AHEAD vs. Netsmartz

AHEAD

70 Reviews and Ratings

Netsmartz

1 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
AHEAD	Score8 out of 10	N/A	AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together cloud infrastructure, intelligent operations, and modern applications, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation. AHEAD was founded in 2007 and in 2019 merged with Sovereign Systems, and Data Blue. The services formerly available under those brands is now available from AHEAD, LLC.	N/A
Netsmartz	Score6 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Netsmartz is a technology services provider offering Consulting and Advisory Services and Custom Software Development Services for organizations modernizing applications, data platforms, cloud operations, and business workflows. Its delivery teams provide strategy, engineering, implementation, quality assurance, and ongoing operational support rather than a single standalone software product. Key Capabilities AI strategy and implementation: AI readiness…	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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User Ratings
	AHEAD	Netsmartz
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (42 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.4 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (5 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	8.6 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	8.6 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	AHEAD	Netsmartz
Likelihood to Recommend	AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue) They are easily our go to company for anything revolving around VMware suite, whether that is infrastructure related, automation related, or monitoring related. It's a no brainier to get their assistance with a lot of tasks as they can competently implement complex designs. Also on the storage architecture side they are great. I'm sure there is much more but for my team we mainly leverage them in these areas. Incentivized Alan Sheehan SAN Administrator Read full review	Envision Ecommerce No answers on this topic
Pros	AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue) The provided pre-req documentation was thorough and well thought out, making it easy to jump into the project. The design session to gather our requirements was very helpful, Sovereign's familiarity with the vRealize product line along with diagramming our desired layout confirmed our decision to bring in assistance with the project. When we ran into some issues with Sovereign's custom code their development team was on top of it and solved the issue in a matter of a few days. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Envision Ecommerce No answers on this topic
Cons	AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue) Coordination of product orders with the vendor although I think the vendor is the bigger issue. Insuring delivery time frames are met is of great importance with these kinds of projects. Communication between scheduled project meetings. There could be more contact between meetings. Provide a customer portal for project tracking. Incentivized Jim Darsigny Chief Information Officer Read full review	Envision Ecommerce No answers on this topic
In-Person Training	AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue) I would not call it training, rather would call it knowledge transfer. Incentivized Kevin Blackburn Storage Engineer Read full review	Envision Ecommerce No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue) Having extensive pre-implementaton dialogue really made the process much smoother. We had most of our bases covered and were ready for the equipment installation/implementation, except for the previously mentioned network configuration issues that arose. Incentivized David McMillan, MBA, ITIL System Manager, Platform Services Read full review	Envision Ecommerce No answers on this topic
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