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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Prophix

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Prophix One, a Financial Performance Platform, is used to improve the speed and accuracy of decision-making within a harmonized user experience. To reduce complexity and uncertainty, the software offers automated insights and planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation functionalities.N/A

    IBM Turbonomic

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    IBM Turbonomic, now part of the Concert platform, is a performance and cost optimization platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds used by cloud, infrastructure operations, and architecture to assure application performance while eliminating inefficiencies by dynamically resourcing applications through automated actions. One of the key features of IBM Turbonomic is its ability to continuously adjust…N/A
    Pricing
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    Editions & Modules
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    IBM® Turbonomic On-Prem
    Varies - Request a Quote
    per month IBM Turbonomic On-prem optimizes data center resources in real time, ensuring app performance at the lowest cost by aligning infrastructure supply with dynamic application demand.
    IBM® Turbonomic Cloud Standard
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    per month For customers with more than USD 1.6 million in annual cloud spend or 50 Managed Virtual Servers (MVS) or greater
    IBM® Turbonomic Hybrid Standard
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    per month Advanced hybrid cloud optimization capabilities for customers with 200 managed virtual servers (MVS) or more
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional Details—Volume discounting available.
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    Community Pulse
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    Considered Both Products
    Prophix Software
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    IBM
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
    Would buy again
    201 Answers
    95%
    Would buy again
    53 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    161 Answers
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    53 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    204 Answers
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    54 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    42 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    81%
    Implementation went as expected
    119 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    42 Answers
    Features
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.4
    66 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.628 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.359 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates8.362 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.4
    183 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.8180 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.6174 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.8166 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.6
    162 Ratings
    8% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.8153 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.4122 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.6139 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.3
    72 Ratings
    12% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Predictive Analytics8.372 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.8
    172 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)8.7163 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.6164 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.8169 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control8.9110 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    9.1
    84 Ratings
    21% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
    Comparison of Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.4
    298 Ratings
    4% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Long-term financial planning8.5249 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial budgeting8.7284 Ratings00 Ratings
    Forecasting8.3266 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scenario modeling8.0220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management reporting8.3277 Ratings00 Ratings
    Consolidation and Close
    Comparison of Consolidation and Close features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.7
    224 Ratings
    11% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Financial data consolidation8.8184 Ratings00 Ratings
    Journal entries and reports8.7119 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-currency management8.894 Ratings00 Ratings
    Intercompany Eliminations8.5113 Ratings00 Ratings
    Minority Ownership8.650 Ratings00 Ratings
    Local and consolidated reporting9.1155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Detailed Audit Trails8.5142 Ratings00 Ratings
    Financial Reporting and Compliance
    Comparison of Financial Reporting and Compliance features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    9.0
    270 Ratings
    10% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Financial Statement Reporting9.0251 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Reporting9.1259 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel-based Reporting8.7233 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated board and financial reporting8.6207 Ratings00 Ratings
    XBRL support for regulatory filing9.524 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics and Reporting
    Comparison of Analytics and Reporting features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.3
    244 Ratings
    10% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Personalized dashboards8.2228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Color-coded scorecards8.5162 Ratings00 Ratings
    KPIs8.0178 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cost and profitability analysis8.3172 Ratings00 Ratings
    Key Performance Indicator setting8.5147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Benchmarking with external data8.4106 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration
    Comparison of Integration features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    8.5
    263 Ratings
    5% above category average
    IBM Turbonomic
    -
    Ratings
    Flat file integration8.6212 Ratings00 Ratings
    Excel data integration8.5228 Ratings00 Ratings
    Direct links to 3rd-party data sources8.4202 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of Prophix and IBM Turbonomic
    Feature
    Prophix
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Turbonomic
    8.0
    24 Ratings
