Centerity Monitor vs IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) comparison

Centerity Systems and IBM are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Centerity Systems is ranked #67, while IBM is ranked #43 with an average rating of 8.0. Centerity Systems holds a 0.1% mindshare in IM, compared to IBM’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Centerity Systems users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of IBM users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management and Centerity Monitor are products aimed at optimizing network performance. Centerity Monitor might stand out due to its comprehensive feature set, despite IBM SevOne NPM's stronger customer service.

Features: IBM SevOne NPM offers advanced real-time analytics, automated network monitoring, and efficient bandwidth management. Centerity Monitor provides a comprehensive data aggregation across networks, applications, and services, seamless integration capabilities, and intuitive dashboard customization.

Room for Improvement: IBM SevOne NPM could improve its integration capabilities, simplify its setup process, and enhance its user interface. Centerity Monitor might benefit from expanding its analytics features, offering more detailed reporting capabilities, and refining its technical support responsiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Centerity Monitor offers a flexible deployment model with strong support structures for quicker integration. IBM SevOne NPM, while requiring more time for initial setup, provides robust customer support and clear deployment guidance.

Pricing and ROI: IBM SevOne NPM has a higher initial setup cost but provides long-term optimization for greater ROI over time. Centerity Monitor, with a more accessible pricing structure, offers substantial ROI through efficient resource management and quicker deployment.

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Categories and Ranking

Centerity Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

67th

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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IBM SevOne Network Performa...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

43rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (37th), Server Monitoring (18th), Log Management (44th), Cloud Monitoring Software (29th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Centerity Monitor is 0.1%, down from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 0.8%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Andean Region Manager at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

A user-friendly solution that comes with a valuable machine learning feature

We use Centerity to monitor some business views related with ERP systems. For example we use this monitor to mesure electronic billing process. As a part of digital Transformation process coporation automates some process to avoid delays and human mistakes and we incorporated Centerity Platform to…

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Grzegorz Nowak

Solution Architect at Wingu

Improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic

We use SevOne to collect and report on network flows SevOne improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic. We can look at bandwidth for specific endpoints on the customer's network and analyze traffic to identify issues. For example, maybe some connectors are unavailable.…

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Pros

"The machine learning feature is valuable."

"The monitoring of the network is very customizable. That is its unique feature."

"SevOne’s data collection functionality is very good. From a collection point of view, we pull SNMP data, which is simple. It is easy to manipulate the pull in the estate. It is really simple compared to some of the other products that we have used. However, for deferred data, i.e., things that we import or don't pull directly, we tend to have a preplanned integration. So, its Universal Collector is really useful."

"The out of the box reports and workflows are pretty good and they meet our requirements well."

"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."

"I like the tool’s scalability and real-time reports. Earlier, we struggled to give real-time reports to clients. I also like the tool’s deployment model where we can deploy it either on-premises or in-house. We don’t have to carry the data all over the globe. Also, I am impressed with the tool's flow reporting and Wi-Fi."

"It also gives us the closest thing to real-time insight into network performance that we have, with just a 10-second delay. It's very important for us to know the health of the infrastructure very quickly."

"We've had great feedback from our customers about SevOne support. They're willing to set up a remote session upon request. You have to go through three tiers of support with most vendors, and they ask a lot of screening questions before they will do a remote session. You need to spend a lot of time before an engineer will host a remote session to look at your problematic system."

"Another useful feature is that SevOne gives you real-time insights into your network performance. It polls every five minutes. That is important for our customers because there are some network teams that are always monitoring their networks."

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Cons

"They can improve the functionality that provides some numbers related to the behavior of the metrics."

"SevOne should work with the graphs legend functionality."

"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."

"With the administrative management of the appliance, if some object appears from SevOne because something changed in the network or whatever, then as an administrator you will not be aware. If you are using this object in a report, this object will disappear from the report and you will not be aware of it. So, if you have 1,000 reports, you cannot always check these reports everyday to see if objects are missing or information has disappeared. We don't have any information on alerts, saying that something is happening there and maybe we need to take action. If an object was replaced by another one, or if a link was replaced by another one, then the graph needs to be changed because it doesn't exist in the graph anymore. However, we don't have this information."

"Would benefit with the addition of AI modules for proactive data insights."

"One area that requires a little bit of improvement is the topology of visualization and being able to map out connections, end-to-end. It's able to do that, but it's not as impressive as we would like it to be. We would like to understand the different interface types and the connection points better, through the visualization. Heatmaps also need further development."

"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."

"I would like to see live maps as an added feature. Also, build modules on AI and EML to provide better data insights that would proactively tell us what we should be looking after."

"NMS has several areas for improvement. It should be more user-friendly inside of NMS for some of the functionality in there. It's been getting better the last version or two, but the there have been bugs in there whenever I've gone to new versions."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"There are different options available for licensing, with the per-device option being more expensive but more flexible."

"There are cheaper solutions available."

"A blocking point is the high upfront cost because it is challenging to get it accepted and the purchase approved."

"The pricing has not evolved with the market, which is one of the reasons we are moving to a new product."

"Many tools price things based on the number of KPIs that you're collecting around a device. In many cases, there could be hundreds of metrics that you need to collect. SevOne provides device-level pricing. That gives us the flexibility to turn on, and expand on, the metrics that we're collecting around those devices, without taking a financial hit."

"Although I don't have exact details in terms of cost, my experience has been that SevOne is willing to make a deal with the customer."

"Choose a SevOne partner who can provide SevOne as a service and can deliver professional services and maintenance."

"The pricing has been fair."

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What do you like most about SevOne Network Data Platform?

I like the tool’s scalability and real-time reports. Earlier, we struggled to give real-time reports to clients. I also like the tool’s deployment model where we can deploy it either on-premises or...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SevOne Network Data Platform?

The tool is not expensive. We were able to negotiate with SevOne on pricing.

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What needs improvement with SevOne Network Data Platform?

There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities. It would be beneficial to have out-of-the-box integration with third-party vendors and improv...

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Overview

Centerity is the pioneer provider of an All-in-One, IT Monitoring and Business Service Management (BSM) platform. Whereas legacy tools have focused on monitoring individual technologies which led to silos of performance data, Centerity breaks down silos by extending its monitoring coverage across all technology layers, from infrastructure (physical, virtual, converged, AWS, etc.) to applications (OS, SAP, Cloudera, etc.) and databases (SAP HANA, Hadoop, NoSQL, etc.), thereby providing an integrated, holistic view of system health, performance and availability. Centerity’s unique, unified platform, named a Gartner Cool Vendor in ITOM, can serve the needs of both IT executives and administrators while providing a complete business intelligence layer across all IT assets via cross technical and functional domain impact and trend analysis through its Business Service Management (BSM) capabilities.

Centerity Systems

The IBM® SevOne Network Performance Management (IBM SevOne NPM) solution helps you spot, address, and prevent network performance issues early with machine learning-powered analytics from a single source. Boost network performance and improve your user application experience by proactively monitoring your multivendor end-to-end network across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider networks.

Transform raw network performance data into intelligent and actionable insights. The IBM SevOne NPM solution goes beyond detection, combining industry-leading expertise and advanced technology to help your IT team plan and optimize your network and act on what matters: improving network performance to provide an exceptional customer experience.

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Centerity Systems has thousands of customers world wide, including Fortune 500 Enterprises such as Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, Harris Corporation, and Coca-Cola.

ATOS, Devereux, Spark New Zealand, Access4, Rogers Communication, Lumen (formerly known as CenturyLink)

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