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."The most valuable is the assistance for network support."
"Cisco Prime, from a management perspective, has good reporting."
"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."
"The solution helps with the management and support of the enterprise network."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat map."
"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."
"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"The reports feature is excellent."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"It is easy to deploy to licenses."
"Stability is good within the product."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The reporting could be simplified and the information made clearer to the user."
"They can also improve the management of more enterprise devices."
"The product's pricing can be cheaper."
"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."
"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."
"The product needs to improve its stability."
"The overall management capabilities of Prime need to be improved."
"I want the tool to improve data visibility."
"The product is not very stable."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"Its licensing model should be improved."
"I didn't like the connectivity with FortiManager and FortiSwitch, which was buggy and annoying and had fewer features."
"Performance issues should be improved. We have problems when we have more mobile connections than local devices. Most of us have two to three devices."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"You cannot integrate with other solutions."
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 ExtremeCloud IQ, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix and SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper. See our Cisco Prime vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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