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    AppNeta

    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    AppNeta provides performance monitoring solutions for distributed, cloud-connected, digital enterprises. AppNeta’s SaaS-based solutions give IT teams application and network performance data, allowing them to constantly monitor user experience across any application, network, data center or cloud.N/A

    Cisco ThousandEyes

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/ACisco ThousandEyes empowers organizations to assure every digital experience across every network, everywhere, every time.N/A

    Piwik PRO

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/APiwik PRO Analytics Suite is an advanced platform providing a suite of modules centered around analytics that connects with other parts of the client’s tech stack. Piwik PRO Analytics Suite unifies marketing insights, provides a comprehensive view of performance, and facilitates data-driven actions to achieve better results. It offers multiple flexible hosting options and ensures compliance with strict data protection laws, including the GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA, and…

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    AppNetaCisco ThousandEyesPiwik PRO
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    Considered Multiple Products
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    Chose Cisco ThousandEyes
    Over the competition, ThousandEyes contains all the solutions in one place. They also have a very high price if you buy as an individual. But ThousandEyes bundle pricing is low compared to others, so overall cost effectiveness is a major factor in favor of ThousandEyes.
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    Chose Cisco ThousandEyes
    The cost-benefit rate is good in ThousandEyes compared to some other applications.

    ThousandEyes is very oriented to network performance: hop-by-hop network analysis, latency, jitter, packet loss, MOS, QoS mismatch identification, etc. Other applications are more oriented to app …
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    Piwik PRO
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    User Ratings
    AppNetaCisco ThousandEyesPiwik PRO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
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    9.1
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    8.2
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    5.0
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    6.7
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    10.0
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    In-Person Training
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    AppNetaCisco ThousandEyesPiwik PRO
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Broadcom
    AppNeta is awesome for getting site-to-site statistics or trying to find out why at 3 am every night, this server loses connectivity to another server in a different data center. But we have found the multiple bugs in the hardware hard to deal with when the devices are a 4-hour plane ride away and require someone to console into the device.
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    Cisco
    Unified communications real-time analysis is one of the biggest points of the solution. You can see your traffic path and find issues before, during and after the calls. This is very useful for analyzing VoIP and video conferencing problems like in WebEx, Microsoft Teams and Zoom. It helps to see network issues like packet loss, jitter, or latency that can make call quality bad. Another good use case is checking cloud apps and SaaS services. Many companies use external platforms like Microsoft Azure, 365, Salesforce, or AWS. It lets Networking teams see the network path from users to these services so they can find if problems come from the company network, the internet provider, or the cloud service. Also, it is good for companies using mix of on-prem and cloud. It shows how traffic moves between different parts of the network, so IT teams can see where a problem happens and fix it faster. There are different types of agents that we can use in Cisco ThousandEyes. Enterprise agents can be use for a relative big amount of synthetic test. Endpoint agents are install in user PC or MAC laptops to check network quality from the client side. WebEx devices also have built-in agents that help to see performance problems in meetings, making it easy to find what is causing a bad call. Maybe it's not the best solution if what you want to measure is not HTTPs based or hasn't an API. Also if your scenario is Zoom Rooms, you won't have the same level of integration that it has for WebEx and Microsoft solutions.
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    Piwik PRO
    Piwik Pro Core is especially perfect for smaller businesses that want to have an alternative to Google's ecosystem. You can do a lot of the great stuff you can do with GA UA and GA4. But it still needs some tweaking. Especially for some bigger companies who have a lot of events, it would be great to have some smaller payment steps, as of right now it can be quite steep for some companies to pay the bill if you go above 500.000 events per month. Nevertheless, I believe this is one of the better options available when data ownership and privacy come to mind.
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    Pros
    Broadcom
    • AppNeta provides detailed application availability & uptime.
    • AppNeta provides great longitudinal data regarding how the applications perform including an overall grade or "AppDex."
    • AppNeta sends notifications of service downtime that aids in technical dispatch.
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    Cisco
    • Cisco ThousandEyes does the holistic discovery of the end components, the network components, and it's really fast at identifying where the issue is, which is not normally identified by the classic monitoring tools. So it's quite a fast identifying the issue of the networks and Cisco ThousandEyes also provides a very good real user end user monitoring experience for the end customers. So those are the two real life and also very good examples for Cisco ThousandEyes.
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    Piwik PRO
    • Manage all campaigns and increase large volumes of data.
    • It has an excellent activity panel through which you can have complete visibility of each activity you carry out.
    • It's great to track all interactions between users and track all conversions.
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    Cons
    Broadcom
    • Hardware has a lot of bugs.
    • Auto-updates cannot be turned off on the hardware, causing blips in monitoring.
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    Cisco
    • The elephant in the room is going to be cost. ThousandEyes is a great tool, but you will pay for it. There are other services that do a good job at providing a smaller subset of features compared to ThousandEyes. If all you need is that particular subset of features, ThousandEyes may not make fiscal sense for your organization.
    • As a subset of the cost issue, within the last 18 months or so the pricing on enterprise (local) agents has been modified in a way that seems not to benefit the customer. Previously enterprise agents had a flat monthly cost associated with them with unlimited test usage (the only limit on test usage was based on concurrent tests running at any given point in time). This meant that instead of using a cloud agent and paying per-test, you had the option of spinning up an cheap Digital Ocean droplet and creating your own cloud agent for external testing without using Cloud Agents. When the change was made they eliminated the flat per-agent cost and instead treated the pricing the same as that of the cloud agents but cutting the number of "cloud units" per test in half for tests run from enterprise agents. For organizations with under-utilized enterprise agents, this may be helpful financially, but for organizations that push their local agents to the limit, the cost skyrocketed.
    • BGP monitor peering sessions have been less than reliable. The data doesn't seem to be an issue, but the sessions seem to bounce or fail altogether on a fairly consistent basis. The routers or servers with which your routers peer sit behind some firewalls that have caused issues in the past.
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    Piwik PRO
    • Filtering: ip ranges, hostnames, regex. These are a few things that aren't possible like we are used to.
    • Tag Manager: not all tags/triggers are possible yet to what we are used to.
    • Are more progressive payment model: more little steps to buy a plan.
    • Custom dimensions: they weren't available but are now. But they aren't that user friendly yet as I'm used to.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    The software does it's job extremely well and the system makes it very user friendly to get into. When looking for software I prefer to not need a PHD to operate it. Having a great UI and simple setup makes it easy to include more members of our team to get more value out of the platform.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Usability
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    There is definitely a learning curve to ThousandEyes, but once you understand how the client deployment works and how to set up monitoring, things go pretty smoothly. I think the initial setting up of clients on endpoints can be a little tricky though.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Reliability and Availability
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    Being cloud hosted means that you are at the mercy of Cisco web services, but we've had absolutely no issues with its availability.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Performance
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    The client is very lightweight on endpoints and the user interface is very fast and fluid.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Support Rating
    Broadcom
    Timely support is one of AppNeta's strong suits. But the ability to develop permeant fixes for issues within there product is where they lack.
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    Cisco
    You have online support from the tool itself 24/7 and they are very responsive. We also have a specific account manager and specific engineer assigned to help us with very specific questions for our environment. The level of response to our requirements is always super high. We have requested specific features to be added and these have been developed and introduced very quick tot he product (within weeks). Their DevOps and agile approach seems to pay off.
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    Piwik PRO
    We had to contact the support several times in the beginning and they really took their time to explain the different functions in detail. So in terms of support I can definitely recommend Piwik PRO.
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    In-Person Training
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    Our Cisco reps actually had someone teach us a few things about the functionality of ThousandEyes, and it helped a lot. The training was good and we had follow-up assistance as well when we had questions about the monitoring and reporting functions. Overall, we were satisfied with the training and support.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Implementation Rating
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    Our implementation was pretty straightforward, with some issues loading clients on endpoints. We didn't have any notable issues, and I don't really have any additional insights.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Alternatives Considered
    Broadcom
    We currently use Nagios/GroundWork and Cacti to perform network monitoring. AppNeta's UI is far superior.
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    Cisco
    No one is better than the other. I can get different data and sometimes similar data, it's important to compare values and verify the data between the tools. Additionally, there are other functionalities that ThousandEyes has that the others don't, but it is also the other way around. I will always recommend to have available not 1 or 2, all possible available for your job.
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    Piwik PRO
    Piwik Pro's support for multiple sites saved me a lot of time. To view reports from numerous client sites, I'll have to access a single dashboard. Its digest reports save time and are simple enough for non-technical executives to understand. It gives us access to information about individual users that Google doesn't allow us to see as a whole. It will allow users to express their desires more clearly. As a result, this one is significantly more useful compared to other tools.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    The contract was fair and rolled up into some of our other contracts, so it was no big deal getting it up and running.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Scalability
    Broadcom
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    Cisco
    I think this product would be infinitely scalable since it's all cloud hosted and can support thousands of endpoints if needed. We are only using it for a limited number of endpoints, so we never really considered scalability.
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    Piwik PRO
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    Return on Investment
    Broadcom
    • A reduction in network outages and length of network outages.
    • More detailed post outage investigation available.
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    Cisco
    • Building the trust from our Merchants is core when you come to renewal time. Trust builds partnerships, builds stickiness and allows for easier upsells or contract renewals.
    • Having a champion in IT that touts your service is important to the business, it removes a large portion of friction in the business to get services implemented and working to its peak.
    • Flexibility in pricing can be better. How they measure the number of agents being used can get thorny. When you build and tear down virtual servers a lot it can appear there are more agents running than there are. Once we understood how they measure we were able to better utilize the product efficiently.
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    Piwik PRO
    • We have obtained a good impact both economically and in data integration.
    • It has allowed us to collect and analyze all the data of our clients, and to create groups that allow us to divide potential clients and make personalized messages.
    • We use the Enterprise plan because it provides us with the necessary tools and unlimited features.
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    ScreenShots

