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    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)

    Score3 out of 10
    N/ACherwell Asset Management was a software asset management offering from Cherwell Software in Colorado Springs, based on technology acquired with the company Express Metrix in August, 2014. Cherwell was acquired by Ivanti, and the application is no longer available.N/A

    Device42

    Score6.4 out of 10
    N/ADevice42, a Freshworks company, is an agentless discovery system for Hybrid IT. Device42 can continuously discover, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, in order to provide an accurate views of the IT ecosystem.

    $1,449

    1-1K IPs

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    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Device42
    Editions & Modules
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    Core 1-100 Devices
    $1,449
    1-1K IPs
    Core 101-500 Devices
    $2,999
    1K-5K IPs
    Core 501-1000 Devices
    $4,999
    5K-10K IPs
    Core 1001-2500 Devices
    $9,999
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    Core 2500+ Devices
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    25K+ IPs
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    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Device42
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Pricing for each customer requesting a SaaS installation/deployment is negotiated on a case by case basis, and depends on many factors
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Device42
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.6
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Cherwell Asset Management (discontinued)Device42
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Discontinued Products
    For small industries, it can prove to be a better solution as Cherwell offers comparatively affordable costs for small organizations. But for larger companies, there are many other solutions available in the market that are less complex and offer a variety of additional features. It can be a little complex to use because of its high configuration.
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    Freshworks Inc
    1. Installbase management feature allows us to retire our old spreadsheet methods for tracking the data in favour of a singular database with some excellent reporting.2. We are also providing data connectivity from the WAN Providers and keeping all connections in Device42 gives us the ability have documentation of all connection that are made. 3. Ever changing and growing inventory that needs to be carefully tracked and inventoried. We find this so simple to use that we spend much less time than we used to on tracking these items.
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    Pros
    Discontinued Products
    • Automation
    • Integrating with other systems
    • Full control over how ITSM platform is set up and used
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    Freshworks Inc
    • Device42 can discover physical and virtual servers as well as your network devices
    • Device42 can give resource utilization details like CPU, Memory and Storage
    • Device42 can give dependency mapping
    • Device42 can give inbound and outbound communication details
    • Device42 can create Affinity Groups (Move Groups)
    • Device42 can recommend the Cloud platform to which you can migrate your infrastructure.
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    Cons
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    • Very costly licenses.
    • Requires comparatively high amount of configuration.
    • Comparatively complex to use other solutions available in market.
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    Freshworks Inc
    • UI/UX is not up to the standards.
    • Can't mass update everything.
    • No export option for the sub components that have changed linked to the device they are assigned to
    • Plugins options are limited
    • Sometimes randomly times out my login forcing me to log in again.
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    Support Rating
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    Cherwell support has been excellent! Always available to take our emails and calls and get back to us quickly.
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    Freshworks Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    Cherwell Asset Management is a quite known and affordable solution for Asset management for organizations where there are more than 800-1000 users as it provides a complete integrated solution. There are many additional features that are available in Cherwell which is not available in other solution, like tracking of cost, management of procurement, etc.
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    Freshworks Inc
    What I appreciate and love about Device42 is how everything links together from room layout,to server rack organisation,down to all VMs and Business applications. We are also able to get full value of our money and full visibility of our assets management process.
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    Return on Investment
    Discontinued Products
    • Consolidated other systems into a single platform
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    Freshworks Inc
    • We use it for the mass updates. Because of which we save lots of time
    • It helps in making everything documented
    • With this system you can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information and statuses.
    • Inventory Management
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