We performed a comparison between IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"The most valuable feature of SCOM is real-time alerts."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"Being able to make and customize management packs and send out notifications is very valuable."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"It'll help if they can provide real-time or closer to real-time monitoring."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"The solution should have more tools for monitoring the cloud engine versus on-premise."
"It would be a much better product if Microsoft provided management packs with the product."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"It could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
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IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is ranked 15th in Event Monitoring while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 78 reviews. IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is rated 7.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager writes "The most valuable feature for my team is the ability to taken event feeds from all/any source tool and put them in a single pane of glass. It's being replaced for our work by another Tivoli tool". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is most compared with , whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager vs. SCOM report.
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