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Updated on Jun 28, 2023

We performed a comparison between BMC TrueSight Operations Management and ITRS Geneos based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.

  • Ease of Deployment: BMC has clear instructions and a straightforward process, but the environment's complexity can impact the setup time. On the other hand, ITRS Geneos requires onsite support for weeks, and building the monitoring catalog takes a significant amount of time. The number of people necessary for deployment depends on the organization's size.
  • Features: BMC TrueSight Operations Management is strong in proactive and granular monitoring, and event management. Meanwhile, ITRS Geneos offers a highly customizable and flexible dashboard, along with real-time monitoring capabilities.
  • Pricing: BMC TrueSight Operations Management has a high price point but is transparent and based on the number of devices, while ITRS Geneos has a market-related pricing model with some extra costs for add-ons. However, ITRS Geneos may be too expensive for non-banking and non-finance industries.
  • Service and Support: BMC TrueSight Operations Management's customer service is a mixed bag, with varying opinions on its quality and knowledge. In contrast, ITRS Geneos is praised for its exceptional technical support, although there is room for improvement in communication and input templates.
  • ROI: While BMC TrueSight Operations Management's ROI is unclear, ITRS Geneos provides several advantages. These include proactive alert management, a decrease in high-severity incidents, and the avoidance of in-house development.

Comparison Results: BMC TrueSight Operations Management is chosen over ITRS Geneos based on its robust event management tool, precise monitoring and metrics data, and Helix Innovation Studio for app development. ITRS Geneos is customizable with real-time monitoring, but needs improvement in dashboard creation, deployment automation, and cloud monitoring. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is affordable with a clear licensing model for companies of all sizes, while ITRS Geneos may be too costly for non-finance industries.

To learn more, read our detailed BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. ITRS Geneos Report (Updated: November 2023).
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"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Operations Management is the dashboard presentation server.""Helix Innovation Studio is a very good feature. It allows us to develop our own enterprise applications and make them available for the customers.""What I like best about BMC TrueSight Operations Management is that it allows you to do granular monitoring and improves VM load.""I like everything about this tool. I recommend this solution to anyone looking for a standalone solution with high availability meaning that can be used depending on the customers requirements.""Intelligent solution with a proactive monitoring feature and consolidated dashboard that's stable and easy to scale.""The event management tool builds correlation logic and protection algorithms into a field of events that is valuable when a data center goes down.""It works irrespective of the operating system we’re running.""The most valuable features of BMC TrueSight Operations Management are the blackouts and event management."

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"The ability to completely tailor and customize what it's monitoring is one of its strongest points. A lot of other monitoring tools are good at certain things, but one of my colleagues described it as the “Swiss Army Knife” of monitoring tools. It can do anything you want.""I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option.""One of the best aspects of Geneos is that it has a broad scope and can cover a lot of use cases. You can write your own scripts to monitor really specific things. And the rules that you can put in place can be quite complex for the alerts.""The remarkable feature of Geneos is the dashboard. Geneos' flexible dashboard sets it apart from other monitoring tools. Other solutions have limitations in their dashboard design and can't be customized as much. The Geneos dashboard allows unlimited creativity.""The solution's log monitoring and alerting mechanisms are very user-friendly and easy to plug and play.""One of the most valuable features of ITRS Geneos is the active time feature that helps with the trading applications that I support.""The flexibility of the product is most valuable. It is highly customizable. If you put your mind to it and think of something you could do, there's a good possibility you can get it integrated within the console, if it's not readily available. The simplicity or ease of customization has been valuable.""The great advantage of this tool is real-time monitoring."

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Cons
"Application performance management (APM) is an area with certain shortcomings in the solution that needs improvement. I""The pricing could be better.""The graphs are extremely limited. We don't have a lot of dashboard options. To make reports and dashboards more useful, we usually need to integrate some dashboard solutions.""In our company, we faced some issues with the solution’s application endpoint, IP, and the physical location of the transactions.""BMC TrueSight Operations Management could improve the reporting.""The UI for the end users could be improved and more flexible than it is now.""The solution could improve its price.""This solution is lacking in application monitoring features. Technical support for this solution also needs improvement, particularly in product knowledge and response time."

