DX Performance Management vs Fortinet FortiPortal comparison

DX Performance Management
Read 31 DX Performance Management reviews
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96% willing to recommend
Fortinet FortiPortal
Read 10 Fortinet FortiPortal reviews
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80% willing to recommend
 

Categories and Ranking

DX Performance Management
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
31
Ranking in other categories
Infrastructure Capacity Planning (2nd), Network Monitoring Software (35th), DX NetOps (2nd)
Fortinet FortiPortal
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
Firewall Security Management (10th)
 

Featured Reviews

Anna Trybuszewska-Poziemska - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 20, 2023
User-friendly interface, stable, and easy to deploy
My role is DX Performance Management Architect. I'm managing the solution and preparing reports, and dashboards. We have our own version of the solution on our servers. I'm working with two big environments. In the first environment, I have fifty data collectors, and in the second one around…
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RobertSmith15 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sep 12, 2023
Suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and offers role-based access controls for granular control
We're an MSP, and we need a customer-facing dashboard to present services. It's the only thing that gives multitenant features and role-based access controls. And we also need to integrate the reporting for monthly service reporting. So, that's the main use cases for us.  The role-based access…
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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The integration to the other products that we use: NFA, we use ADA, we use Spectrum; and CAPM integrates all those into a single pane of glass."
"​When devices are having performance issues, it proactively build dashboards which allow us to go and do health checks, and resolve problems before they become an issue.​"
"Scalability is the reason we bought the product to begin with. It was designed from the ground up for carrier-grade services, and we are in effect a MSP ourselves. So we were really interested in looking at something to be able to handle the multi-tenancy and scale as large as possible. This was the only solution that we really considered at that level."
"I can get it to run a report showing, for instance, what root drives are in the critical range in terms of being full, like 90 percent full, and disseminate that information to the other areas of the organization."
"What is most useful is visibility."
"The integration with NetFlow, the NFA solution, so that we can have our flow forensics paired with the SNMP polling performance metrics on the same page."
"When we deployed it, right out of the box we were able to stand up Performance Management within two weeks, in our production environment, with full discovery and relevant information, actual information, that we could use in our command center, our 24/7 operations center."
"Great dashboards and good integration with other solutions."
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"The documentation has been satisfactory."
"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."
"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."
"I like the tool's controller facility."
"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is application control."
"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."
"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."
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Cons

"The solution could improve the database model. It is also not very good because they have a lot of interconnections with other data sources, such as NFA and VNA."
"This solution is not very scalable."
"Even though we can see when something is not available, it would also be it would be nice if some sort of alerting took place to that you could know immediately if something went down."
"It would be helpful if CA provided online training for its customers."
"This tool gathers so much data, which makes it hard to convert over. To upgrade it, you really need the solution backed up. That is the issue that we are facing right now."
"​Global synchronization errors. Sometimes it just doesn't finish in time due to the load."
"I think it would be helpful having a more comprehensive set of certifications so that I could natively deploy devices to my environment and the tool would immediately recognize and immediately be able to provide relevant performance information without a lot of tuning on my part."
"CA PM Business Hours Filtering: I understand that all monitoring systems have defects. The Business Hours Filtering does not always function properly. Sometimes, when applying business hours to CA PM reports that are 30 or more days in duration, the report generation times out and does not display results. We have other CA PM reports that, when we apply Business Hours Filtering, the report results displayed are the same as without the filter. We are not sure if this is a defect in CA PM or if it is a result of our complex configuration (folder structure) and application of business hours."
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"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."
"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."
"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."
"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."
"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."
"Fortinet FortiPortal could improve by providing a learning portal and better security."
"If you are a very small company or a person on your own, it's harder to get any response from technical support."
"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I like the licensing model because it's device-based."
"Do your homework and know how many devices you will be managing out of the gate. Be sure to project what your growth will be each year."
"We were looking at other vendors in the marketplace for NetFlow, and CA just beat everybody else in price, cost, and the size to implement. ​"
"They should provide more scalable licensing for the product."
"We purchase a license to use the solution every three years and we have multiple contracts. They have been increasing the price annually. We have a baseline for three years and then we need to pay the difference from the baseline, and we are in the process of negotiating a new price for all the licenses we need. The price overall is affordable."
"The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices."
"On average, it tends to be cheaper than other enterprise solutions."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Fortinet FortiPortal is not expensive."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"Fortinet FortiPortal is expensive in Pakistan."
"Fortinet FortiPortal is relatively expensive, but being an industry-leading firewall, it does come with a cost."
"I am satisfied with the pricing for this solution."
"The licensing costs attached to the solution make it an expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
26%
Computer Software Company
16%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
20%
Government
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Media Company
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Performance Management?
The tool helps us understand network performance.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Performance Management?
The tool's pricing is based on the number of network devices.
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What needs improvement with DX Performance Management?
DX Performance Management should increase high availability. If one of my two data centers goes offline and the other is operational, I need a seamless transition from the primary to the secondary ...
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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiPortal?
The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable.
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiPortal?
The solution is quite expensive. It must be cheaper.
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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiPortal?
The product must have in-built SD-WAN connectivity. A central logging platform must be integrated with the tool. Instead of being a standalone product, it must be merged with the platform to make a...
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DX Performance Management
June 2024
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June 2024
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Also Known As

CA Performance Management
FortiPortal
 

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Overview

CA Performance Management is a comprehensive and highly scalable network performance monitoring and analytics platform. It was built to meet the unique demands of big data and modern networks architectures, including highly dynamic and complex hybrid cloud and software-defined networks (SDN).

The platform is design to reduce complexity inherent in modern networks built across numerous technology stacks through advanced network performance monitoring and relationship mapping for improved operational assurance.

Combined with CA Virtual Network Assurance, the platform extends operator visibility through advanced discovery and network performance monitoring of highly sensitive cloud and multi-layered SDN networks and service chains.

FortiPortal gives MSPs a comprehensive set of hosted Wi-Fi and security management features for FortiGate, FortiWiFi, and FortiAP products. With multitenancy, you can securely manage your customers through a centralized management console. This lets you respond quickly to customer requests and easily monitor customer networks. Our virtual appliance can be deployed on a hosted services infrastructure, allowing you to build highly-customized private-cloud services for customers.

 

Sample Customers

Jack Henry & Assoc, Target, CenturyLink, Bell Canada, BrightHouse Networks, Telus, Unisys, Verizon, Southern California Edison, GEICO, Fidelity Investments, Wells Fargo, American Family Insurance Group, Deutsche Telekom AG 
Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data

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