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IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager vs Splunk On-Call comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli Business Service...
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (14th)
Splunk On-Call
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
IT Alerting and Incident Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager and Splunk On-Call aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager is designed for Event Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 3.8%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
Splunk On-Call, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 3.6% mindshare, down 7.0% since last year.
Event Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager3.8%
ServiceNow IT Operations Management11.7%
OpsRamp9.6%
Other74.9%
Event Monitoring
IT Alerting and Incident Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Splunk On-Call3.6%
PagerDuty Operations Cloud13.2%
Opsgenie9.0%
Other74.2%
IT Alerting and Incident Management
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer847356 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Good technical support, and efficient for working with business data
We use this solution for working with data. The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency. This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate. We have been using this solution for fourteen years. The stability of this…
Venda E - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Option Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Automated alert routing has improved incident response and now enables faster on-call collaboration
Some of the features of Splunk On-Call include automated alert routing and escalation that will ensure the right people get notified immediately. Also, on-call scheduling and rotation management. This feature makes managing shifts and coverage very easy. Another feature is real-time incident collaboration and communication. This will help bring the right team together fast. Another feature is alert de-duplication and suppression. This will reduce the noise, so only meaningful alerts reach the on-call staff. The feature I rely on the most in my daily work is automated alert routing and escalation. It ensures that critical issues go directly to the right engineer without delay, which saves time and prevents the incident from being missed. This has been the biggest contributor to improving our response times. The noise reduction feature is also very helpful. By filtering out non-critical or duplicate alerts, Splunk On-Call keeps our team focused on what actually matters and prevents alert fatigue. Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents. It also reduced alert fatigue and made our on-call process more reliable and predictable. Our average incident response time dropped by around 20% to 25%, mainly because alerts reached the right people faster. We also noticed fewer unnecessary escalations, and missed alerts almost completely stopped after we implemented automated routing and escalation policies.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the efficiency."
"Transmogrifier and automatic solution report gives me a report with the solution and the way to solve issues when an error occurred."
"Splunk On-Call has helped my organization to improve response times, reduce missed alerts, and coordinate teams more efficiently during incidents."
"The alert calling feature is the best because notifications are delivered via phone messages."
"The flexible schedule is the most valuable feature. It was very easy to set out a rotation."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is helpdesk escalation."
"VictorOps has been good enough for us and it's effective for our needs in case of an on-call escalation process."
 

Cons

"This application should be made easier to use because it usually needs training and it is not easy to operate."
"One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience."
"The third-party configuration tool could be easier to use."
"The solution can be improved by including a wider list of permissions."
"Should have more YouTube webinars."
"There could be improvements with communicating an incident or alert."
"At that stage, all our needs are fulfilled, but at the beginning, we had some feature requests and they were deployed during their roadmap."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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Top Industries

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Performing Arts
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

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Company SizeCount
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise9
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VictorOps?
My experience with Splunk On-Call pricing and licensing has been straightforward. The setup cost was minimal since it's a SaaS solution, and the subscription-based licensing model makes it easy to ...
What needs improvement with VictorOps?
One area for improvement would be enhancing the mobile app experience. While it works well, smoother navigation and faster load times would make on-call handling even easier. More advanced analytic...
What is your primary use case for VictorOps?
I have been using Splunk On-Call for the last three years. My main use case for Splunk On-Call is incident alerting and real-time on-call management. It helps me to route critical alerts to the rig...
 

Also Known As

Tivoli Business Service Manager, BSM
VictorOps
 

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