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Evanios vs IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus comparison

Evanios and IBM are both solutions in the Event Monitoring category. Evanios is ranked #16, while IBM is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. Evanios holds a 2.8% mindshare in EM, compared to IBM’s 6.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Evanios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of IBM users who would recommend it.
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80% willing to recommend
 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 23, 2025

IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and Evanios compete in the IT operations management space. IBM emphasizes comprehensive monitoring capabilities, while Evanios appeals with advanced features for integration.

Features: IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus provides robust network monitoring with incident management, real-time alerts, and data aggregation capabilities. Its event management offers seamless handling of alerts with detailed information. The platform supports various protocols and provides a user-friendly interface for efficient system management. Evanios excels in integrating with ITSM tools, enhancing data insights across platforms. It offers advanced rule-based management capabilities and reliable agent architecture, allowing flexibility and scalability in complex environments. The seamless integration with alert-generating systems holds significant value for organizations.

Room for Improvement: IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus could benefit from enhanced compatibility beyond IBM DB2 and improved ease in customization for non-technical users. Expansion in native integration options and streamlined deployment processes would be advantageous. Additionally, making visual interfaces more intuitive could bolster its overall appeal. Evanios might look to refine its integration assistance offerings and expand support for even broader sets of ITSM tools. A focus on simplifying complex configurations could make its deployment more user-friendly. Increasing flexibility in rule customization would cater to varying enterprise needs.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus presents a traditional deployment model, which accommodates extensive customization, although the process may require significant time and expertise. Its customer service is comprehensive, leveraging IBM's established infrastructure capabilities. Evanios offers an intuitive deployment process, reducing time and effort needed, with a responsive support team oriented towards facilitating integrations.

Pricing and ROI: IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus has a higher initial setup cost but offers strong ROI through its versatile and comprehensive monitoring capabilities. The support structure justifies the investment for enterprises requiring stable and extensive monitoring solutions. Evanios presents a cost-effective setup, making it appealing for businesses prioritizing lower initial costs with an emphasis on integration and unification of processes. Its potential ROI is boosted by its contribution to reducing operational expenses over time.

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Categories and Ranking

Evanios
Ranking in Event Monitoring
16th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
IT Infrastructure Monitoring (70th), IT Operations Analytics (18th)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus
Ranking in Event Monitoring
3rd
Average Rating
7.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
15
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Event Monitoring category, the mindshare of Evanios is 2.8%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is 6.5%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Event Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus6.5%
Evanios2.8%
Other90.7%
Event Monitoring
 

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Deepak-Malik
Director at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Customizable solution that provides the ability to ingest alerts from different systems
The price could be cheaper. That was one reason why we switched to PagerDuty. We wanted to switch to something that provided the same features but at a lower cost. We also switched because PagerDuty provided other features like integration with ServiceNow and the scheduling of engineers. Evanios was only for event integration. Evanios created too much noise. For every alert, it would create an incident. We received too many alerts and incidents from monitoring. It wasn't able to intelligently ingest alerts. It created 4,000 incident tickets in a month, which didn't reflect what was happening. If we received an alert, the synthetic monitoring and volume drop would give us the same alert. Evanios should include alert ingestion and de-duplication of alerts and noise reduction. We couldn't have people resolving each and every incident. PagerDuty gives us reports on how many alerts are being ingested, how many are noise, how many have bigger incidents, and which of the alerts are creating noise. It would be helpful if Evanios had metrics on the amount of alerts and types of the alerts to show which ones were serious incidents and which ones were just noise.
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Ramnarayan Saminatharao
EMEA Senior Sales Manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Customization and robust network monitoring enhance operational efficiency
The most useful functions for monitoring purposes with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are that it can be automated in many ways. Most importantly, it can communicate with many network components without requiring any medium connectors. You can directly integrate it if you have SNMP, which is great. The main benefits that IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus provides are that it's an umbrella tool that can be placed on top of any existing monitoring system. You can monitor the entire network from this tool. The underlying interfaces can be many, but you can keep it as a single tool in IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus and it can manage the load on its own. It negates the need to train the user base with other tools. I can provide this single tool and have hundreds of different tools underlying, but I only need to train one single user base, which is a great advantage.
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Creation of incidents was previously a manual process with lots of copy and paste, swivel chair, mistakes, and missed events, and everything is now automated with events correlated and deduplicated, as well as crosschecks against scheduled change outages."
"Provided up to a 90% noise reduction in some our noisy monitoring tools."
"The ability to manipulate events via JavaScript getting the exact data that we want."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with various alert-generating systems because you may have synthetic alerts or monitoring alerts for volume drops."
"Evanios has helped us reduce our incident count by about 60% in just three months into implementation and we are seeing great ROI right from the first month."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with various alert-generating systems because you might have synthetic alerts or monitoring alerts for volume drops."
"Incredible ROI: As soon as we switched to Evanios, we started seeing events that were being unknowingly suppressed in our previous solution."
"So far, the amount of IT hours to maintain and support has dropped dramatically."
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"It is customer-centric. Customers can access the event list from their location or desktop and view the event. There is no need to go and connect to any other server and run events to have a view of all the events happening in the environment. We get a good response from customers about this feature and the main architecture of NetCool. Its processing is very good. Deduplication and correlation functionalities are good in this solution as compared to other solutions. A big advantage of NetCool is that it also supports multi-layered protocols. We can receive multiple events from different protocols like UDP, HTTP, and those events can be captured in NetCool."
"OMNIbus is valuable for its compatibility and performance, as I haven't encountered any performance issues."
"The most useful functions for monitoring purposes with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus are that it can be automated in many ways, and most importantly, it can communicate with many network components without requiring any medium connectors."
"Difficult to implement ( more resource and timing) but flexibility in implementation."
"This is an amazing product and you will fall in love with it."
"This solution is highly scalable; we have hundreds of probes running on more than thousands of devices, gathering millions of alarms and creating thousands of tickets, and yet we have never seen any performance issue."
"It also offers us everything we need in terms of features and functionality."
"Overall, this is a great tool and one that I recommend but it depends on the cost."
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Cons

