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Nexthink vs Qualys Policy Compliance comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Nexthink
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (1st)
Qualys Policy Compliance
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
IT Governance (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

Nexthink and Qualys Policy Compliance aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Nexthink is designed for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) and holds a mindshare of 35.8%, down 38.6% compared to last year.
Qualys Policy Compliance, on the other hand, focuses on IT Governance, holds 2.3% mindshare, up 1.7% since last year.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)
IT Governance
 

Featured Reviews

Ronny Sonck - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 25, 2024
Assists in making decisions regarding device replacements for non-compliant or malfunctioning devices that cannot support Windows 11
We use the solution for compliance and experience scoring The experience centre is one of the most valuable features; the other is the benchmarking. It gives you an easy way to use it. I have some one-page overviews; you can drill down the effect per element. You can use it to start improving…
Bhupendra Nayak - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2023
A VMDR solution that can be used to detect, block, and mitigate vulnerabilities
We use QualysGuard Policy Compliance for VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response). We can use the solution to detect, block, and mitigate vulnerabilities The most valuable feature of QualysGuard Policy Compliance is the automation that can detect real-time threats and decrease…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Although limited to 100,000,000 events per engine, it is suffice to do investigations for more than 30 days."
"We have found the combination of analytics and automation in this solution to be very valuable to our organization, as it allows for us to perform auto-resolution on customer issues."
"Performance-wise, Nexthink is very good, and with each version, it is improved."
"The search engine functionality that Nexthink has on the finder is terrific."
"Nexthink saves a lot of time for the technicians who work on the troubleshooting side...Nexthink provides its users with a very good point of overview and presentation."
"The solution’s visualizations are very good. It's very easy to use them... We can give our senior managers, our directors, and our partners a dashboard at a very high level. They can very easily start to drill down by clicking through the dashboard and find stuff that doesn't look right. And our technical teams can use the same thing to identify problems in specific locations."
"With this solution we are able to link issues to automatic actions that will solve the problem."
"This is a proactive management tool and we make use of the metrics, dashboard creation and complete remote actions on end user machines."
"The reporting and security checks are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of QualysGuard Policy Compliance is the automation that can detect real-time threats and decrease risks."
"The platform allows multiple features that are very useful. The first one is being able to define the enterprise policy. The second one is to be able to automatically check the compliance level based on that policy, and the third one is that it allows us to generate reports and dashboards to see the compliance level easily."
"It's a simple product."
 

Cons

"We've had some issues integrating Nexthink with the cloud, so there are some delays in bandwidth, causing it to slow down a little. If they added better integration with the public cloud, I would be more likely to recommend it to customers."
"The stability of this solution could be greatly improved to avoid performance issues."
"There could be a streamlined NQL and SQL query functionality, as it can be complex. An easier way to modify queries would be beneficial for the product."
"The tool should improve its pricing and performance. It also have nothing related to patch management."
"In our company, we can't deploy anything from Nexthink the way we can deploy from any other endpoint solutions. It is not possible to create any dashboard in Nexthink...One should be able to schedule monitoring in Nexthink."
"It lacks support for IoT and most network equipment."
"Nexthink could have better integration with ITSM tools - at the moment, they only integrate with ServiceNow, so adding other tools, like HP SMAX, would be very useful."
"I would like it if they could put in some patch deployments and compliances."
"There is no clear mapping for the CIS controls in terms of how they should be implemented into Qualys, so the implementation stage might be a little bit challenging for the customer. That means that the customer will end up opening support cases, which will overload their support team to explain those. If they are somehow published somewhere, it would save time and effort for both sides."
"It would be good if the solution’s technical support could be faster."
"The reporting needs improvement."
"The policy creation aspect needs improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"With this implementation of the Act and Engage module, I believe that there is a one-time fee for a two-month period, which is for the support team to make additional customizations."
"I have seen it help improve the user experience scores. This helped clients to save costs on another tool that they were trying to deploy in order to improve the user experience by just deploying some scripts. We were able to identify the issues and help them remediate those using our help. The process does not take much time and it provided background on end user performance. Therefore, they were able to save a lot, e.g., for approximately 50,000 endpoints at two dollars per machine per year, that is about $100,000 in savings."
"Nexthink can pay for itself quickly if you identify and complete the most valuable use cases. The tool can do so much that to purely compare the price in a static way to other tools in your arsenal would be a mistake. If you do a more dynamic comparison that’s based on the overall functionality and use cases possible then it comes out cheaper. You need to consider it a relative measurement against potential use cases, size of the organization, maturity of organization, etc."
"There are certain layers when it comes to pricing. The product has three layers and these layers are associated with certain sources. For example, the top layer have the premium services and the bottom layer has the basic services."
"I would rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten. The tool's pricing model is pay-as-you-use."
"The prices might be a little bit high. I cannot compare it with another product because we did not try any other product, but this is my impression when comparing different modules."
"The solution's pricing is in the mid-range, where it is neither expensive nor very cheap."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Healthcare Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
25%
Healthcare Company
13%
Computer Software Company
7%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nexthink?
Nexthink saves a lot of time for the technicians who work on the troubleshooting side...Nexthink provides its users with a very good point of overview and presentation.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nexthink?
The product has a fixed monthly price and service cost, which varies based on the features. I rate the product’s pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive.
What needs improvement with Nexthink?
There could be a streamlined NQL and SQL query functionality, as it can be complex. An easier way to modify queries would be beneficial for the product.
What do you like most about QualysGuard Policy Compliance?
The most valuable feature of QualysGuard Policy Compliance is the automation that can detect real-time threats and decrease risks.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for QualysGuard Policy Compliance?
Qualys Policy Compliance is cost-efficient and provides great security features for the price. It is used by most companies because of its cost-effective and efficient nature.
What needs improvement with QualysGuard Policy Compliance?
The policy creation aspect needs improvement. Our team has limited knowledge about creating policies, and I need to focus on this area more. I should study more about creating and handling policies...
 

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