DataMiner vs Fortinet FortiManager comparison

Skyline Communications and Fortinet are both solutions in the Network Management Applications category. Skyline Communications is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.0, while Fortinet is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0. Skyline Communications holds a 0.9% mindshare in NMA, compared to Fortinet’s 4.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Skyline Communications users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 94% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

DataMiner

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100% willing to recommend

Fortinet FortiManager

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94% willing to recommend

DataMiner

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between DataMiner and Fortinet FortiManager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

DataMiner

Ranking in Network Management Applications

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Fortinet FortiManager

Ranking in Network Management Applications

3rd

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Network Management Applications category, the mindshare of DataMiner is 0.9%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiManager is 4.7%, down from 5.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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reviewer1834566

Works at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 8, 2023

Plenty of modules, very flexible, and can connect your entire operation

We are using it for satellite systems monitoring, automate pro-active ticketing and reporting The benefits of DataMiner to our company are connectivity and cross-connectivity it provides. The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you…

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HamedWasel

Senior Network Security Engineer at Orange

Feb 15, 2023

Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices

We have over 300 Fortigate sites and we use this solution to manage everything under one interface. The scripts are very useful. We can push the TCL and CLI scripts to Fortigate. The automation is great between Ansible and Fortimanager. We can integrate the solution with other solutions. There is…

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

Pros

"The solution is user-friendly and is readily customizable, which allows us to do control and monitoring in a single stage."

"The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you to customize and program each aspect of the system. Additionally, there are many separate modules available that can be used to enhance the system's capabilities beyond just monitoring, allowing you to manage your entire workflow. This is a valuable feature that makes troubleshooting easier and helps to optimize the use of the system."

"Data Miner allows you to take control. It has an API to talk to different products, including drivers to talk to the APIs of third-party products. You can control it from the screen."

"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."

"It's a scalable product."

"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."

"The SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."

"The capability of centralized management is valuable. We can configure all firewall boxes with the same configuration."

"It is stable."

"Fortinet FortiManager allows a full view of all the devices on the network from one location."

"The solution is very stable."

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Cons

"I am looking forward to the company continuing to improve its solution and incorporate new technologies. Specifically, I hope that they will allow their cloud database environment to host services, rather than requiring the use of on-premises digital or physical servers. The company is moving in this direction, but I am still waiting for this capability to be implemented."

"We would like to have more products supported by the drivers because there are so many products out there. If DataMiner has not built the drivers to support them we can not control them, we can only see them based on SNMP. If more drivers are included, it won't cost us if we have new products."

"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."

"The solution should be more open to other products."

"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."

"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."

"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."

"The GUI is not ideal."

"Their EDR products could be better. They need to dedicate more R&D to that area."

"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"DataMiner is an expensive solution and that is why many companies do not use it. Other solutions are less expensive."

"If you compare Fortinet and Palo Alto, Fortinet is cheaper, but if you compare Cisco and Fortinet, sometimes Cisco is cheaper because Cisco gives us more discounts because of the size. Cisco isn't cheap, but sometimes, we get a big discount from them."

"Pricing could improve a little bit so I rate it a seven out of ten."

"Fortinet FortiManager is costly."

"The pricing is based on a licensing model by feature."

"Our organization pays a monthly license fee for the solution."

"In comparison with other products, the price of FortiManager is reasonable."

"Fortinet is a high-end product and the cost is high. They should consider reducing the price, especially for existing customers."

"The licensing costs depend on how many devices you want to use."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

17%

Media Company

16%

Computer Software Company

14%

Government

Computer Software Company

20%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DataMiner?

The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you to customize and program each aspect of the system. Additionally, there are many separate...

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What is your primary use case for DataMiner?

We are using it for satellite systems monitoring, automate pro-active ticketing and reporting.

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What do you like most about Fortinet FortiManager?

The most valuable feature is the centralized management console.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiManager?

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiManager?

The graphics interface between Fortinet FortiManager and any Forti products should be standardized. Doing a configuration change directly in the UTM is not the same as doing it via FortiManager for...

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Overview

The DataMiner NMS/OSS platform manages absolutely every aspect of your entire operational ecosystem, both on-premises and off-premises. That includes standard & legacy technology, commodity & industry-specific hardware and software, and much more. Our award-winning solution guarantees a true end-to-end integration in every single case, across any vendor and technology boundary, from service origin to destination.

Networks are constantly evolving due to threats, organizational growth, or new regulatory/business requirements. Traditional management products focus on mitigating company-wide threats through firewall policies, firmware updates, and keeping content security current. FortiManager offers the features to contain threats as well as providing flexibility to evolve along with your ever-changing network.

Sample Customers

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Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data

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