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IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus comparison

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is ranked #9 with an average rating of 7.0, while IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact holds a 3.8% mindshare in EM, compared to IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus’s 6.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus users who would recommend it.
IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact
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100% willing to recommend
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
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80% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are prominent products in the network management and monitoring category. Although OMNIbus holds the advantage in centralized incident management, Impact is favored for its cost-effectiveness and support services.

Features: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers dynamic service management, supports policy-based automation for real-time adjustments, and is known for adaptive service focus. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus features robust event correlation, automated problem resolution, and is centered on efficient event and incident management.

Room for Improvement: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact could enhance integration capabilities, expand automation features, and improve user interface design. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus can benefit from reducing its initial configuration complexity, enhancing reporting capabilities, and refining cross-platform compatibility.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact provides a streamlined deployment with flexible integration options and responsive customer support. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus requires more extensive initial setup but is supported by a stable service framework.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers lower setup costs and quicker ROI, due to its adaptive design and comprehensive support. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus, despite higher initial costs, ensures substantial ROI through effective incident management and operational efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact
Ranking in Event Monitoring
9th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.5
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Ranking in Event Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is 3.8%, up from 2.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is 6.5%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus6.5%
IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact3.8%
Other89.7%
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Featured Reviews

Hennie Du Toit - PeerSpot reviewer
Hennie Du Toit
Principal Specialist Architecture and Governance at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Event management strengthens with automation but needs better event flooding handling
Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that. Better root cause correlation and faster processing for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be helpful. If there can be more end-to-end functionality, such as observability tools built in natively, that would be great. With correlation, IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact has many functions, but we've built them custom-built. Functions such as automated logging, automated dispatching, and automated notification of engineers could be native in the tool.
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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

"I can recommend Netcool/Impact because it's the perfect solution when it comes to invoking ISPF APA and using ISPF integration throughout the rest of your other products."
"It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."
"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."
"The stability has been very good for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, rated around eight or nine."
"The most valuable feature that comes with Netcool/Impact is the ISPF APA support. It is inherent to Netcool/Impact, so I can use the ISPF of any other product, which I can invoke and consume through Impact, and do integrations, which is great. I run the Netcool desktop application so I can integrate with other applications in the ticketing system. It's a great ability being able to invoke ISPF and integrate."
"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."
"The solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."
"The operational views and third party connections to fetch the data and to help engage on more activities are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"Probes are the best feature because they are well written which rarely requires you to write additional rules. These probes monitor activity within your environment."
"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."
"IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus supports legacy protocols like CORBA, Huawei, and other telecom protocols, which I find beneficial."
"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."
"It's good for managed systems. The end query on the user interface is good. You can view lots of charts and graphs."
"The biggest plus points for me are the configurability and scalability of the solution, as well as the multi-tenancy of the platform."
"The monitoring is the solution's most valuable feature."
"It is an easy-to-use solution."
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Cons

"Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal with that."
"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work. Although, I don't think that there's much improvement that Netcool really needs to achieve in this area, because when we're talking GUI, Impact is able to integrate with any third-party system and it comes with ISPF APA. It's more beneficial than Netcool/OMNIbus in this respect, and it's quite easy to handle."
"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."
"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work."
"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."
"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."
"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."
"The stability of this solution is somewhat less than other similar products that I have used."
"Yes often problems appear after resolving a previous one."
"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"They could enhance the visibility to give us a unified view of our entire IT infrastructure."
"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"A lot can be improved in this product considering the performance."
"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."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."
"The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."
"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."
"It is a costly solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
14%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Retailer
5%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
Better handling of event flooding in IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact would be beneficial. If there are massive issues with power, for example, and we get millions of events, then it struggles to deal wit...
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What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is our event management tool, specifically the umbrella fault management tool set. All of our events across the network correlate the data for us, and we have certain use ...
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What advice do you have for others considering IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?
We remain a partner with IBM Tivoli and continue using their products. We use IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact's AIOps functionality. We experienced some skills issues, but currently receive assistance fr...
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
I would rate the pricing for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus as three, where one is a high price and ten is a low price.
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What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, IBM can improve IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in automation with respect to using AI, as it lacks considerably compared to other tools. The integrat...
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What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
My current use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is for monitoring the networks.
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Also Known As

Tivoli NetCool Impact
Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
 

Overview

IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact is an enterprise and network management software that automates the support of business-critical functions. The software helps to enrich events with business context, provides an integrated view of data from multiple sources in context and enables custom automations.
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Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus provides near real-time service assurance for business infrastructure, applications, servers, network devices and protocols, Internet protocols, storage and security devices.
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Sample Customers

Claranet, Consolidated Communications, Telus, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Telekom Srbija, Bendigo Community Telco, Capgemini, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (SBB)
Consolidated Communications, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Capgemini
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