    9% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings7.818 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings8.725 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings7.926 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings8.426 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings7.624 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.325 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings6.725 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (321 ratings)
    8.6
    (156 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (16 ratings)
    9.0
    (24 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (140 ratings)
    7.7
    (21 ratings)
    Availability
    9.4
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    8.8
    (30 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (123 ratings)
    8.0
    (25 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.1
    (12 ratings)
    8.2
    (3 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.2
    (15 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    4.0
    (20 ratings)
    9.7
    (18 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (31 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.2
    (28 ratings)
    7.3
    (4 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    7.5
    (25 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    7.9
    (22 ratings)
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ProphixIBM Turbonomic
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Prophix Software
    Prophix is best suited if you have a very extensive budgeting process that currently relies on multiple Excel spreadsheets. It is also great if you have on-prem tools that may no longer be supported for reporting. It may not be appropriate if you require an unlimited number of mid-tier users, as it can be very expensive annually. It's definitely not a cheap tool, but the cost can at least be optimized based on users' use cases. In both organizations I've worked for that use it, cost has been mentioned.
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    IBM
    Datacenter Consolidation and Hardware Optimization: This scenario is relevant to you as a hardware manager. It applies when you have physical servers (like Power or System z) and want to maximize virtual machine density. Why it works: IBM Turbonomic analyzes the peak usage times of each VM. If VM "A" is active during the day and VM "B" at night, it places them on the same physical host. Ideal scenario: Data migration projects or when you're told, "[...], there's no budget for more servers this year, make everything fit on what we have." Consolidación de Datacenters y Optimización de Hardware,Este escenario te toca de cerca como encargado de Hardware. Cuando tienes servidores físicos (como los Power o System z) y quieres maximizar la densidad de máquinas virtuales.Por qué funciona: IBM Turbonomic analiza las horas pico de cada VM. Si la VM "A" es activa de día y la VM "B" de noche, las coloca en el mismo host físico.Escenario ideal: Proyectos de migración de datos o cuando te dicen: "[...], no hay presupuesto para más servidores este año, haz que quepa todo en lo que tenemos". This review was originally written in Spanish and has been translated into English using a third-party translation tool. While we strive for accuracy, some nuances or meanings may not be perfectly captured.
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    Pros
    Prophix Software
    • Reporting - single report that can be opened by multiple users, each will see only aspect specific to them based on their security access.
    • Budgeting - workflow driven budget data collection, visibility of its current status, ability to take action to ensure timely completion. Ability to snapshot budget data at a point in time. Ability to perform what-if scenarios.
    • Forecasting - as above with added benefit of either reusing budget level of grain or forecasting at high level.
    • Granular planning - ability to create unlimited number of subsidiary models to assist with the planning process. Non-financial data collected during budget/forecast process help with operation planning and variance analysis.
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    IBM
    • Presentation is nice. Its easy to understand what your looking at and the data that is being presented to you.
    • Properly identify resource utilization and recommendations for action on how VMs can be improved and resources can be better utilized.
    • It was also able to tell us the same information and analysis for cloud resources. I was not expecting that.
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    Cons
    Prophix Software
    • Ability to filter report views for report binder without creating duplicate reports.
    • More extensive documentation and examples in the ProCalc library.
    • More ProCalc functions that deal with the time dimension and allow functions that can utilize the system date. So if it is day 8 of the month.
    • Ability to save company color scheme for use in reporting.
    • Would like to create a link between the account dimension and another dimension so I can easily report on account properties. For example, an account property could be columns in a report.
    • Would like to see the ability to have a report view on a dashboard. The tables are poorly formatted, and I’d like more formatting ability.
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    IBM
    • It would be nice if the UI included a break-down of features that are both licensed as well as un-licensed. That way, you could not only see what you have, but what you don't.
    • The right-sizing recommendations are great, but very little info is given about why the recommendation is being made. More info would not only increase understanding, but would also help drive decision-making.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Prophix Software
    The system works well for us, and meets all of our needs. All of our future plans can and will be achieved within Prophix, so there is no need to pursue another product. Prophix has continuously proven to improve their product over the years, which provides an even higher level of confidence in this tool, and future developments
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    IBM
    We are certainly happy with Turbonomic as a whole and have invested quite a bit of time and effort into learning the ins and outs of the product. We have our reporting setup the way we want it and have gained definite value from these features. I will say though that many products nowadays are offering more native monitoring, reporting, and alerting features which may eventually steer us away from this product
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    Usability
    Prophix Software
    I don't rate anybody a 10 because I believe there's always room for improvement, so I'll go with an 8. And I'm giving 8 because it has helped us do more than we were doing before, and I believe there's still room for improvement.
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    IBM
    Excellent approach to larger VM organizational management. They have an very clean integrated dashboard that allows us to see everything in our environment and what that is doing in real-time. It works on multiple hyper-visors really well and integrates capacity planning on my local site as well as my cloud locations.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Prophix Software
