Fortinet FortiGate ROI
It's worth the money.
View full review »We have experienced a positive return on investment by utilizing Fortinet's products. For instance, their website features a calculator for SDR, which enables us to measure the actual ROI in dollar amounts. We input our current expenses, the products we intend to purchase, and our connectivity plans, along with a few other details. At the end of the process, we receive data that indicates the amount of money we will save, such as two hundred thousand, for example. This provides us with clear and precise figures on our savings, making it an excellent tool.
Our customers have seen time to value with Secure SD-WAN. Its time to value is seen within weeks of implementation.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate mitigates an excessive amount of manpower requirements because it is easy to manage and this helps contribute to a return on investment.
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Fortinet FortiGate
March 2024
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We have witnessed a bit of an ROI, even though it is an expensive solution.
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Denis Orellana
Network Solutions Architect at Yazata Solutions
FortiGate firewalls pay for themselves. We bought our first FortiGate when they came out with the 50Fs and thought we would never see the return on investment. However, they paid for themselves because we rent them out, and customers loved them so much that we just retired our Juniper and Cisco solutions.
View full review »I achieve approximately a 30 percent return on investment with FortiGate.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate's features and price have provided a return on investment for our organization.
There's definitely an ROI. Having a centralized way of managing and applying policies across the entire organization always helps. The time to manage, operate, and resolve issues is much lower. When you have a central place to manage and do the changes, you get efficiency and time savings.
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Prasanth P.
Global Chief Information Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We've seen a return in the form of greater security and threat protection.
View full review »Since implementing Fortinet FortiGate, we have observed an increase in user productivity, which translates to a positive return on investment.
View full review »Its performance justifies the cost, there is a prominent ROI.
View full review »We've seen a return on our investment.
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Philimon Kaitano
Network Manager at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The solution provides value and, therefore, offers a return on investment.
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Andrew S. Baker (ASB)
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC
In almost every case, I've experienced (or had customers experience) an ROI within 12 months, based on better performance for the same price or increased functionality for the same (or less) price.
Most of our clients are still using the FortiGate D Series, so they have gotten their money's worth.
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Andrei Vaskin
Specialist at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
We have seen an ROI. We have bought a lot of these devices, and we have had a good experience with them. It has saved us a lot of money.
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reviewer2129880
Head of IT at a educational organization with 51-200 employees
We experienced a return on our investment, however, when it comes to security, it is challenging to determine a precise value.
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Gilles Mousnier
Manager GIS at epfam
It is too early for an ROI, but I have no problems with it. Everything is good.
View full review »The solution has generated ROI for our customers.
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reviewer1294776
Owner at a consultancy with 1-10 employees
If the client had a lot of downtime or a lot of issues with older equipment, or they did not like the fact that they had to pay every year just to be able to use the device, then the return on investment of spending $900 for a Fortinet 60E per site for a three-year contract will hands-down beat pretty much anybody.
It is definitely set it and forget it. There's very little input. You'll save money on consulting. If you were to call me and you're doing Juniper or you're doing Palo Alto, there's a lot more configuring and it's a lot harder to add stuff and therefore, as a consultant, I make more money, and I'm being serious. Once I set up a Fortinet I really don't have to touch it for years.
Maybe I have to log in to check that I need to do an update, however, in that case, they usually send me an email saying hey, your license key is up and maybe you want to buy a new one. I take the old one out and put a new one in, that's when I get paid again. It's boiled down to that.
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MahmoudSaleh
Quality Trainer at MOH
I have not seen a return on investment using Fortinet FortiGate.
View full review »ROI is somewhat difficult to measure when you are mostly talking about deploying a product for endpoint security. If your environment stays protected, then it was a good return on investment.
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Daniel Gorham
Senior Network Architect at Combat Networks
In terms of ROI, they're inexpensive. Because they're inexpensive, they're just everywhere, in the Federal Government, schools, everywhere where budgets are fairly tight. And it is a very good product. It's a product that's built that if you need to you can add a different box and remove that feature from your main FortiGate and just run it on a different box.
So if you need to expand, you can always do it that way too.
They have good integration if you have multiple firewalls and it allows you to be able to push out policies to all of them at the same time.
View full review »The product is deployed as part of, and an add-on to, the MPLS solution for the majority of my customers. There is no ROI as this is not the major expectation, as the ROI is coming from the whole solution, not just this product.
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reviewer1784364
Founder / Principal at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
I don't know the numbers, but it typically results in a 20% to 30% reduction in data communications costs.
View full review »The customers have seen an ROI from using Fortinet FortiGate. They are satisfied with the solution.
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reviewer1255635
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have seen an ROI with this solution.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
Our clients definitely get a return on investment. It is a really good product, and the stability of the product is a very important factor for our clients.
View full review »If we used a similar solution that required a "per seat" license per VPN, we would have literally spent over 100x what the solution cost us.
View full review »ROI is very high, it has hands-down the best price/performance/features ratio in the market...
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reviewer1232469
Responsabile ced with 1-10 employees
I am very satisfied with this investment. It's a good device and works very well to protect us.
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Fernando Neto
Network Analyst at Aloo Telecom
The return is inevitable when you have equipment that offers stability and quality in services.
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Simon Chaba
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm
The ROI is great. These boxes are not that expensive compared to what they can do, their functionality, and the reporting you receive.
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Iz
Assistant Manager (Infrastructure) at SISTIC
It costs $200,000 and is only a bit better than the open source solution, which was free.
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MaheshPatel
Sr. Corporate Marketing Executive at Amity Infosoft Pvt. Ltd.
Excellent ROI, due to virus spambot intrusion free network.
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reviewer743844
Mgr. IT Infrastructure and Network Operations at a media company with 11-50 employees
Two to three years, depending on usage type, number of users, and organizational size.
View full review »From my experience, FortiGate products are affordable and worth the investment.
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Dale Dobeck
Consultant
We saved a bundle by not needing all the past appliances from an NGFW.
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reviewer1193787
Network Manager at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Some of the software stability could improve.
View full review »We have never stopped to calculate it, but we cannot describe how good we feel since we no longer face issues with the internet.
View full review »It is value for money product as we’ve purchased it with Fortinet's three-year warranty package.
View full review »I would only say that Fortinet provides business and security returns at a cost substantially lower than the benefits derived.
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reviewer1255635
Head of the Satellite Infrastructure and Operation System Department at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Fair
View full review »Fortinet is a very good solution. It would not be a mistake to choose Fortinet as a solution.
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Fortinet FortiGate
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiGate. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.