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Everbridge IT Alerting vs OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
8.0
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (7th)
OPS/MVS Automation Intellig...
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
8.3
Number of Reviews
27
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (12th), Mainframe Management (7th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Everbridge IT Alerting and OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Everbridge IT Alerting is designed for IT Alerting and Incident Management and holds a mindshare of 8.7%, down 9.3% compared to last year.
OPS/MVS Automation Intelligence, on the other hand, focuses on Event Monitoring, holds 2.9% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
IT Alerting and Incident Management
Event Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2405115 - PeerSpot reviewer
Provides good detection and escalation features to reduce downtime
We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing specific situations. When we did the analysis, Everbridge IT Alerting was one of the main products in the markets adapted to our organization's expectations. Currently, we are using it for a different aspect. Overall, the solution gives a better understanding of the incident response aspect. It helps manage that kind of situation. The solution's detection and escalation features are crucial in reducing downtime. The solution's automation capabilities help quickly identify the right members and skills. Everbridge IT Alerting is deployed on the cloud in our organization. We tried to make the solution more independent. However, we tried one or two integrations, and they went well. You need to have the right skills to integrate the solution with other tools. I would recommend the solution to other users based on their industry and business requirements. Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
GP
It automates responses, preventing issues from becoming more severe
I just installed version 12.3, which actually already has a number of new features. It's going to make it easier for some of our new users. I'm old-school, I learned it the old way. I actually want to go back and implement it and start doing things the new way. As I need to train people, it's going to make it easier for them and make the learning curve much shorter. The new release addressed some shortcomings of the product. It was old-school. The learning curve was a little bit long in the beginning, but it's really come a long way.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Email Ingestion - Having the ability for ticket generation to auto-generate an incident through Everbridge has saved my team hundreds of man-hours it would have taken to manually create them."
"The rotation and replacement options save our managers a lot of time."
"A robust solution with multiple modules that can be leveraged."
"I manage the platform, and I don't really use it. The scheduling aspect of it is valuable where you create your groups and then either manually or via API call, you can initiate an alert. It'll look at the schedule and only contact those people who are on-call. So, it takes the guesswork out."
"It's a lot easier to create and manage schedules, especially in comparison to the on-call scheduling creation in ServiceNow. That has always been something of a bear to operate. We've found it's a lot simpler in Everbridge."
"It just runs. I do not think we have had a single outage; nothing. There has not been a single issue with it in the time that we have had it running. It just works."
"You can program in rotations, shifts, and scenarios of different kinds and it allows you to page multiple people, or people in sequence, or a group of people simultaneously."
"By leveraging Everbridge, with a few clicks of a mouse, we are able to go in and request as many teams as we require to respond to an incident and bring them together to collaborate much faster."
"It allows us to respond faster to issues. If there are issues that come out, we're able to capture a message and alert somebody about it."
"​The service has been wonderful. I like the people that I have had to deal with. The process is very straightforward. I call or use the website."
"Because we can define complex commands, the training of new operators is quicker. We can also put checks in place, that will prevent user errors."
"It's very secure, because it's a legacy application."
"I do not have to keep recordings. It is there and is proactive. It helps the operators, human editors, and me."
"It reduces the number of repetitive motions required by a human to respond to the system."
"It's a very stable product. I very much like the SSM stuff in it. The rules engine, it's awesome."
"The documentation is simple, easy to follow, and use. A limited, first-time systems programmer can do it, in that it is out-of-the-box almost functional."
 

Cons

"The incident templates can get complex and hard to troubleshoot, so it helps to focus on keeping it simple."
"The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced."
"Lacks ability to customize messages."
"The initial setup was very complex. We did not have a very good experience with our initial deployment. Most of this was due to customizations in our ServiceNow instance."
"I would like to have a little bit more flexibility in the member portal."
"The feature that xMatters has that Everbridge doesn't have, or has in a limited way, is a method of funneling some alerts, as an FYI, to other stakeholders who are not necessarily prime actors in an incident."
"I swapped two people's weeks, and at least from what I saw, I had to do each day individually. It would be nice if I could swap two people's weeks without having to do it each day."
"The ability for members to change their schedules, and change the person their swapping with, could use improvement. The GUI is a little tough to navigate. It's not very straightforward when someone is trying to change schedules."
"One thing that comes to mind is the MQ interface. The last time we tried to use it, it seemed a little clunky."
"Some of the command sequences are too long."
"The interfaces to USS, CA UIM could be better. CA Common Services interfaces - namely Zdata Mover, Zmessage Service, Zdatacolletcor - are poorly documented."
"It definitely needs more web-based interface, to be more mobile-open. More APIs, more open source to it."
"The GUI interface could be improved, but that is coming. They are working on that."
"The reason sometimes it is not stable, we do not have the expertise to write the script.​"
"Scalability is zero. It cannot be scaled because of its age."
"Performing a stop/restart of OPS/MVS could be a little smoother. Without special coding, some undesired tasks will be started and some necessary tasks will be stopped if we have to bounce OPS/MVS during the day."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This product has helped us save $200,000 from being able to get rid of vendors and consolidate functionalities to doing incident reporting."
"As far as I'm aware, there are no costs beyond the standard licensing fees."
"They are one of the cheapest solutions on the market. We looked at all of the major competitors in the space. Everbridge was one of the most affordable for what they are offering."
"Everbridge is not an inexpensive tool, but as the adage says, you get what you pay for."
"The pricing was under $25 a month per user. We had about 1,000 defined users."
"Their pricing is a good value and very reasonable. They are very upfront about their pricing. There is nothing confusing about it."
"Everbridge IT Alerting is a cost-efficient solution."
"The current pricing model is adequate. We feel that the pricing model for our IT Alerting solution is competitive with similar solutions on the market."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Logistics Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Educational Organization
11%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Everbridge IT Alerting?
The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced.
What advice do you have for others considering Everbridge IT Alerting?
We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing speci...
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Also Known As

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CA OPS MVS Event Management and Automation, CA OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation, Unicenter CA-OPS/MVS Event Management and Automation
 

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Sample Customers

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