BigPanda vs ServiceNow IT Operations Management comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
43rd
Ranking in AIOps
16th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (10th)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
8th
Ranking in AIOps
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (2nd), Cloud Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of BigPanda is 0.7%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 2.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Unique Categories:
IT Alerting and Incident Management
2.4%
AIOps
2.4%
Event Monitoring
18.8%
Cloud Management
1.5%
 

Featured Reviews

CS
Jul 21, 2022
Bad AI with primitive visualization and not configurable
We wanted a 'one-stop-shop' for event monitoring, visualization, and infrastructure development with AI. Unfortunately, BigPanda attempts a little bit of everything and fails at most.  The AI, in particular, was worthless. The visualization is primitive and not configurable. The only thing they…
VivekSaini - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2022
A very capable solution that includes a valuable, user-friendly workflow management tool
Our company has forty team members who use the solution for change management, problem management, and our intake process.  We use the workflow management tool for several provisions. For example, a requester creates the request, it goes to the floor for approval, and then it automatically connects…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"The most valuable features of BigPanda are the API integration was good. It enables us to do faster onboarding."
"The main thing that we like about BigPanda is the user interface."
"Alert aggregation was the primary requirement. BigPanda pulls all this together into a single UI for us, allowing us to see related alerts grouped together into an incident, and enables us to easily create a JIRA ticket and Slack channel to manage an issue."
"Easy integration - We've had challenges in the past integrating all of our various monitoring sources and tools into one central system. BigPanda, with the integrations that it already has, as well as offering webhook/REST API, has made it very easy for us to plug everything in."
"A user-friendly solution."
"The program is very stable."
"We have also made extensive use of the outbound integrations to ticketing systems (JIRA) and collaboration tools (Slack). The main driver for us has been getting all alerting into a single UI and enabling us to streamline our incident management process."
"I like the tool's discovery feature."
"I like the tool's CMBD connection with Discovery. The solution is also flexible."
"The end-to-end ticketing process is most valuable in ServiceNow IT Operations Management because its notification feature is excellent in keeping all users informed on the next step compared to BMC. I also like that ServiceNow IT Operations Management is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable features of the solution are discovery, cloud governance, event management, and service mapping."
"The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication."
"ITOM communicates information about incidents and maintains them. It handles tickets change, manages service networks, and reduces IT service downtime for the organization."
"I like the solution mostly for CMDB discovery."
"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."
 

Cons

"Lacks sufficient dashboard features."
"We had to use a partner for the deployment."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. It is very hard to find what you are looking for."
"The cost of this product is too high compared to New Relic."
"BigPanda attempts a little of everything and fails at most."
"BigPanda could improve by syncing its threshold settings with Dynatrace to align with users' familiarity."
"Our infrastructure is quite large - tens of thousands of servers, often with 30-plus checks running on each host with one minute intervals. This generates a lot of data often in bursts (when we have a large scale failure). This has caused some delay in the ingestion pipeline."
"BigPanda can improve the correlations. We didn't see any big value. It is still good at the same event deduplication, event processing, and ticket creation, but I was more looking at event analysis and event correlation. In that area, it is still no big difference between the other solutions on the market. All of them, are in the same immature stage."
"Lacks the ability to do its own monitoring."
"The product needs to add a workflow insight tool."
"The setup and deployment could be simplified, and the pricing could improve."
"The tool can be improved by including more detailed information to assist new users."
"If you are new to using the solution, you will find the setup complex."
"The pattern part can be improved. Patterns are used in the Discovery feature. Although it is easy to create new patterns and modify the existing ones, it would be better if this solution can have more out-of-the-box patterns. In terms of new features, they can include artificial intelligence, something like machine learning."
"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."
"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."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay $200,000 USD per year."
"BigPanda is cheaper than the competitors."
"They were great to work with on pricing/licensing. Given we are a high-growth company, we needed a flexible site license."
"The price of BigPanda is in the middle compared to other solutions."
"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."
"The cost of ServiceNow is much higher."
"It has different subscription models."
"I would rate the product's pricing a five out of ten since there are vendors who are cheaper."
"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."
"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."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"While not entirely sure, I believe the solution costs at least a million dollars annually."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
25%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Energy/Utilities Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...
What do you like most about BigPanda?
One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface.
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.
 

Also Known As

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ServiceNow ITOM
 

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Sample Customers

Nagios, ServiceNow, ITSM, NOC, CMDB Evolved, RemedyIncident Management Process
servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
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