PagerDuty Operations Cloud vs Serviceaide ChangeGear comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

PagerDuty Operations Cloud
Average Rating
8.8
Number of Reviews
35
Ranking in other categories
Process Automation (11th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (8th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)
Serviceaide ChangeGear
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Help Desk Software (30th), IT Service Management (ITSM) (29th)
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Blonsky - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 21, 2022
Customizable, useful policies, and reliable
We use PagerDuty for alerting and escalations. We have it integrated with our monitoring tools PagerDuty integrates well with many other monitoring applications, it provides us with a centralized view of what can be configured in terms of escalations, and who's on call.  We can control who is…
it_user347802 - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2015
It's provided self-service and automation, notifications, and reporting, although adding group names is a complicated process.
The most valuable feature to me are-- Workflows with Knowledge Management Dictionary Thesaurus and synonyms Permissions GUI HTML editor Metrics you can get on every document and ability to aggregate those to get really good reporting It's provided self-service and automation, notifications, and…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."
"The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly."
"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 product has valuable on-call scheduling, escalation, and incident workflow management features."
"The most valuable feature is the phone app that allows us to send notifications without the additional fees when sending by SMS or phone calls."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"It has scaled well for us."
"The solution is a highly mature product. Because of this, it can stand up to any other product on the market."
 

Cons

"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."
"This solution works best in conjunction with a proper logging system, which can be an additional cost to organizations."
"The user interface could be more intuitive."
"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."
"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."
"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave (or something), you can't just go in and reassign/take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in. You have to go into each of the rosters and take them out. There might be a roster for business hours, after hours rotation, and monitoring deployments. Each time we need to take an engineer out of the pool, e.g., if they're sick or on leave, then we have to go and touch all of those rosters, updating and replacing them. Whereas, if we could just take the person out and have it automatically fill in the rostering, then that would make life a lot easier for managing it."
"I am not a direct end user of PagerDuty. It's hard to consider its shortcomings in that sense."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"The solution needs to improve its reporting features. The user interface needs a lot of improvements."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."
"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."
"Licensing costs are around $700 a month, and the only additional costs, are phone costs in some instances."
"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."
"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."
"The cost is based on the package you select."
"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."
"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
21%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Retailer
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about PagerDuty?
The product easily integrates with other solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?
The price is very high. I rate the pricing a six out of ten. The license for stakeholders is very limited.
What needs improvement with PagerDuty?
It’s quite hard to reach the support team.
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Serviceaide ISM (Intelligent Service Management), Nimsoft Service Desk, CA Cloud Service Management , ChangeGear
 

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40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast
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