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 #37 with an average rating of 8.0, while InfoVista is ranked #95. IBM holds a 1.0% mindshare in NMS, compared to InfoVista’s 0.1% mindshare. Additionally, 96% 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

37th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (18th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (43rd), Log Management (44th), Cloud Monitoring Software (29th)

InfoVista VistaInsight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

95th

Average Rating

7.0

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Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 1.0%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.1%, down 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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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"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."

"We've had great feedback from our customers about SevOne support. They're willing to set up a remote session upon request. You have to go through three tiers of support with most vendors, and they ask a lot of screening questions before they will do a remote session. You need to spend a lot of time before an engineer will host a remote session to look at your problematic system."

"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."

"It's given us the ability to create various real-time network performance reports and distribute them to any colleague who can access these reports immediately."

"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."

"It's a great solution for highlighting and discovering useful information regarding our network's elements."

"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."

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"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

Cons

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

"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."

"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."

"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."

"The user management features need to be improved. It would be nice if we had more granular control, or layers of control, out of the box."

"The customizations are very hard. The person doing it has to be very good at analytics and has to be very good in all languages"

"The GUI: both the dashboard/user view and the admin tool."

"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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"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

"It is inexpensive compared to other monitoring tools."

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

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

"There are different options available for licensing, with the per-device option being more expensive but more flexible."

"Choose a SevOne partner who can provide SevOne as a service and can deliver professional services and maintenance."

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

"For the value that you get from SevOne, it's worth the price. There are a lot of cheaper alternatives on the market, and even free options. But they require more staff, more resources, and engineers with more advanced knowledge of monitoring. That's what makes SevOne worth the price."

"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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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?

There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities. It would be beneficial to have out-of-the-box integration with third-party vendors and improv...

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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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