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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Pingdom

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Pingdom is a website uptime monitoring and alert tool, with additional reporting and Real User Monitoring capabilities. Pingdom is part of SolarWinds’s DevOps package, enabling full-stack monitoring as a service.

    $14.95

    per month

    Verizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AVerizon acquired ProtectWise, the Denver-based network security company of the same name, and the ProtectWise technology forms the basis for Verizon Network Detection and Response service, a cloud-based real-time situational awareness and forensics software tool for incident detection and response.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds PingdomVerizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)
    Editions & Modules
    Synthetic Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Real User Monitoring
    $10
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds PingdomVerizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds PingdomVerizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)
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    SolarWinds
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    52 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    52 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    43 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    49 Answers
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds PingdomVerizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    4.5
    (64 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.1
    (54 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds PingdomVerizon Network Detection and Response (ProtectWise)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    I believe the scenarios we used it for were quite well covered, from the executive perspective. The downtime alarms worked very well and were easy to setup, uptime monitoring tools were clear and easy to use, even for non-technical people (C-level) and the SLA management tools allowed us to spend less time, and have less friction, with our clients
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    This software is well suited for engineering firms where different staff are working on a same design or document file. And this software would only serve its full potential if used in a mid-size to large company. It would be less utilized in a small firm where file sharing can be done in a local server.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • The alerts are very responsive offering quite detailed timing information
    • The UI for reports is very clear and set up of reports is very intuitive
    • Customer service was good when there were problems - e.g. lapsing billing causing reporting to go down
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    • Check-in and check-out of the files
    • When saving and exiting out of the software, ProjectWise automatically asks whether I want to check the file in
    • Ease of sending the file/folder links to coworkers in an email
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • The PagerDuty integration could be a lot better. When you use the PagerDuty integration, it doesn't send any information about which check failed! It just sends a message like "Timeout (> 30s)" -- this isn't very helpful when we have hundreds of checks. We've worked around this by using both the PagerDuty and Slack integrations and having them both post to the same Slack channel. But this means that when an engineer is paged from PagerDuty, they have to go to Slack (or Pingdom) to find the details about the page; it's not available on the page itself.
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    • Right now ProjectWise must be installed after installing all other software that would be integrated to it. This should be addressed so that any integrations can happen after the fact.
    • Integrations with more variety of file extensions
    • Easier user interface in navigation explorer
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    Recently added features have made Pingdom less intuitive for our requirements. While Pingdom has a broad offering and remains a good value, it is becoming more than we need. Our customer base is becoming more and more global and Pingdom still lacks Asia-Pacific monitoring, which we will need within a year.
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    SolarWinds
    Pingdom is easy to use, very intuitive and has a very short learning curve. From the onset, we've been able to jump in and leverage the tool to accomplish our goals for page speed performance and discover the insights we need to make improvements. Its a well-designed tool and makes for a good user experience.
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    SolarWinds
    Interface is unnecessarily complicated and frequently responds slowly.
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Support responded the same day to my query, as I was setting the product up but couldn't find the setting I needed. This was successfully resolved in a short time frame, so I was pleased with how quickly we were able to get this resolved. I haven't needed to contact support since.
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    1. PRTG Network Monitor was a far more complicated tool to use and set up albeit it does both Internal and External monitoring. The setup wasn't intuitive and there are too many configuration options to complete to form an alert
    2. Amazon CloudWatch is specific to AWS resources and cannot be easily use outside of the AWS Ecosystem
    Incentivized
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    Vault is just for Autodesk files, but the check-out/check-in system is the same. ProjectWise covers more comprehensive scope of file extensions that can be used by companies of any business field. But it can also see improvements where replacing a file that is referenced by other files can be as simple as saving a file with a same name.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Honestly, we have 4 other products that overlap this functionality whose organizations provide far superior support. At this point it is an unnecessary expense.
    • In my opinion, their lack of support responsiveness and commitment has impacted our IT agility.
    • Its time to explore other alternatives.
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    Verizon Business (formerly Verizon Enterprise)
    • We strive to deliver the highest quality design and its documentation. ProjectWise helps us prevent any issues with outdated files.
    • In our work we often research back into old documents that we have done in the past. Looking up files using keywords makes this process much faster.
    • ProjectWise helps us archive our gargantuan amount of project documents in digital form, easy to access at anytime.
    Incentivized
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