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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Tanium

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ATanium delivers Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM) with the goal of allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk.

    $8.99

    one-time fee per subscription license

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    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Tanium
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    Tanium Patch (v.2)
    $8.99
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    Tanium Core Platform
    $29.99
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    Tanium Subscription Suite
    $33.99
    one-time fee per subscription license
    Tanium Client Management
    $36.99
    one-time fee per subscription license
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    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Tanium
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    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Testimonials
    CA Unicenter NSM (Discontinued)Tanium
    Likelihood to Recommend
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    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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    Tanium
    Tanium is well suited for organizations where enterprise infrastructure has great significance and needs to be properly managed as well as protected. Most organizations depend upon their infrastructure to sustain so Tanium can be a boon for them to sustain in this competitive market. However, Tanium is less appropriate for the traditional offices that don't have or have a less online presence.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • ITIL ticketing (incidents, problems, etc.).
    • Change orders.
    • Matching up its asset management system with incidents/change orders.
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    Tanium
    • It's recognize threat and offering easily.
    • Helps in security management and installing patches.
    • Tanium offers endpoint data precisely, merges many teams and processes effectively.
    • It's protect from all kinds of malicious threat and help you to achieve your task.
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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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    Tanium
    • One issue is its ring topology, as the data is stored in central hubs and pushed through its peer nodes. If the central hub fails, then the associated node will also result in failure.
    • Another problem is that all Tanium management is on premises requiring the customer to maintain it. If we want ask any help from Tanium support we always get a response like "you are maintaining it yourselves and it's your responsibility.
    • The Tanium User Interface could be improved a bit as, although the tool is rich in performance, a more impressive UI might really attract new customers.
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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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    Tanium
    Tanium is always my first choice, so much excellent feedback online from genuine users, easy to use in any system environment, and value for money, so many good things about Tanium stacks up against all the other competitors in the market. Tanium is one of the most reliable and trusted risk and compliance management software.
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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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    Tanium
    • Enhanced security.
    • Increase in customer trust.
    • Overall increase in company revenue.
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