    AppNeta Screenshots

    Screenshot of a visualization for monitoring what apps are in use on a network.Screenshot of AppNeta's in-depth diagnostics, used by IT Ops to identify the root cause of network and app performance issues.Screenshot of the enhanced Selenium scripting that can be used for web synthetic monitoring to benchmark and alert on performance for business-critical SaaS apps.Screenshot of monitoring of the actual application path with multi-protocol route determination for TCP, UDP and ICMP. Key network metrics can be tracked, like Latency, Loss, Capacity and Jitter continuously with AppNeta.Screenshot of how AppNeta correlates poor performance per host and--with Active Directory--with users.Screenshot of monitoring the usage of a network for recreational apps to see when they're stealing bandwidth from your business critical apps. Users can segment by location or app to drill into more details across the entire AppNeta Performance Manager dataset.

    Cisco ThousandEyes Screenshots

    Screenshot of Global availability issues for users trying to use Slack application.Screenshot of The path visibility feature pinpointing where in the transit path an outage or event is occurring.Screenshot of ThousandEyes Internet Insights™, which combines a massive data set with algorithmic outage detection to provide near real-time insights into a business's SaaS applications.  and networks. Internet Insights can be used to manage digital experience at Internet scale.Screenshot of ThousandEyes Event Detection diagnosing events as server or network issue.

    Piwik PRO Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Piwik PRO customer data platformScreenshot of a core reportScreenshot of the dashboardScreenshot of a funnel reportScreenshot of a user flow reportScreenshot of the tag manager