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ServiceNow IT Operations Management vs. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ServiceNow IT Operations Management

    Score9 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 Hybrid Cloud Observability

    Score8.7 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 Hybrid Cloud Observability
    Editions & Modules
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    Essentials
    $5
    per month per node
    Advanced
    $9
    per month per node
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    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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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ServiceNow IT Operations ManagementSolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ServiceNow
    [...] is changing the way our internal support staff (not only in the IT field) work and enhancing the experience for employees seeking IT assistance through ServiceNow IT Operation Management. We have moved the usual and personalized IT tools and functions from [...] service-desk to ServiceNow IT Operations Management. These advancements have sparked innovation in various aspects of our IT support management, such as enhancing accessibility, managing incidents, optimizing IT workflows and procedures, enforcing service level agreements (SLAs), incorporating AI/ML technology, utilizing virtual agents, streamlining automation, and sharing knowledge throughout the support team via data visualization, monitoring, and reporting. In brief, our collaboration with ServiceNow IT Operations Management is enhancing the effectiveness of our internal system and benefiting our shared clients.
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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
    • In platform expertise and workflows, so we don't allows have to build everything from scratch.
    • Tight integration within ServiceNow (especially ITSM) but also brings information and data in from other sources, so I don't feel we are stuck in a proprietary hole.
    • Increased investment in AIOps and automation
    • Relatively fast time to value with out-of-the-box capabilities and automation.
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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
    • With the introduction of AIOps, we hope triaging outage impact can become more proactive
    • The UI could be greatly enhanced and simplified for daily operations
    • ServiceNow API access licenses are usually very limited bottlenecking use cases to build dashboards out from it
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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
    We achieved in financial what we are aiming for, as our targets are fulfilled, we solved many issues using ServiceNow, Creation of knowledge article improved, Ticket system got customized, overall survey from the customer is 4 out of 5, customization is done without any hustle and integration was very easy.
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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
    We wanted it integrated with ITSM and ITBM. Prioir to that we used JIRA for agile development and SysAid for ticketing. So we started with converting SysAid. We went live with Vanilla ITSM. Then we could have a basis for ITOM. However, we needed to migrated from JIRA to ITSM. Only then we felt mature enough to examine ITOM, which required quite a lot of resources. You need networking, motoring, IT and Cyber security team members in your project!!
    Incentivized
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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
    • Makes it MUCH easier to understand impact between application and server
    • Makes it easier to understand impact from a change and what all it affects
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    SolarWinds
    • one license requiring 1 PO to be raised
    • sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs
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    ScreenShots

    SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Screenshots

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