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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 (87th)
SCOM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (3rd), 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 0.3%, up 0.1% compared to last year.
SCOM, on the other hand, focuses on Event Monitoring, holds 9.9% mindshare, up 7.8% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Savision Live Maps0.3%
Dynatrace5.5%
Datadog4.7%
Other89.5%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SCOM9.9%
ServiceNow IT Operations Management8.4%
OpenText AI Operations Management7.7%
Other74.0%
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."
"If I have to choose any one product for server monitoring to take care of all aspects of monitoring out of the box, SCOM is number one."
"Availability monitoring is the feature I have found most valuable, as well as the capacity and ability to send notifications."
"The license is very cheap compared to other products, and with SCOM license you get a license for all system center products."
"IT management experienced a big improvement after implementation of this product."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"Anything that can be accessed via SNMP commands, SCOM can retrieve via SNMP Gets."
"We've had outages at two am and three am that was automatically resolved by SCOM saving us time and money."
"Ticket Automation has taken a considerable load from the NOC."
 

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."
"Perhaps more focus can be done on the CMDB portion and bi-directional communication to the ITSM system, but this is a small portion."
"In terms of features that could be improved, I would say the agent integration into the operating system; we are having difficulties integrating Linux into some of the networking devices."
"The configuration, especially for alerts, are somewhat lengthy."
"SCOM agents have a heavy footprint. Would like a lighter, more-efficient footprint."
"It's not straightforward, SCOM is relatively noisy out of the box, so time is required to tailor the alerting, adjusting threshold triggers and over-riding alerts that are not required to ensure alerts captured are relevant and require action."
"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."
"We believe that the dashboarding in SCOM needs to be improved or enhanced because it is not too expressive in reporting."
"I would like to see better support for monitoring Unix-based systems."
"The price could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
"Our licensing fees are approximately $30 per user, per month."
"SCOM's pricing is average."
"We have an EA with Microsoft, and it comes as part of the EA."
"SCOM is very cheap because it's included in the license for the System Center suite, which is around $8,400 per CAL."
"It is more expensive than the competition."
"Our Enterprise Agreement includes the price."
"SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
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Top Industries

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

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Company SizeCount
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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