AppNeta vs. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppNeta
Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
AppNeta provides performance monitoring solutions for distributed, cloud-connected, digital enterprises. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.N/A
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Score 7.4 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
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
AppNeta
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Ratings
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
6.1
22 Ratings
22% below category average
Application monitoring00 Ratings5.020 Ratings
Database monitoring00 Ratings9.022 Ratings
Threshold alerts00 Ratings10.022 Ratings
Predictive capabilities00 Ratings2.120 Ratings
Application performance management console00 Ratings3.119 Ratings
Collaboration tools00 Ratings6.017 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings4.120 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings4.018 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings7.020 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings10.021 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings5.118 Ratings
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User Ratings
AppNetaMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(25 ratings)
Support Rating
5.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(8 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppNetaMicrosoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
Broadcom
AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.
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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
Broadcom
  • AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
  • AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
  • AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.
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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
Broadcom
  • Hardware has a lot of bugs.
  • Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.
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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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Support Rating
Broadcom
Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.
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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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Alternatives Considered
Broadcom
We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.
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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
Broadcom
  • A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
  • More detailed post outage investigation available.
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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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ScreenShots

AppNeta Screenshots

Screenshot of a visualization for monitoring what apps are in use on a network.Screenshot of AppNeta's in-depth diagnostics, used by IT Ops to identify the root cause of network and app performance issues.Screenshot of the enhanced Selenium scripting that can be used for web synthetic monitoring to benchmark and alert on performance for business-critical SaaS apps.Screenshot of monitoring of the actual application path with multi-protocol route determination for TCP, UDP and ICMP. Key network metrics can be tracked, like Latency, Loss, Capacity and Jitter continuously with AppNeta.Screenshot of how AppNeta correlates poor performance per host and--with Active Directory--with users.Screenshot of monitoring the usage of a network for recreational apps to see when they're stealing bandwidth from your business critical apps. Users can segment by location or app to drill into more details across the entire AppNeta Performance Manager dataset.