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SCOM vs Savision Live Maps comparison

 

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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

Savision Live Maps
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
8.6
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (49th)
SCOM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (5th), Network Monitoring Software (25th)
 

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 9.6% mindshare, up 9.0% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Savision Live Maps0.4%
Dynatrace5.0%
Splunk AppDynamics4.5%
Other90.1%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SCOM9.6%
OpenText AI Operations Management8.2%
BMC TrueSight8.2%
Other74.0%
Event Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2867997 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analytics Engineer at a outsourcing company with 501-1,000 employees
Visual mapping of data pipelines has improved dependency insight and speeds troubleshooting
Regarding Savision Live Maps's AI capabilities, I think accuracy was pretty good, as it gave most of the information that we were able to validate, so it's all good. The advice I would give to others looking into using Savision Live Maps is that I think it's a good product; it's a new thing, and the AI capabilities are obviously improving every day, so I'm looking forward to more improvements and more use cases, and hopefully we can scale it in different departments and for different projects. I gave Savision Live Maps a rating of 8 out of 10.
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."
"Savision Live Maps has impacted my organization positively because it helps visually represent nodes and understand dependencies, which helps us understand breakages and issues in production."
"This helps to centralize multiple monitoring solutions and streamline integration into ITSM."
"IT management experienced a big improvement after implementation of this product."
"The solution has improved our overrides and the ability to start services if they're stopped."
"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."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"The System Center 2012 R2 is really powerful, all products work great together, is not so expensive anymore, easy to license, and can cover from end to end (Networking, Hardware layer, OS, App and services, ports, etc.)."
"It discovers the components automatically, which is a fantastic thing. The discovery works in an automatic way, and it has a dynamic way of discovering the components, assets, and applications. It doesn't require any manual intervention."
"SCOM will allow you to go from firefighting mode to a more proactive stance when finding issues."
"The most valuable features in SCOM are Azure monitoring and integration with Azure Monitor for monitoring Azure-hosted servers from SCOM on-premises."
 

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."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"SCOM agents have a heavy footprint. Would like a lighter, more-efficient footprint."
"Both SCOM and WhatsUp Gold could use some system enhancements, such as better dashboards."
"Almost always, these alert storms can put IT managers and operators off the product and give the impression that everything is broken or not working properly, so making them easier to work with will help SCOM administrators (especially if they are new to SCOM) manage and understand what the product is showing them."
"The management of the servers could be better."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"I feel that the stability of the tool has room for improvement and I would like to see that in the next version."
"In some ways, SCOM is a double-edged sword."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"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."
"I don't know the exact cost because it's managed by our sales team, but Microsoft is on the higher side."
"SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
"We have an enterprise agreement that includes this product as part of it."
"We have an EA with Microsoft, and it comes as part of the EA."
"It is the cheapest product available in the market."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise54
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Savision Live Maps?
I choose 8 out of 10 for Savision Live Maps because it does a good job but I think there are definitely some improvements that we could make. I have not identified any additional improvements neede...
What is your primary use case for Savision Live Maps?
My main use case for Savision Live Maps is that it helps me to build my dependencies between the nodes, so it helps me like a DAG. A quick specific example of how I use Savision Live Maps in my dai...
What advice do you have for others considering Savision Live Maps?
Regarding Savision Live Maps's AI capabilities, I think accuracy was pretty good, as it gave most of the information that we were able to validate, so it's all good. The advice I would give to othe...
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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Also Known As

Live Maps
System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
 

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Sample Customers

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