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ServiceNow IT Operations Management vs eG Enterprise comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

eG Enterprise
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
50th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (58th), Network Monitoring Software (72nd)
ServiceNow IT Operations Ma...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
11th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
45
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (1st), Cloud Management (11th), AIOps (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of eG Enterprise is 1.2%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is 1.4%, down from 2.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow IT Operations Management1.4%
eG Enterprise1.2%
Other97.4%
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

Jose Ramon Crespo - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Director at Towers IT
Utilize artificial intelligence for faster issue response and seamless ITSM integration
The data gathering capabilities and the automation, which utilizes artificial intelligence, are the most valuable features. These capabilities help us gather more information and analyze it faster, leading to better responses to issues. The tool is also excellent at integrating with ITSM services, providing a seamless alerting system for our customers.
reviewer2755671 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Significant enhancement in operations with powerful discovery and analytics, yet pricing structure poses challenges
ServiceNow IT Operations Management provides out-of-the-box dashboards. Along with the dashboard, it also provides the Operations Workspace, which is very useful for operations teams. There is a functionality called Performance Analytics, which we are also using to develop some dashboards for the senior leadership and operations team where they can perform trend analysis of alerts and events happening across the infrastructure and application landscape. These dashboards are really useful here. ServiceNow IT Operations Management's biggest plus point is that it is a platform. ITOM is just one module that ServiceNow IT Operations Management offers, but they provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"We, for example, cut the costs by using the tool, and we also reduced the number of calls, which was one of the main value-adds for our operations department, as we were able to cut service requests by 75%."
"The GUI is nicer than all the other graphical interfaces out there."
"Customer service and support are superb."
"We were able to stabilize our backend and middle systems."
"Its ability to monitor failures and to restart a Windows service when it fails."
"It gives good insight into inside of what's going on with Exchange."
"Absolutely choose it. It is a great company. They are always available."
"Customer service is fantastic!! They are very responsive and always follow up to ensure a solution has been provided."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a stable product."
"The way this solution has helped us is that it improved our communication."
"I like the tool's CMBD connection with Discovery. The solution is also flexible."
"Customer service is excellent."
"The Discovery feature is the most valuable. I only use the Discovery and Service Mapping features. I am using the minor subscription called ITOM Visibility, which includes the Discovery and Service Mapping features. It is easy to understand and easy to use. It has a lot of documentation. You can find a lot of help online, which helps me in finding what I need in a rapid way. You can find videos on YouTube channels and a lot of stuff and information in the online community."
"The scalability of ServiceNow is good."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management's biggest plus point is that it is a platform, and they provide seamless integration of ITOM with their other modules such as ITSM, where we can leverage the AIs for discovery, perform impact analysis, which essentially helps to enhance the overall IT operations and reduce the downtime and MTTR."
"The most important features of ServiceNow IT Operations Management are the discovery service mapping and orchestration."
 

Cons

"I would not buy this product again knowing what I know now. It takes too much time and it is still not where it used to be."
"I would like to see improvements in the alarm display console."
"Needs to improve the networking monitor capabilities."
"I can understand why they designed the user interface (UI) the way they did, but sometimes in the management of the eG Manager, it can be a bit clunky."
"Application TCP latency is an area with room for improvement, but I believe this is already on the roadmap."
"Application TCP latency is an area with room for improvement, but I believe this is already on the roadmap."
"One thing that I don't like about eG is like the interface. It's not really that user-friendly to make a change, or to navigate through."
"The solution needs to enhance the management dashboards."
"We are facing difficulties with service mapping of CIs from the end users, and are seeking help from third-party vendors."
"There is room for improvement in service mapping within ServiceNow ITOM. When we have more time, we'll look to extend that and apply it to business-critical services like email."
"There is room for improvement in service mapping within ServiceNow ITOM."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management could be improved by providing more user customization options."
"I would like more manual issues to have automated report-facing options."
"The solution's subscription model could be improved."
"Lacks the ability to do its own monitoring."
"The vendor support rates between five to six because it takes a lot of time to get issues resolved, whether minor or major. For minor issues, the team takes a month's time to provide a fix."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"If using eG for virtual desktops, carefully calculate whether per named user, per concurrent user, or per server"
"The product is very cheap."
"eG Enterprise is much cheaper than the other products it competes with."
"The cost for eG Enterprise is almost $100,000 for one hundred and fifty services. It's subscription-based and the payment is yearly."
"It is not expensive."
"We paid about 300,000 Saudi Riyal for the solution and it was quite affordable compared to the competition."
"They are aligned with other enterprise solutions."
"They gave us a good price, when they were found out we were looking at other products because their price was very high. We were looking at another solution, then we came back to them was because they brought the price down. We selected them for three years."
"We obtained discovery licenses at about seven dollars Australian per unit, which we found to be reasonable and competitive."
"The price of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is expensive."
"The solution offers yearly licenses and a subscription model for add-on features."
"There are additional costs, you have to pay more for everything."
"The pricing is high and may be excluding the small to medium-sized enterprise businesses."
"It is expensive. It is around 10 Euros per server per month."
"ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a costly solution. I'd rate the price at ten, on a scale from one to ten with one being the lowest and ten being the highest price. Some clients do have a problem with the price, but most find that the solution is worth the cost."
"It has different subscription models."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Retailer
10%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise10
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise27
 

Questions from the Community

Any advice about APM solutions?
Could you please share your requirements ? There are a lot tools can be added to the list. I spent almost 6 months to test and check many tools then I select eG enterprise.
Do you recommend eG Enterprise? Why or why not?
I feel that eG Enterprise is one of the top APM tools available on the market. Out of the solutions I have tried, it is the best for monitoring, diagnosis, analytics, and reporting of key IT servic...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for eG Enterprise?
The pricing is per user per year and varies depending on the components being monitored. It is within the range of other competitive solutions.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
It is definitely high-priced compared to other products available in the same domain in the market.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
We don't use the orchestration part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management here. The CMDB part of ServiceNow IT Operations Management is a little bit too complicated, and it is a bit slow at our co...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow IT Operations Management?
We are customers of ServiceNow IT Operations Management, using it for the ticketing systems and user management and change management. Change management and user management are the major use cases ...
 

Also Known As

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ServiceNow ITOM
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

20th Century Fox, Allscripts, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Aviva, AXA, Biogen, Cox Communications, Denver Health, eBay, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, Southern California Edison, Samsung, and many more.
servicenow, TransAlta, NATS, Symantec
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