We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Using this solution has helped us to detect and identify viruses or malicious activity in the network early on."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its reporting and mitigation capabilities."
"Being able to graph and show data to management has improved our organization. We can show the data to the higher-ups. It shows them that it's picking up on these anomalies and doing its job."
"It works efficiently for encrypted traffic analysis."
"Cisco Secure Network Analytics has increased the visibility of what is happening in our network, and I think that's the most important reason to use it. We can see what is really happening instead of just looking at numbers from routers or switches."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is data hoarding because it catches threats on a frequent basis that we had no idea of."
"The solution has increased our threat detection rate. Cisco Stealthwatch has not reduced our incident response times. It has not reduced the amount of time it takes us to detect immediate threats. It has reduced false positives."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The most valuable feature as of late has been the API integration with ServiceNow."
"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."
"With this tool it is interesting to show the info to the client and explain where the traffic is."
"The most valuable feature is the NMS because that's the core of the system. Without the NMS, the other tools aren't that usable."
"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."
"Data Insight reporting tool is the most valuable feature. They came up with it a couple of years ago. The most pleasing factor is the dark theme. You don't have a white background. It has templates that you can create for all kinds of reports that you can hit on the fly. It's much better printing of the reports. If you want to send PDFs to people, the reports are actually decent. Whereas for years, the old architecture of the PDFs was rubbish and even our customers said, "We have to manipulate your PDFs because they all have bad margin breaks. SevOne fixed that a couple of years ago with the new Data Insight. It's fantastic."
"Another useful feature is that SevOne gives you real-time insights into your network performance. It polls every five minutes. That is important for our customers because there are some network teams that are always monitoring their networks."
"It's given us the ability to create various real-time network performance reports and distribute them to any colleague who can access these reports immediately."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"We would like the solution to make more advances in the way that Extreme Networks has been doing."
"I would like to see better filters."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"They should include Citrix VDIs in the next release."
"Better integration between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Workload would be beneficial."
"It is time-consuming to set it up and understand how the tool works."
"It would be better to let people know, up front, that is doesn't give you nice, clear information, as seen in the demos, without Cisco ISE installed."
"Some similar solutions offer end-to-end visibility."
"SevOne should work with the graphs legend functionality."
"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."
"Their virtualization solution is not compatible with our Kubernetes environment, which is one of the reasons we are ending our relationship with them."
"SevOne could improve its flexibility because it isn't fully customizable and its out-of-the-box configuration doesn't cover all use cases."
"We need to be thinking about streaming telemetry protocols. They already have the port for enhanced visualization, which they already have through Data Insight."
"The reports are easy to configure but they are a bit outdated in terms of appearance and visualization."
"The user management features need to be improved. It would be nice if we had more granular control, or layers of control, out of the box."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is ranked 39th in Network Monitoring Software with 53 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) writes "We can get a new vendor certified and monitored in our system significantly faster than before". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is most compared with Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, LogicMonitor, SolarWinds Network Device Monitor, NETSCOUT nGeniusONE and NetBrain. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) report.
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