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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
 

Categories and Ranking

ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
39
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (8th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (8th), AIOps (4th)
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Int...
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
49
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (10th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (4th)
 

Featured Reviews

Archana Menon - PeerSpot reviewer
Easy to use and has great orchestration and automation capabilities
The solution's initial setup is straightforward. Complexity always comes when the company requirements are added. There is a reason why ServiceNow is a market leader. If they would also bring in the complex nature like their peers, force companies to stick to out-of-the-box all the time, and bring in product customizations or product revisions, which would force other users not to use customization, then it would not stay like that. ServiceNow should not go the same route as other vendors and restrict their products from being scaled up or scaled down.
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

"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a stable product."
"The most valuable features of ServiceNow IT Operations Management are ease of use, intuitive design, and ease of management, and its based on IT practices which are good."
"The solution is very capable and user friendly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are discovery, cloud governance, event management, and service mapping."
"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."
"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."
"It helps streamline management and processes."
"I like the solution due to the fact that it's scalable."
"The root cause analysis is very helpful for us."
"I find the episode review, glass tables, and correlation search features very useful."
"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."
"ITSI includes a feature called a glass table."
"The most valuable feature of ITSI is the service KPIs. No other tool provides you with the same level of observability and enterprise security or the search and reporting applications."
"The most valuable features are the agility, being able to ingest many data sources with no limitation on capacity."
"The solution's scalability is fine."
"The feature that stood out to me most from Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) was automated dashboarding or reporting. The solution lists the severity level of issues, and the response times."
 

Cons

"When it comes to improvements, I think that my colleagues and I often have issues finding the correct screen and the search box does not work as intended."
"The tool can be improved by including more detailed information to assist new users."
"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."
"Service mapping is pretty limited."
"There is a slower learning curve associated with the tool's scripting part. It is also not cheap."
"ServiceNow could be more prescriptive on how customers can leverage some of the benefits."
"At times, it got cumbersome from the project management perspective. It could have been because of the way we were using it. I found Microsoft Project to be more extensive and robust than ITOM."
"It should have better integrations with other solutions."
"It could be a little easier to use with the thresholding. We've struggled a little bit with thresholding."
"The end-to-end visibility in Splunk ITSI is limited and has room for improvement."
"Currently, Glass tables in ITSI only display metrics related to KPIs."
"While Splunk has existing add-ons, they are unreliable and do not provide accurate results."
"The solution should integrate more features in NEAP."
"Splunk ITSI consumes a lot of CPU resources."
"Integration is the most critical area to improve in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI). It wasn't a great experience because you had to do a little back and forth to integrate the solution."
"After upgrading Splunk ITSI from version 4.11 to 4.13, the analyzer stopped finding values for KPS and services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution is costly compared to the products offered by its competitors."
"I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper."
"It has different subscription models."
"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a costly solution. I'd rate the price at ten, on a scale from one to ten with one being the lowest and ten being the highest price. Some clients do have a problem with the price, but most find that the solution is worth the cost."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"The price of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is expensive."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"I wouldn't say there's been an issue with the solution's pricing because we went through the AWS marketplace and negotiated directly with Splunk."
"It is interesting. I am not involved that much lately, but if I recall correctly, you license primarily on the volume of data that you are using in Splunk ITSI, but there is no way Splunk can ever check if that is true, so that is interesting. We are not doing it, but someone can pretend to just use 10%, and it would be super cheap. It is tricky, but it is more tricky for Splunk than for us."
"Splunk pricing is high."
"I know that it is expensive, but I do not think there is another solution that can do similar things for that price."
"It depends on how big an organization is. If we have a lot of resources, the licensing needs to be upgraded. If we have a small environment, the licensing cost is definitely going to be less."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive."
"The pricing of Splunk is a bit high."
"Pricing has some room for improvement."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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?
I can rate the pricing at six out of ten, as the pricing is reasonable.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
We are facing difficulties with service mapping of CIs from the end users, and are seeking help from third-party vendors. It would be helpful to have more knowledge articles or FAQs for some regula...
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...
 

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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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