IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

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The compared IBM and PagerDuty solutions aren't in the same category. IBM is ranked #9 in EM , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 5.6% mindshare in the category. PagerDuty is ranked #1 in IMS , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 7.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 99% of PagerDuty users who would recommend it.

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

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IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Event Monitoring (9th)

PagerDuty Operations Cloud

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (7th), IT Alerting and Incident Management (1st), AIOps (3rd), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st), Autonomous Operational Resilience (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact and PagerDuty Operations Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is designed for Event Monitoring and holds a mindshare of 5.6%, up 2.8% compared to last year.
PagerDuty Operations Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on IT Alerting and Incident Management, holds 7.9% mindshare, down 19.3% since last year.

Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact	5.6%
SCOM	9.4%
BMC TrueSight	8.6%
Other	76.4%

Event Monitoring

IT Alerting and Incident Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud	7.9%
Opsgenie	5.7%
Everbridge IT Alerting	5.1%
Other	81.3%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

Featured Reviews

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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reviewer2879727

Cloud Dev Ops Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Unified incident response has reduced alert noise and improves on-call focus and coordination

PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its noise reduction by making deduplication and suppression more automated instead of manually tuned, and the service dependency graph could be more intuitive with cleaner visuals and easier-to-understand root cause tracing during major incidents. Automation could go further with smarter runbook triggers and AI-driven suggestions to help find root causes, which could save a lot of time for engineers who are struggling to understand what is actually happening. These AI capabilities could lower the time by maybe 50–60%. Analytics and reporting could be more flexible, allowing custom dashboards and filters and team-level MTTA and MTTR breakdowns, so that it is segregated based on teams and it is much easier to have custom dashboards for the teams to understand more. Alert storms were a recurring frustration for the on-call team, and escalation overrides and service dependency graphs can get a bit confusing in larger environments. More customizable analytics and smarter automation would make the platform even easier, more flexible and more powerful for the team to understand. PagerDuty Operations Cloud could improve its analytics flexibility with customized dashboards and AI capabilities to be more trained and more reliable. Service dependency mapping can also feel cluttered in big environments, making it harder to trace upstream and downstream impacts during bigger incidents. We implemented PagerDuty Operations Cloud's AI to help with alert grouping and early incident insights, but accuracy was not consistent enough to rely on during critical events. It occasionally grouped unrelated alerts or missed correlations, which limited the operational efficiency gains we expected. The on-call team still depended heavily on manual triage because AI suggestions were not always aligned with the real root cause. Overall, AI added some value but it has not yet reached the reliability needed to significantly improve the incident response efficiency. It needs more training or more work.

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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 solution is great at being able to fetch almost any kind of file."

"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."

"This product allows us to make use of open-source products, including running Java code."

"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."

"The stability has been very good for IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact, rated around eight or nine."

"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."

"It is easy to integrate with other models such as Oracle, other systems, external systems, and to reach events."

"PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers excellent features including the alert system and automated incident escalation capability, which is effective for routing issues to the right team through mobile notifications, SMS, or phone calls."

"I see PagerDuty Operations Cloud as a very good incident management and on-call platform, mostly used by large-scale organizations because it comes with premium pricing, but it is very reliable with alerting and on-call scheduling, triggering incidents, escalation policies, rules, and runbooks."

"PagerDuty has allowed us to identify issues and incidents within the infrastructure that we wouldn't have noticed otherwise."

"PagerDuty Operations Cloud has positively impacted our organization because, at this initial stage of launching, we can't afford to have our website crashing; we need a solution that ensures stability."

"With PagerDuty Operations Cloud's alert reduction feature, I have noticed that it helped me prevent costly incidents in my organization."

"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."

"Using PagerDuty Operations Cloud is a very crucial part for us; if we do not use it, we don't know what is happening in the customer's environment."

"A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."

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Cons

"Stability-wise, this product needs to be improved."

"IBM is not investing in the development of the on-premise version of this solution."

"The stability of this solution is somewhat less than other similar products that I have used."

"The solution is somewhat complicated. It's not exactly straightforward."

"For improvement, I'd say the dashboard and the overall GUI could use some work."

"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."

"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."

"Smartphone App can be flaky sometimes."

"There has been some downtime, but it did not impact the business."

"It is a very non-customizable product, so you cannot add things like root cause analysis or the classification of incidents based on the area where you are getting more incidents. For example, if you're getting a lot of database issues, that may be an are you want to probe."

"Because of the way you have to structure the rosters, if an engineer has to go on leave, you can't just go in and reassign or take this person out of all of the different rosters that they're in."

"Thank goodness it was not a Severity 1 incident for us, but two days was unacceptable at that point."

