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Microsoft System Center vs. Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…

    $1,323

    per month

    Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)

    Score1.5 out of 10
    N/AOracle ITSM suite for enterprises was a suite of tools for managing, tracking, and servicing IT based on the Siebel HelpDesk. The suite is now End of Life, Oracle no longer offers the suite for sale.N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    31 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    33 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
    Happy with the feature set
    31 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    21 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    28 Answers
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    Features
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Microsoft System Center and Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    6.8
    1 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Service restoration00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Self-service tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Change management
    Comparison of Change management features of Microsoft System Center and Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    Microsoft System Center
    -
    Ratings
    Oracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    34% below category average
    Change requests repository00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Change calendar00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Service-level management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
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    Agiloft Service Desk (discontinued)
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus
    Score9.2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Ivanti ITSM
    Score6.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft System CenterOracle IT Service Management Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs.
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    It is helpful when someone wants to reassign issues and delegate tasks to other co-workers. However, it is not a good place for documentation because it is difficult to navigate older issue tickets. This is my personal experience with RightNow, an Oracle application used to manage our incident reports and project tracking documents
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Allows the grouping of devices by user.
    • Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices.
    • Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system.
    • Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine.
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    • It kept a log of all our issue tickets going back many years.
    • Oracle made it easy to collaborate on issue tickets and work with my team members.
    • It offered a number of features for formatting and inserting images and links, to make our issue tickets resemble an email.
    • Oracle helped our department to delegate issue tickets and monitor each other's projects.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing.
    • A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate.
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    • The search function was very poor, which made it difficult to find our issue tickets in RightNow.
    • The Reply feature was kind of messy at times, it was difficult to find out who originally sent in tickets and reply all to people.
    • It could have looked a bit sleeker, it looked somewhat outdated in the RightNow function.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product.
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    Implementation Rating
    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
    Microsoft
    We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring.
    • Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms.
    • Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment.
    • Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power).
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    • It was helpful because it was our only system for organizing incident reports, and it was where I worked 70% of the time to correspond with our customers.
    • The interface was sometimes time-consuming to use, and I wondered if there would have been a more streamlined program to use. It made our work seem slow at times.
    • This program did provide us with a back-log of all of our issues, so it was important for us to use to in order to find repeated incident reports.
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