We compared OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management and PagerDuty based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: The OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management stands out for its mass notification capabilities, seamless integration with different communication channels, and the ability to monitor events in real time. PagerDuty’s stand-out features include urgency categorization, SMS paging, and a handy mobile application. Users also praised the solution’s comprehensive reporting and seamless integration. OnSolve Platform users requested better integration and reporting features. PagerDuty could enhance its functionality by leveraging webhooks and improving compatibility with common tools. Users also said the solution should enhance its Terraform integration and automate IT roster importing.
Service and Support: OnSolve Platform users found the support teams to be knowledgeable, helpful, and responsive. PagerDuty users say the solution’s customer service is excellent. They provide quick support and even offer video calls.
Ease of Deployment: Users said OnSolve Platform is easy to deploy thanks to the solution’s clear documentation and OnSolve’s helpful support. PagerDuty's setup is described as straightforward and easy, but users without experience may struggle with it.
Pricing: The cost of OnSolve Platform varies depending on the customer’s size and support license. To obtain specific information, it is recommended to visit the product's website or reach out to the sales team. PagerDuty offers competitive pricing with options for monthly or yearly licenses.
ROI: The potential return on investment for the OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management and Blackberry AtHoc may vary. Refer to user feedback and real-life examples to gain a complete understanding of their potential ROI. Users appreciate the cost savings and enhanced efficiency that PagerDuty brings to their operations.
"It allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location."
"The placeholder dropdowns for message templates are useful."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"PagerDuty is very stable and very reliable."
"The most valuable feature of PagerDuty is its integration with other tools, such as Amazon AWS, to receive notifications or create automatic instances."
"The product easily integrates with other solutions."
"Alert deduplication and noise reduction for alerts are the major features that I found useful."
"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."
"It has scaled well for us."
"Notification is the most valuable feature."
"Conference calling requires a complicated syntax formula."
"The user interface is too complicated and aspects that should be offered, such as email subject line editing, are not."
"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."
"It cannot be integrated with our upgraded Jira system."
"Something that needs to be improved, is adding multilingual support."
"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."
"They could include incident merging and alert grouping features in the product."
"This solution works best in conjunction with a proper logging system, which can be an additional cost to organizations."
"I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."
"PagerDuty can improve the integration with Terraform."
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OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is ranked 2nd in Critical Event Management (CEM) while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is ranked 1st in Critical Event Management (CEM) with 35 reviews. OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is rated 6.0, while PagerDuty Operations Cloud is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management writes "Allows for a systematic and uniform method of alerting personnel in every location, but the user interface is too complicated". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PagerDuty Operations Cloud writes "Effectively generates alerts for incidents, making it suitable for 24/7 monitoring of infrastructure". OnSolve Platform for Critical Event Management is most compared with Everbridge Mass Notification, Everbridge IT Alerting, AlertMedia, Rave Alert and xMatters , whereas PagerDuty Operations Cloud is most compared with Opsgenie, ServiceNow, JIRA Service Management, Splunk On-Call and Zabbix.
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