FireScope Unify Competitive Comparison

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Partial or Limited Support Partial or Limited Support
Included Included, Fully Supported

Making the most of your budget is no easy task. All too often, vendors try to hide their true costs in add-on modules, consultant fees and maintenance and support. FireScope has eliminated this unnecessary complexity with a simple price model and a solution that's so easy it doesn't require costly consultants. And as you can see in the table below, we accomplish this without sacrificing on features or capabilities. Experience FireScope for yourself by Download a free trial. Your users, and your budget, will thank you.

 

Pricing

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
Price $5,450 $12,475 $16,500 $20,000 $128,000
Licensing Model Perpetual Perpetual Subscription Subscription Perpetual
Additional charge per user NC NC Yes Yes Yes
Additional charge for features/modules NC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Yearly Maintenance and Support 18% 25% Included 35% 25%

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Installation and Deployment

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
Offered as a pre-installed Virtual Machine Included Partial or Limited Support Partial or Limited Support    
Average time to prepare platform for install None None 2-3 Hours 1 Day 2-4 Days
Average time to install software 5 Minutes 1-2 Hours 4-5 Hours 2 Days 4-8 Days
Average time to configure first monitored assets Less than an hour 1-2 Hours 1 Day 3-4 Days 4-6 Weeks
Average time needed for monthly maintenance 10 Minutes 3 Hours 20-28 Hours 1-2 Days 4-5 Days
Consultants needed for deployment     Included Included Included
Consultants needed for configuration maintenance (adding new assets, new technologies)     Included Included Included

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Capabilities

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
Network Monitoring Included Included Included Included Included
Application Monitoring Included   Included Included Included
Service Management Included     Included Included
Log Consolidation Included Partial or Limited Support   Partial or Limited Support Included
Security Event Monitoring Included     Included  
Performance Monitoring Included   Included Included  
Event Management Included   Included Included Included
SLA Management Included     Included Included
SLA's based on business metrics Included       Included
Financial calculation of SLA violations Included       Included
Synthetic Transactions Included   Included Included Included
Trending and Correlation Included   Partial or Limited Support Included Included
Policy Management Included       Included
User Experience Monitoring Included   Partial or Limited Support    

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Data Collection Methods

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
SNMP v1, v2, v3 Included Included Included Included Included
Syslog Included Partial or Limited Support Included Included Included
Web Monitoring (Synthetic Transactions) Included   Partial or Limited Support   Included
WMI / Perfmon Included   Included   Included
Direct Database Connection Included   Included Included Included
SMI-S Included       Included
Agents Included   Included Included Included
Web Services Included   Included   Included
JMX Included   Included Included Included
VMWare API Access Included        
Custom Methods / SDK Included Partial or Limited Support Included Included Included

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Interface Features

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
User customizable dashboards Included       Included
Role-based security Included Included Included Included Included
Real-time dashboards (AJAX, Web 2.0, Sparklines, etc.) Included   Included   Included
Application Interface Aggregation Included       Partial or Limited Support
Web Single Sign-On Included        
Community or shared content Included Included Included Included Included
LDAP Integration Included   Partial or Limited Support   Included

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Analytics

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
Extensive report library Included Partial or Limited Support Included Included Included
Real-time reporting (AJAX-driven) Included        
Export reports to multiple formats Included Partial or Limited Support Included Included Included
Quarterly or Yearly reports Included     Included Included
Financial impact reports Included       Included
What if scenario reports Included     Partial or Limited Support Included
Service-level reports Included     Included Included
Budgetary reports Included       Included

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Maintenance and Support

 FireScope Unify Conventional Network Monitoring * Application Monitoring * Service-Level Management * Traditional Business Service Management *
Expert support services Included Included Included Included Included
Email Access Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Phone Support Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
IM/Chat Access Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited  
Response time SLA 2-Hours 2-Hours 2-Hours 2-Hours 2-Hours
           

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* - The information on this page was gathered using publicly available sources. Each solution is based on industry leading solutions.

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