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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    OpenText Threat Detection and Response

    Score7.4 out of 10
    N/AA combined SIEM and SOAR, used to accelerate threat detection and response with holistic security analytics, native SOAR, and intelligent automation.N/A
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    OpenText Dimensions CMOpenText Threat Detection and Response
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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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    60%
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    80%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    OpenText Dimensions CMOpenText Threat Detection and Response
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of OpenText Dimensions CM and OpenText Threat Detection and Response
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    OpenText Dimensions CM
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    Ratings
    OpenText Threat Detection and Response
    5.5
    4 Ratings
    37% below category average
    Centralized event and log data collection00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Correlation00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility00 Ratings6.04 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces00 Ratings5.04 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings2.01 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings4.01 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings1.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    OpenText Dimensions CMOpenText Threat Detection and Response
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
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    9.0
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    Usability
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    7.0
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    Support Rating
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    8.0
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    User Testimonials
    OpenText Dimensions CMOpenText Threat Detection and Response
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    OpenText
    In the current lot of hundreds of SIEM solutions out there in the market, ArcSight ESM is fairly less expensive with strong fundamentals in place. The log ingestion, correlation are very well performing and totally worth ROI. However, the tool has lost its way when it comes to staying abreast with current feature curve of SIEM technology and the evolution has not been done by MicroFocus. Search times are high and there is no major plug-in that has been introduced as part of the product life cycle.
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    Pros
    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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    OpenText
    • Integration with smart logger and ESM to create rules and easy management of the same.
    • Easy integration with all end point security management tool(IPS/IDS, Firewall, Anti-Virus) and their consolidated output at a single place to effectively rectifying true and false positives.
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    Cons
    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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    OpenText
    • It is slow comparing to any other SIEM Tool.
    • We have to create filter for each alerts need some custom filter .
    • Here we dont have any single tab for see all the alerts .also need some attractive features for dashboard.
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    Usability
    OpenText
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    OpenText
    Overall, it is a good investment in order for an organization to stay compliant and stay secure from all the wild things happening. It is definitely a cost effective tool with some good features including correlation, log storage, reporting and dashboards. If a customer is looking for advanced set of features, then I would highly not recommend this.
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    Support Rating
    OpenText
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    OpenText
    I personally haven't reached the support team, however, the engineers never complained about the Arcsight support team. We had some issues with the tool in the past but every time we reached the support, all issues were resolved in a timely manner.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    OpenText
    Multiple platforms are already supported by Arcsight. Support is good. Scripts can be used to get data from multiple threat intel sources & the same can be used in correlation rules to detect any suspicious activity. Reporting features are good & you can check any backdated information within new clicks.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    OpenText
    • Logger helps us to decrease incident response times.
    • It also decreased our project times with the man/day calculations. Before this solution, it may take up to 10 men/days to do something. After this, it becomes nearly half of the time.
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