Rootly vs. xMatters

Rootly is great for both remote companies and in-person, but especially well suited for remote. There is such a wide variety of functionalities that Rootly can offer, both internally for your company and externally for your customers. Rootly streamlines and centralizes a lot of data you may be keeping in separate spaces which could be excluding some memebers from being in the loop and adds additional time in your day tracking and organization information. Rootly makes everything real-time for our company through the integrations

Incentivized

We use xMatters for our alerting on critical matters. ServiceNow is our incident management system and it ties into xMatters. When a critical alert is generated it will notify the appropriate party. I'm trying to see if two other departments can use it. We are looking for a refrigeration system and for weather alerts when bad storms are coming

Incentivized

• clear tracking
• step management, for where we are at in the process of resolving the issues (whose hands it is currently in to deal with the problem)
• centralized clear and easy communication to our organization

Incentivized

• Close to real-time alert notifications over preferable options, like phone call, text, email, or app notification.
• Automated incident communication about critical system outages based on alerts received in the system.
• Automated on-call roster and notification deliveries to SME.

Incentivized

• while the interface provides great information and everything that you need, there can be a learning curve to understand what you are looking at
• having all notifications on for slack/teams can cause lots of notifications in a larger organization
• like any technology, there is room for error with feature issues or integrations issues

Incentivized

• granular notification settings
• Allowing users to create custom integration templates would provide more flexibility and control over how xMatters integrates with their systems
• Additional built-in integrations with other applications would be an area of improvement.

great usability, bit of a learning curve with the product because there is so much information to digest and Rootly gives you lots of different angles and preferences for how you would like to see it displayed. For those with high tech skills its much easier but for those who are less tech savvy it can be overwhelming

Incentivized

xMatters has a pretty good UI. However, its versatility does get in the way a little as the number of options can be overwhelming, and it sometimes takes a while to find the place you want, or get the result you want. I don't have any suggestions on how to fix this, it's just a side effect of the complexity that xMatters offers.

Incentivized

Working with xMatters support has been fantastic! Our support rep is very friendly, helpful, and knowledgeable. We get quick response times when asking questions, and when we have more complex problems, it's easy to schedule a call and spend some time working through our issues together. Every time we've had a problem we've been able to get the info we need and get a resolution easily.

Incentivized

xMatters is a market leader among many new burgeoning products in the stakeholder notification space. They are historically one of two original enterprise products in this space. Great client base of large companies and good reputation. xMatters offers flexible licensing models, depending on functional needs. It's easy to learn and use but slightly more difficult to administer.

Incentivized

• streamlined communication for our entire business, one stop shop for incidents and their updates
• Improved collaboration and engagement from our org
• faster response times and more accurate reporting

Incentivized

• Quicker response times for on-call personnel.
• Managers are able to pull reports faster for any incidents escalated to their team.
• When needing to contact another on-call associate from another team, xMatters provides conference bridge lines. You don't have to set up meetings through Outlook or Skype.

Incentivized