We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and SCOM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"The most valuable feature is anomaly detection, where it finds things that are not allowed internally."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the way the net flow is being merged together in a single pane. That's been extremely useful for us, because can see what's going on with traffic in one single place."
"Using the Cognitive Analytics feature, we have complete visibility that we didn’t have before."
"It provides good visibility to the customers. People are still evaluating it, but it provides visibility and helps them to take action to remediate and mitigate the issues that are highlighted on the dashboard. It has good integration with the Cisco switching platform."
"Able to drill down into a center's utilization, then create reports based on it."
"This product alleviates the day-to-day headaches for us, in regards to metrics."
"Stability is the most valuable feature we have seen in this solution."
"This is a product that does more generally than any of the competing solutions."
"It is very good at monitoring Microsoft Server."
"This solution helps our application teams by allowing them to drill further into issues and perform a root cause analysis."
"I like some of their newer features, such as maintenance schedules, because SCOM records SLA and SLO time."
"The product has helped our organization with in-depth monitoring."
"This solution allows us to standardize all of the reports for monitoring the network, so it helps a lot for auditing purposes."
"I like the historical reporting of observer metrics."
"This solution satisfies all of the requirements that we need for our Windows-based systems, so if you are using the Windows platform then this is an easy solution."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"I think the interface is a little lacking. The interface seems like it just needs to be modernized. It's been the same interface now, ever since I've seen it probably four years ago."
"I would like to see it better organized when I'm looking at it."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"We've had problems with element licensing costs so scalability is a concern."
"It's a good solid solution but integration with Network Access Control products with Cisco ISE would be good."
"We had some trouble with the installation as we migrated from our previous solution."
"System Center just provided upgrade and update features for Windows clients, and Windows systems, and did not support Linux, Android, or iOS, and other operating systems. They need to provide better integration with other operating systems if they don't already."
"The dashboard features are not user-friendly for our management team, only for the technical department."
"The solution should be more user-friendly and offer a better user interface."
"The GI is difficult to work with and the reporting servers are also difficult."
"The solution’s initial setup is difficult."
"Of course, price is always an issue with Microsoft and could be improved."
"There could be more integration of SIM in the solution."
"Third-party tools have had to be created to make SCOM management pack creation more efficient and effective. However, this weighs down the application as it just adds a resource requirement, which is ballooning the size of the necessary storage and all that for essentially substandard components."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 25th in Network Monitoring Software with 58 reviews while SCOM is ranked 10th in Network Monitoring Software with 78 reviews. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while SCOM is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SCOM writes "Has a good reporting engine, but its monitoring of the cloud-based environment could be improved". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas SCOM is most compared with Dynatrace, Zabbix, Datadog, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. SCOM report.
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