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"For the solution to stay relevant in the cloud-based monitoring environment Geneos needs more plug-ins with more features. Instead of offering clients workarounds, the solution should have a cloud-based out-of-the-box version.""ITRS have started to make some major changes that we haven't taken on board yet, in the creation of dashboards and more visibility of the metrics that we collect. At the moment, that's something that's lacking, but I know they have addressed it. Still, it’s not that easy to create stuff to help with visibility and dashboarding in Geneos.""Their cloud monitoring solution needs to be improved. I have already given them the feedback that it's not capable of meeting the latest technology needs.""There is one drawback to using lightweight data collection: we lack the feature of observability based on time series, such as historical model data. This makes it difficult to view data in ITRS. ITRS needs to improve this feature.""I would like ITRS Geneos to develop an app, where instead of going to specific login terminals or logging into laptops or desktops to check alerts, we can have visibility in the app itself.""Geneos' application monitoring could be improved a lot. Products like AppDynamics and Dynatrace provide the process thread-level monitoring, but Geneos lacks these capabilities.""ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud.""ITRS Geneos cloud monitoring is very weak and can use improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "BMC TrueSight Operations Management is not on the cheaper side, but its pricing is on a case by case basis. Its licensing model is simple and based on the number of devices."
  • "Annual licensing amount depends on the customers requirements. Support is an additional fee and there are options for three and five year support."
  • "They have changed the licensing fees."
  • "The solution is based on endpoints and knowledge models which can be costly."
  • "It is a relatively inexpensive solution."
  • "Other products are more expensive than BMC TrueSight."
  • "The tool is moderately expensive."
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  • "Given our spend and the amount of service we have in it, the pricing is quite reasonable."
  • "The pricing seems reasonable. We're happy enough with it."
  • "The pricing is fairly market-related. They have been very lenient because we have been working with them for so long. An example is that we're currently migrating some of our services to AWS, and they've given us a grace period for some of the things to help with the migration and not to grow additional costs while we are migrating, but it's still on par with the market."
  • "The market tools are on par with this solution, but if the solution included more features, then it would be well within the range for the cost."
  • "Based on feedback from colleagues and friends working in the financial sector, Geneos is relatively costly. Many companies have been switching from Geneos to Dynatrace, Sysdig, or other monitoring tools in the past two years because of the price."
  • "ITRS Geneos is not a cheap tool. It's a moderate price for the banking industry. The reason we are not able to add the ITRS monitoring tool for the non-banking industries, and non-finance industries, is that the pricing is too high."
  • "The organization is not just purchasing a license for the product, but also managing services and professional services from ITRS. Another factor is if the implementation is going to be in production, non-production, or both."
  • "Its price is reasonable. It isn't too expensive, and it isn't too cheap, but it also depends on a company's volume and negotiation."
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    Top Answer:It works irrespective of the operating system we’re running.
    Top Answer:I couldn’t use the tool for anything beyond IT-level management. The product must provide application or service monitoring features.
    Top Answer:I would say that it is an easy-to-use monitoring tool. Amongst the available monitoring tools, it is a really good option.
    Top Answer:I can say it's not that cheap because the licensing is a little bit costly. So, definitely, we had to pay a certain amount to use it.
    Top Answer:Speaking about room for improvement, ITRS Geneos is not on the cloud at a time when everyone is moving to the cloud. I definitely know that they have some monitoring extensions or plug-ins for the… more »
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    Also Known As
    ProactiveNet, TrueSight Operations Management
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    Overview

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management is a solution that delivers end-to-end performance monitoring and event management. It does so by using machine learning, analytics, and AIOps to identify, analyze, and resolve application and infrastructure problems quickly. BMC TrueSight Operations Management also offers automated remediation and ticketing.

