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SCOM vs Savision Live Maps comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Savision Live Maps
Average Rating
10.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (88th)
SCOM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (2nd), Network Monitoring Software (14th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Savision Live Maps and SCOM aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Savision Live Maps is designed for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability and holds a mindshare of 0.4%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
SCOM, on the other hand, focuses on Event Monitoring, holds 9.9% mindshare, up 8.5% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Savision Live Maps0.4%
Dynatrace5.3%
Datadog4.6%
Other89.7%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SCOM9.9%
OpenText AI Operations Management7.9%
ServiceNow IT Operations Management7.7%
Other74.5%
Event Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

MO
Lead specialist at OKCIUS (Pty) Ltd
Helpful dashboard, and the ElasticSearch feature helps to identify problematic components
Savision continuously develops new modules to allow further integration, so the only item would continue with this effort to allow more-and-more systems to integrate into this platform. Perhaps more focus can be done on the CMDB portion and bi-directional communication to the ITSM system, but this is a small portion.
AK
Assistant Manager at SMS group GmbH
Have integrated effective monitoring and seamless alerting with improved visualization capabilities
The most valuable feature of SCOM is its monitoring capability, and we have integrated SCOM with Grafana, which is a dashboarding tool. We have implemented and integrated this to create dashboarding of the SCOM monitoring system for the database, SQL, and the Linux servers we have configured in SCOM. We have created separate dashboarding for it, and the monitoring and creating rules and monitors in the management servers and management packs that SCOM provides are very useful for us. The alerting mechanism of SCOM has benefited our operations because we have modified the thresholds as per our internal requirements. We have configured threshold modifications for the CPU, memory, and especially for disk space. For routine disk space usage on the system, we have provided a separate threshold configuration.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The dashboards and views available are easy to manage and share, and provide all of the metrics required."
"This helps to centralize multiple monitoring solutions and streamline integration into ITSM."
"It's a lot more powerful than people realize, and I believe people become dissatisfied with it because of the complicated setup, but once it's up and running, it's pretty amazing at what it can do."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"Because it's Windows-based, it actually reports quite well, reports everything you can think of on the Windows server, and allows you to monitor anything, making it excellent for those in the Windows world as it's very good at it."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system.​"
"The advantages of SCOM are that it is definitely user friendly and a more appropriate solution for what we need."
"SCOM will allow you to go from firefighting mode to a more proactive stance when finding issues."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
 

Cons

"Perhaps more focus can be done on the CMDB portion and bi-directional communication to the ITSM system, but this is a small portion."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"SCOM is always known to be very unstable when it comes to SCOM Agents which are installed locally on all the servers."
"Even though I think there are ways that this product is superior to most other solutions on the market, there are quite a few things that it does not do alone."
"They could provide better dashboards, detailed logs, and reports crucial for monitoring services in real-time."
"SCOM is not as straightforward in terms of user interface or general experience, which could be improved."
"Microsoft needs to train more people about how to sell SCOM (and other System Center family products) because there are a lot of emerging technologies that are replacing Microsoft."
"It would be nice to see the old MP Designer come back as you could quickly design and build a MP without a deep understanding of the XML code behind it."
"We believe that the dashboarding in SCOM needs to be improved or enhanced because it is not too expressive in reporting."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I don't know the exact cost because it's managed by our sales team, but Microsoft is on the higher side."
"It is the cheapest product available in the market."
"SCOM's pricing is average."
"We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
"It is more expensive than the competition."
"The pricing and licensing are fair."
"Two customers bought the enterprise agreement with Microsoft and paid for Software Assurance. But few customers don't buy it for Software Assurance. They just buy it and deploy it, and they think that we will be using it for the next five years."
"The platform is cost-effective due to our existing Microsoft support."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

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Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise54
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SCOM?
I am not aware of the exact pricing as it is managed by my supervisor. As an academic institution, we receive substantial discounts.
What needs improvement with SCOM?
We believe that the dashboarding in SCOM needs to be improved or enhanced because it is not too expressive in reporting. We can work on deploying new ways of viewing things and modifying visualizat...
What is your primary use case for SCOM?
My usual use case for SCOM is as an administrator role where I create reports and provide system configuration for Linux and installation of the SCOM agent. I handle deploying and upgrading the age...
 

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System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
 

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