We performed a comparison between BMC Helix Monitor and IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that BMC Helix Monitor is an agentless tool, because of which you don't need to deploy agents on each and every system in your IT environment."
"The service operations monitoring features are valuable."
"It is evolving more and more into artificial intelligence."
"It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."
"The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."
"The most valuable feature that comes with Netcool/Impact is the ISPF APA support. It is inherent to Netcool/Impact, so I can use the ISPF of any other product, which I can invoke and consume through Impact, and do integrations, which is great. I run the Netcool desktop application so I can integrate with other applications in the ticketing system. It's a great ability being able to invoke ISPF and integrate."
"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."
"The solution's GUI and some patching-related information are areas with shortcomings where enhancements are needed, though I believe they are areas that fall under BMC's roadmap for the future."
"The product must provide more information and dashboards."
"The initial setup of the solution is complex."
"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."
"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."
"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."
"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work. Although, I don't think that there's much improvement that Netcool really needs to achieve in this area, because when we're talking GUI, Impact is able to integrate with any third-party system and it comes with ISPF APA. It's more beneficial than Netcool/OMNIbus in this respect, and it's quite easy to handle."
BMC Helix Monitor is ranked 6th in Event Monitoring with 3 reviews while IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is ranked 9th in Event Monitoring with 4 reviews. BMC Helix Monitor is rated 9.6, while IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Helix Monitor writes "The product is a top-rated monitoring tool, but it needs to improve its pricing and ease of use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact writes "Supports APA through ISPF and lets us easily integrate with other apps for ticketing purposes". BMC Helix Monitor is most compared with BMC TrueSight Operations Management, OpsRamp, ServiceNow IT Operations Management and OpenText Operations Bridge, whereas IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is most compared with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and IDERA SQL Safe Backup. See our BMC Helix Monitor vs. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact report.
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