Everbridge IT Alerting vs IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus comparison

The compared Everbridge and IBM solutions aren't in the same category. Everbridge is ranked #8 in IMS , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 5.3% mindshare in the category. IBM is ranked #4 in EM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 7.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Everbridge users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Everbridge IT Alerting

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100% willing to recommend

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus

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80% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Alerting and Incident Management (8th)

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus

Average Rating

7.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (4th)

Mindshare comparison

Everbridge IT Alerting and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus 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 5.3%, down 8.4% compared to last year.
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, on the other hand, focuses on Event Monitoring, holds 7.0% mindshare, down 9.9% since last year.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Everbridge IT Alerting	5.3%
PagerDuty Operations Cloud	9.7%
Opsgenie	6.8%
Other	78.2%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus	7.0%
SCOM	9.9%
OpenText AI Operations Management	7.9%
Other	75.2%

Event Monitoring

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reviewer2405115

Head of Business Continuity & Resilience at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees

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.

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Ramnarayan Saminatharao

EMEA Senior Sales Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Customization and robust network monitoring enhance operational efficiency

The most useful functions for monitoring purposes with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are that it can be automated in many ways. Most importantly, it can communicate with many network components without requiring any medium connectors. You can directly integrate it if you have SNMP, which is great. The main benefits that IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus provides are that it's an umbrella tool that can be placed on top of any existing monitoring system. You can monitor the entire network from this tool. The underlying interfaces can be many, but you can keep it as a single tool in IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and it can manage the load on its own. It negates the need to train the user base with other tools. I can provide this single tool and have hundreds of different tools underlying, but I only need to train one single user base, which is a great advantage.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most important features are the scheduling capability and the integration with ServiceNow."

"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."

"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."

"Everbridge's tech support was really excellent; they were on the ball, they had answers to our questions, they made things happen that they probably hadn't done beforehand, and I found them really collaborative and very much a pleasure to work with."

"Even in the first few months, we realized some of those benefits around shortening the time to resolution."

"It's mainly for mass notification and pooling of contacts. Pooling of customers is valuable."

"We have been able to use it to track and verify that people are on the bridge."

"I think it's a robust solution with multiple modules that can be leveraged."

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"It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs."

"Offers very good event/alert drill-down and statistical reporting capabilities."

"The most valuable feature is the event management capability."

"OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues."

"Very stable tool and good for all types of event integration and automation."

"It is customer-centric; customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event, with no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment."

"The most useful functions for monitoring purposes with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are that it can be automated in many ways, and most importantly, it can communicate with many network components without requiring any medium connectors."

"This is an amazing product and you will fall in love with it."

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Cons

"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."

"Their integration capabilities are still progressing, but not quite where we'd like to see them yet. They're moving there with that orchestration capability where they're seeing the potential of an API-first mentality. So instead of trying to build custom connections into everything, you open up APIs to allow other systems to talk to IT Alerting and allow IT Alerting to talk to other systems. There is room for improvement, but they get it."

"I've worked closely with Everbridge teams in my previous positions too, and the one thing I would like to see is the distance. You have to measure it, and it's not really accurate. If we could have a general distance within the alert itself to tell us where the closest asset is, it would be useful. That's one thing I'd like to see."

"We did have one problem within the first 30 to 60 days of going live where we had a day-and-a-half outage of the platform, and frankly, that's unacceptable."

"It is definitely scalable. It just gets expensive."

"A key area for improvement - and I think they are working towards these things - is analytics. If I want to do sophisticated reporting and analysis of the data that's being captured in IT Alerting, at the moment, the reporting interface is immature."

"There is some room to improve the initial-rollout functions which are a little bit painful."

"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."

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"A lot can be improved in this product considering the performance."

"Its technical support team takes longer to reply."

"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."

"Areas that could be better include the fact that the solution is only on-premises, lacks AI capabilities, and support response times could be quicker."

"Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI."

"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."

"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies."

"Its integration could be better. They should provide an easier integration for all the monitoring stuff, and it will make things easier for us. Currently, there is a complexity in integrating it with a vendor application, and we have to use another tool to integrate it with a vendor application. To integrate some applications with NetCool, I need to install an IBM tool on top of it. It would be good if they can provide an API or any kind of interface that we can leverage while developing a new protocol interface or application. We should be able to use an API or interface with NetCool. Its GUI can also be better. As compared to other tools, it is not user friendly, and it is not easy to do stuff through GUI. Whenever we do anything on the GUI, it takes time. They need to focus on the GUI part, especially the dashboard. They should focus on how users can effectively drill down from one box to another. The visual appeal of the dashboard is as important as the data and functionality."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Their pricing is a good value and very reasonable. They are very upfront about their pricing. There is nothing confusing about it."

"For the one-way license, which refers to someone is just on the receiving end, it's very affordable. I was actually surprised that it was a really good price. The two-way license, like an on-call resource who is actually going to be in a calendar and be paged, it is a bit more expensive, but for the gains that we've realized, it's certainly worth the price."

"We thought the base product was pretty reasonable. It can pricey once you start adding stuff on."