"More complex correlation rules would be nice. The ability to clearly define a parent event in a correlation and nested correlations, specifically."
"More complex correlation rules would be nice. The ability to clearly define a parent event in a correlation and nested correlations, specifically."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Evanios created too much noise. For every alert, it would create an incident."
"System information and status (easy to read for all levels of IT) Clearer instructions on setting up alert notifications to support staff in the event of an issue with product: There are some instructions on their support site but I'm looking for something a little more detailed to understand the flow of events (expected compared to unexpected)."
"There were initially some minor issues around domain separation in ServiceNow."
"We would like the ability to have an "exit" option for events when they are being processed."
"Yes often problems appear after resolving a previous one."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date. The next release should focus on the cloud, AI, and ML technologies."
"I would like for the next release to be more user-friendly and out of date."
"The cost of the product is quite high. They should work to adjust their pricing models."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
"There should be an easier-to-understand model, more of a flat-structured model rather than different tiers of licenses which complicates licensing."
"The solution needs to invest in the development of a knowledge base and use of AI services for providing event resolution and intervention directions."
"The web portal and typical event controls are a little outdated."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Its license cost is a little bit more than other solutions. Our customers expect a standard market price that is comparative to other products. For each and every NetCool OMNIbus component, we have to purchase a separate license. These components are not free with the product."
"You have to have the right level of budget to afford this solution."
"It is a costly solution."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
14%
Energy/Utilities Company
7%
Retailer
5%
 

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Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
 

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What needs improvement with IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
Based on my experience and my colleagues' feedback, IBM can improve IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus in automation with respect to using AI, as it lacks considerably compared to other tools. The integrat...
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What is your primary use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus?
My current use case for IBM Tivoli NetCool OMNIbus is for monitoring the networks.
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Overview

A key component of the Event Management process is consolidation of events from across the enterprise. By consolidating disparate events into a single solution, they can be de-duplicated and correlated. For example, network failure events can be correlated with system failures, and then prioritized based on service impact.

Reduce the noise

Evanios Integrations allows filtering and processing close to the event source, keeping the weight off of the ServiceNow system for increased performance. Filters are easily configured. EVA, the Evanios consolidation point also has built in event flood control features, to protect against unexpected event storms which can quickly overload traditional integrations.

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Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus provides near real-time service assurance for business infrastructure, applications, servers, network devices and protocols, Internet protocols, storage and security devices.
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Sample Customers

Greenville Health System, Land O’Lakes, AstraZeneca
Consolidated Communications, €sterreichische Bundesbahnen (€BB), Capgemini
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