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PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs Serviceaide ChangeGear comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
53
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (5th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (7th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (32nd), IT Service Management (ITSM) (30th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. PagerDuty Operations Cloud is designed for IT Alerting and Incident Management and holds a mindshare of 13.1%, down 21.7% compared to last year.
Serviceaide ChangeGear, on the other hand, focuses on IT Service Management (ITSM), holds 1.1% mindshare, up 0.4% since last year.
IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud13.1%
Opsgenie9.1%
Rootly7.1%
Other70.7%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
IT Service Management (ITSM) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Serviceaide ChangeGear1.1%
ServiceNow15.8%
JIRA Service Management7.3%
Other75.8%
IT Service Management (ITSM)
 

Featured Reviews

NS
Senior SRE at IBM
Automated incident workflows have transformed on-call operations and improved response times
Since I host our internal services, I want more customization relating to our specific use case. The needed improvements include the configuration process, as new team members face a steep learning curve to understand the platform. With many new members, they need training to set up runbook workflows, event orchestration, and manage complex on-call schedules across 23 services, making it a challenge for new users. Additionally, I feel the web interface requires improvements. I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows. The primary reasons for rating it an eight include the complex configuration which makes it challenging for new users, as well as their difficulty in setting up advanced runbook workflows and managing complex on-call setups. The web user interface also requires improvement. Although I receive alerts via the mobile app, which is beneficial for handling schedule maintenance, the same features should be added to the web interface. Customization issues persist, such as the inability to clone entire schedules as part of the workflows, and I want to keep incidents open for a specified duration, neither of which I can currently customize. Thus, I raised a ticket with PagerDuty Operations Cloud to address these concerns. Furthermore, the cost is high, making it one of the more expensive incident management solutions.
UA
Enterprise Solutions & Services Head at Duroob Technology
A fairly stable solution that’s highly mature, but has a poor user interface
The solution does not align as modern service solutions do. Seamless integration is no available among the processes. Their service management application needs a lot of work. It’s in a really bad state right now. They brought on a new interface that clumped all the processes and features of the solution into one. Still, it’s not really compatible with other solutions. Because of this, its rating has dropped in Gardner. The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements. The product needs to implement a cloud platform solution, which is lacking so far. Their workflow engine is still segregated. It’s not embedded. If you need to do some workflow approvals, you cannot do them directly on the service desk. You have to go into Outlook and do an approval or you have to go in through another screen to handle the approval because the workflow engine they have is a separate product.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a great tool that saves time and is worth starting to use."
"It reduces the amount of white noise. If something comes through, then it will alert somebody. However, if it's a bit of white noise that comes through at night, then it gets dealt with the next day. Everything is visible to everybody. It's not just a single person getting an SMS, then going, "Oh, I'm not going to worry about that." The visibility to everybody on the team is one of the great things about it because it reduces the white noise."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"I'd rate the solution ten out of ten."
"The best thing that we've had is that we get alerted before things happen rather than after the customer's having a problem or notices the problem."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the best tool available, and I can confidently say it is the best tool for all aspects, not just incident management or escalation, but for all analytical functions as well."
"With the multiple methods of notification and the escalation policies, we can always be certain that someone will get the message."
"It's quite a complete entry into the SaaS ITSM market with a reasonable price point."
"This is the best product for Large Infrastructure companies/organizations to monitor their infrastructures/servers etc."
"The ability to add Additional Information Screens on the fly."
"This is really easy solution to scale up and get get going to add new catalog items."
"Essential service management solution all in one, like 100- for service request, 200- for change request, 300- for incidents, 400- for problems."
"Improved the effectiveness of my Service Desk Team and improved the SLA timing."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create service catalogues for our customers, something that we didn't have previously with the other tool we were using, which was SDM."
"The solution is a highly mature product, and because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
 

Cons

"In terms of witnessing an ROI, no one has really done that level of due diligence."
"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’d like to see some kind of supervising element, the functionality to resolve and allow people to be alerted for supervisors. I don’t think that they are going to address this."
"If I can avoid the 2 AM phone calls that would be perfect but I know that's not possible."
"PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved by adding more features."
"I rate the platform an 8 out of 10 because, as mentioned, there could be better ways of creating incidents or using a phone number to contact someone who is on call."
"I would suggest that the calling service could be adjusted since if a system goes down, the user receives continuous calls, which can be overwhelming."
"We have been seeing a little bit of latency here and there, but we haven't been able to identify it."
"I would love to see better two-factor authentication as that would really help us and make a big difference."
"We had a lot of issues with non-Windows servers during implementation."
"Flexibility to customize."
"When tickets are closed occasionally, it is quite hard to reopen it, which will cause lost-tickets."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
"I think they could update some of the interface. It doesn't look as pretty as some of the other ones."
"Importing data with relations is difficult and could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."
"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Performing Arts
15%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Educational Organization
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise15
Large Enterprise34
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
Regarding pricing for PagerDuty Operations Cloud, I am currently a software engineer and a senior software engineer, so I do not handle the pricing aspect. However, I hear from my manager that the ...
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud can be improved by adding more features. Whatever manual work is there could be automated using scripting. Then it would be more efficient. When we receive a call, it has...
What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?
PagerDuty Operations Cloud is used to understand whether there are false positives or false alerts because it is integrated into a system where there would be a phone number, such as anyone from th...
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Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

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