"Their call structure is based on how many people are IT alert people and who is on the calendar, and the cost will be driven by those numbers versus if you are using it for the non-IT alert. As you look at the competition and other vendors, make sure you truly understand your cost structure with them."

"Everbridge is not an inexpensive tool, but as the adage says, you get what you pay for."

"For us, the pricing is a good value. I can't say whether or not their list pricing looks favorable to everyone who's checking, but I can say that the process of sourcing and procurement with them was very professional, comfortable, and friendly. The negotiations were done well on both sides, and in the end, I'd say the price was very effective... I think that people will find that Everbridge is a great listener and is willing to meet in the middle."

"I do not know about the licensing costs, but I know they're in groups, and there are permission caps. For example, you can have five admin accounts, and anyone can receive a notification. There's a mobile component too, which I find particularly useful, but it has to be a part of the contract."

"Pricing is reasonable."

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"It is a costly solution."

"You have to have the right level of budget to afford this solution."

"Its license cost is a little bit more than other solutions. Our customers expect a standard market price that is comparative to other products. For each and every NetCool OMNIbus component, we have to purchase a separate license. These components are not free with the product."

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Computer Software Company

13%

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	7

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Overview

Everbridge IT Alerting integrates ticketing systems and ServiceNow, offering real-time alerts and automated escalations. It streamlines incident management and boosts efficiency with features like geofencing, API connectivity, and a mobile app for rapid notifications.

Everbridge IT Alerting is designed for efficient incident management by integrating with major ticketing systems like ServiceNow. It offers real-time alerting, customizable templates, and automated escalations, which reduce response time and manual effort. Geofencing and API access provide flexibility, while the scheduling calendar supports dynamic shifts and on-call management. The system's deduplication and engagement tools enhance coordination among users. Additionally, the mobile app ensures fast notification delivery, though there's room for improvement in interface intuitiveness, analytics capabilities, and GPS tracking. Users can benefit from smoother schedule management and more flexible integrations, which enhance operational efficiency.

What are the key features of Everbridge IT Alerting?

Integration with Ticketing Systems: Facilitates efficient incident tracking and resolution by connecting with platforms like ServiceNow.
Real-time Alerting and Automated Escalations: Ensures swift and automated incident response processes.
Customizable Templates: Allows tailoring communication to specific incident needs.
Geofencing and API Connectivity: Provides flexibility and adaptability across different scenarios and systems.
Scheduling Calendar: Simplifies on-call management with dynamic shift capabilities.
Mobile App Features: Enables rapid notification delivery for immediate incident awareness.

What benefits and ROI should users consider in reviews?

Reduced Incident Response Time: Quick alerts and escalations minimize downtime and disruptions.
Increased Efficiency: Automation and integration reduce manual workload and streamline processes.
Enhanced Coordination: Features like deduplication and engagement tools improve collaboration.
Flexibility and Scalability: API connectivity and customizable options support diverse requirements.
Improved Resource Allocation: Efficient scheduling and real-time alerts optimize team efforts.

In IT, Everbridge IT Alerting optimizes on-call management and email integration for critical alerts, benefiting global security operations centers by enhancing threat tracking and emergency responses. IT teams use it for managing support tickets, incident escalations, and proactive outage notifications, with on-call schedules guided by its calendar features.

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IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus provides a comprehensive platform for network performance monitoring and event management. It supports fault management, integrates with routers and switches, and enhances predictive analytics through AI applications.

Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus stands out in configurability, scalability, and multi-tenancy with a user-friendly interface that streamlines event management and automation. Integrating seamlessly with SNMP, it handles legacy protocols and promotes accurate processing. Users engage with intuitive tools for monitoring diverse network services, alarm prioritization, correlation of events, and efficient probes. However, improvements are needed in licensing, integration with non-IBM databases, and modernizing the dashboard. High costs, difficulty in scaling, real-time incident coordination challenges, and limited AI integration are noted by users. Enhanced event correlation, automated incident management, and pricing improvements are desired.

What are the key features?

Configurability and Scalability: Flexible to adapt to complex network requirements and handle growth efficiently.
Multi-tenancy: Supports multiple clients or departments on a single platform, enhancing resource utilization.
User-friendly Interface: Simplifies network monitoring and management tasks with an intuitive design.
Event Management and Automation: Efficient event correlation, alarm prioritization, and deduplication streamline operations.
Protocol Support: Seamlessly works with SNMP and legacy protocols for process accuracy.

What ROI and benefits are users looking for?

Network Performance Monitoring: Enhances the visibility and reliability of IT infrastructure.
Predictive Analytics: Supports AI-driven insights for proactive issue management and resource allocation.
Integration Capabilities: Easily connects with third-party systems, including tools like BMC Remedy.
Cost Efficiency: Balances operational costs with network performance improvement.

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is widely used across banking and InsurTech industries for monitoring networks and infrastructure. Companies employ it for alarm deduplication, root cause analysis, and integrating with applications for enhanced fault management. The platform supports predictive analytics and connects seamlessly with ticketing systems, enhancing network reliability and performance.

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Sample Customers

Choice Hotels, Alexion, Navy Federal Credit Union, EastWest Bank, IBM, Core Logic, Paypal, Charter Communications, Lowes, Express Scripts, Finastra, Worldpay

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