Altair SmartWorks vs. Portainer

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Altair SmartWorks
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Altair SmartWorks, or SmartCore (formerly Carriots) offers an end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) platform. SmartWorks is available as Platform as a Service (PaaS) or on-premise, and designed for machine to machine (M2M) and digital twin projects. SmartWorks accelerates your IoT application development and provides simple scalability as your projects and devices grow. Altair SmartWorks lets users collect and store data from connected devices, build powerful applications, deploy and scale from…N/A
Portainer
Score 9.2 out of 10
N/A
Portainer is a centralized container management platform for containerized apps and IoT device management. It helps accelerate container adoption and reduce time-to-value on Kubernetes, Docker, and Swarm with a management portal, allowing users to deliver and manage containerized applications from the data center to the edge. Portainer helps - Reduce the operational complexity associated with multi-cluster management Bridge the skills gap and facilitate feature…
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Pricing
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
Editions & Modules
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Portainer Business - 3 Nodes Free
$0
Home & Student
$149
per year
Starter
$995
per year
Professional
$2995
per year
Enterprise
Contact Sales for Pricing
per year
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup Fee$2 devicesOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
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Features
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
Internet of Things
Comparison of Internet of Things features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartWorks
9.4
1 Ratings
16% above category average
Portainer
-
Ratings
IoT Device Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Device Security9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Data Management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IoT Integration10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Container Management
Comparison of Container Management features of Product A and Product B
Altair SmartWorks
-
Ratings
Portainer
7.8
85 Ratings
0% below category average
Security and Isolation00 Ratings8.081 Ratings
Cluster Management00 Ratings8.272 Ratings
Storage Management00 Ratings7.572 Ratings
Resource Allocation and Optimization00 Ratings7.776 Ratings
Discovery Tools00 Ratings7.764 Ratings
Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging00 Ratings7.582 Ratings
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Score 9.0 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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AWS IoT Core
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Score 8.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.8
(85 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Altair SmartWorksPortainer
Likelihood to Recommend
Altair Engineering, Inc.
Because Altair does not handle the area of automated marketing plans adequately, it is not as relevant in the implementation for marketing agencies, but this is easy to solve if you use an external tool to execute mail marketing campaigns, and thus also cover the project advertising, or send informative announcements about the progress of the project.
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Portainer
Many developers, especially lesser experienced developers, don't have a really good background in setting up containers from the command line. Portainer is invaluable to them. Giving a UI to them gives them much more confidence and allows them to learn properties and capabilities of containers under far less stress. On the flip side of this, giving then a UI on a production system can lead to chaos...never give junior developers access to production servers.
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Pros
Altair Engineering, Inc.
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Portainer
  • Separating server maintenance with application development, providing a clear user interface for developers who don't want to worry about the underlying server.
  • RBAC for container deployment linked to a SAML IDP, not something particularly easy in a native Docker instance but point and shoot in Portainer, allowing the use of Azure / Okta etc to provide user access.
  • Image management with multiple repositories is super clear and reduces incidents
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Cons
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • Since the service can be used to manage development in teams of various sizes, we can conclude that Altair Smartworks can be used in almost all kinds of areas that require code development for projects, and with this, we decide that there are no negative points about the platform that can affect our experience of use.
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Portainer
  • When setting up static IPs for a new container, having the used ones for a specific network at hand would be cool or something like a mini IPAM of some sort...
  • Using the developertools to see "oh, it's a 40x or 500" when something doesn't seem to load because the ui just states "Didn't work" is kinda annoying. expandable toasts or something would be nice.
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Likelihood to Renew
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Portainer
It is an excellent tool.
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Usability
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Portainer
Portainer is very easy to use, has an intuitive UI, and makes creating individual containers or stacks very easy. My favorite feature by far is having the ability to create a base image, then create a container and set it to always pull the image. Then I can modify the image on the fly, restart the container and know I'm working from a cumulative environment. I would like to see this developed further.
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Support Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Portainer
One of their staff members jumped on a video call immediately with me and led me through the problem and solution during a quick session of screen sharing. In this day and age that is above and beyond, especially when it comes to software. It took approximately 5-10 minutes to diagnose and fix, including pleasantries!
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Implementation Rating
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Portainer
It is really easy. Just follow the documentation.
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Alternatives Considered
Altair Engineering, Inc.
No answers on this topic
Portainer
Portainer takes the cup in terms of usability and features. It is also more useful for smaller deployments, whereas Kubernetes in our opinion and experience, could probably be more suited to certain other use cases. Portainer is also a fresh feel among all the preexisting container management solutions and brings positivity and a new breeze in the industry.
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Return on Investment
Altair Engineering, Inc.
  • In view of the fact that profits have proven to be exemplary during the last quarter that we have been working with Altair to cover our operations, as our ROI has increased by 4.
  • In reality, results may vary depending on both how easy it is for employees to get used to the service and to deliver bottom-line profits, but overall the results are promising.
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Portainer
  • Increased productivity: Portainer's user-friendly interface and streamlined container management can help increase the productivity of IT teams.
  • Cost savings: By simplifying container management, Portainer can help reduce the time and resources required to manage container environments, potentially leading to cost savings.
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