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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    FortiGate

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AFortiNet FortiGate is a firewall option with high integrability. It offers a variety of deployment options and next-gen firewall capabilities, including integration with IaaS cloud platforms and public cloud environments.N/A

    NordLayer

    Score7.1 out of 10
    N/ANordLayer provides cybersecurity tools for businesses of any size or work model developed by the standard of NordVPN. NordLayer helps organizations secure networks and enhance internet security and modernizes network and resource access with technical improvements aligning with the best regulatory compliance standards. Helping organizations to adopt FWaaS, ZTNA, and SWG principles, NordLayer is focused on the Security Service Edge of cybersecurity services.…

    $8

    per month if Yearly plan per user

    SAP Customer Data Solutions

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AThe SAP Customer Data Cloud, based on Gigya (acquired by SAP in 2017) is a product suite that allows users to identify consumers, business customers, or partners across devices and channels to drive registrations and engagement; manage access, permission, and consent; and transform data into unified customer profiles.N/A
    Pricing
    FortiGateNordLayerSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Lite
    $8
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Core
    $11
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Premium
    $14
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    Custom
    x
    per month if Yearly plan per user
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FortiGateNordLayerSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFortiGate pricing starts at $250 for home office use, up to $300,000 for large enterprise appliances. Must contact sales team for pricing.——
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    Features
    FortiGateNordLayerSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of Fortinet FortiGate and NordLayer and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    8.7
    53 Ratings
    1% above category average
    NordLayer
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    -
    Ratings
    Identification Technologies8.951 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Visualization Tools8.351 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content Inspection8.852 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls8.953 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP8.750 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console7.752 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging8.353 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    VPN9.152 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    High Availability9.348 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection9.251 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Proxy Server8.539 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tag Management
    Comparison of Tag Management features of Fortinet FortiGate and NordLayer and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    -
    Ratings
    NordLayer
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.8
    27 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Tag library00 Ratings00 Ratings7.826 Ratings
    Tag variable mapping00 Ratings00 Ratings7.824 Ratings
    Ease of writing custom tags00 Ratings00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Rules-driven tag execution00 Ratings00 Ratings7.825 Ratings
    Tag performance monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings8.024 Ratings
    Page load times00 Ratings00 Ratings7.925 Ratings
    Mobile app tagging00 Ratings00 Ratings7.524 Ratings
    Library of JavaScript extensions00 Ratings00 Ratings7.623 Ratings
    Audience Segmentation & Targeting
    Comparison of Audience Segmentation & Targeting features of Fortinet FortiGate and NordLayer and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    -
    Ratings
    NordLayer
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    7.5
    28 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Standard visitor segmentation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.028 Ratings
    Behavioral visitor segmentation00 Ratings00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Traffic allocation control00 Ratings00 Ratings4.327 Ratings
    Website personalization00 Ratings00 Ratings9.926 Ratings
    Customer Data Management
    Comparison of Customer Data Management features of Fortinet FortiGate and NordLayer and SAP Customer Data Solutions
    Feature
    Fortinet FortiGate
    -
    Ratings
    NordLayer
    -
    Ratings
    SAP Customer Data Solutions
    6.5
    29 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Account Scoring00 Ratings00 Ratings8.027 Ratings
    Customer Data Governance00 Ratings00 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    Data Connectors00 Ratings00 Ratings4.329 Ratings
    Data Enhancement00 Ratings00 Ratings5.229 Ratings
    Data Ingestion00 Ratings00 Ratings6.129 Ratings
    Data Storage00 Ratings00 Ratings2.529 Ratings
    Data Visibility00 Ratings00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Event Data00 Ratings00 Ratings6.127 Ratings
    Identity Resolution00 Ratings00 Ratings8.927 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FortiGateNordLayerSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (79 ratings)
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.0
    (58 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.5
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
    8.7
    (21 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (57 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (27 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    5.0
