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    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)

    Score3.1 out of 10
    N/AUnicenter Network and Systems Management (Unicenter NSM) from CA Technologies reached end of life (EOL) in 2015.N/A

    NetBrain Technologies

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/ANetBrain, founded in 2004, provides a no-code automation platform for hybrid network observability, allowing organizations to enhance their operational efficiency through automated workflows. The platform applies automation across three key workflows: troubleshooting, change management, and assessment.N/A
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)NetBrain Technologies
    Likelihood to Recommend
    3.0
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    Usability
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    Support Rating
    2.0
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    User Testimonials
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)NetBrain Technologies
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    It's a decent system if you're a pure IT shop and want to become ITIL-aligned. It forces everyone into an ITIL mentality - service level agreements, change management, and asset tracking. It's very rote, for better and for worse. It's not appropriate at all as a customer-facing or non-IT facing self-service tool. You will never get your end users to really understand how to use the interface.
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    NetBrain Technologies
    Great for our large global environment. Works well with our legacy and newer equipment. Ease of install was exciting compared to other products we POC'd. Less of a learning curve when training Teams on how to monitor and troubleshoot while in production. Service desk were able to capture the logs and load into our ticketing system with ease.
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    Pros
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    • ITIL ticketing (incidents, problems, etc.).
    • Change orders.
    • Matching up its asset management system with incidents/change orders.
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    NetBrain Technologies
    • Network Issues Troubleshooting
    • Visualizing the root cause using color coding
    • out of the box runbooks available
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    Cons
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    • The user interface (UX) is antiquated and clunky. Compared to ServiceNow, it feels like it's 15 years behind.
    • It's complicated - We do routine internal training just to get people to use it correctly.
    • It doesn't have an automated way of discovering assets. Everything has to be force-fed.
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    NetBrain Technologies
    • Not all devices are integrated with the same quality.
    • Not all steps are self-explaining.
    • The updates were difficult (but thanks to the help of support no real problem).
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    Usability
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    NetBrain Technologies
    This is a easly tool that i've worked.
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    Support Rating
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    We have to hire 2 full-time 3rd-party consultants to run this application. That tells me it's not a very IT-friendly, vendor-supported application. Compare that with, say, SolarWinds, which is much easier for regular IT staff to customize without sacrificing features and capability. Sure, we have to bring in Loop1 to consult for us when we need to do a major SolarWinds config change or need a really unusual custom query built, but we never need more than 10 hours of consulting per month.
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    I did not select CA. If it were up to me, I would migrate us to ServiceNow. The user interface on ServiceNow is 100% more modern and 200% more user friendly. With ServiceNow, the front page for end users makes it clear: one button that says "Ask for something" and one button that says "Report a problem". That's what our end users need. The biggest problem we have in our organization is that our end users don't report issues to the Help Desk often enough and rarely ask for things through the Help Desk. A clean, simple self-service option like this would open up a world of new information for our customer service team.
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    NetBrain Technologies
    Best part of NetBrain is that it is customisable ,you can create apps based on your requirement and run them in your environment. Lot of flexibility
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    Return on Investment
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    • It helped make us an ITIL shop.
    • It was integral during our large IT consolidation 10 years ago in merging 10 different IT departments into one by converging on one ticketing system for all IT issues.
    • Its lack of user-friendliness has gated us from being able to deploy a true self-service IT help desk.
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    NetBrain Technologies
    • Time it takes for Service Desk to identify issues has been cut into 1/2
    • Able to present maps to management for circuit throughput issues and why we need a larger circuit
    • The logs are clear and easy to understand
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    Screenshot of how NetBrain defines what can be assessed in a network, how often it can be assessed, and how it scales through no-code automation.Screenshot of what a Golden Path through a hybrid cloud looks likeScreenshot of how using no-code network automation can cover all aspects of a network.