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System Center Operations Manager

byMicrosoft
in Application Development
4.7

Overview

Product Information on System Center Operations Manager

Updated 13th October 2025

What is System Center Operations Manager?

System Center Operations Manager is a software designed to monitor and manage the health, performance, and availability of IT infrastructure across data centers and cloud environments. It provides comprehensive visibility into servers, virtual machines, applications, and network devices by collecting and analyzing operational data. The software enables IT administrators to detect and resolve issues, track system and application performance, and implement automated responses to incidents. System Center Operations Manager offers centralized management through dashboards and reporting tools, supports integration with other IT management platforms, and helps address the business problem of maintaining consistent service levels, reducing downtime, and optimizing the efficiency of IT operations.

System Center Operations Manager Pricing

System Center Operations Manager software uses a per-core licensing model and requires separate licenses for the management server and each monitored device or endpoint The software is available through volume licensing programs and may include different editions with varying features and capabilities Pricing varies based on the number of cores and devices managed and may be influenced by additional factors such as software assurance agreements

Overall experience with System Center Operations Manager

MANAGER, CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Healthcare and Biotech
FAVORABLE

“AI Integration Receives Positive Feedback While Operational Issues Cause Frustration”

5.0
Dec 9, 2025
very good and look at the one year road map for operation for our org
Senior Security Specialist
<50M USD, Banking
CRITICAL

“Especially for Microsoft-based servers.”

3.0
Apr 19, 2019
We use the operation manager as a monitoring application. We also use other monitoring applications. But each has different purposes. We use Operation Manager especially for our Microsoft-based servers. It monitors systems and generates alerts. But watching different applications is a little annoyance. For example, we lost a lot of time to define our mail archive system, but we were not successful yet. We can only say that it is used for Microsoft systems.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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System Center Operations Manager Likes & Dislikes

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AI and operation

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After identifying the problems, the knowledge base provides the process and recommendations to be made. Due to Microsoft application vendor support is quite good

Like

SCOM on a basic level offers great server monitoring and alerting capabilities of not only ups and downs, but service monitoring is excellent.

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to operate and troubleshoot

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Dislike

Dashboards are not the easiest to setup.

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4.7

(90 Ratings)

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  • MANAGER, CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    AI Integration Receives Positive Feedback While Operational Issues Cause Frustration

    5.0
    Dec 9, 2025
    very good and look at the one year road map for operation for our org
  • Systems-IT SYS Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Decades of Relying on SCOM for Centralized Server Monitoring

    5.0
    Feb 27, 2025
    We have been using SCOM for 15+ years for centralized server monitoring.
  • IT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    SCOM one of the best tools for monitoring and reporting for Enterprise Infrastructure.

    5.0
    May 24, 2023
    With over 15 years of extensive expertise in Microsoft Centralized management solutions like SCOM, SCCM, and others, I firmly advocate for the necessity of a comprehensive solution for large enterprises that enables seamless management of their entire infrastructure.
  • End User Compute Architect
    50M-1B USD
    Consumer Goods
    Review Source

    Stay up to date with your environment by monitoring all on prem servers.

    5.0
    Oct 14, 2021
    Stay up to date with all assets of your infrastructure, This is one of the most robust monitoring solutions for your on premise environment to date.
  • Senior Executive
    50M-1B USD
    Finance (non-banking)
    Review Source

    A great monitoring tool

    4.0
    Dec 10, 2019
    This is a great monitoring tool to know the software or hardware level incident occurs in any devices. The root cause of those incident can be found from this tool.
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