Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued) vs. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
Score 7.0 out of 10
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The Micro Focus AppPulse Suite was an integrated solution of synthetic, real-user, and diagnostic monitoring for UX, that included Micro Focus AppPulse Active synthetic monitoring for SLA, Micro Focus AppPulse Mobile for real user mobile experience, Micro Focus AppPulse Web for web app availability monitoring, and Micro Focus AppPulse Trace for transaction and code-level performance issues. The suite of products have been discontinued and are no longer available.N/A
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Score 7.5 out of 10
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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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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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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
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)
7.4
Ratings
3% below category average
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
6.1
Ratings
22% below category average
Application monitoring7.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Database monitoring6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Threshold alerts8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities8.00 Ratings2.00 Ratings
Application performance management console7.00 Ratings3.00 Ratings
Collaboration tools8.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications7.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding7.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring7.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery8.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.3
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User Testimonials
Micro Focus AppPulse Suite (discontinued)Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Likelihood to Recommend
From my point of view, when we are working with a medium package project, this Micro Focus AppPulse Suite is very useful and effective at finding problems in our activities and codes and isolating them. But when we are working on large-size projects or backend performances, it works slowly to detect issues.
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Well suited for IT Departments that can budget the funds and time needed for setup and maintenance of SCOM. The end product is well suited for medium to large environments that have 100's of resources that require monitoring and reporting. Enterprise level statistics are at your fingertips with a few clicks of a mouse after the product has been configured and agents have been deployed. As I said previously, we are a small business and I was fortunate enough to be able to budget this product into our environment. It did take us a while to configure and fully deploy, but as a result, we are well-informed and are able to extract detailed information as it pertains to usage/consumption of our workstation and server resources to include performance metrics and any errors that may arise.
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Pros
  • Monitoring user web activities from the user's point of view.
  • Gives status details as clear dashboard formats.
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  • SCOM can manage Windows OS systems from desktops to servers very well.
  • SCOM is platform agnostic in that we manage physical and virtual machines with no differentiation.
  • SCOM can quickly deploy emergency security patches and the best part is it can provide detailed results of success and failure rate of patch deployment.
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Cons
  • It's getting slow when we work with large projects.
  • At first it's hard to find some features.
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  • It is a monster of a system and really needs a person managing the system full time
  • Options are a bit clunky especially when you need to set overrides.
  • Takes a lot of time and effort to setup alerts as you want them, don't rely on the out of the box options you need to invest time into the system to get what you want out of it.
  • Make sure you size the underlying database server/s correctly (Microsoft provide a tool to calculate based on number of objects you plan to collect data on), it is a datawarehouse underneath after all.
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Likelihood to Renew
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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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Ease of Use and user friendly dashboard
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Support Rating
Overall the support is good. Most of the hard situations passed smoothly because of the support team.
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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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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
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SolarWinds stacks well on the ease of use with an easily installable version and highly modular (products can be added to the basic installation and are easily managed from a single endpoint. System Center Operations Manager was selected because the majority of the environment is based on Windows products and it was part of the licensing agreement. It offered an easy way to consolidate the monitoring tools to provide a single point of management.
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Return on Investment
  • With effective dashboard, it describes everything easily.
  • Easy to setup and have some difficulties to handle.
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  • Since we are at the tail end of our POC, we have no immediate ROI to report.
  • That said, during the POC, we immediately identified several issues within TFS that we immediately addressed and will potentially save us hours of lost time and troubleshooting.
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