Nexthink - Going beyond APM, Security, and CMDB Applications for a Holistic View
January 12, 2018

Nexthink - Going beyond APM, Security, and CMDB Applications for a Holistic View

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Nexthink

Nexthink is deployed via corporate operations IT to help monitor end-user devices and key services to our technicians and Engineers. We also use it for dashboarding purposes to track trends and have used it in the past for siloed reporting to assist with CMDB and application deployment management projects.
  • Ease of data gathering
  • Consolidation of multiple data points into one (previously, you'd have to request one thing from SCCM, one thing from JAMF, maybe something else from your Domain Controllers)
  • Support. Nexthink has always provided great levels of support when needed.
  • The Finder is great but to utilize the product effectively it takes some getting used to. Very 'right click' heavy.
  • Learning curve. Nexthink is very boolean based in their investigations (not a knock, most products are), but since they can track things at such a siloed level it's important to know specifically how they are classifying their objects (ex, a package vs. an application vs. an .exe vs. a binary) so you can understand what findings you're getting.
  • Parity on Mac and Linux products. This is improving though.
  • Nexthink has been invaluable at quickly finding application roll-outs that could negatively affect our environment, in most cases before users even report them.
  • Nexthink has helped us consolidate and gain visibility in our environment, further standardizing naming conventions, hierarchies, etc.
  • Nexthink has integrated with our ITSM solutions, and is easy to use such that technicians no longer feel the need to request data from Engineers, they can just directly get it from Nexthink.
  • There is a learning curve, so for good ROI you're going to need to invest the people and training hours to use Nexthink to it's fullest effectiveness. Note, that even a cursory use though would reveal a lot about your environment that will keep you busy.
Nexthink is more than an APM, and can easily provide (to support) CMDB processes a la Servicenow Discovery, so we decided to go with them.
Nexthink is very well suited to support your ITSM solutions, assist in root cause analysis, project investigations/planning, device tagging, inventory and compliance management, proactive remediation, etc. In those regards it really is lightning in a bottle.

While Nexthink can certainly act as a CMDB, I would not use it as such - it can support a repository but should not be the repository. It goes way beyond an APM, so if you're just looking for an APM, Nexthink does do that, but it does a lot more too.

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