SCOM and IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus compete in the enterprise IT infrastructure monitoring category. Based on feature variety and flexibility, SCOM appears to have an upper hand due to its deep integration with Microsoft environments and extensive customization options.
Features: SCOM offers strong monitoring capabilities for Microsoft technologies with a comprehensive range of management packs. It integrates seamlessly with Windows, allowing monitoring of Exchange, SQL, and Active Directory. It also boasts robust reporting and custom monitoring solutions. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus offers effective event management and alert processing. It supports multiple legacy protocols and excels in deduplication and correlation, well-suited for multi-layered protocol events.
Room for Improvement: SCOM struggles with non-Microsoft product monitoring and needs enhancements in dashboards and alert management to reduce overwhelming alerts. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus bears higher licensing costs and a less user-friendly GUI compared to competitors, with integration and cloud capabilities as key improvement areas.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: SCOM supports on-premises and hybrid cloud settings, offering variable technical support, which improves significantly with a Microsoft Premier agreement. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is primarily on-premises and generally provides good technical support, requiring technical expertise for successful deployment for both solutions.
Pricing and ROI: SCOM, bundled with the System Center suite, is cost-effective when fully utilized, offering savings with various Microsoft licensing options. IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus has higher standalone licensing costs, needing separate licenses for components, making it more expensive. Both solutions deliver good ROI, minimizing downtime and meeting SLAs, but costs fluctuate with deployment extent and use.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus | 9.2% |
| SCOM | 9.0% |
| Other | 81.8% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 3 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 5 |
| Large Enterprise | 7 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 16 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 54 |
SCOM (System Center Operations Manager) is a cross-platform data center monitoring and reporting tool that checks the status of various objects defined within the environment, such as server hardware, system services, etc. The solution allows data center administrators to deploy, configure, manage, and monitor the operations, services, devices and applications of multiple enterprise IT systems via a single pane of glass. It is suitable for businesses of all sizes.
SCOM Features
SCOM has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:
SCOM Benefits
There are several benefits to implementing SCOM. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the SCOM solution.
A Manager at a financial services firm says, “The feature I like most about SCOM is that it is easy-to-use. I find it very user-friendly. I also like the knowledge base which it has. You can find the resolution to questions or issues directly within the SCOM itself. It will alert you with a recommendation of what you need to do at the same time. This sort of self-diagnosis or prompting is one of the great values you get from SCOM compared to other solutions.”
PeerSpot user Zahari Z., Information Technology Auditor at a financial services firm, mentions, “Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications. There is a mechanism to set up a notification from the SCOM and whenever there is a drop in the availability the notification alerts not only for availability but for other issues as well. You can align thresholds according to the speed of your environment and you can have a threshold related notification, which is one of the useful features.”
Bill W., Sr. Systems Engineer at Arapahoe County Government, comments, “ I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time. When we patch, things are automatically put into maintenance mode so that the numbers for our systems being down, do not count against us.”
A Project Manager at a tech services company explains, “The feature I have found most valuable is the book feature. While we run the Sprint one we can add some setups for multiple sprints.”
A Systems Engineer at an educational organization states, “Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well. It reports everything you can think of on the Windows server and allows you to monitor anything. It's excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it.”
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