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    FortiGateNordLayerSAP Customer Data Solutions
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fortinet
    Fortinet FortiGate addressed an immediate security issue we had a few years ago. The device gave us a much clearer picture of the activities on our network and also more importantly, increased our awareness of threats from the internet as a whole. Fortinet FortiGate helps us to mitigate these threats with regular signature updates from Fortiguard labs, identifying certain characteristics which, once recognised by Fortinet FortiGate, can be harnessed to deploy powerful 'playbooks'.
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    Nord Security
    NordLayer has become an invaluable resource for our security posture and day-to-day activity. The primary use case is preventing staff members from accessing sensitive resources on an unencrypted connection, applying NordLayer and conditional access policies in congruency. The ability to create teams and assigned them to specific dedicated servers is also helpful and allows for further security segmentation
    Incentivized
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    SAP
    It's best suited for business business to turn digital interaction in to richer and high value and experience that reach across computing platform also it offers a holistic and integrated approach to managing customer data and enhancing and personalized experience.it also draw actionable insights.because it offers wide range of products . perfect customer insight data solutions
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Fortinet
    • SD-WAN - Load balancing of Internet traffic is a USP of Fortigate and makes it stand tall in the competition. Be it 3 or more Internet Links, multiple Subnets/segments of users to distribute and bandwidth load balancing for links and users. SLA based monitoring of Internet Links / MPLS links, makes it even better to choose the links on the basis of performance (Latency, packet loss, Jitter etc).
    • SSL VPN configuration - As we all have WFH force (to some extend or all employee) during Covid-19, it is impossible to plan BCP without having a SSL VPN. In Fortigate, the SSL VPN configuration is very easy with the help of wizard. The deep CLI-level debugging is also very helpful in troubleshooting. Type of tunnel can be easily configured - Full Tunnel or Split Tunnel for SSL.
    • Explicit Proxy - This is also a great feature to shape and re-route the traffic, configuring the Proxy on the Firewall itself. We are using this feature in Pilot for now, and planned to rollout in few weeks looking at the success rate of the POC.
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    Nord Security
    • Easy to use
    • Simple user interface desgin
    • Support many VPN protocol
    • Fast and reliable connection
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    SAP
    • SAP's Customer Data Solutions provide a comprehensive customer view by collecting detailed data, including age, web activity, and buying history.
    • The software's strong analytics features give valuable information about how customers use content and products, so we can enhance our strategies.
    • SAP Customer Data Solutions offers insights to create specific marketing campaigns that sort audiences by preferences, browsing, and purchase behavior.
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    Cons
    Fortinet
    • Documentation is missing a great deal of detail and assumes the customer and just guess and fill in the blanks themselves
    • Fortinet has lots and lots of video guides on topics that only a small percentage of customers would ever need
    • The documentation and video guides do not get updated so most is only relevant to older software versions
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    Nord Security
    • The browser plugin needs some work, or some research about what browser/OS restrictions may limit its functionality. Ours does not work at all even after contacting support so we do not use it
    • Toast/Windows notifications scheduled or deployed through admin center would be amazing. The ability to remind a user who has been disconnected for X hours would be a great feature
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    SAP
    • I find the interface a bit complex and challenging to navigate. I remember having difficultly grasping it completely especially when I was new to the system. Simplifying the user experience would make it more accessible for everyone, making tasks quicker and more intuitive.
    • integrating it seamlessly with other software and platforms could enhance its functionality. I would really really love an integration between BenchMark email marketing tool.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Fortinet
    Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve.
    Incentivized
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    On the whole I am really impressed with SAP Customer Data Solutions and would highly recommend that other professionals look at this software to enhance their B2C and B2B sales
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Fortinet
    The firewall runs very well, firmware updates are fairly quick but you must follow the upgrade path. Neglecting this step will cause a lot of pain. If you decide to go with Fortinet FortiGate switches and/or access points, they can be managed within the firewall which is great. We're also using the FortiAnalyzer which easily plugs into the firewall for any reporting you may require.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We mostly work with the API which is of very good quality and is well documented.However, some of our success is also due to having very talented developers on staff, and also understanding advanced gamification design. The tool supports a talented team! It won't actually do everything for you automatically.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Fortinet