"I have faced outages and latency in PagerDuty Operations Cloud, including notification delays, web dashboard issues, and majorly API integration failures, along with mobile notification problems such as latency and missed pushes, especially affecting specific regional users."

"I would rate PagerDuty Operations Cloud as eight out of ten because the cons include a complex configuration process and high costs for each add-on that I try to obtain, making subscriptions costly, along with limited customization in certain incident workflows."

"Initially it was a nightmare. There were a lot of bugs and we were getting a lot of alerts, and it was a very messy period."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is yearly, and although I'm happy with the pricing I do think it could be better."

"Licensing of IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact depends on the number of nodes on the element that you are monitoring."

"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."

"If you add more people, then you have to pay more, which is always a thing with the SaaS solutions."

"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."

"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."

"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."

"The cost is based on the package you select."

"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."

"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Performing Arts

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	32
Midsize Enterprise	28
Large Enterprise	80

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact?

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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 PagerDuty?

The pricing cost is very affordable; the features justify the investment.

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What needs improvement with PagerDuty?

PagerDuty Operations Cloud could be improved by simplifying the configuration of alert rules and escalation policies. We find incident analytics and the customization of dashboards challenging for ...

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What is your primary use case for PagerDuty?

PagerDuty Operations Cloud is used to monitor all applications and infrastructure health, manage incidents, and receive real-time alerts when any issue occurs on live projects. It helps our IT team...

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Also Known As

Tivoli NetCool Impact

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Overview

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact offers AI-driven network management and integration capabilities, handling complex tasks with open-source tools. It's widely used for event correlation and data consolidation, supporting seamless connections for effective network operations.

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is extensively leveraged within network management, focusing on event correlation and ticketing. It aggregates data from multiple sources, facilitating streamlined event handling. Essential to Netcool teams, it is employed to manage events inside Omnibus and integrate with ticketing systems like Remedy. Its functionalities cover event management, data enrichment from external databases, and alarm handling through connectivity with tools like Excel. While it is appreciated for its automation, correlation modeling, and custom function creation, enhancements are needed for event flooding management, root cause correlation, and stability. Challenges exist in modern technology integration and better configuration processes.

What are IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact's Key Features?

AI-Driven Network Management: Intelligent network operations through AI capabilities.
ISPF APA Support: Integration with ISPF APA enhances performance.
Integration Capabilities: Connects seamlessly with third-party systems.
Data Handling: Manages extensive volumes and types of data efficiently.
Automation Capabilities: Streamlines processes through robust automation features.
Custom Function Creation: Enables creation of tailored functions for specific needs.

What Benefits Should Users Look for in Reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Look for improved handling of network events.
Data Consolidation: Facilitates merging data from different sources.
Streamlined Events Management: Efficiently manages and streamlines event workflows.
Enhanced Connectivity: Supports connections with databases and applications.

IBM Tivoli NetCool Impact is implemented across multiple industries for efficient network management, especially where event correlation and data integration are critical. Enterprise environments rely on its capability to handle diverse data formats and volumes. Its integration with enterprise applications and databases makes it suitable for sectors demanding reliable network operations and data management strategies.

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PagerDuty Operations Cloud focuses on efficient incident management, featuring advanced alert and notification systems, mobile alerts, and AI-driven functionalities that facilitate streamlined on-call schedules and integrations with major monitoring tools.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers comprehensive incident management with real-time alerts and notifications via mobile, SMS, and calls. This empowers teams to respond swiftly and reduce missed incidents. Efficient on-call management through automated scheduling and escalation enhances team productivity, while AI-driven alert grouping minimizes noise. Integration with tools like AWS and Datadog further streamlines operations.

What are the key features of PagerDuty Operations Cloud?

Real-time Incident Alerts: Improves response times by ensuring immediate notifications.
AI-driven Alert Grouping: Minimizes noise for enhanced focus and efficiency.
Automated Scheduling: Streamlines on-call management and escalation.
Monitoring Tool Integration: Seamlessly works with tools like AWS and Datadog.
Mobile Alerts: Enables SMS and call notifications for instant communication.

What benefits and ROI should users consider?

Increased Efficiency: Reduces operational burden through automation.
Improved Team Productivity: Lowers incident noise and accelerates resolution.
Enhanced Customization: Tailors alert prioritization and escalation policies.
Time Savings: Expedites incident management and reduces error rates.

PagerDuty Operations Cloud implementation spans industries like e-commerce and IT services, where it automates anomaly detection and manages high-severity incidents. Its integration capabilities and AIOps features significantly enhance incident management, proving valuable for sectors demanding real-time performance and responsiveness.

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