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"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable.""Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."

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"You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components.""It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's.""The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything.""The broad integration possibilities, I'd say, with any kind of product, are probably the most valuable feature.""Flexible dashboard with the availability of widgets.""OpsBridge has good event correlation facilities and root-cause identification algorithms.""We haven't faced any stability issues. There hasn't been any crashes or glitches.""It has greatly reduced the number and duration of outages as support teams are notified immediately when something goes wrong or even before something breaks."

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"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards.""Security features can be improved.""Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."

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"The pricing could be improved.""The setup process can get a little bit complex.""pology-based event correlation does not work well with NNM events.""The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies.""It is a very complicated product. It's difficult to manage. Nowadays, products are very easy to manage, deploy, and integrate, but Operations Bridge is very complicated to manage.""The initial setup is a little bit complex.""I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers.""I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."

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  • "Once you purchase your licenses, there is maintenance support that is renewed every year."
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  • "Setup costs can be high depending on the partner, but it is worth it."
  • "It is competitive."
  • "Pricing is very flexible and depends on the modules selected as per the requirement."
  • "The licensing cost for this solution is approximately $1,000 USD."
  • "The cost is very high."
  • "As OpsBridge is a suite of products bundled together, you may find yourself paying for software functionality that you don't actually use, e.g. Real User Monitor (RUM)."
  • "The licensing model for Micro Focus Operations Bridge is unit-based so it can be one device or ten devices depending on your situation or model. Cost-wise, it's much more if you have more devices and features such as infrastructure monitoring, analytic dashboard, and business dashboard in your model."
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    Also Known As
    CA Harvest SCM, CA Software Change Manager
    Micro Focus Operations Bridge, Operations Bridge Manager, Micro Focus Operations Analytics
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    Overview
    CA Harvest Software Change Manager (CA Harvest SCM) provides powerful, process-driven capabilities for managing development teams across your enterprise, encompassing multiple platforms and release management tools. This release management software enforces your IT governance policies and corporate compliance initiatives including those defined by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It also can ensure adherence to your ITIL-based best practices. CA Harvest SCM can help your enterprise simplify the software release management process as well as the development and maintenance of business applications with streamlined workflows and automated source code versioning. This ITIL release management software can optimize your development resources by providing audit, protection and storage of your software assets, and standardized process management and defect tracking.
    OpenText Operations Bridge – SaaS is enterprise event and performance management software. With automated discovery, monitoring, and remediation, it fast-tracks your move to full-stack AIOps across multicloud and on- premises environments.
    Sample Customers
    State of New Hampshire, Blue Hill
    GE Money Bank, Bank AlJazira, Tech Mahindra
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company20%
    Manufacturing Company16%
    Financial Services Firm14%
    Insurance Company14%
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    Financial Services Firm40%
    Comms Service Provider20%
    Computer Software Company20%
    Government7%
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    Manufacturing Company20%
    Financial Services Firm19%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government9%
    Company Size
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    Small Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise79%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
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    CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with Endevor, whereas OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with SCOM, OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server.

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