Dare to Compare FireScope CMDB

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For organizations struggling with a complex and diverse infrastructure, the tools to support Configuration and Change Management leave something to be desired. Asset management solutions simply don't have the feature set needed to describe complex relationships between assets, while the CMDB offerings available are astronomically expensive and deployments are a nightmare. Fortunately, there's a better way with FireScope Orchestrate.

For less cost than you would spend on traditional approaches to asset management, FireScope Orchestrate delivers capabilities that surpass Big-4 CMDB solutions, and with considerably less effort and complexity. Want to learn more? Browse the sections below to see how FireScope Orchestrate fairs in a feature-by-feature comparison against the competition.

 

Installation and Deployment

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Approach Delivered as a physical or virtual appliance with the complete software stack pre-installed, ready to go. Traditional software installation package, requires allocating a dedicated server, installing OS and solution dependencies including database. Traditional enterprise software deployment, requiring one or more servers, OS and solution dependencies including database, web server and more.
Offered as a pre-installed Virtual Machine Included    
Offered in an appliance form factor Yes    
Requires server hardware and OS No Yes Yes
Software installation required No Yes Yes
Average time to configure first monitored assets Minutes Hours Weeks
Average time needed for monthly maintenance Minutes Hours Days

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Components

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Asset inventory Included Included Included
Configuration Management Included   Included
Discovery Included Partial or Limited Support Partial or Limited Support - Additional software
Reporting engine Included Partial or Limited Support - Basic reporting Partial or Limited Support - Additional software
Change Management Included   Partial or Limited Support - Additional software
Data center visualization Included    
Federation (push/pull data with 3rd party data stores) Included Partial or Limited Support Included
Data integrity scoring Included    
Reconciliation engine Included    

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Scope of Data

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Hardware Inventory Included Included Included
Software Inventory Included Included Included
Configuration Data Included   Included
Dependency information between assets Included   Included
License tracking Included Included Included
Documents (Contracts, SLA's, Purchase agreements) Included   Included
Cost centers Included   Included
People (users, vendor and customer contacts) Included   Included
Network configuration Included   Included
Application architecture mapping/configuration Included   Included
Database configuration Included   Included
Custom asset types Included   Partial or Limited Support - Often requires writing scripts or configuration files.

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Discovery Capabilities

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Integrated discovery Included Partial or Limited Support Additional software
Agent-less discovery Included   Partial or Limited Support
DNS name resolution Included Included Included
Operating System analysis Included   Included
RPC & Service analysis Included   Included
SNMP data collection Included   Included
Dependency detection Included   Included
Integration with Change Management Included    

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Change Management Features

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Integrated as part of a single-solution Included    
Request for Change (RFC) Included   Included
RFC Templates Included   Partial or Limited Support
Change planning sandbox Included    
Change impact analysis Included   Partial or Limited Support
RFC approval workflow Included   Included
Mobile app integration Included    

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Federation Features

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Standards-based federation Included    
Module/Component-based federation     Included
Support for JDBC data sources Included   Included
Support for CSV/XML imports Included   Partial or Limited Support
Webservice Included   Partial or Limited Support
Live polling of external databases Included   Partial or Limited Support - limited formats
Support for publishing data Included    
Data integrity scoring of all incoming data Included    
Reconciliation engine Included    

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Reporting Features

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Integrated report designer/viewer Included Partial or Limited Support - reader only Partial or Limited Support - typically additional application
Web-based report building Included    
Real-time reporting (AJAX-driven) Included    
Export reports to multiple formats Included Partial or Limited Support Included

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Maintenance and Support

 FireScope Orchestrate Traditional Asset Management Traditional CMDB Solutions
Expert support services Included Included Included
Email Access Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Phone Support Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
IM/Chat Access Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Response time SLA 2-Hours 2-Hours 2-Hours
       

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