Systems Management Software

Systems Management

What is Systems Management Software?

Systems Management software assists in managing an organization’s infrastructure. Functions include software distribution and upgrading, user profile management, version control, backup and recovery, job scheduling, virus protection, and more.

Common Features

  • Auto-Discovery
  • Event Correlation & Management
  • Server Performance Monitoring
  • Deployment Model
  • Access Rights Management
  • Network Performance Management
  • Network Mapping
  • Network Configuration Management
  • Capacity Management
  • Multi-Site Functionality
  • Cloud Monitoring
  • Applications Monitoring
  • Storage Monitoring
  • Patching Automation
  • Centralized Dashboard
  • Automated Remediation

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Products: 8
Next Award: Jun 2025

Top Systems Management Software 2024

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8.9 /10
CX Score
9.2 /10

AWS Systems Manager is a secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments.

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Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Efficient Service
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Datadog

Datadog

Composite Score
8.4 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Datadog is a monitoring service for hybrid cloud applications, assisting organizations in improving agility, increasing efficiency, and providing end-to-end visibility across the application and organization. Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications that brings together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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Pros

  • Fair
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Reliable
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Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.5 /10

Move IT operations from a reactive team to one that works intelligently for the business. Gain visibility across infrastructure and apps, maintain service health, and optimize cloud delivery and spend. Deliver high-performance business services with visibility and AIOps.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful
  • Generous Negotitation
  • Enables Productivity
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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Operations Management Suite (also known as OMS) is a collection of cloud-based services for managing your on-premises and cloud environments from one single place. Rather than deploying and managing on-premises resources, OMS components are entirely hosted in Azure.

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Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Altruistic
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Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

IBM Power is a family of servers that are based on IBM Power processors and are capable of running IBM AIX, IBM i and Linux. Respond faster to business demands, protect your data from core to cloud, and streamline insights and automation. Modernize your applications and infrastructure with a frictionless hybrid cloud experience. IBM Power servers provide the agility, reliability and sustainability your organization requires.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Effective Service
  • Security Protects
  • Performance Enhancing
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Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.1 /10

Deliver higher service quality and achieve greater IT efficiency with Kaseya VSA, offering remote monitoring and management for all IT functions integrated in a single console. Maximize your IT team’s efficiency, streamline operations and enhance service delivery across your IT landscape with Kaseya VSA.

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Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Respectful
  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

Oracle Enterprise Manager 24ai brings the power of modern, AI-infused management technologies to supercharge your Oracle Database and Engineered Systems across your data centers and cloud. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a – single pane of glass – that allows you to manage on-premises and cloud-based IT using the same familiar interface you know and use on-premises every day.

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Pros

  • Respectful
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Helps Innovate
  • Enables Productivity
Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to monitor your applications and their supporting infrastructure, whether running on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid environment. Don’t let slow applications and downtime impact your end users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack.

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Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Inspires Innovation
  • Saves Time
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft System Center

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.4 /10

System Center helps customers gain an unified datacenter management experience with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service capabilities. You can now extend System Center capabilities with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) to deliver a cloud-inspired, platform-agnostic solution to help you manage both traditional infrastructure and modern applications with ease. System Center enhances agility and performance by streamlining the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenter.

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Pros

  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service
  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity

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Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Nagios XI is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes. Nagios XI monitors your entire IT infrastructure to ensure systems, applications, services, and business processes are functioning properly. In the event of a failure, Nagios can alert staff of the issue to begin remediation before outages affect business processes, end-users, or customers.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
  • Unique Features