IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs InfoVista VistaInsight comparison

IBM and InfoVista are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. IBM is ranked #41 with an average rating of 8.0, while InfoVista is ranked #96. IBM holds a 1.1% mindshare in NMS, compared to InfoVista’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of InfoVista users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

InfoVista VistaInsight and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management are competing products in the network performance management category. InfoVista VistaInsight is favored for its more accessible pricing, while IBM SevOne NPM is preferred for its advanced feature set.

Features: InfoVista VistaInsight includes customizable dashboards, comprehensive reporting, and robust analytics for various network environments. IBM SevOne NPM offers real-time analytics, extensive data collection, and in-depth network performance insights.

Room for Improvement: InfoVista could enhance its real-time analytics, improve data collection capabilities, and offer deeper performance insights. IBM SevOne may work on simplifying its complex deployment process, enhancing initial usability, and reducing the need for extensive technical expertise.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: InfoVista VistaInsight is considered easier to deploy with straightforward configuration and strong support. IBM SevOne provides comprehensive technical documentation and a highly knowledgeable support team but may require more technical expertise for deployment.

Pricing and ROI: InfoVista VistaInsight typically offers a more attractive initial setup cost and quicker ROI due to its cost-effectiveness and immediate usability. IBM SevOne NPM's higher initial investment is offset by its long-term value from its rich features and superior analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SevOne Network Performa...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

41st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (19th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (41st), Log Management (46th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st)

InfoVista VistaInsight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

96th

Average Rating

7.0

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Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 1.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.1%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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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Tariq Nasim

User at Mobily

An excellent product with an expensive license

The product is excellent. However, the license is expensive.

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Pros

"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."

"We find that the reporting is particularly valuable in terms of not only communicating with our peer teams but also with the executives."

"With this tool it is interesting to show the info to the client and explain where the traffic is."

"The network data collection has been very flexible for us. It's been thorough in areas that were lacking. They have a team that I've worked with to add other pieces to it. So if it's missing something out of the box, they work with me to add it. I was able to collect that data. It's not perfect, but it's pretty thorough."

"The most valuable feature is the NMS because that's the core of the system. Without the NMS, the other tools aren't that usable."

"SevOne has rich API capabilities, giving us the flexibility to control what we collect and customize the collection, creation, and manipulation of now metrics as necessary."

"Data Insight reporting tool is the most valuable feature. They came up with it a couple of years ago. The most pleasing factor is the dark theme. You don't have a white background. It has templates that you can create for all kinds of reports that you can hit on the fly. It's much better printing of the reports. If you want to send PDFs to people, the reports are actually decent. Whereas for years, the old architecture of the PDFs was rubbish and even our customers said, "We have to manipulate your PDFs because they all have bad margin breaks. SevOne fixed that a couple of years ago with the new Data Insight. It's fantastic."

"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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"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

Cons

"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."

"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."

"User-friendly, multi-tenancy."

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

"The tool needs improvement in non-Cisco SD-WAN."

"There are some tweaks and enhancements that I've already requested. One is to be able to make changes per device rather than as a global setting. That has to do with naming. It's minor."

"I'm not really sure if this was the software's fault or a server issue, but a couple of years back the disks were failing on our SevOne physical server every month and the server would go down. The secondary server took over from the primary until the disk issue was resolved. That was annoying."

"You need to plan integrations. That has been the biggest bug with SevOne so far. For the things that SevOne pulls directly, those are easy to understand, modify, and put into the database. For things that need to use the Universal Collector or xStats, you need to plan that stuff well in advance."

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"The presentation of the features can be improved. It can be more user-friendly for the visual part of the portal and to allow the customer to be able to use."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There are cheaper solutions available."

"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."

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

"The pricing has been fair."

"Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.)."

"It is inexpensive compared to other monitoring tools."

"Prices per license are not huge, but they exist."

"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."

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"The license is expensive."

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Questions from the Community

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?

SevOne could improve its flexibility because it isn't fully customizable and its out-of-the-box configuration doesn't cover all use cases.

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Overview

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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InfoVista VistaInsight is a pre-built service assurance solution that provides the benefits of off-the-shelf software, while enabling rapid configuration and tailoring to meet the unique needs of communications service providers (CSPs) and sophisticated large enterprises. Built upon InfoVista's scale-as-you-grow, distributed collection and reporting, organizations are empowered to monitor the performance of their data center infrastructure, network layers and domains, and physical and virtual components. VistaInsight delivers usage and forecasting to engineering, enables service exception alerts for operations, and manages and demonstrates SLAs for both internal stakeholders and end customers all through a web-based portal.

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