IBM SevOne Network Performance Management vs. VMware Skyline

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management

VMware Skyline

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	SevOne is network performance monitoring software, developed by the Philadelphia based company of the same name that was acquired by Turbonomic, which in turn announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM in April, 2021.	N/A
VMware Skyline	Score 9.0 out of 10	N/A	VMware Skyline is a suite of products that provide proactive findings and recommendations for vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize Operations and Horizon that aim to provide proactive intelligence that helps users avoid problems before they occur and reduces the time spent on resolving active support requests.	N/A

Pricing

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management

VMware Skyline

Editions & Modules

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	VMware Skyline
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	VMware Skyline
Top Pros	No answers on this topic	Pro Hardware compatibility Pro Easily setup Pro Easy setup
Top Cons	No answers on this topic	Minus Support system Minus Secure environment Minus Internet connection

Features

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management

VMware Skyline

Network Performance Monitoring

Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
	IBM SevOne Network Performance Management 8.9 2 Ratings 8% above category average	VMware Skyline - Ratings
Automated network device discovery	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network monitoring	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Alerts	10.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network capacity planning	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Packet capture analysis	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Network mapping	8.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Customizable reports	8.52 Ratings	00 Ratings
Wireless infrastructure monitoring	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring	9.02 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	VMware Skyline
Small Businesses	NinjaOne Score 9.2 out of 10	Auvik Score 8.4 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Nmap Score 8.8 out of 10	PingPlotter Score 9.4 out of 10
Enterprises	Nmap Score 8.8 out of 10	SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
	IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	VMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (2 ratings)	9.1 (3 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	10.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	IBM SevOne Network Performance Management	VMware Skyline
Likelihood to Recommend	IBM SevOne can be used as an alternative to network fault and performance monitoring. Below are some of the reasons when you can go for SevOne. 1. Network Fault and Performance Monitoring. 2. Network Traffic Analysis 3. MPLS, Internet Bandwidth Monitoring. 4. Alternative to Solarwinds, Microfocus, LogicMonitor 5. Out of the box parameters availability. Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review	VMware by Broadcom VMware Skyline is free yet is priceless. Skyline gives you the health of your VMware products in a single pane. Here you not only get issues pointed out to you but the suggested solutions for each issue. Doesn't get better than this. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	IBM Out-of-the-box Network Fault and Performance Monitoring Netflow data analysis Alerting, Reporting Integration with ITSM tools Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review	VMware by Broadcom Easy setup Stable Data collection Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	IBM Network Configuration Management Orchestration API Based Monitoring SDWAN, SDN networks monitoring Cloud Network Monitoring Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review	VMware by Broadcom Sometimes the recommendations do not make sense. Sometimes the advice is general, but not for us. Incentivized CH Chris Hein Systems Engineer Read full review
Usability	IBM No answers on this topic	VMware by Broadcom It's super easy to use. Incentivized CH Chris Hein Systems Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	IBM SevOne from Turbonomic is not as popular in network monitoring space as Solarwinds, MicroFocus, Broadcom etc. However, it is equally effective in monitoring. One unique feature that SevOne has over other software is that its framework is built on the latest technologies which are going to a very edge advantage over other tools in terms of current requirements but future, too. Incentivized Rekha Yadav Development Team Lead Read full review	VMware by Broadcom I've used other products such as VMAN and such yet Skyline is different. This is not aimed at your virtual machine's internal usage but at the VMware / Hypervisor level. This looks and monitors at hardware drivers, VMtools versions, and VM hardware versions. If you have Horizon it will look at versions and current vs minimum driver versions. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	IBM Good Alternative Solution to Solarwinds, microfocus, LogicMonitor Complete Network Monitoring solution except Configuration Management Capacity Planning is not fully fledged available but still manageable Incentivized Nikhil Kumar Sharma Associate Consultant Read full review	VMware by Broadcom Weekly reports helps gain long term statistics service requests can be easily resolved Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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