HPE Systems Insight Manager (SIM) vs. Panda Systems Management

This software is suited for a smaller organization with a small datacenter that uses mainly HP hardware. Once the environment gets larger it would pay to move to some of their paid for products

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It's fantastic for anyone who needs to manage a large number of remote users' hardware. It gives such great visibility into hardware and software. You can remotely access pretty much anything on a computer, from event logs to PowerShell to the computer's serial number. If you're looking for a simple remote desktop or inventory, this might be overkill, and there are better options in those markets. However, if you are looking for a Swiss army knife of remote computer management, this is as good as it gets.

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• HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at scanning for devices and adding them for monitoring is almost effortless.
• HP Systems Insight Manager is very good at detecting most HP hardware and integrating with local management software.

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• Asset tracking & Inventory
• Patch Management

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• I think some of the areas that HP Systems Insight Manager can improve is non HP hardware.
• This software also sometimes struggles handling larger environments.
• This software also has issues managing environments that aren't set up perfectly.

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• Remote desktop - while it's solid, there's definitely some room for improvement regarding speed. It's also common to get disconnected but it's easy to reconnect immediately.
• I'd love to see better patch management. It's a battle we've been fighting for a while and had us seeking out other vendors.
• I feel like there could be more alignment between the website and the application. I find myself going to one or the other for specific info.

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For basic functions it's very easy to set up and use. However, for more advanced functions it takes a lot of time to figure out its quirks

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We rate and recommend Panda Systems Management not only because it is a very effective and very cost effective solution that pays itself for us (ROI) extremely fast, but also due to all reason described previously and possibly a few more I'm sure we missed here. I do have to says tech support for this solution sometimes leave a bit to be desired.

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It's good for small organizations that use HP branded equipment

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Some of the other products I use for system management are HP SiteScope and SolarWinds Orion NPM and APM. SiteScope is another good HP product but it isn't very cost effective to use for general system management. It's good for performing complex alerting and monitoring. SolarWinds makes a great product but it is better geared for gathering statistics and performance data real-time and historically. Again the cost of this product makes it ineffective for general system monitoring.

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Much easier solution to use (by a ten fold), very intuitive user interface even for inexperience users... does not require on prem server because is cloud based

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• Since this software is free if you buy HP hardware the cost is nothing which is nice for cash strapped businesses.
• This software has a somewhat difficult time handling large environments where systems are not configured perfectly for this software.
• I would always recommend having multiples of this software installed for redundancy because generally unless it and the environment is properly configured it can require maintenance.

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• It has facilitated us in the management of controls on the various clients, reducing the cost of human resources
• Thanks to the alerts, in case of intrusion, it is possible to intervene promptly

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