"The most powerful features are the database and integration with CMDB."
"Provides great flexibility."
"The incident management feature is good because it allows you to keep track of and classify issues."
"The large range of configurability of the product is great, since everyone has a different way of doing things."
"It is configurable, where you can add extra fields to screens and to the database."
"Maximo is very stable. We really do not have problem with stability."
"We are very thankful to have IBM integrated with our own Legacy cloud-based system"
"Has a powerful audit combination that helps achieve high accuracy."
"This solution has made us aware that we are over-provisioning our virtual machines."
"The flexibility is the product's most valuable feature."
"The way the dashboard works with the main orchestrator to combine different types of cloud providers is helpful."
"The most valuable feature is that it has a very easy and adaptive look and feel, compared with some other cloud solutions."
"The product provides excellent daily reports."
"I like the integration with other applications or vendors."
"The tool helps us to monitor the services provided to customers as a cloud provider. The product is a monitoring solution that helps customers pay for their utilization of services."
"The most valuable feature is that it allows us to compare the billing between the clouds."
"It needs full-service visibility. There are a lot of things that are hard for users to find out. For example, the Service Catalog is not too friendly. You really have to know what you're looking for."
"IBM is a big company and they have a lot of products. Level One, the first level of tech support, is the one that is used to stop the tsunami. For everyone, it's always work to get past that."
"Could use some alignment regarding some standards and the tracking of the IT assets. Even though they have all of the information (i.e. where are the assets, who owns the asset, etc.), they were not mapping it to different cyber standards."
"The standard reports that shipped with the package need to be enriched with more advanced reports, especially for the Inventory Management sections."
"Revision management of file attachments."
"It's quite reliable, but new versions often are not too stable. They bring in enhancements but they break other stuff."
"There are always ways to improve and make things better."
"The pricing model of the solution has room for improvement as well as the after-sales support."
"There are some kinks to resolve with the Web GUI user interface, as it freezes at times."
"I would like it if they could provide their customers with more qualified support."
"I would like to have an easy way of modifying the reference data that is used for the purposes of estimating the total billing."
"Better integration with other VMware toolsets would be beneficial."
"The product needs some investment in configuration. I would like to see better and more optimized configuration in the tool's future releases."
"It's not always easy to find the information you need. You must have a lot of technical experience to find the right location for what you're implementing within the program."
"The knowledge base is not available for the engineers, which is something that needs to be improved."
"The pricing model is complicated and would be more predictable if it were simplified."
IBM Maximo is ranked 1st in Enterprise Asset Management with 23 reviews while vRealize Business for Cloud is ranked 12th in Cloud Cost Management with 10 reviews. IBM Maximo is rated 8.0, while vRealize Business for Cloud is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Maximo writes "Work order management and scalability enables the businesses' needs to be met". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vRealize Business for Cloud writes "Complete solution for automation, orchestration, and end-to-end lifecycle management". IBM Maximo is most compared with ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, ABB Ability Asset Suite EAM, NetSuite ERP and IFS Cloud Platform, whereas vRealize Business for Cloud is most compared with VMware Aria Operations, VMware Aria Automation and VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth.
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