We compared OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management and PagerDuty based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: The OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management stands out for its mass notification capabilities, seamless integration with different communication channels, and the ability to monitor events in real time. PagerDuty’s stand-out features include urgency categorization, SMS paging, and a handy mobile application. Users also praised the solution’s comprehensive reporting and seamless integration. OnSolve Platform users requested better integration and reporting features. PagerDuty could enhance its functionality by leveraging webhooks and improving compatibility with common tools. Users also said the solution should enhance its Terraform integration and automate IT roster importing.
Service and Support: OnSolve Platform users found the support teams to be knowledgeable, helpful, and responsive. PagerDuty users say the solution’s customer service is excellent. They provide quick support and even offer video calls.
Ease of Deployment: Users said OnSolve Platform is easy to deploy thanks to the solution’s clear documentation and OnSolve’s helpful support. PagerDuty's setup is described as straightforward and easy, but users without experience may struggle with it.
Pricing: The cost of OnSolve Platform varies depending on the customer’s size and support license. To obtain specific information, it is recommended to visit the product's website or reach out to the sales team. PagerDuty offers competitive pricing with options for monthly or yearly licenses.
ROI: The potential return on investment for the OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management and Blackberry AtHoc may vary. Refer to user feedback and real-life examples to gain a complete understanding of their potential ROI. Users appreciate the cost savings and enhanced efficiency that PagerDuty brings to their operations.
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful."
"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location."
"The initial setup is a simple process."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"The solution's most valuable features are that it adds each alert as a service, has good scheduling capabilities, and includes the ability to write logic based on texts."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"PagerDuty's notification process is the most valuable feature."
"The product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable."
"PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
"Conference calling requires a complicated syntax formula."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
"It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system."
"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."
"The On-Call Teams feature could be better in terms of levels of conditions related to which team or member should get the responsibility of handling a matter or incident."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
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OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is ranked 12th in IT Alerting and Incident Management while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 1st in IT Alerting and Incident Management with 35 reviews. OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is rated 6.0, while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management writes "Allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location, but the user interface is too complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is most compared with Everbridge Mass Notification, Everbridge IT Alerting, AlertMedia, Rave Alert and xMatters , whereas PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Everbridge IT Alerting and Zabbix.
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