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management Features

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • TrueSight Smart Reporting
    • Broad monitoring capabilities
    • Hundreds of integrations
    • Event grouping
    • Proactive alerts
    • Incident tickets
    • Cause analysis
    • Automated log analysis

    BMC TrueSight Operations Management Benefits

    Some of the benefits of using BMC TrueSight Operations Management include:

    • Detects performance issues: BMC TrueSight Operations Management helps you detect and address performance abnormalities before they impact your organization.
    • Beneficial for IT teams: Since BMC TrueSight Operations Management automatically learns the behavior of your infrastructure, it is able to alert you when specific behaviors require attention, helping IT departments focus on other pressing priorities.
    • Cost efficient: BMC TrueSight Operations Management will save your company money by eliminating the need to manage thousands of traditional, static thresholds for event generation.
    • Reduces manual tasks: BMC TrueSight Operations Management minimizes the need to manually define, configure, and maintain correlation rules and policies.
    • Fewer false alarms: With BMC TrueSight Operations Management, the number of false alarms and associated incidents decreases drastically.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by BMC TrueSight Operations Management users.

    Mudassir A., Sr. Technical Consultant at a tech services company, says, "The event management part of TrueSight Operations Management, in my experience, is probably the best in the market. You have endless flexibility. You can build your own rules, you have the MRL language, and you can implement any kind of logic on the alerts. It may be correlation, abstraction, or executing something as a result of the alerts. You have almost the whole range of options available for event management using the available customization."

    A General Manager - Sales at a tech services company explains, “There are many features that are most valuable in BMC TrueSight Operations Management. First, its proactive monitoring feature is highly developed. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is an intelligent tool that's able to understand day-to-day operations and consistently gives alerts. The alerts are not automatic for some activities, e.g. some alerts are given monthly, while some are given more frequently. The consolidated dashboard where you can enjoy a single pane of glass to look at the full infrastructure from the servers to the VMs, to the clouds, to the application, to the database, to the network devices, including having a topology, and having a tendency map of the topology of key offerings, is also a valuable feature of this solution.”

    An Information Systems Computer System Controller at an insurance company states, “The business event manager tool that consolidates detailed information from a single instance of equipment is the most valuable thing for me. It provides support for the business tools and the IT services which come from several systems.”


    ITRS Geneos is a real-time monitoring tool designed for managing increasingly complex, hybrid and interconnected IT estates.

    Built with financial services and trading organisations in mind, it collects a wide range of data relating to server performance, infrastructure, trading, connectivity and applications, and analyses it to provide relevant information and alerts in real time.

    Geneos can give full stack visibility across highly dynamic environments and presents all the information through a single pane of glass and its configurable and customisable dashboards provide end-to-end visibility to both technical and business users.

    For more information, please visit https://www.itrsgroup.com/products/geneos

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    Ensono, Transamerica, Boston Scientific, Park Place Technologies, inContact, TD Ameritrade, PNC Bank
    ITRS Geneos is used by over 170 financial institutions, including JPMorgan, HSBC, RBS, Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Clients range from investment banks to exchanges and brokers.
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    Buyer's Guide
    BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. ITRS Geneos
    November 2023
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    BMC TrueSight Operations Management is ranked 15th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 17 reviews while ITRS Geneos is ranked 9th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 10 reviews. BMC TrueSight Operations Management is rated 7.6, while ITRS Geneos is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC TrueSight Operations Management writes "It improves VM load and has good documentation with easy-to-follow steps on how to set it up, but it has room for improvement in terms of scalability and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ITRS Geneos writes "A stable solution, with real-time monitoring". BMC TrueSight Operations Management is most compared with BMC Helix Monitor, Dynatrace, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Zabbix and New Relic, whereas ITRS Geneos is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana and AppDynamics Database Monitoring. See our BMC TrueSight Operations Management vs. ITRS Geneos report.

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