief Information Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We migrated from Nimsoft to ScienceLogic, but I have worked with a large number of Enterprise Monitoring platforms in my career. We considered Nagios, SolarWinds, and ManageEngine before deciding on this solution.

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it_user468759 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. IT infrastructure specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

I was not part of the team which evaluated tools to monitor.

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it_user200502 - PeerSpot reviewer
Service Delivery Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Yes, we also looked at Nagios, SolarWinds, Zabbix, and Nimsoft.

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it_user469815 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Administrator at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

We were using Nagios before and switched to ScienceLogic. I don't recall the other products we reviewed prior. ScienceLogic does everything we need it to.

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it_user336069 - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at HOSTING

There were three vendors that were a part of that evaluation, yes. Testing the system scale is not easy. There's a certain amount of art to that to extrapolating out how a system will behave at scale because we weren't going to roll the entire thing out just to see how it worked. We spent a lot of time doing functional testing and also a lot of time doing integration testing. It's key for us to be able to integrate with any platform that we're building both on the service delivery side, so we have the ability to automatically ingest devices that we provision in whatever cloud automatically into our ScienceLogic environment. Then be able to bubble performance and applicable alert data about those devices up into our customer portal. I would say the key evaluation areas were going to be around the presentation layer, so the ability for us to be able to leverage their dashboard-ing, their reporting capabilities, natively, which we integrated with through a single sign-on, their ability to expose an API that had a parity with their user experience.

It's interesting because whenever you ask somebody, "How's your API?" They always say, "Our API's great." Really the question you want to ask them is, "Does your API have parity with your UI? Is there anything your UI is doing that is special or hidden or doesn't use your API?" If the answer's yes, then you got to dig into that. Basically, what we found is that there is tremendous completeness with their own UI and their API. Realistically, we were able to build out a very, very full and rich experience in our own portal that we could expose up to customers. I would say the other real criteria there was around multi-tendency. A smart person once said, "Nobody builds products for service providers. We figure out how they work and we make them work the way we want to." In fact, it was my old boss that said that.

I would say that of the platforms that we evaluated, ScienceLogic was most built for service providers. They really had a good grasp around multi-tendency, a good grasp around organizational relationships with the monitoring system. We didn't have to force the data model to understand how we wanted it to think, it was well understood. We were very happy with our ability to integrate our customer base into that.

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it_user205035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technology Services Director with 51-200 employees

We looked at a number of different solutions, but nothing matched what ScienceLogic could offer, both in terms of company personnel and the product itself.

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PS
Sr. Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Yes, I evaluate a product and check all requirements before choosing.

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it_user720336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Cybersecurity Operations Management at a media company with 10,001+ employees
it_user450750 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Coordinator at a transportation company with 51-200 employees

No other options were on the market at the time when ScienceLogic came out with their Em7 platform. Their product is specializing not only in monitoring but also in Ticketing.

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it_user450789 - PeerSpot reviewer
Member of Technical Staff at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

My boss tells me that they looked at Nagios and Zabbix, and discovered that they didn't offer nearly the capabilities offered by EM7. The fact that our primary provider of satellite communications services also uses EM7 was an additional big help in making the choice.

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it_user468750 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate IT Infrastructure Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Some other options consisted of Nagios and SolarWinds. The reason ScienceLogic was chosen is for it's functionality and customization. It's growing integration with other tools and the ability to grow per customer needs makes it an excellent tool.

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it_user469572 - PeerSpot reviewer
System and Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Yes, but this was before my time as an employee.

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it_user194697 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We compared ScienceLogic to Nagios, LogicMon, and Zabbix.

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it_user194922 - PeerSpot reviewer
DataCenter & Facility Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Yes, we looked at FireScope unify.

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it_user200574 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Managed Services at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Yes, we looked at continuing with our previous tool, Kaseya and a couple of other multi-tenant tools.

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