AppFog (discontinued) vs. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a monitoring and application performance management option, with the core datacenter and cloud-based systems monitoring.N/A
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Features
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
2 Ratings
18% below category average
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
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Ratings
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
6.4
23 Ratings
19% below category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings5.021 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings8.023 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings10.023 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings6.821 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings3.020 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings5.018 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.821 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings5.919 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.021 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.122 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings2.119 Ratings
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AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
8.0
(26 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(9 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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Microsoft
More appropriate for:
  • Pure Microsoft ecosystem environments (Windows Server and SQL server) and the most common Linux and UNIX platforms.
  • Environments where cost is less of a factor than settling on a single platform for monitoring
  • Environments where the administrators are familiar with the setup and installation of SCOM.
Less appropriate for:
  • Pure UNIX/Linux shops, especially versions not supported out of the box by SCOM.
  • Shops that cannot afford the engagement to setup/configure and maintain on a continuous basis.
  • Shops that cannot dedicate personnel to the care and feeding of SCOM, especially when supporting larger environments.
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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Microsoft
  • Allows us to visualize our systems in a single interface and see the status of health as well as relevant performance metrics.
  • A flexible and powerful interface with active alerting covering domain controllers, SQL servers, etc...
  • Allows you to customize your views and workspaces for specific tasks and needs.
  • Reporting is powerful and flexible.
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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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Microsoft
  • One of the biggest drawbacks to SCOM is the sheer scope and complexity of the system. This can be a pro and a con. The system is very customizable, what you put into it is what you'll get out of it. That said, the learning curve is fairly steep. An organization needs to be committed to putting time and resources into SCOM to get the most out of it. I've heard stories from colleagues of several different companies that invested in SCOM and then abandoned it due to the excessive time and care required.
  • SCOM is expensive. Not only is the enterprise licensing costly, SCOM requires it's own servers, operational and warehouse databases to be maintained.
  • The OOB SCOM reports are a bit clunky and feel outdated.
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Likelihood to Renew
Discontinued Products
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Microsoft
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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Usability
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Microsoft
Ease of Use and user friendly dashboard
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Support Rating
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Microsoft
Hard to get support. The product is not being actively developed anymore, so it is hard to get new features for the product.
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Implementation Rating
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Microsoft
Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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Microsoft
We used Altiris and WSUS and in the beginning Altiris had the better admin interface than SCOM, but it is no longer the case as SCOM has refined their admin interface. Altiris still has better and more robust group assignments for management roles and those two other tools can better manage non Windows OS devices than SCOM but for a large enterprise Windows shop, if you can afford it, SCOM is the way to go.
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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Microsoft
  • It has allowed us to provide an Enterprise Event/Alert management solution to the Global company
  • It has taken a long time to get it to provide valuable alerts and information, lots of user resources and investment.
  • It assists with 24/7 monitoring and out of hours support
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