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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

    OpenText Dimensions CM

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ADimensions CM is Software Change and Configuration Management for Agile development, developed by Serena Software and now sold by OpenText.N/A
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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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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    Features
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)OpenText Dimensions CM
    Workload Automation
    Comparison of Workload Automation features of Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM) and OpenText Dimensions CM
    Feature
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)
    8.6
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    OpenText Dimensions CM
    -
    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)OpenText Dimensions CM
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)OpenText Dimensions CM
    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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    OpenText
    Serena CM is well suited to highly controlled, audited, and process driven environments. It will allow strict segregation of duties, and change traceability. If implemented correctly it will help you quickly build trusts with your auditors. It is also well suited to environments that require constant branching and merging. Due to the complexity of the product and learning curve for your development and operations team it may be overkill in a small shop with loose rules
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Communication
    • Organization
    • User friendly
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    OpenText
    • Code Promotion: Dimensions CM allows supervisors to control changes to code, in that they delegate requests to developers, and act as a gatekeeper prior to promoting to the next environment. This functionality is configurable so you can set up a workflow that best fits the structure and requirements of your own company.
    • Code Repository for changes and versioning: Code can be checked out by item or by synchronizing folders. Code revisions can be compared against other revisions or work files. Item histories show which developers made which modifications, and which supervisor and operations personnel were involved in assigning the request and promoting the code to each environment. Additionally a pedigree will show a stream diagram which graphically displays branches and merges.
    • Deployment: Serena Change Management offers help automating deployment including integrations with SVN and Jenkins. Its newer versions also have a powerful graphical deployment automation tool (Serena Deployment Automation- SDA). It comes with a certain amount of licenses built-in. If you have a many nodes to deploy to there will be separate licensing costs for that.
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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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    OpenText
    • The only major negative that I have encountered with Serena CM product is that the very power and flexibility of the tool means there is a risk that you will make a mess of things. In other words it gives you plenty of rope to tangle yourself with. I recommend careful, well thought out deployments implementing the built in roles and workflows that can be turned on and configured, using a consistent methodology.
    • My experience with the Serena help desk support has not been impressive. Though reasonably polite and diligent, the technicians were well trained, and often gave bad advise and terrible scripts. On several occasions I had to rewrite scripts they have me; if I had run them as provided they would have caused even more difficulties than the problem I was trying to solve. I speak of the support in the past tense because I conditioned myself not to call them, it was usually just easier to solve nay problems my self. They do have a good account management team though, and for any major issues you can go thru them.
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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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    OpenText
    Serena CM is superior to Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) in overall functionality, but does not have very good native integration with Microsoft. Therefore in a Microsoft centric shop with no audit needs ,TFS would be better. Otherwise I would choose Serena CM
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Increased time to value
    • More efficient processes
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    OpenText
    • Serena has facilitated our annual completion of various audit and technology control certifications. These certifications make a huge difference to our company's reputation and bottom line.
    • There has been no negative impact on our company.
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