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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ServiceNow IT Operations Management

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/ABuilt on the Now Platform, the ServiceNow IT Operations Management bundle is designed to help users gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend.N/A

    SolarWinds Observability

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.

    $5

    per month node

    Pricing
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Observability
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Essentials
    $5
    per month per node
    Advanced
    $9
    per month per node
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Observability
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing is set per node, per month, and billing is annual. The prices listed are base prices that could increase depending on your environment. Please speak to a representative to get a quote.
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    Community Pulse
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    ServiceNow
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    11 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    8 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
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    Features
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Observability
    AIOps Features
    Comparison of AIOps Features features of ServiceNow IT Operations Management and SolarWinds Observability
    Feature
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management
    7.8
    5 Ratings
    2% above category average
    SolarWinds Observability
    -
    Ratings
    Monitoring and Alerting7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Analytics7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident Management8.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Service Desk Integration8.55 Ratings00 Ratings
    Root Cause Analysis8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Capacity Planning Tool6.64 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration and Change Management8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Remediation7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration and Communication6.94 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Intelligence6.93 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ServiceNow
    If you’re integrating with a CCaaS platform, don't just stop at "Ticket Sync." Focus on the Service Mapping. Knowing which technical components support which "Customer Journeys" is the biggest value-add you can provide to your customers' businesses. Trust me, they will know the value added.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds
    - For small teams serving big organizations - it's a really simple tool to install and set up relatively quickly. - the new installer is also great - I don't have to understand what modules need to be installed; it's all streamlined. - The HCO Licensing allows you to run the Additional polling engines at a scale where the previous licensing model didn't. We can deploy APEs in locations now, which would not have been worth the investment in previously as there weren't enough devices in that location/region to spend the $$$$ on an APE License.
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    Pros
    ServiceNow
    • Linking multipe records (Knowledge Items, Problem, change,. CI) to a single incident
    • A customers 'super" user has access to all cases that are filled by them.
    • When a change is filed and you link to the CI involved. You get an overview of all CI that depends on the involved CI.
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    SolarWinds
    • Automated dependency mapping is a big hit.
    • High availability is extremely simple to implement.
    • Simple to use and drill into issues.
    • Analysis of growth patterns driving the recommendation engine.
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    Cons
    ServiceNow
    • A lot of flexibility in the licensing options which can get overwhelming.
    • They are just starting to get into helping with DevOps so I don't have as much experience there but it's a challenge for us.
    • Pricing negotiations - although that can be pretty much every vendor.
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    SolarWinds
    • Can be complex to setup
    • Is strongest with network resources
    • Assumes a fairly large amount of base knowledge
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    Usability
    ServiceNow
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management assists your organization in actualizing proactive operations by anticipating issues before they affect users or the business, averting problems, streamlining workflows, and revolutionizing how your teams work together. ServiceNow IT Operations Management solutions offer actionable insights for your infrastructure, enabling you to utilize pre-built capabilities to accelerate value delivery and maintain 24/7 digital service operations across your entire IT environment.
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    SolarWinds
    - decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge
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    Alternatives Considered
    ServiceNow
    ServiceNow IT Operations Management is more flexible and easier to customize without altering core code. ServiceNow IT Operations Management enables more robust third-party integrations (e.g., Jira, Slack, ScienceLogic). ServiceNow IT Operations Management is easier to use and to implement. It is cloud-based and doesn't require "on-premise" infrastructure or solution.
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    SolarWinds
    Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades.
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    Return on Investment
    ServiceNow
    • With the regular use of ServiceNow IT Operations Management platform, our incident resolution time has gone down by over 90% over the past year
    • Our access and role granting process has been streamlined leading to increased developer hours by around ~90 PM
    • With the enablement of AIOps driven impact prediction, we expect an improvement of user communication time by over 90%
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    SolarWinds
    • one license requiring 1 PO to be raised
    • sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds Observability Screenshots

    Screenshot of ITOM Executive DashboardScreenshot of Observability MapsScreenshot of Performance Analysis DashboardScreenshot of Application Alerting DashboardScreenshot of Network Path Analysis