Avantra vs Opsview comparison

Avantra is a highly-regarded next-generation AI operations platform for SAP automation operation processes. Avantra enables enterprise organizations to become self-healing organizations, fully able to process their complex operating systems more efficiently and productively. With Avantra, SAP clients will improve performance and compliance, redirect critical resources to enhance digital transformation, and reduce operational costs, thereby improving the overall business experience.

Avantra offers robust integrated operations for on-premises, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS options for both Build and Run operations. Avantra is a recognized, trusted solution that is used worldwide for both enterprise organizations and managed service providers (MSPs). Users can expect to consistently benefit from Avantra’s valuable intuitive processes and unrivaled intelligence to ensure their organization is able to maintain its landscape health while significantly reducing overall operational costs.

Avantra Benefits

• Start/stop automation: Avantra provides unmatched comprehensive visibility of the organization's SAP processes, enabling robust KPI and performance-based cloud scaling. Avantra issues swift automated direction about when to start/stop a SAP system process and when it's best to scale out or in.
  
  
• Monitoring automation: Benefiting from more than 160 plug-and-play SAP process checks results in no additional lengthy projects or consultancy fees. Avantra is cost-effective immediately. Avantra provides intuitively customized research and auto-deploy proficiencies that allow organizations to meet their most demanding and distinctive monitoring demands. Immediately upon deployment, Avantra automatically identifies the specific SAP system components, version, and type.
  
  
• Best practice automation: Avantra consistently uses the latest industry-recognized best practice monitoring processes for Basis monitoring audits and thresholds throughout the entire full stack and all SAP systems.
  
  
• System hardening: Avantra’s intuitive notification and system hardening process allows users to specify who receives unauthorized system notifications immediately. Should the alert not be addressed in a timely manner, Avantra will re-flag the issue.
  
  
• Fast, easy installation: Avantra can be installed and deployed in one day. The setup is straightforward, and there are no long-term commitments or excessive licensing costs. This makes Avantra very cost-effective and allows organizations to experience an almost immediate ROI.

Avantra Features

• Intuitive dashboards: Avantra offers fully customizable dashboards available to all stakeholders throughout the organization. Top-level executives receive full transparency regarding the entire fitness and health of the organization. Other users, IT staff, and team members have access to all the data they need to ensure the organization is running efficiently and productively.
  
  
• Cloud integrations: Avantra provides seamless integrations with Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and more, all with a very easy setup process. Avantra also has the ability to automate, monitor, and manage a complete range of SAP SaaS solutions, as well as third-party non-SAP SaaS web services and applications.
  
  
• SAP ecosystem: Avantra simplifies the SAP monitoring process by monitoring, managing, and automating every process of an organization's SAP ecosystem, including SAP and non–SAP applications, third-party applications, web servers, databases, and SaaS solutions. Everything is streamlined into one easy-to-use tool.
  
  
• ServiceNow integration: Avantra provides certified immediate integration with ServiceNow. This allows for enhancement of CMDB with SAP-specific data, and the capability of quickly triggering Avantra automations for immediate resolution of issues. Avantra also provides ServiceNow unique ITSM and ITOM integrations and many seamless integrations with today’s popular ITSM solutions via RESTful APIs.

Opsview is a modern and scalable SaaS or on-premise monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.

You can use Opsview to monitor:

 Operating systems

 Networks

 Cloud

 VMs

 Containers

 Databases

 Applications

Opsview Features

Opsview comes with an array of features, including:

 AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your

changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.

 Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all your end-to-end

business services in real time and in one place.

 Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.

 Network analyzer: Opsview provides you with a complete picture of your company's

network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.

 Customizable dashboards: Opsview dashboards give you a view of all your monitoring

metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.

 Customizable reports: With Opsview, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.

 Disaster recovery: Opsview gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster

recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.

 Event handlers: Opsview event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.

 Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all the important events in your Opsview system.

 High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.

 Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.

 Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting.

 SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.

Opsview Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Opsview. Some of the biggest advantages the

solution offers include:

 Extensible: Opsview can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.

 Scalable: Opsview is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.

 Functional overview: Opsview monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.

 Flexible: Opsview has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.

 Integration: Easily integrate Opsview Cloud with your current operational tools, including help desks, service management, automation and notification tools

 Automation: Automate the configuration and operation of your IT monitoring system using Opsview’s intrinsic automation capabilities. Allowing you to spend more time on projects that drive your business.

Opsview Cloud

Opsview Cloud gives your business 24/7 Saas Monitoring for your entire IT estate. Benefits include:

 Reducing your infrastructure costs

 Realigning your resources to focus on business value IT projects

 Ensuring you have 24/7 monitoring

 Utilizing Opsview experts to provide monitoring best practices/tips and tricks