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    Cisco Catalyst Center

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ACisco Catalyst Center provides an intent-based platform for managing enterprise networks across campus, branch, and edge environments. It combines automation, analytics, and assurance to streamline IT operations, improve security posture, and reduce manual tasks. With integratedAI/ML-driven insights, policy-based controls, and end-to-end visibility across wired and wireless infrastructures, Catalyst Center empowers IT teams toproactively detect issues, enforce compliance, and accelerate…N/A

    Entuity

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Entuity network monitoring tool from Park Place Technologies (acquired 2019) automates network discovery and uses workflows that enable users to see when something has gone wrong. Responsive dashboards allow users to take a high-level view to gauge network health or drill down to the component level to fix network problems.N/A
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    Cisco Catalyst CenterEntuity
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Catalyst CenterEntuity
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Catalyst Center
    No other product
    Incentivized
    Park Place Technologies
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    94%
    Would buy again
    206 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Cisco Catalyst CenterEntuity
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Cisco Catalyst Center and Entuity
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    Ratings
    Entuity
    8.8
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Catalyst CenterEntuity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (186 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
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    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.7
    (31 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Catalyst CenterEntuity
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Security with identity-based access control and segmentation via integration with Cisco ISE, supporting zero-trust architectures. Centralized Management for a large campus environment with centralized management of wired and wireless equipment. Automation of tasks like: provisioning, configuration, and software upgrade, reducing manual effort of those tasks. It could be improved to Multi-Vendor Support.
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    Park Place Technologies
    I think that if your organization is network-oriented (such as telecom or ISP) deploying Entuity should be considered a mandatory step. Big organizations will benefit from the ITSM (ticketing, monitoring and CMDB) integrations.
    However, if your goal is to ensure that the server layer is monitored in great level (process and service monitoring, log parsing etc.) then Entuity will not suit your needs.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • I enjoy having a more modern tool for viewing PSIRTs and CVEs on our catalyst devices.
    • I enjoy all the different views I have for my inventory.
    • I think templates work well for zero day configuration.
    • I love the newer features for showing what configuration is going to be changed and deployed before you deploy it.
    • I like that I can see in-band and out-of-band configuration history.
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    Park Place Technologies
    • Exceptional network discovery and mapping.
    • Great CMDB integration capabilities.
    • Good event management integrations.
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • Granularity. And so for us, and our use case might not be the same as a majority of customers, but we have a environment which frequently changes. So we're not a traditional corporate environment which stays relatively static or still reprovision. We want to reconfigure our environment to meet whatever the needs of our customers are. And at the moment it's like for some of the ways that we have to configure it, we just want to give something a little tap, but we have to hit it with a sledgehammer, which then often has knock on impacts other services.
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    Park Place Technologies
    • Detailed server monitoring.
    • Detailed storage monitoring.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    I think new products are often "half-baked" or over hyped when they release, as was the case with DNAC. We were well ahead of the curve in acquiring it. But as it has matured it is now a fantastic addition to our infrastructure. I think we are easing into a stage where it is hard to envision a large organization NOT having Catalyst Center in place. If for nothing outside of the mapping and troubleshooting aspects; using it as a "source of truth".
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    Park Place Technologies
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    Usability
    Cisco
    Cisco DNA Center is going to help us in security, simplicity and ease of administration. Cisco DNA Center is complete management and control platform that simplifies and streamlines network operations. Cisco DNA Center offers a single dashboard for every core function in your network. With this platform, IT can become more nimble and respond to changes and challenges faster and more intelligently.
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    Park Place Technologies
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    El soporte de CISCO DNA Center es muy bueno, responden a mis dudas pero no he tenido oportunidad de reportar un incidente o determinar un tiempo de respuesta critico. The support of CISCO DNA Center is very good, they answer my questions, but I have not had the opportunity to report an incident or determine a critical response time.
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    Park Place Technologies
    Entuity support has always been quick to respond and the majority of the calls I had were resolved on the first call. In addition, the product documentation is easy to read and goes into great detail of how the product works. This is probably a reason why a support call is literally the last call for Entuity (no pun intended).
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    Online Training
    Cisco
    It was informative, but the labs were not available long enough for us to get intimately familiar with CCNA before it was closed. The course instructor was well informed and got us as close to ready as she could.
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    Park Place Technologies
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    We started out with using Cisco Prime infrastructure and we migrated to DNA center or Catalyst Center from Prime Infrastructure. We found that it wasn't apples to Apples migration. It wasn't exactly, it wasn't a direct upgrade. There were a lot of key differences, but yeah, I think that that was probably the most similar thing
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    Park Place Technologies
    The list above shows you some of the products that Entuity replaces.
    The good product and excellent support behind it make it a better choice from the admin's and EA's perspective. My customers have praised the short learning curve and the swift and professional support staff. From my own experience I can tell that this product is delivered with one of the finest sets of documentation I have ever seen.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Yeah, I mean that last one for sure. The software independent of the hardware, I mean, it's just easy. They made it so easy to just, and fast and efficient to upgrade your entire organization within days, weeks, months. And you're not spending, your maintenance windows get a lot shorter. You can schedule more maintenance windows just because you know there's going to be some type of consistency with it and there's just, I'm sure there will be a hiccup one day, but there just hasn't really been too many issues with us using that product, especially for maintenance, window upgrades, things like that.
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    Park Place Technologies
    • Reconciling multiple tools (netflow, configuration, monitoring and discovery) into one tool simplified the support agreement.
    • Root cause analysis (RCA) time has been greatly reduced thanks to having all information in a single interface.
    • Security of the network devices has improved thanks to the discovery provided by Entuity.
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