We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and SCOM 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The hardware of Meraki is very good quality."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"The ability of the product to perform with simplicity of deployment make it a valuable solution."
"It is a reliable product. It provides a lot of information that is easy to read."
"It's a simple, functional solution."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."
"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."
"We have found the scalability capabilities to be okay."
"It can send messages to our ticketing system."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"The solution primarily drives system information, and I believe it works fine."
"I enjoy its integration with the Microsoft Active Directory functions, which means users, computers, or other group policies can connect with Windows Active Directory."
"The monitoring features are the most valuable. We have seen a major benefit from that so far."
"SCOM's most valuable features are the network path feature, reporting, and integration with business intelligence."
"The solution is scalable. If you want to monitor more you have to buy more licenses, but you can add on. We don't plan to increase usage."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"It is not appropriate for large, enterprise businesses."
"The MDM, however, is bad. We're using another MDM now because Meraki was so bad."
"Price could be reduced."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"Third-party switches do not necessarily integrate easily with the system and this could be improved to allow for better adaptation."
"There are some issues with the NAT configuration, it is now impossible to some operations with the solution."
"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."
"SCOM needs to improve its usability."
"Non Windows monitoring is fairly weak. Network device monitoring is not reliable."
"Then there is also an issue with capacity and limited space. That is something that needs to be improved."
"Regarding certain issues in the solution, it can be difficult to generate reports if we have a program that is not user-friendly for reporting. While this is not necessarily negative, we may need to use another solution."
"I would like more customized reports. People should have some customization option on the dashboards for whenever they put multiple lists into it. Beyond customizing the content, there should be the ability to customize the colors so that they can engage some priority and mark challenges separately."
"They can focus more on cloud monitoring instead of on-premise monitoring. We should be able to monitor cloud-related applications. They can include this feature in the next release. If it is in the cloud, we can have scalability by using Kubernetes. The container is containerized, packaged, and managed using Kubernetes. This feature is not there in SCOM. Going forward, if they can focus on that, it will be great."
"Direct integration with third-party tools, like ticketing systems, is lacking but would be beneficial."
"The interface is a little bit cumbersome and certain actions could be simplified."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and AppDynamics. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SCOM report.
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