xMatters

RATING:

4.5

(137)

About xMatters

xMatters is a cloud-based incident management solution designed to help businesses of all sizes automate identification, prevention and resolution of IT issues. Features include dynamic toolchains, real-time notifications, actionable responses, a centralized dashboard, automatic routing and ChatOps rooms. xMatters allows organizations to collaborate with teams via SMS, email or voice messages. Its monitoring functionality creates helpdesk tickets directly from alerts and sends notifications via conference bridges. Its notification management feature enables users to limit the intensity of alerts and block devices. Additionally, its timeline optimization system lets businesses analyze the entire incident management process, from raising a ticket to assigning it to a...

xMatters Pricing

IT Management Pricing: Free: $0 per user / month Starter: $9 per user / month Base: $39 per user / month Advanced: Contact Us --------------------------------------------------- Business Continuity Management Pricing: Free: $0 per user / month Starter: $9 per user / year Base: $12.48 per user / year Advanced: $15.96 per user / year

Starting price: 

$9.00 per month

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xMatters Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for xMatters

1 - 5 of 136 Reviews

Christina

Warehousing, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2017

xMatters Review

I feel the product does a great job and has been very reliable. The organization has been great as far as informing their customers on new features and functionality. Where I do feel they could use some work is on their licensing model. I feel it is complicated to figure out their pricing model and they should address this as well as the product is very pricing if you want to extend it for "limited use" within your organization.

PROS

Ease of use, reliability and the find/assign with escalation capabilities. Having one tool to notify and also be able to do scheduling for on-call rotations is a benefit.

CONS

Pricing is too high as well as the pricing model for purchasing licensing. It is based on business cases versus just something like we offer 3 types of licenses that do x, y, and z.

Vendor Response

Hi Christina. We are so happy our product is working well for your business and appreciate you taking the time to review. Our next quarterly release is coming soon and we look forward to sharing details on our integration directory and enhanced timeline report.

Replied February 2017

Cliff

Retail, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2017

Bridge Call process has been the major impoact

Prior to gaining xMatters for bridge call processes, trying to get team(s) on a call manually was a very tedious process. Whether it was sending out a generic "high priority" email with bridge call details and hoping teams would get on, to trying to use a manual on-call list to contact users directly to join a bridge, the biggest improvement in the process has been xMatters ability to target groups and on-call users and get them on the call in an improved timely manner. There are small improvements that could be added to the process, which has been suggested to xMatters teams and development. It takes a time to build and implement such features, but we are hoping certain features will be improved upon or added in the later future! I do know there are other integrations which are available which we have not even touched on yet. As we continue the process and get integrations built and working in the later future, we do see the possibility of xMatters being even more powerful than we currently see.

PROS

For bridge calls, the ability to efficiently gather individuals that are needed in order to resolve situations in a timely manner.

CONS

Still, more potential that could be added or built. However, xMatters is always taking suggestions and adding more features as time moves along.

Vendor Response

Hi Cliff. Thanks very much for leaving an xMatters review on Capterra and for your positive comments. It is appreciated by all of us. We are always evaluating enhancements that our customers have requested so we can continue to improve our product capabilities. Our next quarterly release is coming soon and we look forward to sharing details on new enhancements especially with the integration directory which will allow you to integrate even more easily than before.

Replied February 2017

Tony

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2017

1st run at xMatters

Our install of the 1-way integration was very smooth. To setup and use the product was simple. Any questions I had were easy to locate through your support documentation. Our implementation of the 2-way integration has been a bit of a challenge. We allotted 100 hours to install the application in our lab environment, test it, and move it to our QA environment prior to installing it in our Prod environment. We are out of hours & just completed the QA setup. We have yet to address LDAP & SSO. So far everything is testing clean in QA.

PROS

Easy of use.

CONS

Setup time for operational use.

Vendor Response

Hi Tony. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for xMatters. Reviews help us evaluate our products and performance. We are happy that the one-way integration went well. We will continue to improve our integration capabilities over the next few releases, including the one coming in March, which should help getting further integrations that you look to do be completed in a easier and faster way. If you run into any issues though, please feel free to contact your CSM or our Support team who can help you through it.

Replied February 2017

Arunkumar

Computer Software, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2017

Awesome Tool for notification

We use xmatters in our account to notify end users when critical tickets are raised and it has been very helpful. The tool works flawless, specifically after we moved to cloud. Love the design of the tool which is very easy to use. Only negative thing I noticed is there is no proper way of reporting things. For eg: if I need to pull a list of all on call person for a group or supervisors it's tough as we have more than 800 groups. The reports need to be improvised and allow end users to select the fields which they want in the report and few other options.

PROS

Easy to use. Notification triggered on time Creating widgets is very simple and easy to learn.

CONS

Only negative thing I noticed is there is no proper way of reporting things. For eg: if I need to pull a list of all on call person for a group or supervisors its tough as we have more than 800 groups. the reports need to be improvised and allow end users to select the fields which they want in the report and few other options.

Vendor Response

HI Arunkumar. Thanks very much for leaving an xMatters review on Capterra and for your positive comments. I read your perspective about improved reporting capabilities. If you have specific examples, please let your CSM know and we will review it internally. Our next quarterly release is coming soon and we look forward to sharing details on new enhancements including our enhanced timeline report and who is on call report.

Replied February 2017

Dave

Retail, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2017

Get the right Support personnel involved, Right Now!

Our Company utilizes 2 integrations with xMatters. Control-M which not only allows on-call personnel to perform first level support from anywhere via the mobile app and direct interaction with Control-M to gater Output and take actions directly with Control-M. We also utilize an integration with Service-Now incident reporting to get the needed support quickly for other IT problems outside of our batch processing enviroments. xMatters enables the right personnel to get involved quickly and also provides direct accountability which our managemnt teams appreciate.

PROS

Enables my team to get out of the manual notification processes when issues arise. Anyone in the IT Organization can initiate notifications for support.

CONS

Upgrades can be a bit tricky since the product does get cutomized for your personal needs.

Vendor Response

Hi Dave. Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for xMatters. Reviews help us evaluate our products and performance. We want to provide the best level of service to you and appreciate you taking the time to comment. Our next release is coming in March and in it we will have even more improvements to our integration capabilities which will allow you to integrate more easily with tools in your organization. If you run into challenges during your upgrade, please reach out to our support team and they will be happy to assist.

Replied February 2017