AHEAD vs. Softchoice

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AHEAD
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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
Softchoice
Score 8.4 out of 10
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Softchoice is a technology solutions and services provider headquartered in Toronto that equips organizations to be agile and innovative, and for their people to be engaged, connected and creative at work. That includes moving them to the cloud, helping them build the workplace of tomorrow, and enabling them to make smarter decisions about their technology.N/A
Pricing
AHEADSoftchoice
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AHEADSoftchoice
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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AHEADSoftchoice
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User Ratings
AHEADSoftchoice
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
(42 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
In-Person Training
8.4
(2 ratings)
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Implementation Rating
9.0
(5 ratings)
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Vendor post-sale
8.6
(3 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
8.6
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User Testimonials
AHEADSoftchoice
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.
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Softchoice
Softchoice is my go-to reseller for all things related to licensing. They have skilled resources available for many complicated enterprise licensing needs.
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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.
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Softchoice
  • Requirements gathering.
  • Pre-sales support.
  • Licensing experts.
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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.
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Softchoice
  • They do not always have staff deployment resources, and sometimes use contractors.
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In-Person Training
AHEAD (formerly Sovereign Systems + Data Blue)
I would not call it training, rather would call it knowledge transfer.
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Softchoice
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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.
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Softchoice
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