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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC), formerly known as HP Network Management Center, is a network performance monitoring option, from Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
    Chose Cisco Catalyst Center
    modern layout
    easier search for workstations or other devices
    better overview over the access points
    Incentivized
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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
    161 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    214 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    84%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    136 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    79%
    Implementation went as expected
    151 Answers
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    Features
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Cisco Catalyst Center and HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Feature
    Cisco Catalyst Center
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    Ratings
    HPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    9.4
    5 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network capacity planning00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
    Network mapping00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings10.05 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (186 ratings)
    10.0
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.9
    (16 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.7
    (31 ratings)
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Catalyst CenterHPE Intelligent Management Center (IMC)
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Its very good and easy to do custom polling by importing MIB files where we had challenges to do out of box monitoring. Integration is easy.
    Incentivized
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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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Multivendor flexibility.
    • Topology map features.
    • Backup configurations.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Visibility of both LAN and WiFi network components.
    Incentivized
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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".
    Incentivized
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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    They are fast responding when you create a support case. But they also have a forum (community) where you can find knowledge-base information that is very useful.
    Incentivized
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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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
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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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    Cause of the great gui and easy management can be customized to your liking. The awesome topology maps you can make easy to change make it your own design. Great support. Don't need a large database to run. Can handle multiple users at once with ease. Overall a great product recommend to anyone
    Incentivized
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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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    Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
    • Easy to implement
    • Easy to configure
    • Overall good monitoring tool
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