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Cisco Meraki Insight vs. Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Meraki Insight

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/ACisco Meraki Insight is a network analytics tool that supports troubleshooting, and helps IT administrators optimize the end user experience, so as to significantly reduce the time it takes to isolate network or application problems.N/A

    Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard is a free network and systems monitoring tool. It emphasizes the website and application monitoring capabilities, as well as monitoring and identifying connectivity issues.N/A
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    Cisco Meraki InsightSpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
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    Cisco Meraki InsightSpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Cisco Catalyst Assurance
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Meraki InsightSpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Meraki InsightSpiceworks Connectivity Dashboard
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Within healthcare, services, or manufacturing organizations the Cisco Meraki systems have performed remarkably well. The security standpoint of Cisco aligned equipment needs no additional mentioning other than they are the top choice for Federal, State, and Local governments as well as a plethora of organizations from different market areas.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    hassle free of IT resources is plus point. Monitoring the external resources related to Websites, service provider links or any hosted applications is a great feature in Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard. Alert reporting on monitored resources is at ease. Integration with custom devices needs to be improved. devices integrated with snmp protocol is not reported with full details which needs to be rectified by Spiceworks Connectivity Dashboard.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Configuration options.
    • Easy to use Dashboard.
    • Reporting
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Monitoring Applications
    • External resources monitoring related to ISP
    • Alerting mechanism via email and dashboard monitoring
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Expensive maintenance fee.
    • Expensive equipment.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • Integration with custom devices needs to be improved
    • providing more insight of device is required when added to monitoring list
    • the feel and look of dashboard needs some improvement
    • Agent is resource hungry, to be made light weight for systems
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco Meraki has made the world of management so much easier, allowing IT Administrators and Business Management personnel to enjoy more time on the business needs and less time managing equipment.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    Spiceworks Network Monitor being a free tool, can easily be overtaken against any other product which is cost involved and most of the features are available which are provided by any leading network monitoring tool available in the market. Few of the features which are not present in spiceworks tool (like autodiscovery of resources) needs to be added which will give a great competition for the product. Alerting features, response tickets, sending alerts via email is one of the great features in the product
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    Just about every department we've been asked to provide access to has been able to utilize this system. Be it from a CCTV perspective or for environment reporting, Cisco Meraki Insight can fit into this situation with ease, and without a great deal of training, our users found the system very intuitive.
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • The ease of use saved us many hours of billable time.
    • Support added lots of value.
    • Licensing and equipment cost really put a damper on overall value (being so high).
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    Spiceworks Ziff Davis
    • if on premises cannot be deployed on Linux environment which needs windows license requirement
    • competitive price makes easy for decision
    • lacking in auto discovery of devices is the most negative point for ROI
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