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BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

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Categories and Ranking

BMC TrueSight Operations Ma...
Ranking in Event Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
50
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (26th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (30th), Cloud Monitoring Software (23rd), AIOps (13th)
IBM Tivoli Business Service...
Ranking in Event Monitoring
15th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is 8.8%, down from 14.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Ayobanji Iluyomade - PeerSpot reviewer
The solution is stable and can be used for monitoring and managing events, but it does not provide application or service monitoring features
We are moving from basic monitoring to AIOps, where we can do things like self-healing. We also want to create dashboards for IT and business users to show the status of their services. We have done a couple of demos. I recommend the solution to others. Overall, I rate the product a seven out of ten.
reviewer847356 - PeerSpot reviewer
Good technical support, and efficient for working with business data
We use this solution for working with data. The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency. This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate. We have been using this solution for fourteen years. The stability of this…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Its event management capabilities are very open and flexible. I haven't seen a use case scenario with a customer that we couldn't actually solve the problem for, so it's really good. There are some interesting things that happen in an enterprise network (things that people don't normally expect), and the event management product is very flexible. You can solve problems as far as your imagination can go with it."
"Helix Innovation Studio is a very good feature. It allows us to develop our own enterprise applications and make them available for the customers."
"The solution has a very good business event manager tool."
"The noise reduction for ticketing works much better than we have seen in a lot of other companies."
"The initial setup of BMC TrueSight Operations Management was easy."
"It provides common administration, and a Single Sign-On Platform with RBAC, which eases the cross launch between multiple tools"
"The most valuable features of the solution are alert management, alert generation, and event management."
"The Event Management is outstanding; still is the most interesting part of the product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
 

Cons

"The solution's support service could be better."
"I definitely would like to see more improvement in the self-diagnostics. I need to know when anything is not working or collecting, long before our customer finds it."
"I think the ease of deployment needs to be looked at. It would be great if the deployment was faster and easier."
"The product must provide more AI capabilities."
"The UI for the end users could be improved and more flexible than it is now."
"In our company, we faced some issues with the solution’s application endpoint, IP, and the physical location of the transactions."
"Reporting would be an area for improvement in TrueSight... We have almost 800 customers today on TrueSight and just under 10,000 assets. We need to be able to give a customer some information. If the customer's product fails, they'll ask us, "Did it have a problem beforehand?" We have all those events and we know all the problems it had beforehand. We have to be able to give them access to that kind of reporting. That's an enhancement that we need."
"BMC TrueSight Operations Management could use some enhancements in the application visibility tools."
"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We did a five-year, multimillion dollar deal."
"There is a big upfront cost when you buy the license, then there is annual maintenance. We look at, if I bought a license and paid for maintenance for five years, then average it out, what would be my monthly cost. We have had some of the competing tools come in around four dollars. This is coming in as a premium, which is why I don't have it deployed as I would like it. Therefore, we're in negotiations right now. If I can get it down to the four dollar range, I will triple my deployment in a year and a half."
"The solution is based on endpoints and knowledge models which can be costly."
"Pricing is all volume-driven. I think we were paying between $80 and $85 per license. That's per unit, for a perpetual license. You pay it one time and then, every year, you pay 20 percent of that for annual maintenance and support. But now that we've grown, we've purchased tens of thousands of licenses and the cost per license has gone down to something like less than $30..."
"The cost depends on the usage."
"The price of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is very high. If there was more flexibility with the sizing of the licensing it would be helpful, especially during the pandemic. We have wanted to expend but the licensing cost is too high."
"The tool is moderately expensive."
"The solutions are not the cheapest but are robust and stable. License model is rather complex and BMC do often change the model."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
13%
Retailer
6%
Government
5%
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
The solution provides visibility to our infrastructure, how it is, the resources we are monitoring, and quick updates when it has any problems. We have integrated it with ServiceNow to open instances.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Though I have no clue about the tool's actual price, I know that it is astronomical.
What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Operations Management?
Cost is an issue with BMC TrueSight Operations Management. Though I am not responsible for the budget, I know that it is an expensive tool set when used only for event management. The tool's issue ...
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Also Known As

ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
Tivoli Business Service Manager, BSM
 

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Sample Customers

Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
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