We performed a comparison between OpenText Operations Bridge and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Event Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The correlation feature is the most used feature. It allows you to correlate events from different sources and have more meaningful events."
"It allows us to build dashboards for individual parts of the business. Our team members appreciate that they can just get a view of their part of the world without having to worry about anyone else's."
"I find the Micro Focus Operations Bridge dashboard valuable, including its instrument analysis and anomaly control features that help indicate root causes and problems with your infrastructure."
"The preloaded rules and ways to monitor your systems are a must."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its grouping scripts and event focus."
"You can create an application topology that shows relationships between different components."
"It has the capability to display overall health of the infrastructure and is very useful for executive reports on the health of the infrastructure."
"We use the on-premises version to monitor our systems and manage emails. All our systems use Operations Bridge, especially the critical systems."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"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."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution saves us a lot of work because it reduces the effort that is required in order to start monitoring."
"SCOM has improved our organization by simplifying the monitoring process. The system tells you what the bi-weekly or monthly usage was and that enables us to report this information to the manager. It shows if there was a connectivity issue that needs to be fixed and it's easier to concentrate on what needs to get fixed. System errors, therefore, get fixed faster."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The most valuable feature is the extensibility, as there are really no limits as to what you can do with it."
"The latest versions of the service reporting dashboards need improvement, such as service modeling."
"The service takes a very long time to start and it requires a lot of resources."
"Implementation could be improved."
"The solution is overall "heavy", requiring multiple servers, even without HA."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The deployment of agents on new CI should be improved. There should be some kind of automation to directly deploy them from the console. It can maybe have some more AI functions because most of the other tools are going in that direction."
"What needs improvement in Micro Focus Operations Bridge is its resource heaviness because you need many resources to deploy and support it. It's a good solution for larger organizations, but for small businesses, not so much."
"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."
"SCOM's feature that notifies us when a server is down is not present in recent updates, which has weakened the product."
"The initial setup should be easier to complete."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
OpenText Operations Bridge is ranked 8th in Event Monitoring with 44 reviews while SCOM is ranked 3rd in Event Monitoring with 77 reviews. OpenText Operations Bridge is rated 7.8, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText Operations Bridge writes "Good event correlation capabilities, promotes a self-service approach to monitoring". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". OpenText Operations Bridge is most compared with OpsRamp, BMC Helix Monitor, Splunk Enterprise Security, IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and IDERA SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server, whereas SCOM is most compared with Zabbix, Dynatrace, Datadog, AppDynamics and SolarWinds NPM. See our OpenText Operations Bridge vs. SCOM report.
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