    We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    The platform pulls data from multiple sources, cleaning, and restructuring it allowing us to expand our growth opportunities by providing highly tailored suggestions on each page for our visitors which made it tremendously simple for us to provide rich and customized experiences to our visitors in the best way possible.
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    Performance
    Fortinet
    Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    There are some latency issues. The 24 hour caching problem mentioned earlier is a problem. Sometimes the Gigya system makes two calls instead of a single call if we go directly to the social platform. For this reason, it's sometimes more efficient to go direct rather than use Gigya.
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    Support Rating
    Fortinet
    The Support team at Fortinet is excellent. They can not only help you configure the device for what you are trying to do, they offer suggestions on improving rules, and troubleshooting issues. Their response time is fast, ensuring you are up and running immediately with no questions asked. We had a hard drive failure in one of our Fortinet Fortigate appliances. The tech answered immediately, and started rebuilding the drive after some preliminary investigations. After rebuilding, there were still errors and issues, so they dispatched a brand new Fortinet Fortigate appliance. The tech then backed up the configurations for when the new device came in, which showed up in a few hours. A restore of the configuration took less than a minute, and there were no more errors or issues.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    We have had multiple instances of help from Gigya to get our custom implementation working, including detailed technical assistance to a third party. We have found Gigya to be thorough and timely in their responses to all queries, which are consistently excellent.
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    In-Person Training
    Fortinet
    I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    because it was made directly in the company
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    Online Training
    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    They trained me in a train the trainer model. I then trained the internal team. Total training was about two hours, with an additional two hours for system setup.
    Training was maybe a little thin, but the system was fairly easy to learn and this wasn't really a problem.
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    Implementation Rating
    Fortinet
    Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    There was a bit of a learning curve in the beginning, and perhaps we were unclear on some of our requirements. Once they figured out what we wanted though, things went pretty smoothly. Just some minor hiccups in the beginning
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fortinet
    [Fortinet] FortiGate is not only cost effective but it gives the comprehensive security against the APT attacks and gives the complete traffic visibility and granular control. You can easily create the VDOMs (Virtual firewall) within a Fortigate firewall and customize the dashboard as per your requirement if you have multiple VDOMs within a single firewall.
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    Nord Security
    easy configuration and use case
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    SAP
    Resources and specialized IT personnel is needed for the effective administration and deployment of Informatica Customer 360. This resource-intensive for smaller organizations. Although Informatica has the ability to integrate, the process of setting up and establishing these integrations can be difficult and may call for programming experience.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Fortinet
    No changes needed to terms and conditions.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Fortinet
    My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here.
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    Nord Security
    No answers on this topic
    SAP
    because the platform actually allows you to scale at any time if designed following best practices
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    Return on Investment
    Fortinet
    • The pricing given to us for our firewall was well within what we were already spending for other vendors solutions and had the added value of eliminating a separate expense for a dedicated web filtering appliance.
    • We have also adopted Fortinet's security fabric approach and thus changed vendors for our switch and AP devices. These devices have come at reduced prices as compared to another previous vendor we were using, particularly in relation to ongoing annual maintenance costs.
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    Nord Security
    • Improved sercurity
    • Incresed productivity
    • Performance impact
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    SAP
    • Having a single, stremlined point of entry for the customers improves the overall customer experience
    • By the same reason, maintenance costs are reduced because interventions focus on a single object
    • It's versatile in its integration so there is no need to change the surrounding software ecosystem
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    SAP Customer Data Solutions Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customer Login in SAP Enterprise Consent and Preference ManagementScreenshot of User Identities report dashboardScreenshot of Search by Custom Fields windowScreenshot of Customer Data DataflowScreenshot of Account InformationScreenshot of SAP Customer Data Platform