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BigPanda vs IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus comparison

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Categories and Ranking

BigPanda
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (21st), IT Alerting and Incident Management (9th), AIOps (10th)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

BigPanda and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. BigPanda is designed for IT Infrastructure Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 0.7%, down 0.8% compared to last year.
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, on the other hand, focuses on Event Monitoring, holds 7.5% mindshare, down 9.5% since last year.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BigPanda0.7%
Zabbix4.7%
SolarWinds NPM3.6%
Other91.0%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus7.5%
SCOM9.4%
BMC TrueSight8.6%
Other74.5%
Event Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Michael Wenn - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO / Co-Founder at Aiops ltd
Automated incident workflows have reduced alert noise and now improve response efficiency
In my opinion, the best feature of BigPanda is its speed in terms of deployment. It has very strong integration with all of the major platforms and workflows that organizations need. The biggest customers are enterprises like HSBC and Barclays. Implementing something effective for them that dramatically reduces meantime to repair and the number of incidents is substantially difficult, as projects can often extend three years with very small results. BigPanda is different; it is a tool relied on by many enterprises, fitting over existing toolsets rather than trying to replace them, which makes it non-competitive to many existing alerts and monitoring tools. It enhances existing systems to provide actionable intelligence for business solutions.
Ahmed Salman - PeerSpot reviewer
Performance & Monitoring Supervisor at Saudi Telecom Company
Aids in network performance monitoring and management
I am working as a customer, mainly using IntelliQ and another product, IBM NetCool, Watson AI. These products are used for monitoring network performance and management.  The primary use case involves network performance monitoring, and it is compatible only with IBM DB2 IBM Tivoli NetCool…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Overall, I rate BigPanda as a nine out of ten."
"BigPanda is great in that it notifies us of problems as well as where they were triggered."
"I rate BigPanda nine out of ten."
"BigPanda integrates well with other solutions, such as WatchGuard,"
"The features of BigPanda that have most improved my incident response times include AIOps, correlation pieces, and grouping, which is a big win for us."
"The solution is user-friendly and has good performance and certification."
"One of the most valuable features of BigPanda is its user-friendly interface."
"The program is very stable."
"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Offers very good event/alert drill-down and statistical reporting capabilities."
"It is customer-centric; customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event, with no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment."
"It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs."
"Difficult to implement ( more resource and timing) but flexibility in implementation."
"OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues."
"This is an amazing product and you will fall in love with it."
"IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus supports legacy protocols like CORBA, Huawei, and other telecom protocols, which I find beneficial."
 

Cons

"BigPanda could improve by syncing its threshold settings with Dynatrace to align with users' familiarity."
"The observability can be enriched with regards to infrastructure and the application-integrated environment. The dashboard and reports could be improved."
"BigPanda can improve the correlations. We didn't see any big value."
"In terms of product stability, I can rate it around nine. It is quite good, though I would not rate it a full ten because every time there is a new feature, I have to go through documents or contact support."
"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."
"Analytics is an area for improvement, being able to break down the actions that are being taken by users of BigPanda, as well as the auto-magical work that is being done by BigPanda."
"I am not sure if we can pull reports of bulk incidents in different formats like PDF, Excel, or CSV. This feature would allow us to extract monthly incident reports similar to ServiceNow."
"BigPanda attempts a little of everything and fails at most."
"Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
"The solution needs to invest in the development of a knowledge base and use of AI services for providing event resolution and intervention directions."
"Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, IBM can improve IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in automation with respect to using AI, as it lacks considerably compared to other tools."
"Areas that could be better include the fact that the solution is only on-premises, lacks AI capabilities, and support response times could be quicker."
"The solution has limitations in database integration as it cannot integrate with databases other than IBM DB2."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies."
"A lot can be improved in this product considering the performance."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We pay $200,000 USD per year."
"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."
"BigPanda is cheaper than the competitors."
"Its license cost is a little bit more than other solutions. Our customers expect a standard market price that is comparative to other products. For each and every NetCool OMNIbus component, we have to purchase a separate license. These components are not free with the product."
"It is a costly solution."
"You have to have the right level of budget to afford this solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
22%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Healthcare Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
11%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Large Enterprise13
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
 

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 is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BigPanda?
Regarding extra expenses, I pay more for communication and do not incur costs for another dashboard perspective, but there are indirect costs related to managing open-source products, leading to re...
What needs improvement with BigPanda?
Something that comes to mind regarding improvements is communication, as I rely heavily on another tool. If BigPanda could provide communication capabilities beyond just sending notifications—such ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
I would rate the pricing for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus as three, where one is a high price and ten is a low price.
What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, IBM can improve IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in automation with respect to using AI, as it lacks considerably compared to other tools. The integrat...
What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
My current use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is for monitoring the networks.
 

Also Known As

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Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
 

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Sample Customers

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