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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Webex Support

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Webex Support was a remote access and support tool that has been discontinued and is no longer available.N/A

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
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    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    4 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    83%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    54 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    67%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    4 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    67%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Remote Administration
    Comparison of Remote Administration features of Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Screen sharing8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    File transfer8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Instant message7.17 Ratings00 Ratings
    Secure remote access with Smart Card authentication9.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access to sleeping/powered-off computers6.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Over-the-Internet remote session8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
    Initiate remote control from mobile1.36 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote management of servers & workstations2.05 Ratings00 Ratings
    Remote Active Directory® management7.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Centralized management dashboard8.87 Ratings00 Ratings
    Session record8.67 Ratings00 Ratings
    Annotations7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and Alerts8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-platform remote control1.57 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Cisco Webex Support (discontinued) and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Cisco Webex Support (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    24 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.325 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings6.725 Ratings
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    Score9.6 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.7
    (11 ratings)
    8.6
    (156 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Webex SupportIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    We use WebEx Support Center in the IT department to support users as well as work with vendors remotely. This applies to physical desktops, laptops, and Virtual Desktops. We have around 200 employees. Most employees work in one of our offices, but we do have at least 5-10 users who are more frequently remote than they are in the office. It helps us remotely access machines we wouldn't otherwise have access to, due to lack of physical access. It's excellent for troubleshooting access problems from users' personal machines, as well.
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    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Simple Remote Access - WebEx Support Center works with either a permanent install or temporary executable, so you don't have to worry about users being particularly comfortable or knowledgeable about software installation. It also doesn't matter if the user is on an account without admin rights, you can still connect and see what's going on using the temporary executable.
    • Robust Access Options - You can take see the user's screen, take control of their screen, send files, and retrieve files. It's a great tool for troubleshooting issues that users might be experiencing and doesn't depend on them being able to find the files that you need to properly troubleshoot their issues.
    • Great performance - Even when users don't have a particularly great internet connection, you can still typically get good results and help them quickly. You're not going to do it over dial-up (if that even still exists for anyone), but it works acceptably well even over very modest DSL or satellite internet connections.
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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • During initial setups it can be a little confusing.
    • The look and feel is a little rigid. It feels like it is in need of a smoother UI update.
    • When a new user is introduced to webex and they are asked to share their desktop, it maybe a little difficult for the user to navigate to the correct buttons.
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    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    The Enterprise package we purchased (Event Center, Remote Support, Meeting Center, and Training Center) for 100 users is the same annual price as GoToMeeting for 25 users. We will renew as it is a package deal. If it were just WebEx Remote Support, we would not renew at all.
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    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Honestly, there are people available. But none of them will help you with your issues. They just keep assigning new service engineers who are often clueless.
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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    Cisco
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    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    The support team is highly incompetent. The only thing that they are able to do flawlessly is register an issue and open the case. But this case related to the issue is never resolved. They will forward the case or assign a new service engineer. But the case will never be resolved. At least not soon. They take weeks to resolve issues.
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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    I would say that Cisco Webex Support stacks up pretty evenly in capability, but in some regards (video clarity, toll-free access, etc.) they were even better. Where they did provide a better solution for toll-free access on audio bridges, their audio quality was worse for those that wanted to use VoIP for the audio conference bridge.
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    IBM
    As the organization had experience of years in using IBM products, we had the confidence that they will provide us with great support. And we needed a reliable solution as a financial institute to ensure continuous operations. Even though the price was very high, we made the correct decision to go ahead with IBM Turbonomic as the feedback from existing users in the region was very positive. We needed a solution which was capable of handling our automation requirements. All these were green in IBM Turbonomic.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • WebEx Support Center works pretty excellently for us as we are a small shop. We are experienced and have pretty good skill sets. WebEx Support Center is an excellent product for our use cases with our users and client to troubleshoot issues.
    • WebEx Support Center is more expensive than our previous product MXIE or Logmein. It has a more user-friendly UI, and overall performance is better and reliable.
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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.