We looked at four or five other vendors and we had a bakeoff among them. The main difference between them and SevOne, at the time, was cost. SevOne could provide the same information and data at a much cheaper price.

The reason that I like SevOne is it is plan-based, which makes things easier. It is also simple to deal with compared to Cambium and some other IBM products that we have used in the past which are similar. Cambium is very overly sophisticated with a lot of services. This solution is just a single platform that is very easy to deal with.

Most products allow us to trend, put thresholds, and send tracking to a front-line or network management center.

We have not evaluated other products for bandwidth monitoring since I have been with the company. Prior to that, I'm not aware of any that they considered.

We've looked at other products such as Zenoss and SolarWinds.

What we liked about SevOne is the ability to onboard any type of device that has SNMP capabilities. We could go to SevOne and say, "Hey, we have this new device," and provide the SNMP OIDs and they quickly certify that equipment for us to onboard. And the partnership we have with them is another aspect we like.

We did evaluate other solutions. We looked at the market and ultimately chose SevOne. 

We did look at doing upgrades to our existing platforms. We also looked at Splunk but that wasn't good value for money in terms of just doing SNMP monitoring. We also looked at some other open-source solutions as well.

We had a good license deal from SevOne, which made it appealing, and because we have such a good discount, that really helps in terms of our selection process. The other vendors are all pretty much doing the same sorts of things. So it was most important to get a good commercial deal with the supplier and SevOne was the only one who really stepped up to do that. 

In terms of other criteria, we wanted the scale. We wanted ease of deployment. We wanted the fundamentals to be done straight away and easily, and we wanted low support and high value in terms of meeting our varied business users. It ticked all those boxes.

We have not evaluated other options. We've just been leaning on this, heavily.

When we first selected SevOne, we evaluated between 10 and 15 products on the market.

SevOne was the peer-to-peer technology, from an architecture perspective, which is the first reason we chose it. The second advantage was the good out-of-the-box reporting. Finally, the pricing was comparatively better.

We have evaluated LiveAction. LiveAction has a good interface and navigation screens for SD-WAN.

We looked at large, standard NMS tools as well as open-source options. 

When comparing it with other products, those have multiple installations, e.g., for NetFlow, you need to have a different model, but also you need to have a different application. SevOne is the one tool which provides multiple features. The servers or databases have different plugins. It can be used to monitor various components of the network, applications, etc.

They were constantly looking at other products. I don't look at them. I don't even have time to think about other products. They looked at NerveCenter but NerveCenter is different. My customer is constantly looking for other replacements that are cheaper. Everybody's looking at their budget and asking "How can we get cheaper?" 

At one time they suggested ThousandEyes. It's much cheaper and easier. Well, they had ThousandEyes monitoring a little section of their network and they realized that there's no way ThousandEyes can do it. It's just too big of a network. ThousandEyes can do little stuff but overall, I work on changes all the time and I do my SevOne stuff, and the guy does his ThousandEyes stuff and his stuff is not quite right. 

Solarwinds – Orion, Nimsoft, IBM TNPM, Netcracker, HP Performance Insight, OPNET Net One, Previsor, TBD Fusion (Vital Suite), Watch4Net, ScienceLogic, Cisco – Prime, Network Instrument – Observer, ZenPM - SysMech.

There are other tools that we have used, like eHealth from CA. It also gives you graphs but we don't like that tool. We like SevOne. It is older than SevOne. We are using it for some clients that have had it from the beginning, so we cannot remove it. But eHealth has bugs. With SevOne, I don't have any complaints.

When we implemented SevOne, we had been evaluating other options for a couple of years for varying needs, although not necessarily the backbone. During that process, we had noted that SevOne would be the most accommodating and capable for our needs.

At the time, it just wasn't possible for us to implement it.

Yes, but there was a tender, and I am not authorized to provide such information.

I can only say that there were a few big players in the area of performance monitoring system vendors.

We looked at a bunch during the RFI process – Opnet, NetQS, SevOne, and a fourth one. We ended up testing NetQOS (CA owned) and SevOne.

The SevOne tool was convincing from the beginning, and after testing it there was no need to test anything else.

Before choosing SevOne, we evaluated SolarWinds, TrueSight, and ScienceLogic.

I don't know if we evaluated other options because management chose this solution.

We had an evaluation of the best solutions and found that SevOne fit us best. It gave us more opportunities, and better performance than the other solutions. The best part that I see is its patented multiple elements is impressive and very efficient.

We evaluated EMC Watch4net and InfoVista. There were even more – maybe a good seven other vendors we looked at.

I didn’t choose the product but I had used others.

We looked at other solutions, but management chose SevOne because of its cost.

We scoped upgrading our existing product suite.

We just evaluated this product based on what we heard and we initiated a POC.

It was chosen over CA eHealth.

This was a management issue. I, being on the technical side, was not involved in this.

SolarWinds and Cisco Prime.

I evaluated from a reseller perspective to find the best product on the market at that time: CA eHealth, Nagios, OP5, InfoVista, etc.

I know other products were evaluated but I was not part of that discussion.

Yes, NetIQ and SolarWinds.