BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 28, 2023
 

Categories and Ranking

BMC TrueSight Operations Ma...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
16th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (19th), Cloud Monitoring Software (16th), AIOps (9th)
Splunk ITSI (IT Service Int...
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is 1.1%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence) is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Unique Categories:
Event Monitoring
14.5%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
1.0%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
8.3%
 

Featured Reviews

VC
Apr 26, 2024
Provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems
We use the solution to monitor a vast infrastructure, including operating systems, maintenance, Windows, services, processes, applications, and databases. Therefore, we have integrations with monitoring products such as Microsoft, Cisco, and SaaS solutions for management The solution provides…
SS
Oct 27, 2023
We can optimize business processes and systems, and reduce alert noise
Splunk ITSI helps the advisory board's cab team increase efficiency by instilling trust in systems over manual administrators. Splunk ITSI also provides a central source for the documentation of our application dependencies. Splunk ITSI provides end-to-end visibility into our network environment, which reduces the manual effort required to capture configuration data and helps us identify weaknesses in our network. Once we have implemented the CMDB to meet our requirements, Splunk ITSI's predictive analytics can identify any devices that will be affected by planned changes and provide us with that information. This will allow us to prioritize incidents based on their criticality and notify stakeholders accordingly. Splunk ITSI has helped our organization in many ways. It has centralized all resources for administrators and service personnel. Architects can plan better using the environmental details provided by ITSI. The CAB team can provide approvals quickly because the information is easily accessible. Splunk ITSI is reliable, and its AI-driven predictive analytics help identify potential component or device failures. Splunk ITSI streamlined our incident management by allowing Splunk administrators to easily see all incident details and cascade them down to relevant stakeholders and customers. This enabled us to inform the service desk team so they could better prepare responses to end-user queries. We can also easily identify and address infrastructure challenges affecting specific companies. It helps reduce our alert noise by a minimum of ten percent and it can go significantly more. We categorize and close alerts directly through ServiceNow after integrating our account. This automated process frees up our admins' time to focus on more important tasks. Splunk ITSI has reduced our MTTD by over ten percent. We can meet our SLAs with Splunk ITSI 99.8 percent of the time. It has also reduced our MTTR by five to ten percent each quarter. We can resolve almost 90 percent of our tickets.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The ability to pull hosts together to show what processes are running, so it can be used for change management."
"The Event Management is outstanding; still is the most interesting part of the product."
"Intelligent solution with a proactive monitoring feature and consolidated dashboard that's stable and easy to scale."
"It is a stable solution."
"The major advantage of the product is estate management."
"From an administrative standpoint, what stands out in TrueSight is the ability to implement quickly. When they have a requirement to monitor something, we're able to turn that on quickly in their environment. We're able to set up new apps within a day."
"The event management tool builds correlation logic and protection algorithms into a field of events that is valuable when a data center goes down."
"We have one application, which is fairly large. In the past, we had Level 1 and 2 NOC support teams who were responsible for watching dashboards. When they saw an issue in the application, they would call Level 2 or 3 support and escalate the call, if necessary. Now, through the use of this product, we have been able to reduce the headcount by five people, as we are able to eliminate the eyes on the glass. We no longer have people watching the dashboard. We have events which are processed automatically through the system and get to the right people. We had six people in L1s, and now have one. So, we reduced five out of six headcount, which is pretty significant."
"Splunk Episodes are valuable because it correlates and aggregates all the information, and you do not have one million events to look at and triage, so it is quite convenient."
"The most valuable feature is the Glass Tables. It gives you a nice, good overview of your KPIs. It's really slick and clean."
"The glass tables are very helpful."
"The most valuable features are the mapping of the entities, which provides a comprehensive analysis, and the service analyzer for thresholding."
"The most valuable features are the service analyzer and Glass Tables."
"The solution has been stable."
"The modeling required to setup ITSI has been very helpful in providing us a better understanding and a logical view of our services. The modeling is flexible and can be as granular or high level as our needs dictate."
"The KPS used to automate the integration policy is the most valuable feature of Splunk ITSI."
 

Cons

"BMC's solutions for cloud monitoring (monitoring of AWS and Azure resources) are very poor in stability and customization."
"The dashboard and performance graphs should include a way to automatically schedule and export reports."
"The solution is overly complex."
"The graphs are extremely limited. We don't have a lot of dashboard options. To make reports and dashboards more useful, we usually need to integrate some dashboard solutions."
"The knowledge modules could be more lightweight in size. At present, the installation packages can be quite large."
"The product must provide more AI capabilities."
"The pricing could be better."
"There are some small limitations with this tool in terms of reporting dashboards that fit all of the requirements of the individual customer."
"The dashboard queries should be improved. More queries should be suggested in order to produce better dashboards."
"The cost of the license could be lower."
"The problem becomes the price, as Splunk is an expensive product."
"I believe the refresh time should be faster."
"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."
"ITSI could benefit from a security model that would allow operations team members to get involved in model building, KPI implementation, and model maintenance, while maintaining appropriate segregation of duties."
"If the product had some prebuilt machine learning features, it would add value to our use cases."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool is moderately expensive."
"Use conservative figures. In terms of hardware, monitored servers and also effort. The product is not cheap. But as with other products, you get what you pay for."
"They have changed the licensing fees."
"The only possible additional cost that I can mention, that you might not be aware of, is that it uses Oracle partitioning, if you use Oracle. There are Oracle partitioning fees that go with that."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management is not on the cheaper side, but its pricing is on a case by case basis. Its licensing model is simple and based on the number of devices."
"It is a large, complex product. So, there is a commitment of manpower to deploy it, as it is not a cheap product."
"We pay license fees of between $150 and $200 per asset. There is an enterprise software license fee, and then you pay a percentage for your maintenance, and then Premier Support. For example, if you buy a two-year license for the product, then the maintenance fee is added to that for two years at X percent a year. Then there's a small fee on top of that for Premier Support..."
"We did a five-year, multimillion dollar deal."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive; however, with the appropriate use case, it justifies the cost."
"The licensing is based on data usage."
"Splunk ITSI is a pay-per-use service that is priced fairly based on the amount of data we use."
"Splunk ITSI is expensive."
"The pricing of Splunk is a bit high."
"It would have been good if the product cost was much lower."
"The cost of the modules is a bit high for non-global companies, making it difficult for them to afford Splunk ITSI."
"Its pricing has been changed as per the market. You get a good support service with it as well. They have 24/7 customer support. There is a portal, and if you are having issues, they are available in order to resolve them. So, its pricing isn't too much."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
13%
Government
13%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Though I have no clue about the tool's actual price, I know that it is astronomical.
What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Cost is an issue with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Though I am not responsible for the budget, I know that it is an expensive tool set when used only for event management. The tool's issue ...
What needs improvement with Splunk ITSI (IT Service Intelligence)?
We're getting alerts with delays of maybe five minutes, however, we'd like to see real-time alerting in the future. From a predictive analysis point of view, we'd like to see emails corresponding t...
 

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ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
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Sample Customers

Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
TransUnion, Cox Automotive, Carnival Cruises, Leidos, Econocom, National Ignition Factory, Entrust Datacard, Molina Healthcare, United States Census Bureau
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