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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 (86th)
SCOM
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
83
Ranking in other categories
Event Monitoring (5th), 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 9.0% mindshare, up 7.6% since last year.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Savision Live Maps0.4%
Dynatrace6.3%
Datadog5.3%
Other88.0%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Event Monitoring Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
SCOM9.0%
ServiceNow IT Operations Management11.7%
OpsRamp9.6%
Other69.7%
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

"This helps to centralize multiple monitoring solutions and streamline integration into ITSM."
"They have great integration with the active directory."
"It is a user-friendly product that requires almost no maintenance."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system.​"
"SCOM provides alerting capabilities and threshold settings, which are helpful for monitoring."
"It takes a lot of the headache out of managing your data centers and software in other places."
"The most valuable features for us are the monitoring, the health explorer, and the console."
"SCOM has helped us to monitor all the VMs in our environment, especially the Windows servers."
"SCOM integrates several systems and offers correlation features, like setting up everything around Active Directory or DNS."
 

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."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"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."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"On-prem network monitoring is something that could be improved drastically."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"All of the areas of reporting are very bad and need to be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"SCOM is very cheap because it's included in the license for the System Center suite, which is around $8,400 per CAL."
"SCOM is part of the System Center suite and I am satisfied with the pricing."
"It is more expensive than the competition."
"There is a license needed to use this solution and it is paid annually."
"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."
"SCOM's pricing is average."
"If you have a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, then this is part of the agreement."
"We have to pay for a license and the price is fine for us."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

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 do you like most about SCOM?
The tool helps to monitor Windows servers. It offers alerts from a central location.
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...
 

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System Center Operations Manager, SCOM 2012
 

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