    There have been very few times that Prophix has not been available and we have been informed ahead of time. The only issue that we have is when we update cubes or import information and run processes during working hours which stops access for a short period of time but this is more about our processes than Prophix.
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    IBM
    VMTurbo has not caused any outages by not doing what we expect it to do.
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    Performance
    Prophix Software
    Prophix has always performed consistently. We are using on-premise so many factors can contribute to slower than desired performance, most having nothing to do with Prophix itself. If we move to the web-client cloud based solution I believe performance will even be better.
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    IBM
    It allocates resources among applications by showing more on the cost breakdown by cloud service, with metrics on cloud provider information like Azure Management, Identity, Networking, Storage with costs per day, and total services costs. This then could facilitate and show the corresponding actions thereafter upon scaling.
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    Support Rating
    Prophix Software
    We’ve gotten moved around a lot and so we don’t always know our pod people. Also when we book sessions with a random person it seems like we have to take the first 15-20 minutes explaining our system and process.
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    IBM
    When I contact support I get a quick response and they are able to solve my problem quickly. I also get a sense that they want to make sure that we are getting value from the product and walk me through whatever steps are needed to accomplish my goals.
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    In-Person Training
    Prophix Software
    Training is essential for this software to be successful for any company. We unfortunately had a bad implementation and training manager so I can say with confidence that if we had the CSM we have now - we would be light years ahead of our knowledge of the system. I highly suggest taking all training opportunities and not rushing the implementation training
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    IBM
    Alex (from VMTurbo) has worked with the product for years and helped develop the product. He was very knowledgeable and was able to provide our support team with details knowledge on how to get our deployment configured correctly as well as help with another VMTurbo POC within another customers environment.
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    Online Training
    Prophix Software
    We used our system and created a test cube to work with our own data. We ran through the different functions of Prophix and covered alot of material. We did two sessions a week, with homework tasks assigned. We were able to ask questions and cover any questions during the followup sessions.
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    IBM
    After buying VMTurbo Operations Manager, I was invited to an online user training event. I felt this training was effective and dug just deep enough to be informative yet still keep my attention. Additionally, the webinar was free.
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    Implementation Rating
    Prophix Software
    Prophix Consulting should bring, in house, chargeable expertise in Oracle EBS table access for Drill Across and provide reasonable limits on dimension member combinations so there are no unreasonable expectations about the application of multi dimensional cubes to detail, such as revenue by product and customer.
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    IBM
    The implementation was very simple. Just upload an OVA file and power on the VM. Once it comes up enter some networking information and you can then access the web interface. From there, just begin configuring the system for your environment by adding you license and the various virtual environments and storage through the inventory tab
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    Alternatives Considered
    Prophix Software
    Prophix is so much easier to use that other platforms or products. It can be customized so much easier than other larger, more expensive products. I work for a small university where we have a small finance team and Prophix allows us to tailor reporting to emerging needs in real time without having to reconfigure clunky systems with expensive modifications
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    IBM
    As the organization had experience of years in using IBM products, we had the confidence that they will provide us with great support. And we needed a reliable solution as a financial institute to ensure continuous operations. Even though the price was very high, we made the correct decision to go ahead with IBM Turbonomic as the feedback from existing users in the region was very positive. We needed a solution which was capable of handling our automation requirements. All these were green in IBM Turbonomic.
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    Scalability
    Prophix Software
    Prophix is a capable tool of growing with an organization and the uses for different items in the software. Our organization was able to scale the product to lots of different end users and the needs of the departments. There are plenty of updates and features to grow and bring in new data.
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    IBM
    It’s very scalable.
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    Professional Services
    Prophix Software
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    IBM
    Professional services were always there to guide us in our transformation to the cloud. They understood our business model and then were able to provide guidance on what we needed from the tool.
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    Return on Investment
    Prophix Software
    • Prophix has made it possible to move away from some Excel reporting we were doing, which allows for 50% quicker reporting on a monthly basis.
    • Although it has saved us time, an improved PowerPoint feature that automatically updates our decks would save an additional 75% on top of what we already do.
    • Our Board Reporting has improved by 10 hours by moving our reports fully into Prophix.
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    IBM
    • Application performance has been a big one. With Turbonomic keeping everything running at top performance, it can make changes when extra resources are need, quicker than somebody being notified and then making the necessary changes.
    • Turbonomic has been a great cost savings for us on multiple occasions. We use it every time we are improving servers.
    • With the planning feature we get the best performance form new hardware purchases
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    ScreenShots

