We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center and OpenText Operations Bridge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The detail in the alarms is great."
"The installation process is easy."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that it helps us manage our company's application pool, license pool, application update pool, and OS updates."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"It is stable."
"The broad integration possibilities, I'd say, with any kind of product, are probably the most valuable feature."
"From our monitoring perspective or from a visibility perspective, HPE UCMDB is a must have. It's an amazing piece of software."
"It's a very good product overall."
"It has greatly reduced the number and duration of outages as support teams are notified immediately when something goes wrong or even before something breaks."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to integrate with everything."
"The Performance Manager provides great insight into our systems' performance."
"We haven't faced any stability issues. There hasn't been any crashes or glitches."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"I know that in the next version, X1005, they're moving to more graphical overviews, which should help our senior managers."
"Our issues are largely support related due to where we are and the knowledge base that we have here. This issue relates both HPE in general and to the technical products."
"I'm not aware of areas that need improvement."
"The pricing could be improved."
"Reporting has to be tackled a bit more. Conceptually, it is there and conceptually it is amazing, but somehow the module itself is suffering."
"The price is quite expensive, and because of this, we may try another solution."
"The latest versions of the service reporting dashboards need improvement, such as service modeling."
"The pricing is a bit expensive for smaller companies."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews while OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 35th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 44 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, whereas OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with SCOM, OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server. See our Microsoft System Center vs. OpenText Operations Bridge report.
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