2019-05-16T07:47:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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VP
Real User
Top 5
2024-01-15T09:07:11Z
Jan 15, 2024

The cost depends on the usage.

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Ayobanji Iluyomade - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5
2023-10-02T14:03:05Z
Oct 2, 2023

The tool is moderately expensive.

MS
Reseller
Top 5
2023-07-25T10:15:13Z
Jul 25, 2023

The pricing depends on the requirements of the customers and the additional functionalities they need. The product is suitable for enterprise customers, not for SMEs. The tool is very flexible with its pricing. I rate the pricing a six out of ten.

Srri G - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-07-07T04:40:41Z
Jul 7, 2023

The product’s pricing is good. I rate the pricing a seven or eight out of ten. Other products are more expensive than BMC TrueSight.

MM
Real User
Top 20
2023-04-20T12:53:00Z
Apr 20, 2023

We purchase a yearly license for the solution. It is not very expensive.

Prajakta Solanke - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2023-01-16T15:25:15Z
Jan 16, 2023

I'm unaware of how much BMC TrueSight Operations Management costs because I'm not involved in that area.

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PV
Consultant
Top 20
2022-10-21T18:07:06Z
Oct 21, 2022

The solution is based on endpoints and knowledge models which can get costly. Pricing is a little bit high so I rate it a six out of ten.

VC
Reseller
Top 20
2022-06-24T16:53:35Z
Jun 24, 2022

I'm not familiar with it. They have changed the licensing fees.

SS
Reseller
2022-02-08T12:19:13Z
Feb 8, 2022

BMC TrueSight Operations Management is not on the cheaper side, but its pricing is on a case by case basis. Small, medium, and large-sized companies can afford it. Its licensing model is simple and based on the devices. You get the licenses based on the number of servers or network devices. There are no hidden costs from BMC. They are very transparent with their customers. Everything's in front of the customer, including charges. They are really transparent. What we say and what BMC says, we make sure to deliver to the customer. Everything's very, very clear, including pricing and charges.

SH
Real User
2021-09-16T17:59:41Z
Sep 16, 2021

The price of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is very high. If there was more flexibility with the sizing of the licensing it would be helpful, especially during the pandemic. We have wanted to expend but the licensing cost is too high.

AV
Real User
Top 20
2020-12-02T23:18:40Z
Dec 2, 2020

We haven't yet established what the final cost would be for licensing this solution, we're still working on that.

MA
Reseller
2020-08-02T08:16:00Z
Aug 2, 2020

I would advise that you really give a lot of thought to how much you want to monitor and what the anticipated growth in monitoring requirements will be. These things should be considered in the planning phase and, accordingly, you should decide what type of environment to set up. The licensing depends on the data streams and the event streams. If you are monitoring all the metrics for the monitored devices, the data streams and event streams will increase multifold as well. Therefore, filtering is very important in TrueSight. If you are monitoring the memory utilization for a server, for example, that alone has 20-plus attributes in TrueSight. If you let in all 20 attributes, the number of data streams will increase. If you're really interested only in the utilization metric, you may also be monitoring 19 metrics that you are not interested in and they will add to the data stream and the licensing cost will increase. Consider scalability very carefully: how much you want to monitor and what components are very important. Then, depending on these two things, filter out unwanted metrics or attributes. If you do a good job at filtering the data, then your licensing costs will be manageable. I'm not aware of the details of the licensing models of TrueSight's competitors, but our business team says that the cost of using TrueSight is higher compared to its competitors. But that often comes down to the filtering and the sizing. The filtering has to be done very carefully to bring down the licensing costs. The licensing module is good and fairly self-explanatory. It's not very complex. There are different pieces which are licensed separately. For example, Service Impact Management and Application Performance Management are licensed separately. Large customers buy the entire solution with all the features but they don't necessarily use all the features, especially the Service Impact Management. The latter is very difficult to implement and to get value out of. My advice is to consider what features of the solution you are going to use and then just pay for those features, instead of paying for everything without even using it.

DG
Real User
2019-08-25T05:18:00Z
Aug 25, 2019

There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. It's a straightforward contract.

JB
Real User
2019-08-25T05:17:00Z
Aug 25, 2019

We did a five-year, multimillion dollar deal. We haven't licensed the solution's machine-learning and analytics to deploy artificial intelligence for IT ops.

ME
Real User
2019-08-19T05:47:00Z
Aug 19, 2019

We're end-of-lifeing it now. Overall, the licensing costs of BMC are a challenge for us in that they're hard costs, whereas open-source monitoring has soft costs, where it's harder to line-item. It's harder to see the cost of implementation for other things. So that change of direction is taking place. It doesn't mean the cost isn't there; it's just soft dollars rather than hard dollars.

SF
Real User
2019-07-07T06:35:00Z
Jul 7, 2019

The only possible additional cost that I can mention, that you might not be aware of, is that it uses Oracle partitioning, if you use Oracle. There are Oracle partitioning fees that go with that.

SO
MSP
2019-06-12T13:17:00Z
Jun 12, 2019

It is a large, complex product. So, there is a commitment of manpower to deploy it, as it is not a cheap product. We license per named endpoint for most of the products: servers, network devices, databases, etc. You pay for the initial license and maintenance. The way that my company looks at it is we figure out our monthly costs over five years, and right now, we are between five to six dollars. We need to get that down to about four dollars. That's included in the maintenance. There is a big upfront cost when you buy the license, then there is annual maintenance. We look at, if I bought a license and paid for maintenance for five years, then average it out, what would be my monthly cost. We have had some of the competing tools come in around four dollars. This is coming in as a premium, which is why I don't have it deployed as I would like it. Therefore, we're in negotiations right now. If I can get it down to the four dollar range, I will triple my deployment in a year and a half. If they could could me to the right price point, there are 10,000 to 15,000 servers that I would install it on.

PM
Consultant
2019-05-20T07:59:00Z
May 20, 2019

Pricing is all volume-driven. I think we were paying between $80 and $85 per license. That's per unit, for a perpetual license. You pay it one time and then, every year, you pay 20 percent of that for annual maintenance and support. But now that we've grown, we've purchased tens of thousands of licenses and the cost per license has gone down to something like less than $30. I wouldn't call it an agent cost because the way they price it is based on the number of things you have connected. You can connect hundreds of things to a single agent but you're paying by the number of things. That's how you use the licenses. So it's really priced by endpoint, not by agent.

JR
Consultant
2019-05-16T07:47:00Z
May 16, 2019

We pay license fees of between $150 and $200 per asset. In terms of the product's pricing, we don't pay per item and it's not crazy. It's cost-effective enough for us to offer it for free on storage, and we've got some 4,000 storage assets using the product every day. We bought a large block of licenses. Interestingly enough, we provide TrueSight for free for our storage customers. We thought it was that important, to give them the licenses for the Knowledge Module and the policy. We do charge for network and we do charge for servers. There is an enterprise software license fee, and then you pay a percentage for your maintenance, and then Premier Support. For example, if you buy a two-year license for the product, then the maintenance fee is added to that for two years at X percent a year. Then there's a small fee on top of that for Premier Support, which I would highly recommend to a company. Standard support gives you normal support processes, while Premier Support is 24/7. It's at a much higher level of support. For a production environment, I would strongly recommend it. In comparison to the extra cost, the value of Premier Support is very worthwhile.

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