Device42 vs. SmartDeploy

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Device42
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
Device42 is a comprehensive, agentless discovery system for Hybrid IT. Device42 can continuously discover, map, and optimize infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, in order to provide an accurate views of the IT ecosystem. Device42 intelligently groups discovered workloads by application affinities, so as to reduce the effort required to create move groups, capturing all communications. The vendor boasts customers in more than 60 countries including Global 2000…
$1,449
1-1K IPs
SmartDeploy
Score 9.6 out of 10
N/A
SmartDeploy, now from PDQ.com (acquired January 2022), provides a software deployment solution supporting computer imaging, app deployment, driver management, and Windows migration.
$960
per year
Pricing
Device42SmartDeploy
Editions & Modules
Core 1-100 Devices
$1,449
1-1K IPs
Core 101-500 Devices
$2,999
1K-5K IPs
Core 501-1000 Devices
$4,999
5K-10K IPs
Core 1001-2500 Devices
$9,999
10K-25K IPs
Core 2500+ Devices
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25K+ IPs
Starter
$960
per year
Plus
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Device42SmartDeploy
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$96,050
Additional DetailsPricing for each customer requesting a SaaS installation/deployment is negotiated on a case by case basis, and depends on many factors
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User Ratings
Device42SmartDeploy
Likelihood to Recommend
9.6
(11 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Device42SmartDeploy
Likelihood to Recommend
Device42
1. Installbase management feature allows us to retire our old spreadsheet methods for tracking the data in favour of a singular database with some excellent reporting.2. We are also providing data connectivity from the WAN Providers and keeping all connections in Device42 gives us the ability have documentation of all connection that are made. 3. Ever changing and growing inventory that needs to be carefully tracked and inventoried. We find this so simple to use that we spend much less time than we used to on tracking these items.
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PDQ.com
Well suited scenarios : One of the situations SmartDeploy helped immensly was in application deployment and management for our projects , making it and instant favorite for the deployment process. Also in one situation where we had a high flying app development which did'nt had much time to develop, deployment thorugh smart deploy made it quick and less involvement. Easier to understand major functionalities and onboard new projects. Less appropriate scenarios: We faced issues while utilising by DevOps team for monitoring every system for issue resolving in linux update on every employees system. This created alot of delay in every employees work front as systems were not working as expected
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Pros
Device42
  • Device42 can discover physical and virtual servers as well as your network devices
  • Device42 can give resource utilization details like CPU, Memory and Storage
  • Device42 can give dependency mapping
  • Device42 can give inbound and outbound communication details
  • Device42 can create Affinity Groups (Move Groups)
  • Device42 can recommend the Cloud platform to which you can migrate your infrastructure.
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  • It allows us to maintain only one image. Much less effort required than storing and maintaining multiple images.
  • LAN deployment works very well with few issues.
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Cons
Device42
  • UI/UX is not up to the standards.
  • Can't mass update everything.
  • No export option for the sub components that have changed linked to the device they are assigned to
  • Plugins options are limited
  • Sometimes randomly times out my login forcing me to log in again.
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PDQ.com
  • Remote monitoring is useful but has some lagging and functionalities are not upfront to use , making it complicated for new users to be aware just by using the application
  • Windows migration was quite difficult in terms of updates of softwares to be migrated to new system
  • Integration with client systems can be tough as major usage of other softwares is done in most of client systems causing us difficulties to integrate with smart deploy on the same platform
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Support Rating
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PDQ.com
SmartDeploy customer support has been very good. Although we do not always get a super-fast response (though always within the time stated). The tech support folks at SmartDeploy always go the extra mile to see that our immediate issues are taken care of in as timely a manner as possible. They have always been attentive to our needs and frustrations.
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Device42
What I appreciate and love about Device42 is how everything links together from room layout,to server rack organisation,down to all VMs and Business applications. We are also able to get full value of our money and full visibility of our assets management process.
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PDQ.com
SmartDeploy has a fantastic deployment process management with detailed and configurable aspects. Even though it has detailed configuration it still somehow makes it easy to understand and implement compared to other services which need special learning and courses to understand them completelya and use them efficiently. This is one quality highly appreciated and stacks up against any other services I have used for deployment
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Return on Investment
Device42
  • We use it for the mass updates. Because of which we save lots of time
  • It helps in making everything documented
  • With this system you can get any information about the location of the device, connected cables, additional information and statuses.
  • Inventory Management
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PDQ.com
  • Very fast as an image deployment solution for new PCs. We do not have to create a completely new image when new hardware comes out. This is an amazing time-saver on its own.
  • With offline deployment and some workarounds, this is allowing us to migrate many Windows 7 units, rather than having to upgrade each one or load from scratch or replace it with new hardware.
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