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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012, the new version of SCOM, has some exciting new features. See below for a video and summary

Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012: Overview

New features:

• In Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012, the RMS is deprecated, and you can now install individual management servers on commodity hardware or virtualized platforms, which provides high availability out of the box.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 introduces the concept of management server pools. You can add multiple management servers to a management server pool, which  adds both scale and resiliency. You can also assign cross-platform and network devices to a management server pool, once again reducing any potential single point of failure.
• The most significant change in Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 is the cloud-based orientation that now permeates much of the System Center suite. In the past, it took a relatively server-centric approach, focusing on each individual server component of the infrastructure. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 incorporates the cloud-oriented “fabric” notion of infrastructure topology. This expands the lens to include the underlying network and storage layers, as well as the overarching application layer.
• Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012  introduces the “Vicinity View.” This displays every asset with two network hops, providing a network map that includes all servers, how they’re connected to the network and how they’re connected to each other. You can see performance data for those network connections and how that might impact various service or application performance.
• Application monitoring support for Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications running on Windows servers (thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of AviCode, which is available for existing customers), and for Java applications running on WebSphere, WebLogic, JBOSS and Tomcat.

Source: Microsoft System Center 2012: Taking Systems Management to the Cloud