    Prophix Screenshots

    Screenshot of Prophix One Portal: One single point of entry into Prophix One through its portal simplifies access and authentication but also allows seamless movement between applications.Screenshot of Chart Insights, one of the AI Insights capabilities that utilizes Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing to provide enhanced business awareness.  Chart Insights extends the important details contained within dashboards, and analyzes the complete dataset behind the dashboard, automatically surfacing the data relationships not obvious in dashboard visualizations alone. It then provides a summary of key performance metrics found buried within Prophix charts.  It also summarizes the important insights in plain English.Screenshot of Prophix One Financial Planning & Analysis: Prophix's self-serve dashboards and visualizations are directly integrated with data, workflow tasks, announcements, and external URLs and databases. Dashboard Studio helps users to be informed and make better business decisions.Screenshot of Detailed interactive charts and graphs that Prophix offers to uncover insights. Prophix’s visual analytics are linked directly to data with transaction details.  There is no need to input the numbers.  Prophix does this tedious work, automatically.Screenshot of Prophix’s Workflow Manager, used to assign tasks to users and facilitate approvals across the business.  Stakeholder input can be captured directly with the ability to add comments and notes in a single unified database.Screenshot of Cell Comments, that allow users to add supporting details like notes and attachments to data.  Since comments are stored with the data, they can be viewed in any template along with their trailing history. Cell Comment Reports can also be generated to show all comments from any data view in one convenient report.

    IBM Turbonomic Screenshots

    Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Action Center, where it shows the list of optimization actions across the global environment—on-prem and cloud—that should be taken to minimize cost while assuring performance.Screenshot of IBM Turbonomic Application, a view that shows the global environment across private and public infrastructure from the context of individual application components. Users can optimize one application at a time by viewing each app's pending actions. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities across applications and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic Cloud Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the cloud cost savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-prem Executive Dashboard, an out of the box dashboard that allow users to rapidly communicate value to executives. This view shows the savings opportunities realized and not yet realized over any time period.Screenshot of an IBM Turbonomic Cloud view, where the public cloud environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in the public cloud(s) and their interdependencies.Screenshot of The IBM Turbonomic On-Prem view that shows the user's private data center environment(s) and all of the pending actions required to bring them into an efficient, performant state. The Supply Chain at left shows all of the entities in data center(s) and the interdependencies between them.