HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) vs. Panda Systems Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is a solution for managing hardware across a variety of HP servers, in addition to storage and networking product. Some key features include: Inventory Management and Reporting, Health Management, and Firmware and System Software Updates Management.N/A
Panda Systems Management
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
Panda Security now offers system monitoring, client-less device management, patch management, and other capabilities via Panda Systems Management.N/A
Pricing
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)Panda Systems Management
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
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Monitoring Tasks
Comparison of Monitoring Tasks features of Product A and Product B
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
9.4
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Panda Systems Management
9.1
3 Ratings
22% above category average
Remote monitoring9.01 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Network device monitoring9.01 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Multiple Server Monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-device monitoring9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated alerts and notifications10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Activity Monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Management Tasks
Comparison of Management Tasks features of Product A and Product B
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
9.3
1 Ratings
21% above category average
Panda Systems Management
9.4
3 Ratings
28% above category average
Patch Management9.01 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Service configuration management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Software and hardware inventory10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based automation00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Reporting
Comparison of Reporting features of Product A and Product B
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
8.0
1 Ratings
3% above category average
Panda Systems Management
-
Ratings
Performance data reports8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable reporting8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data visualization8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Risk analysis8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
-
Ratings
Panda Systems Management
9.0
1 Ratings
24% above category average
Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Remote Access
Comparison of Remote Access features of Product A and Product B
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)
-
Ratings
Panda Systems Management
9.4
1 Ratings
34% above category average
Attended device access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Unattended device access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Mobile device access00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Virtual device access00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
Multiple concurrent sessions00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)Panda Systems Management
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM)Panda Systems Management
Likelihood to Recommend
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products
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WatchGuard Technologies
Panda Systems Management is well suited for small to medium sized organizations looking for a tool to centralize asset management not only physical but also assist with rapid deployment of patches, applications, etc. It proves also to be very beneficial as permits (to and extent) to do troubleshooting without interfering or interrupting end users.
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Pros
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • One point of view the events of servers's farm.
  • Tools that show an inventory update of hardware componenet of each servers.
  • Include a wonderful module that permit to upgrade remotely the firmware of all of them.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • Remote access. It's as good as any other on the market. It also allows for RDP connections which is a nice feature.
  • Inventory management. We get some great insight from the reports we can run.
  • Quick Jobs. If there's an app or service you use, there may be a quick job to install and update it remotely.
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Cons
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware.
  • This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments.
  • This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • Licensing. With the possibility of monthly splitting
  • Integration with firewalls even outside the corporate network
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Usability
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The gui is really useful to do many things. We are a compliance team that hace a reduce user con this platform that they are using on its monsthly technical audit. Ther are very happy with SIM. In the other hand, they are a sysadmin teams that usually use SIM all of day to detect a reporte to HPE Technical Support for hardware fail. All of then are on the moon with SIM.
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WatchGuard Technologies
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Support Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
No answers on this topic
WatchGuard Technologies
We rate and recommend Panda Systems Management not only because it is a very effective and very cost effective solution that pays itself for us (ROI) extremely fast, but also due to all reason described previously and possibly a few more I'm sure we missed here. I do have to says tech support for this solution sometimes leave a bit to be desired.
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Implementation Rating
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment
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WatchGuard Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
The project of deploy SIM in our company came from one project to buy HPE Hardware and sevice for Data Center.Fastly we knew that the potenciality of this product over the new HPE's servers, switches and storages.Nowaday, our Data Centers have device from different vendors like Lenovo, Dell and HPE. For example we have Dell OpenManage for managing Dell Powereldge servers. And in comparative with SIM is useless for no technical user.
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WatchGuard Technologies
Panda is a bit of a greatest hits between some of these other things. I feel like GoToAssist has a stronger remote support option, but Panda is more convenient. Kaseya has a ton of features, but from an ease of use standpoint, Panda seems stronger. Spiceworks has a fine inventory system but it lacks features. I added Azure as well since we are a 365 shop and Azure supplies a lot of the same visibility that Panda does. However it is a completely different animal, and it's way easier to hop into Panda and get what you need than get waaay more data than necessary from Azure/Azure AD/ATP.
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Return on Investment
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses.
  • This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software.
  • I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance.
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WatchGuard Technologies
  • It has facilitated us in the management of controls on the various clients, reducing the cost of human resources
  • Thanks to the alerts, in case of intrusion, it is possible to intervene promptly
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