BMC TrueSight Network Automation vs Forward Enterprise comparison

"BMC is an excellent configuration manager. It allows you to configure your network easily and get the most out of it."

"It is helpful if you schedule daily or weekly archiving for your config groups. Then, you can go by what are in those configuration groups, before and after, if you make changes. So, configuration management is really helpful in network management."

"It has the best automation features."

"The compliance management, patching, and OS upgrades are useful features."

"The most valuable feature of BMC TrueSight Network Automation is compliance management, configuration backup, and configuration management."

"The network security of BMC TrueSight Network Automation has been the best feature."

"We use it to back up configurations so the configuration management is valuable for us."

"The log audit and historical configurations are the most valuable feature."

"All the features are valuable in Forward Enterprise."

"I would like to see more device supported features, mostly on the new brands and models coming in. For any new version or model, it should be supported by the tool, especially the newest versions. For example, the newest devices, like Aruba Wireless, and routers need support from the tool."

"There could be automated processes to retrieve the CVS and create a compliance tool."

"It is tedious to scale the solution."

"We've been working with BMC support in various ways such as to allow for the high-availability components to the TSIMs to work together. There have been issues there. We've seen randomness in how other pieces of the software work. Integration with the Presentation Server and the TSIMs has been a challenge. The ports that are required for HA to be utilized were not clearly documented anywhere. In fact, they still aren't documented online anywhere, even though we managed to pull it out of some of their support people."

"The product should be expanded to include more hardware, beyond Cisco and Juniper devices."

"They need to have a single sign-on."

"BMC TrueSight Network Automation can improve by having a better UI. The overall quality of the UI could be better."

"For customized compliance, it takes some effort to implement things. If the device configuration is quite complex, then you have to do quite number of customizations in the DNA tool for out-of-the-box compliance. These regular expressions have to be modified based on the requirements of the compliance."

"Forward Enterprise could improve by increasing flexibility. Additionally, there should be an Android version or desktop."

"The solution is more costly than the other competitors."

"There's a fee for the licenses themselves, per contract, and then we have a yearly licensing fee that's many thousands of dollars. But that's not just for TrueSight, that's also for support for ITSM, Atrium Orchestrator, BBNA, and other BMC tools in the environment."

"The solution is worth the price."

"We pay for the solution annually."