Cisco Prime [EOL] vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

"Cisco Prime can help customers fix their Wi-Fi issues with scientific and digital data."

"We use this solution to troubleshoot our wireless systems, specifically regarding signal strength."

"The product's most valuable features are monitoring and configuration."

"The interfaces are a valuable feature."

"The technical support team is very good."

"The solution helps with the management and support of the enterprise network."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is its excellent audio and video conferencing with clear quality and no interruptions."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."

"The solution is scalable because they have models that allow it to be right sized."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the UTP feature, IPS antivirus, and web filtering."

"We use the solution for routing and cloud security. We have multiple offices nationwide, all connected through the MPRS network, which is terminated at our FortiGate firewall. We consolidate our networks, filter packets, and segment our network through this firewall. My company has around three lakh firewalls."

"It’s easy to implement."

"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."

"The functionality of the solution is excellent."

"The main feature of FortiGate Cloud is that you don't need open ports for remote administration or management of FortiGate."

"The main advantage of FortiGate Cloud is its reliability, scalability, and pricing."

"They could consider offering more flexible pricing options for their customers."

"They can also improve the management of more enterprise devices."

"Cisco Prime could improve the graphical user interface."

"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."

"Cisco needs to improve Prime's monitoring tab. If any device goes down, there is a 15-second lapse before we know. It would be much better if we were alerted two or three minutes before a device is about to fail, so we can dispatch a field engineer and avoid network downtime. I would like to see a feature that allows you to access the devices directly from Prime's monitoring tab. That would make work easier for us."

"There is room for improvement in the Access layer."

"Cisco can only be used for Cisco environments and is not compatible with other vendors."

"I rate Cisco Prime seven out of 10 for affordability. All Cisco solutions are expensive."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve the dashboards."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve security. Some of my customers do not trust on-cloud solutions."

"The command-line interface could definitely be improved in future iterations. It's lacking right now."

"Things are moving increasingly towards hardware agnostic appliances, an area in which I would like Fortinet to be more focused and fast moving with that product line."

"The solution should allow users to keep the data for longer than the current periods. I can't get any historic data after more than a month. I would like to be able to, after a year, look for trends from the past 12 months. It would make things much easier."

"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."

"There could be more network-related information like interpretation response. All the flows are limited and related to devices, certificates, and switches."

"Fortinet should simplify the licensing model. It's too complex for decision-makers to choose from the range of options. Handling the pricing model is a nightmare, so it's difficult to sell the solution."

"The product's performance monitoring feature could be more intuitive."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"We update the license every five years."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The product is expensive compared to other vendors in the market."

"The solution is not inexpensive but is worth it for large-scale environments."

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

"The cost is quite high."

"The license for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is annual."

"I rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is moderately priced. I rate Fortinet FortiGate Cloud a five out of ten for pricing."

"The product cost varies based on company budgets, but for us, it's reasonably priced considering the value it provides."

"The price fits the needs of our clients and it is adjustable by Defender."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is more inexpensive than other vendors."

"We pay around $19,000 a year and do not pay for extra technical support."

"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud."