Cisco Crosswork Network Automation vs. SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	The vendor states that users can plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize a service provider network with Cisco Crosswork Network Automation. Cisco Crosswork is designed to help service providers gain the mass awareness, augmented intelligence, and proactive control for a comprehensive data-driven, intent-based automated network.	N/A
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability aims to provide a comprehensive, integrated, and full-stack solution designed to optimize performance, improve availability, and reduce remediation time by correlating data from across the IT ecosystem, including networks, servers, applications, databases, and more.	$5 per month node

Pricing

Cisco Crosswork Network Automation

SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

Editions & Modules

No answers on this topic

Essentials: $5
per month per node
Advanced: $9
per month per node

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	Yes

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

Additional Details

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	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability

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User Ratings
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (1 ratings)	9.0 (4 ratings)
Usability	4.5 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Crosswork Network Automation	SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco Cisco Crosswork Network Automation has been great at reducing the workload our engineers face on the day to day aspects of their jobs. CNC has been able to reduce the time it takes to provision a device while using NSO and has provided valuable data to assist in troubleshooting network wide issues. CNC has been a pivotal aspect to our multi-million dollar network refresh Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds - For small teams serving big organizations - it's a really simple tool to install and set up relatively quickly. - the new installer is also great - I don't have to understand what modules need to be installed; it's all streamlined. - The HCO Licensing allows you to run the Additional polling engines at a scale where the previous licensing model didn't. We can deploy APEs in locations now, which would not have been worth the investment in previously as there weren't enough devices in that location/region to spend the $$$$ on an APE License. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Cisco No answers on this topic	SolarWinds Automated dependency mapping is a big hit. High availability is extremely simple to implement. Simple to use and drill into issues. Analysis of growth patterns driving the recommendation engine. Incentivized Andrew Kolyvas Platform Engineer Read full review
Cons	Cisco No answers on this topic	SolarWinds Can be complex to setup Is strongest with network resources Assumes a fairly large amount of base knowledge Incentivized Gary Lee EVP - Enterprise Applications Read full review
Usability	Cisco Giving this a 5 as CNC classifies to a specific set of users. CNC is not an 'easy to use' product and thus requires some training to ensure that it can be used to the best of its capabilities. CNC can when used fully provide valuable data that Network Engineers would otherwise have to hunt for on their own. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	SolarWinds - decent ease of use - good training materials - good documentation - acceptable level of expected knowledge Incentivized Gary Lee EVP - Enterprise Applications Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco No answers on this topic	SolarWinds Solarwinds has the best overlap of the two others I've mentioned - the other two tools (Datadog and Dynatrace) are great in their own way but Solarwinds is just good at everything; if I had to pick one tool of the above, it would be Solarwinds for the compatibility and ease of use, the other tools are more focused on being great at certain things while Solarwinds is the jack of all trades. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco No answers on this topic	SolarWinds one license requiring 1 PO to be raised sharing costs between departments for monitoring under one platform using APEs Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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