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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
12th
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
305
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (2nd), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2025, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of OpenText Operations Bridge is 1.8%, up from 1.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Enterprise Security is 26.2%, down from 30.7% 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

"OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms."
"The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"The most valuable feature is that everything can be consolidated into one dashboard."
"It has greatly reduced the number and duration of outages as support teams are notified immediately when something goes wrong or even before something breaks."
"We haven't faced any stability issues. There hasn't been any crashes or glitches."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"Splunk allows us to customize processing and dashboards, which helps us take care of our customers' needs."
"The ability to view all of these different logs, then drilling down into specific times or into specific data sources, has proved to be the greatest aspect in decreasing our troubleshooting overhead time."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is a standard solution providing good customer service and partnership."
"The most valuable features are the logs, which allow us to identify what happened and who interacted with the web repository."
"Its compatibility with other SIEMS is very useful."
"Splunk's strongest suit is its user interface. We can integrate multiple solutions and adjust settings in the Splunk interface."
"Its huge, versatile AppBase helped me to configure and bring data from different sources to a unified platform."
"The graph visualization is the most valuable feature."
 

Cons

"The initial setup of this tool is complex for people who lack experience with it."
"We need improvements in delivering quality reports from OBM and in integrating Operations Bridge with other components like UCMDB for asset discovery."
"In a future release, we would like an improved upgrade process. When you upgrade it now, it first uninstalls everything and then reinstalls all the packages, which means any customization that you've done in the directories on the surface disappears."
"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."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"The setup process can get a little bit complex."
"pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"The GUI could be improved to include some of the capabilities that other BI solutions have. The layout is a little restrictive where you can’t resize all the panels to exactly how you would like them without tweaking some XML code."
"Data retention can be better. If we want to look at the data for five months or six months, that is not available to us."
"From the commercial point of view, they have to bring down their costs."
"Stability is there, but every release has some bugs."
"I would like to see an updated dashboard. The dashboard is a little out-of-date. It could be made prettier."
"Splunk could be improved by reducing the cost. The cost is one of the biggest challenges for us in keeping to our production requirements."
"It can be tough to get a hold of somebody in technical support depending on the complexity of the issue."
"Splunk's implementation process for managing multiple indexes can be complex, especially when dealing with a large number of components."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 licensing cost for this solution is approximately $1,000 USD."
"The cost is very high."
"Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement."
"Setup costs can be high depending on the partner, but it is worth it."
"It is competitive."
"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)."
"The pricing model is expensive and a nightmare based on the amount of data."
"Splunk is not free."
"Splunk Enterprise Security's pricing is pretty competitive."
"Price-wise, if you compare QRadar to Splunk for SIEM functionality then they are in the same range but when you integrate SOAR with these solutions, Splunk takes the lead and is more competitive."
"The licensing model can be expensive, but the value it provides is significant."
"Splunk Enterprise Security is an expensive solution."
"Splunk should be able to integrate with other product using the free version."
"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
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
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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