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OpenText Operations Bridge vs Splunk Enterprise Security comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 5, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

OpenText Operations Bridge
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
11th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
47
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st)
Splunk Enterprise Security
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
304
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (1st), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of OpenText Operations Bridge is 1.9%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 26.3%, down from 31.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
Powerful data integration, comprehensive automation, and hybrid compatibility
The data lake is a very powerful feature within OpenText Operations Bridge. It can integrate with any BI tool to collect AI data and perform a variety of functions. It offers hybrid compatibility and supports desktop application customization and cloud integration. Another essential capability is server automation, which became significantly easier with the software appliance for deployment. This solution also provides role-based access that enhances data privacy and security.
ROBERT-CHRISTIAN - PeerSpot reviewer
Has many predefined correlation rules and is brilliant for investigation and log analysis
It is very complicated to write your own correlation rules without the help of Splunk support. What Splunk could do better is to create an API to the standard SIEM tools, such as Microsoft Sentinel. The idea would be to make it less painful. In ELK Stack, Kibana is the query language with which you can search log files. I believe Splunk has also a query language in which they search their log files, but once you have identified the log file that you want to use for further security correlation, you want to very quickly transport that into your SIEM tool, such as Microsoft Sentinel. That is something that Splunk could make a little bit less painful because it is a lot of effort to find that log file and forward it. An API with Microsoft Sentinel or a similar SIEM tool would be a good idea.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Purely, its flexibility is the most valuable aspect. It is hugely configurable."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"This solution worked as an umbrella for many different types of monitoring systems, offering various tools for not only application performance management models but also user experience models and monitoring business processes."
"The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard."
"The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events."
"It's a very good product overall."
"It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"It has a drag-and-drop interface, so you don't need to know SQL or Java to construct a query on Splunk. The resolution time is about the same, but it took longer to discover the issue with ArcSight. Our previous solution took about an hour or more, but Splunk can do it within a few minutes or an hour at most."
"What I really like is that even if you have already collected the data, you can extract fields and can build searches."
"Splunk's schema on demand is incredibly useful. I do not have to worry about what my users will need when we onboard their data."
"We can automatically suspend or terminate suspicious sessions."
"We can ingest and correlate data from virtually any type of system."
"I really like the user interface and how it works."
"The solution's newly developed dashboard is pretty amazing."
"The compatibility with the add-ons helps us add more data in the same compatible format and use data models to elaborate and make it faster."
 

Cons

"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"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."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The product might currently have a lot of new features, however, I don't have information about these new features, so it's possible it may require updates in that area."
"Remove the dependency of Java technology. This is a feature used for admin purposes to update the modeling."
"The latest versions of the service reporting dashboards need improvement, such as service modeling."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"It needs more formatting control without having to be an admin."
"​On the technical side, it would be nice to see aspects of the recent acquisition of Phantom make it into the core Splunk Enterprise, not just become a part of the premium Enterprise Security.​"
"Over time I will have more requirements and I can foresee the solution could improve the search algorithm to run and output the data faster."
"There is a definite learning curve to starting out."
"We don't have SOAR products from Splunk. I believe that's an important piece."
"While scheduled reports can be embedded, Splunk dashboard can not be embedded directly without enabling cross origin."
"The glass table feature does not perform as expected."
"While Splunk Enterprise Security offers valuable features, its cost is high and could be more competitive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"As OpsBridge is a suite of products bundled together, you may find yourself paying for software functionality that you don't actually use, e.g. Real User Monitor (RUM)."
"Setup costs can be high depending on the partner, but it is worth it."
"The licensing cost for this solution is approximately $1,000 USD."
"The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices and features such as infrastructure monitoring, analytic dashboard, and business dashboard in your model."
"The cost is very high."
"It is competitive."
"Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement."
"The pricing model is based on the number of gigabytes that you ingest into the Splunk system. So it can be an expensive solution."
"In terms of pricing, I believe Splunk is unreasonably costly for the majority of mid and small-sized companies."
"The price is comparable."
"It is a pretty high cost solution, but if your organization has the funds, it can bring many benefits."
"My customers have found the price of the solution to be high."
"Splunk's cost is very high. They need to review the pricing. They have to go back and totally readdress the market."
"The pricing is based on the volume of data fed into it, which can lead to substantial costs. This pricing model is complex and unpredictable, making cost management difficult."
"I think that most of the log analytics solutions are expensive and I'm not sure if it's worth it."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
23%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Computer Software Company
10%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus Operations Bridge?
Pricing for OpenText is considered very high compared to competitors. The licensing model is complicated, with separate licenses for different components like OBM and Smile, making it difficult to ...
What needs improvement with Micro Focus Operations Bridge?
We need improvements in delivering quality reports from OBM and in integrating Operations Bridge with other components like UCMDB for asset discovery. Operations Bridge also lacks in the preparatio...
What SOC product do you recommend?
For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...
What is a better choice, Splunk or Azure Sentinel?
It would really depend on (1) which logs you need to ingest and (2) what are your use cases Splunk is easy for ingestion of anything, but the charge per GB/Day Indexed and it gets expensive as log ...
How does Splunk compare with Azure Monitor?
Splunk handles a high amount of data very well. We use Splunk to capture information and as an aggregator for monitoring information from different sources. Splunk is very good at alerting us if we...
 

Also Known As

Micro Focus Operations Bridge, Operations Bridge Manager, Micro Focus Operations Analytics
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Sample Customers

GE Money Bank, Bank AlJazira, Tech Mahindra
Splunk has more than 7,000 customers spread across over 90 countries. These customers include Telenor, UniCredit, ideeli, McKenney's, Tesco, and SurveyMonkey.
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