We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager 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."The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It works better than other products I’ve used – namely SolarWinds, which is cumbersome and error prone for web app monitoring. SCOM is not."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"The stability has been great."
"The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"It lacks certain details that other products do better, like granular access and better application monitoring."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system. We are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"I would like to see more standard libraries for the market solutions, out of the box, that you don't need to do a lot of work on."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
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IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is ranked 15th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager writes "The most valuable feature for my team is the ability to taken event feeds from all/any source tool and put them in a single pane of glass. It's being replaced for our work by another Tivoli tool". 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 Tivoli Business Service Manager is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager vs. SCOM report.
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