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PROS

xMatters facilitates rapid incident response through its efficient integration with ServiceNow.
The self-service feature allows users to manage their own notifications, reducing data center load.
Scalability has not been an issue, demonstrating reliability over a two-year period.
The Flow Designer feature allows setup of integrations and flows without requiring coding expertise.
Its notification system supports various platforms, ensuring timely communication during incidents.

CONS

Integrations can be complex, requiring technical expertise in products outside of xMatters.
The REST API lacks certain needed functionalities.
On-call management scheduling is challenging.
Reporting is limited and lacks sufficient features for comprehensive review.
There is no support for Slack as a communication method.
 

xMatters Pros review quotes

reviewer1855452 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 10, 2022
The ability to have the rota and then configure notifications that you can directly fire them into the group is most valuable. The India shift is from 2:00 AM to 9:00 AM, and then it is the UK shift from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM UK time, and then there is also a defined US shift and on-call hours. It allows us to make sure that everyone is going to get notified when they need to be about an issue. We can target specific locations or users with notifications.
Dean-Robinson - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 26, 2022
xMatters stood out to us during our research because of the versatility of its rotas, how we could set up various group rotas, different shift patterns, the ability to order devices and add personal devices etc. It's a much more flexible solution than ServiceNow, the in-house tool we also evaluated.
reviewer1875621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Situational Awareness Engineering at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 6, 2022
We haven't evaluated any product recently, but from what I can tell, looking around online, what xMatters has that others don't have are the custom forms. That's the big differentiator at the moment because that's something that we heavily use.
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Larry Radtke - PeerSpot reviewer
Intermediate Infrastructure Software Administrator at Gordon Food Service
May 15, 2022
For us, their biggest feature is event alerting and the retention of those events. This way, if something goes wrong, we can provide a report of everything that was sent out and everything that was captured.
reviewer1861323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2022
The most valuable features are the ability to have groups and then have an on-call rotation in the groups. Outlook lacks both these features. Outlook gives you the ability to contact an individual or groups, but you can't contact them based on an on-call rotation, and you can't have built-in timing escalations inside of that. xMatters gives you the ability to do that, which is important when you have 50 or so people in the team, but you only want to contact the person who is on-call. You don't create any unnecessary noise. xMatters allows you to page the right person who is on-call versus just creating excessive noise.
reviewer1882881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 14, 2022
For our major incident management, it has expanded what we can do in terms of the format of the communication. People can subscribe, and they can receive delivery on multiple platforms, whether it's a voice message, email, or mobile app message. It enables us to deliver the right communication to the right people in the format they want.
reviewer1858839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 201-500 employees
May 14, 2022
We're able to communicate better with specific groups or offices. We didn't have that capability or granularity before. It has helped in that regard.
Nikita Chandapur - PeerSpot reviewer
Software QA Analyst at ViaSat
May 17, 2022
Being able to split the week however we want is definitely most valuable. We can create shifts and also see other teams' schedules. It is a very easy search to do these things.
Joseph Yin - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Applications Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 15, 2022
The feature that I have found to be most valuable is the entire alert notification configuration, having an external system to trigger events that will process the alert to the supporting team. If a system is down, then you need to get it attention. Sometimes, it cannot wait until the next day. Therefore, how xMatters provides this type of integration is critical.
ES
Senior Manager of Technology Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 20, 2021
We saw the value by being able to import everyone's schedule into one common central repository and have one tool for all the operational teams, or any team for that matter. It gave us the technology to find out who is on call. The incident management of xMatters' integration was another key aspect, where we could say, "You can configure this when a high ticket fires."
 

