We performed a comparison between Cisco Prime and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Has a good wireless heatmap and search management features."
"Cisco Prime is user-friendly, so we are comfortable using it."
"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."
"Cisco Prime is helpful as it provides us with real-time monitoring. This allows us to be proactive in our environment."
"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."
"The technical support team is very good."
"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."
"The interfaces are a valuable feature."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"Stability is good within the product."
"Central management system for Fortinet devices that's simple, scalable, and stable, with a straightforward setup."
"FortiManager offers a full zero-touch provisioning feature that allows us to create a template of our devices and onboard them remotely without visiting the site."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The product is easy to use and manage."
"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."
"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."
"Cisco Prime could improve the graphical user interface."
"The solution has issues with real time monitoring of devices and NetFlow such as inadequate visualization for reports, sources, and destinations."
"Cisco Prime's initial setup is complex."
"If you think about a centralized monitoring system, Cisco Prime is not good because it does not support third-party vendors like Palo Alto or FortiGate."
"I would rate the scalability of Cisco Prime a six out of ten. To scale up from a hundred to a thousand devices, the platform needs to be rebuilt logically. This process might require a downtime window and may involve changing the hardware or upgrading to a larger appliance."
"This solution could be improved if it could monitor configuration changes."
"The presence of Fortinet in our region (Nigeria) needs to be stronger."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"The interface could be improved. It is split up into different areas, which makes it more difficult to navigate and get the right section of the correct file. The solution is quite expensive, so it would not be suitable for small to medium sized organizations."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"The documentation could be better."
Cisco Prime is ranked 2nd in Network Management Applications with 35 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Cisco Prime is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Prime writes "Robust, cost-effective, and provides good visibility, but the scalability could improve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Cisco Prime is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Aruba Airwave, Huawei eSight and HPE Intelligent Management Center, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager. See our Cisco Prime vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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