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Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) vs. F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

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    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco Workload Optimization Manager drives continuous health in dynamic data center environments, whether on-premises or in a public cloud. The real‑time decision engine provides automatable actions that adjust infrastructure resources at every layer of the stack to ensure the performance of your applications. When your infrastructure is continuously performant, your teams can focus on what matters to the business.N/A

    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AF5's BIG-IQ provides centralized management of app services and security policies.N/A
    Pricing
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    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Cisco
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    F5
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    33%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    40%
    Delivers good value for the price
    4 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    20%
    Happy with the feature set
    3 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    11%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
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    55%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) and F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Feature
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Ratings
    Multi-platform scheduling8.45 Ratings00 Ratings
    Central monitoring9.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Logging8.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts and notifications8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analysis and visualization8.95 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application integration8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    4.1
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    4.3
    (12 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Cisco Workload Optimization is there to allow tasks to be optimized, prioritized, and facilitated to increase the company's growth and expansion direction. More so, Cisco Workload Optimization brings the ideals of solid engagement, where the collaboration comes in, and the innovations among other procedures suit the company's needs. Cisco Workload Optimization has a consistent approach to controlling the resources for a specific job role.
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    F5
    F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management works perfectly in Software upgrades and simple daily changes. We are successfully using it to create and or delete objects. It doesn`t works well when we need reports. I usually have to create custom scripts to get a list of objects, for example. Performance is also something that could be improved in Big-IQ
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Communication
    • Organization
    • User friendly
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    F5
    • Common system level changes like cipher suite customization, ssh protocol settings etc can be pushed to all F5 gear through one click of a button
    • Enterprise standard templates for profiles/protocols etc., can be efficiently managed across F5 gear through a single interface
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Wish it had alerts easier to access.
    • More non tech user friendly
    • Cost a little less
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    F5
    • There a lack of the going forward to next
    • The second site product does not do what we need and we are forced to write our own scripts
    • Many of the alerting that was in enterprise management is no longer in F5 BIG-IQ Centralized Management
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
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    F5
    There is some room for improvement around RBAC. The access to certain features, options and menus is not straightforward and not that granular.
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    Usability
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    I feel pinning policies are killing you guys when it comes to being able to add multiple LTMs that have different naming conventions.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    F5
    The support is a bit complex and not straightforward. It seems there aren't many engineers supporting this platform. There are many components in the solution that makes it complex for troubleshooting. Documentation needs to be more in depth, and I have opened a few cases around cluster sync issues and objects stalled. In the end I was able to find and fix the problem.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco WOM now is integrated with Cisco Intersight so you will have in one dashboard the benefits of these solutions. In order to get all in one dashboard, Cisco recommends integrating through their secure API.
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    F5
    Of all the centralized Management platforms I have ever used, BIG-IQ is the worst. It constantly breaks and requires fixing in some way or another.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Increased time to value
    • More efficient processes
    Incentivized
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    F5
    • Cut costs by requiring less manual hours to manage F5 OS installations
    • Great monitoring and alerting tool for general F5 gear health
    • Provides critical information for capacity planning of the F5 resources
    Incentivized
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