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ServiceNow IT Operations Management vs Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Aug 5, 2024

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

ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (10th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (11th), AIOps (4th)
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Int...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. ServiceNow IT Operations Management is designed for Event Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 18.3%, up 14.3% compared to last year.
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence), on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 3.7% mindshare, up 1.0% since last year.
Event Monitoring
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

RichardG - PeerSpot reviewer
Effortlessly blends management systems for comprehensive infrastructure insight
ServiceNow IT Operations Management brought together Intune and SCCM or MECM really well. It provided out-of-the-box integrations, requiring only minimal effort, typically a couple of days, to massage those systems into a seamless operation. Additionally, the performance analytics of ServiceNow was especially beneficial for setting thresholds, aggregating, and correlating infrastructure data.
Sunil K R - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps improve our incident response time, and our mean time to resolve, but visibility is limited
In my previous project, I successfully led the end-to-end deployment of a Splunk migration. The process went smoothly thanks in part to Splunk's professional services team. They conducted a thorough assessment, identified all our potential pain points, and developed a tailored solution and migration plan. This comprehensive approach ensured a seamless transition. Our core deployment team consisted of 5 internal members and two specialists from Splunk. Additionally, the project included a project manager and a product owner. We also benefited from the expertise of two professional service consultants and two representatives from the customer's side. An on-site admin architect further provided valuable technical support. Throughout the deployment process, we leveraged support from various resources whenever necessary. This included assistance with configuration changes, deployments, and other related tasks. We also collaborated effectively with our teammates to ensure a smooth and successful implementation.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"You can improve integrations of the operation with the solution."
"It is flexible. You can tune it, more or less, as you want."
"It has been very useful for tracking. It has evolved a lot over time, and there is a single pane of glass where you can track and see everything."
"I like the tool's discovery feature."
"The initial setup is very straightforward. A person just needs to join a team to access the network and that's all."
"It is a market leader and is very implementation-friendly. Developers have a clear understanding of how the solution works, and it is mature enough to handle different client needs."
"It provided out-of-the-box integrations, requiring only minimal effort, typically a couple of days, to massage those systems into a seamless operation."
"The Discovery feature is the most valuable. I only use the Discovery and Service Mapping features. I am using the minor subscription called ITOM Visibility, which includes the Discovery and Service Mapping features. It is easy to understand and easy to use. It has a lot of documentation. You can find a lot of help online, which helps me in finding what I need in a rapid way. You can find videos on YouTube channels and a lot of stuff and information in the online community."
"We have a lot of teams using Splunk and they would be blind without it."
"The search function is the most valuable. It includes regular expressions and wild card searches. We'll write searches using field and case-sensitive services and use all of these search types to write an alert condition. Splunk ITSI has another feature called Glass Table that offers a visual representation."
"One particularly useful feature of Splunk ITSI is the ability to create custom services."
"ITSI provides a visual representation of complex tools and context, using color coding and other features to make it easy for anyone at the monitoring or service desk to use."
"The most valuable features are the service analyzer and Glass Tables."
"I particularly like the preview feature because it provides a prompt experience for impact analysis."
"The glass tables are very helpful."
"The most valuable features are the agility, being able to ingest many data sources with no limitation on capacity."
 

Cons

"The product needs to add a workflow insight tool."
"There is a slower learning curve associated with the tool's scripting part. It is also not cheap."
"Service Mapping is a time-consuming process. The time and effort versus the benefits are very difficult to articulate to customers."
"I advise others not to customize a lot while using the solution."
"There is room for improvement in service mapping within ServiceNow ITOM. When we have more time, we'll look to extend that and apply it to business-critical services like email."
"My managers would say that the price is too high. We wanted to also have the visibility version of it, but it's too expensive for us. Going for visibility would have doubled up the price."
"Regarding ServiceNow, there is room for improvement in terms of customization, particularly in the area of self-customization."
"The solution's licensing model is a bit complicated. It should be simple and easy for people to understand."
"The dashboard function inside the individual episodes, not at the ITSI Notable Event Aggregation Policy level but actually at the correlation search layer, is an area where improvements are required."
"We're using predictive analytics, and there are three or four algorithms. It would be helpful if this process were more standardized and scalable."
"It could be a little easier to use with the thresholding. We've struggled a little bit with thresholding."
"The UI could be updated. Some elements of the KPI section aren't where you'd expect. It looks like a website from 2010 or maybe older. You can't change some things, like if it doesn't word-wrap well. For example, if you have a long list of KPIs that exceed a character limit, you need to hover over them and wait for the HTML text to pop up to see which KPI it is."
"ITSI is an almost perfect tool, but there is room for improvement in a few features like the deep dive and multi-KPI alerts. We're using most of the features like service API, coding searches, and aggregation, but our team members hardly use multi-KPI and deep dive. We don't use the multi-KPI or deep dive because everything is available in the service KPI. I don't think this feature is necessary."
"They should make it easier to use. Many people are new to it. It is hard and has a steep learning curve."
"The biggest improvement area is making it open to developers. Right now, it is very closed. It can only be downloaded by people who have a license to and not everyone. If it is open to everybody, more people will use it."
"The problem becomes the price, as Splunk is an expensive product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"My customers pay for the ServiceNow IT Operations Management license annually. I'd rate the pricing based on value. ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a premium product as it has better features than competitors."
"This solution offers good value but comes at a very high premium. Pricing could be reduced by 10 to 20%."
"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."
"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."
"The price of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is expensive."
"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"I would prefer that the price be reduced, as it would be easier to implement it and to sell it."
"Splunk ITSI is a pay-per-use service that is priced fairly based on the amount of data we use."
"The pricing of Splunk is a bit high."
"The cost of the modules is a bit high for non-global companies, making it difficult for them to afford Splunk ITSI."
"Splunk pricing is high."
"The licensing is based on data usage."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive; however, with the appropriate use case, it justifies the cost."
"Pricing has some room for improvement."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
12%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
From my perspective as an asset manager, the most valuable feature of the solution is the configuration management portion, where I can actively add something to the database.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
We obtained discovery licenses at about seven dollars Australian per unit, which we found to be reasonable and competitive. The pricing model offers scaling where not everything consumes a license ...
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
There is room for improvement in service mapping within ServiceNow ITOM. When we have more time, we'll look to extend that and apply it to business-critical services like email.
What needs improvement with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
Currently, Glass tables in ITSI only display metrics related to KPIs. I proposed adding an option to show metrics related to entities. This would eliminate the need for custom SPL to achieve this f...
 

Also Known As

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Sample Customers

servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
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