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IBM Turbonomic vs SAP IT Operations Analytics comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 1, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

IBM Turbonomic
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
10th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
205
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Migration (3rd), Cloud Management (4th), Virtualization Management Tools (3rd), IT Financial Management (1st), Cloud Analytics (1st), Cloud Cost Management (1st), AIOps (16th)
SAP IT Operations Analytics
Ranking in IT Operations Analytics
11th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.8
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IT Operations Analytics category, the mindshare of IBM Turbonomic is 2.8%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SAP IT Operations Analytics is 2.3%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Operations Analytics Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Turbonomic2.8%
SAP IT Operations Analytics2.3%
Other94.9%
IT Operations Analytics
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1446966 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Engineer at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution reduced our operational expenditures and is able to identify points before we even noticed them
The management interface seems to be designed for high-resolution screens. Somebody with a smaller-resolution screen might not like the web interface. I run a 4K monitor on it, so everything fits on the screen. With a lower resolution like 1080, you need to scroll a lot. Everything is in smaller windows. It doesn't seem to be designed for smaller screens. When I change the resolution to 1080, I only see half of what I would on my big 4K monitor. It would be annoying to have to scroll to see the flow chart. They have a flow chart that goes top to bottom like a tree. On a lower resolution, it might be nice if that scrolls horizontally because it's long, narrow, and tall. It's only three icons wide, but it's 15 icons tall. I think it would be helpful to have the ability to change that for a smaller screen and customize the widget.
DH
Digital Transformation Director at Amecath Group
Extensive analytics capabilities enable comprehensive performance measurement for diverse business cycles
It's important to make SAP IT Operations Analytics tool more flexible in terms of customization because when it comes to specific business models, the requirements of the business may vary, and there's a wide range of variety between each business model. Oil and gas is different than retail, which is different than FMCG. Everything is different, and companies are trying to push toward best of breed. Much of the time, best of breed does not meet the real requirements of each department head or the business model itself, so these tools need to be more flexible. The setup process is not a big deal for us. When we need to configure something or set up something new, the new technology of low-code, no-code is very good, and we are looking forward to more improvement in this part, because sometimes you miss a list of developers and need to write code. Therefore, we need it to be more easy for normal users. It's about how much professional teamwork is needed on these tools. Much of the time, normal users know they need to develop their own dashboard or analytics for a reason, and they are facing the problem of needing to understand how to write code. Recently, lots of tools came under the title of low-code, no-code, where you just need to drag and drop some fields to get your report. This area needs to be more agile and easy for normal users. System usability should be easier.

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 features to our organization is the automation of the VM’s to prevent performance issues and to balance the resources of our ESX host."
"Customer Service: Excellent Technical Support: The support team at VMTurbo is so quick in responding."
"Helps us rightsize workloads, highlight bottlenecks and effectively plan for capacity."
"Customer Service: Excellent. They've always been quick to support any issues/queries we have."
"It allows our small team manage a larger infrastructure because we can focus our efforts in other areas."
"It allowed us to plan and scale our capacity based on our sales pipeline."
"Visibility of all workloads, whether on-premise or Azure environments."
"The software is very cost effective, especially in comparison to other products."
"I have no complaints regarding how stable this solution is; any cloud solution is most of the time very stable, and we don't have any problems with stability."
"Operations Analytics helps you detect the forensic signal that tells you something's going to happen, so you can get proactive before an outage occurs and add memory or space before it becomes a problem in the environment for the application."
"Operations Analytics provides statistics, so it's like the dashboard in your car that tells you the temperature, RPMs, etc, and if something goes wrong in your car, a warning light comes on. So in analytics, you set thresholds for the thread count, and it sends you an email when it reaches a certain amount."
"We can integrate different environments, including development, quality, and production. You can open implementation projects, define users' roles, manage training, design, and store all project-related documentation. Before going live, there's a checklist and cutover plan. Configuration moves from development to quality, then production, to ensure everything runs smoothly. Once in production, the platform tracks system performance, open cases, maintenance, upgrades, and new features. You can monitor everything through dashboards, reports, event notifications, and support tickets, both internally and with SAP."
 

