Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

Score8.9 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)?

Cisco Workload Optimization Manager drives continuous health in dynamic data center environments, whether on-premises or in a public cloud. The real‑time decision engine provides automatable actions that adjust infrastructure resources at every layer of the stack to ensure the performance of your applications. When your infrastructure is continuously performant, your teams can focus on what matters to the business.

Categories & Use Cases

Workload Automation

Central monitoring
A central monitoring dashboard provides data on trends and forecasts
Category average: 9
Alerts and notifications
Alerts and notifications enabling management by exception
Category average: 8.6
Analysis and visualization
Analysis and visualization tools provide clear understanding of critical errors and helps prioritize errors
Category average: 8.3

Multi-platform scheduling
Multi-platform scheduling is the ability to centrally manage a business process from end-to-end
Category average: 9.2
Logging
Logging and audit trails to ensure regulatory compliance
Category average: 8.6
Application integration
Integration with a broad range of enterprise applications
Category average: 8.4

Steve Licky

Systems Software Engineer in Information Technology at Insight Specialty Consulting (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Workload Optimization brings a concrete avenue where all the business procedures and tasks are managed in a central location, from the communications aspect, the sharing of tasks, and the information navigation.Besides, Cisco Workload Optimization allows the decisions about work or task prioritization to be factual and there are reliable data sources for the business stand. The automation process is completely or largely deployed by Cisco Workload Optimization, which is a determined approach.

Pros

Cisco Workload Optimization has a powerful collaboration aspect that is systematic.
Rational tasks optimization and prioritization for concrete business engagement.
Perfect and resourceful automation, that increases clarity and authenticity of the entire business process.

Cons

Calls for over-whole upgrade, more so the dashboard aspect for easy configuration.
Requires a precise data analytical extension for solid decision making.
Integration with other external solutions for rapid work optimization.

Return on Investment

Supported tasks optimization, which brings extensive productivity.
Rational automation, that allows companies to increase their resource optimization.
Credible communications allows extra inventions to be made in the company set up.

Sarah Urbani View profile

It tehcnician in Information Technology at T5 tech team (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this on a daily basis because we are an application-heavy use company. It helps to run applications efficiently and can help to give ease with the workload of applications. It also will cut the costs to determine capacity issues and has been a great help with the future.

Pros

Help cut costs
Help with application use
Help with workload

Cons

Wish it had alerts easier to access.
More non tech user friendly
Cost a little less

Return on Investment

Lower costs with accurate sizing.
Great workload performance.
Utilization and workload density.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software

Other Software Used

Azure Active Directory B2C, Microsoft 365, BitLocker Drive Encryption, OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter

Gerardo Huerta Robles View profile

Ingeniero Consultor in Engineering at Vinet (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were monitoring applications for end customers, so we looked for solutions that can help us automate this task. We worked with a NOC where all alerts should be automatic to improve the time response for incidents, through Cisco WOM we can automate the workflow and overcome this kind of situation in our workspace, furthermore, it is integrated using Intersight the connection is native.

Pros

Automated actions alerts and config
Monitoring apps
Managing apps and resources

Cons

Different alerts configuration such as: email alerts

Return on Investment

Better VMs administration and performance
Improve client's application performance and response time
Better balance of resources from the Data Center
Clients get more powerful alerts and notifications

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Intersight, Cisco HyperFlex and Cisco UCS Manager

Other Software Used

Fedora Linux, Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco HyperFlex

Luke Villareal View profile

Owner | Co-Founder in Corporate at Level Up Golf (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Workload Optimization Manager consistently in our workplace. We have many tasks that are ongoing at any given time and it's very important for us to be able to prioritize which tasks and workloads are the most important to handle at any given time and to be able to automate a lot of those processes.

Pros

Efficiency
Consolidation
Speed

Cons

User Interface
Modern Feel

Return on Investment

Increased time to value
More efficient processes

Alternatives Considered

Amazon API Gateway

Verified User

Professional in Customer Service (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Multiple departments use this at Adobe for productivity and communication. It’s a great tool to help manage the team and department. It has a great front end and is extremely user-friendly. The back end was easy to integrate into Adobe subsystems and to be used across the board. We barely run into any product issues or have tech problems. I don’t think it’s ever been down.

Pros

Communication
Organization
User friendly

Cons

Data
Speed
Scaling

Return on Investment

Communication
Lower resources needed
Cross channel

Alternatives Considered

Adobe AIR

Other Software Used

Oracle Access Management, Adobe Workfront, Slack

VMware Cloud Director

ActiveBatch Workload Automation

cPanel

Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)

What is Cisco Workload Optimization Manager (WOM)?

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Top Performing Features

Central monitoring

Alerts and notifications

Analysis and visualization

Areas for Improvement

Multi-platform scheduling

Logging

Application integration

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