Cisco Prime [EOL] vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

"Has a good wireless heatmap and search management features."

"The dashboard is a valuable feature. It's very clear, and the metrics make it easy to see the current network situation."

"I have found the solution to be scalable."

"Cisco Prime is a good tool for inventory monitoring and wireless management."

"It helps us manage and monitor analytics and fix issues."

"The endpoint information Cisco Prime generates helps us troubleshoot, and it's also useful for compliance reporting and endpoint identification."

"Cisco Prime is helpful as it provides us with real-time monitoring. This allows us to be proactive in our environment."

"Cisco Prime allows us to manage all the wireless controllers and access points."

"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."

"I find it particularly helpful for certificate inspection and setting up anti-DDoS, intrusion prevention, antivirus, and file inspection policies."

"I have found the SD-WAN, flexibility, and security the most valuable features."

"The solution is quite stable. I haven't had issues with it crashing on me. I don't recall running into any bugs or glitches. It's very reliable so far."

"The most valuable features are management and integration."

"FortiGate Cloud's most valuable feature is that it's 100% managed."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the sandboxing part, filters, and SD-WAN."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has good pricing compared to other firewall and security products."

"The product needs to improve its interface and reporting."

"I would rate the scalability of Cisco Prime a six out of ten. To scale up from a hundred to a thousand devices, the platform needs to be rebuilt logically. This process might require a downtime window and may involve changing the hardware or upgrading to a larger appliance."

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

"This solution could be improved if it could monitor configuration changes."

"The reporting could be simplified and the information made clearer to the user."

"The solution is not easy to configure."

"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."

"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."

"The SSL visibility could be better."

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

"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."

"Some configuration changes would be helpful."

"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."

"We do find we get a bit of a lag."

"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."

"When we fully utilize certain functions, the CPU and memory utilization can reach 100% or more, causing the system to become unresponsive during production hours."

"If we have a license for Cisco DNA, we can use the same license for Cisco Prime."

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

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

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

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

"We update the license every five years."

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

"You need to get special quotes from the company for each order."

"All the consulting and deployment charges are included in the product's licenses. There are no additional costs."

"The license does not include many of the features that are necessary, which means that you have to pay extra for them."

"We have a yearly license because we have a huge environment, so we need to upgrade regularly. We do it annually because quarterly updates would overwhelm the staff. Cisco was doing it at half-year intervals."

"Fortinet has a good price, and I would give it a four out of five. There are no additional fees."

"The solution is neither cheap nor expensive."

"FortiGate Cloud was the most affordable option I knew of, but their new pricing is less of a bargain as it has fewer levels."

"The tool's pricing is fair. I rate it a six out of ten. You don't have to pay any additional costs."

"The tool's pricing is cheap."