Cons

"The UI can be slow and occasionally hangs, requiring logging out and back in."
"There is an opportunity for improvement with some of Turbonomic's permissions internally for role-based access control. We would like the ability to come up with some customized permissions or scope permissions a bit differently than the product provides."
"Turbonomic needs to find how to have the appliance OS up to date. Per our security tool, it has missing patches."
"Wish the storage move accounts for possible VMware snapshots that existed on some host."
"The UI could be a little more user friendly and less buggy."
"Could be more user friendly, but the provided training provided the needed clarity."
"Occasionally the server does not load balance properly and needs to be restarted."
"We would like to see Turbonomics dive into JVMs and continue to work with HP in the integration with HP OneView 3.0."
"The solution is indeed expensive for my company."
"The solution works well, but we need better project planning. Accessing some features is a bit complicated, and we're waiting for improvements from SAP. It should also improve integration."
"It would be great to have a monitoring tool that could implement conditional solutions like this. Right now, it comes up with the indicators, but it doesn't necessarily send the lower-level technician to the right spot."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I don't know the current prices, but I like how the licensing is based on the number of instances instead of sockets, clusters, or cores. We have some VMs that are so heavy I can only fit four on one server. It's not cost-effective if we have to pay more for those. When I move around a VM SQL box with 30 cores and a half-terabyte of RAM, I'm not paying for an entire socket and cores where people assume you have at least 10 or 20 VMs on that socket for that pricing."
"We see ROI in extended support agreements (ESA) for old software. Migration activities seem to be where Turbonomic has really benefited us the most. It's one click and done. We have new machines ready to go with Turbonomic, which are properly sized instead of somebody sitting there with a spreadsheet and guessing. So, my return on investment would certainly be on currency, from a software and hardware perspective."
"It is an endpoint type license, which is fine. It is not overly expensive."
"It was an annual buy-in. You basically purchase it based on your host type stuff. The buy-in was about 20K, and the annual maintenance is about $3,000 a year."
"We felt the pricing was very fair for the product. It is in no way prohibitive for larger deployments, unlike other similar product on the market."
"Price is a big one. VMTurbo was very competitively priced."
"You should understand the cost of your physical servers and how much time and money you are spending year over year on expanding your virtual farm."
"I'm not involved in any of the billing, but my understanding is that is fairly expensive."
"The license for the product ranges from 8,000 to 30,000 yearly, depending on the customer's sizing. While it may not be cheap, it is considered affordable for the value it provides."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
Construction Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business41
Midsize Enterprise57
Large Enterprise147
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Turbonomic?
It offers different scenarios. It provides more capabilities than many other tools available. Typically, its price is set as a percentage of the consumption of some of our customers' services. The ...
What needs improvement with Turbonomic?
The implementation could be enhanced.
What is your primary use case for Turbonomic?
We use IBM Turbonomic to automate our cloud operations, including monitoring, consolidating dashboards, and reporting. This helps us get a consolidated view of all customer spending into a single d...
What needs improvement with SAP IT Operations Analytics?
It's important to make SAP IT Operations Analytics ( /products/sap-it-operations-analytics-reviews ) tool more flexible in terms of customization because when it comes to specific business models, ...
What is your primary use case for SAP IT Operations Analytics?
I have been working with SAP IT Operations Analytics ( /products/sap-it-operations-analytics-reviews ) for more than 15 years. I am managing SAP in a customer site.
What advice do you have for others considering SAP IT Operations Analytics?
SAP IT Operations Analytics is helping me in AI-driven projects, but AI is not providing any mature solution so far. There's a lot of propaganda around AI, but real practical solutions to benefit t...
 

Also Known As

Turbonomic, VMTurbo Operations Manager
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Sample Customers

IBM, J.B. Hunt, BBC, The Capita Group, SulAmérica, Rabobank, PROS, ThinkON, O.C. Tanner Co.
Medtronic, Cirque du Soleil, Antarc, B&G Manufacturing, EarlySense, eBay, Ferrero, James Austin Company, Lenovo, Sagem, RAK Ceramics, Vodafone
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