xMatters Cons review quotes

reviewer1855452 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 10, 2022
They recently released an incident module that allows users, or at least teams, to track major incidents and other things, and you can send out communication via that one webpage. You can engage on-call teams and communicate to stakeholders as well, but one thing that is missing there is a group chat. If there is a group chat on the same webpage that all of the support teams could use, it would be a one-stop shop that all of the major incident managers would use as their product to manage a major incident. Without that, at the moment, they are mainly referring to teams and then adding data into xMatters as and when they can.
Dean-Robinson - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Developer at a media company with 10,001+ employees
Oct 26, 2022
The reporting functionality could be improved, though I know that's something xMatters, inc. is working on. For example, sometimes I need to go into the platform and find users who aren't in groups that have been created recently, haven't logged in and so on. Previously, this was hard work, but they added loads of filters, making it more accessible. Still, the ability to create custom-designated reports that I could run and schedule would be fantastic for me. It would be good if they keep improving the reporting functionality, as it can be somewhat restrictive sometimes.
reviewer1875621 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager - Situational Awareness Engineering at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Jun 6, 2022
I've asked for the ability to have tags on groups, and for dynamic lists, meaning the ability to pull data from another location and use it in xMatters dynamically. Right now, for example, if I have a form and want to populate a list, it's a manual process. I have to copy and paste the list items.
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Larry Radtke - PeerSpot reviewer
Intermediate Infrastructure Software Administrator at Gordon Food Service
May 15, 2022
In terms of intuitiveness and flexibility of xMatters when it comes to customizing on-call schedules, rotations, and escalations, for me, as an IT professional, setting it up isn't that big of a deal, but I understand that some people struggle with it because when you get wrapped up into it. You can get lost. It's not super complex, but it's complicated enough to the point where you can say that you should have done it another way. The shift part can be confusing for some people. In that respect, one of the shortcomings my team has found is when we have to add another person, such as a new hire, to xMatters, we can't add them to a group within xMatters without having to put them on a shift. If we put them in a group, they have to be on-call. We can create their account, and then they're just out there in limbo until their team says, "You have to be on this shift." One piece of feedback for xMatters is to figure out how to have manageable groups so that they're contactable from xMatters. They do not necessarily have to be on a shift right from the start or at all for that matter.
reviewer1861323 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
May 25, 2022
In terms of restoration, if you delete something, or you have multiple users that have the ability to delete a group, a user profile, or a workflow, the ability to restore it within the GUI is not available. There are a whole bunch of programs that are required to allow for that to happen. A button to go back to a good point in time would be really nice. A lot of other tools have a better backup and restoration solution, but xMatters is a little bit short on that. They have about 95% solution available, but the other 5% requires manual effort. We would like to be able to just push a button and say, "I want to restore this piece back to this date," but we can't do that with the tool right now.
reviewer1882881 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Jun 14, 2022
A lot of the issues that we've had have already been addressed. However, they could be clearer with the actual throughput and the costs. The throughput that we signed up for was a lot lower than what we needed, and we had to pay a lot more to get the throughput that we needed.
reviewer1858839 - PeerSpot reviewer
Works with 201-500 employees
May 14, 2022
Additional built-in integrations with other applications would be an area of improvement.
Nikita Chandapur - PeerSpot reviewer
Software QA Analyst at ViaSat
May 17, 2022
We cannot go back in time to check out the previous schedules that we had. We can only see them moving forward. I wish we were able to go back and see the previous schedules that we had. That's the biggest thing.
Joseph Yin - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Applications Analyst at a comms service provider with 5,001-10,000 employees
Mar 15, 2022
I would like some minor UI changes. I believe I filed some enhancement requests with xMatters. For example, in one area, they have some way for you to look at a particular functionality with different sets of reporting UI. However, that same reporting UI is not yet available with some other functionalities. Essentially, in their existing functionality, the xMatters application does an excellent job, but in other functionalities within their UI, they don't have that. On the back-end, they are related. Instead of one click where you can see everything, right now you need to go to different areas to access similar information. It would be nice to have everything in one place. While they have an excellent element A, I am hoping that they could just simply make that feature also available in their element B.
ES
Senior Manager of Technology Operations at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Oct 20, 2021
What I would like it to do is tell me anytime there is a P1 incident, except when the ticket is assigned to this team or when this word is in the summary, but there is no exclusion option. I have been complaining about this for a couple years. At one point, we created a ticket for this with the developers to review. I assume that once enough people complain about it, they will bump it up in priority to work on. However, if not enough people think it is an issue, then they prioritize their work and work on other features and functionality. However, this is something that has been challenging for us because we have needed to find ways to work around it or just deal with it. So, I would love to see an exclusion option.