There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. I rate the product price as five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is cheap and ten means it is expensive. It is a fairly priced product. There is no need to pay any additional charges apart from the standard licensing charges associated with the solution.
I know that sometimes there is some reduction in the prices of Microsoft System Center because of the costs of Microsoft SQL Server, which can be advantageous.
Microsoft System Center is quite expensive. They offer yearly basis licenses. Our customers have to purchase only the licenses, whereas our company needs to get an extra support contract.
ESM Product Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Oct 22, 2019
Evaluate tools for the best fit for your environment. In terms of setup cost and pricing of SCOM, evaluate and spec your infrastructure environment sufficiently to ensure the environment will handle the load from the number of endpoints being monitored.
System Center helps customers realize the benefits of the Microsoft Cloud Platform by delivering unified management. Experience fast time-to-value with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service.
Microsoft System Center's licensing is costly.
There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. I rate the product price as five to six on a scale of one to ten, where one means it is cheap and ten means it is expensive. It is a fairly priced product. There is no need to pay any additional charges apart from the standard licensing charges associated with the solution.
I know that sometimes there is some reduction in the prices of Microsoft System Center because of the costs of Microsoft SQL Server, which can be advantageous.
Microsoft System Center is quite expensive. They offer yearly basis licenses. Our customers have to purchase only the licenses, whereas our company needs to get an extra support contract.
On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.
I rate System Center seven out of 10 for affordability.
I'd advise others to seek a specialized consultancy and request references. This will greatly change your perception of this tool.
It's rolled into our enterprise subscription. The entire subscription is around $25,000 a year, however, that covers all the products that we use.
Evaluate tools for the best fit for your environment. In terms of setup cost and pricing of SCOM, evaluate and spec your infrastructure environment sufficiently to ensure the environment will handle the load from the number of endpoints being monitored.