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DataMiner vs Fortinet FortiManager comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

DataMiner
Ranking in Network Management Applications
4th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fortinet FortiManager
Ranking in Network Management Applications
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Network Management Applications category, the mindshare of DataMiner is 5.6%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiManager is 4.2%, down from 5.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Network Management Applications Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiManager4.2%
DataMiner5.6%
Other90.2%
Network Management Applications
 

Featured Reviews

RamPrakash Ramar - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Engineering at Benchmark Broadcast Systems
Monitor broadcast systems effectively with real-time data processing and insightful feedback
The solution will monitor data in real-time and can scale out well. For instance, in a television studio, I might deal with about three hundred pieces of equipment. However, in other sites, it can handle 200 to 2500 nodes that send data every second. The system efficiently processes and analyzes data to provide insightful feedback, such as pinpointing specific equipment errors. It also offers predictive analytics based on received data, rather than just storing it.
SudeepMaydeo - PeerSpot reviewer
Global Head of IT Infrastructure at EPL Americas
Ensures seamless integration and centralized visibility for network security operations
The version upgrade from a single dashboard for all the firewalls in one click is the beauty of Fortinet FortiManager as the most impactful feature in managing our network security. Fortinet FortiManager's policy management enhances our security protocols by enabling us and giving integrated centralized visibility, which has proven to be very healthy. Because of this, we have identified some of the vulnerabilities in our systems, and we mitigated them through Fortinet FortiManager. The central dashboards and the visibility are what appealed to us to go with Fortinet FortiManager. Fortinet FortiManager has adapted to changes in our network scale and complexity as we have geographically 18 international locations, all equipped with firewalls and some cybersecurity initiatives and IT infrastructure initiatives.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"DataMiner performs quite well because it can be customized to your requirements, to what you want to see."
"Data Miner allows you to take control. It has an API to talk to different products, including drivers to talk to the APIs of third-party products. You can control it from the screen."
"The solution will monitor data in real-time and can scale out well."
"Among other NMS systems, DataMiner is considered the leader, and other NMS systems look up to DataMiner and aim to compete with it."
"The solution is user-friendly and is readily customizable, which allows us to do control and monitoring in a single stage."
"The most valuable feature of DataMiner is its comprehensiveness. It provides an open driver that allows you to customize and program each aspect of the system. Additionally, there are many separate modules available that can be used to enhance the system's capabilities beyond just monitoring, allowing you to manage your entire workflow. This is a valuable feature that makes troubleshooting easier and helps to optimize the use of the system."
"The best feature of Fortinet FortiManager is its ease of use. It is easy to manage the firewall from Fortinet FortiManager. Additionally, the interface is very good."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"The setup is very simple."
"The solution brings device management into one single pane of glass and is a pretty good product."
"The technical support for us is great."
"The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls."
"It's a very rich, robust product."
 

Cons

"The system's complexity during installation could be reduced."
"I am looking forward to the company continuing to improve its solution and incorporate new technologies. Specifically, I hope that they will allow their cloud database environment to host services, rather than requiring the use of on-premises digital or physical servers. The company is moving in this direction, but I am still waiting for this capability to be implemented."
"Sometimes DataMiner is not stable, with rare memory leakage issues and other software problems."
"We would like to have more products supported by the drivers because there are so many products out there. If DataMiner has not built the drivers to support them we can not control them, we can only see them based on SNMP. If more drivers are included, it won't cost us if we have new products."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"The fabric for integrations or connections could be improved."
"The price is a bit too high."
"The GUI is not ideal. It needs to be improved. It should be more user-friendly."
"The presence of Fortinet in our region (Nigeria) needs to be stronger."
"FortiManager needs to handle different firewall versions more efficiently."
"The price always has room for improvement."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"DataMiner is an expensive solution and that is why many companies do not use it. Other solutions are less expensive."
"Fortinet FortiManager is costly."
"For us, it is a little bit expensive."
"The solution requires you to have a license for every device, as well as for any advanced features being used, which makes it costly for high-volume users. However, for a large-scale environment with a lot of customers we have found it to be a worthwhile investment."
"Fortinet FortiManager is a low-priced product."
"This is an affordable solution, and its licensing model is based on the number of devices."
"The price of Fortinet FortiManager is inexpensive."
"Fortinet is a high-end product and the cost is high. They should consider reducing the price, especially for existing customers."
"The licensing costs depend on how many devices you want to use."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
19%
Construction Company
14%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business34
Midsize Enterprise17
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with DataMiner?
The system's complexity during installation could be reduced. It is not easily user-installable and requires specialization. Connecting to other systems needs a dedicated driver, often developed by...
What advice do you have for others considering DataMiner?
Overall, I would rate DataMiner as nine out of ten for clients who are not concerned about price, as it provides a good feature set. For budget-conscious clients, I'd rate it three or four out of t...
What is your primary use case for DataMiner?
My profession is broadcasting as a broadcast system integrator. I run live channels 24/7 in many countries. Each broadcaster has around 300 to 400 pieces of equipment to capture the signal from the...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiManager?
I am satisfied with the licensing cost, and I would rate it an 8.5.
What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiManager?
I think Fortinet FortiManager can be improved as the web page loading is slightly slow.
What is your primary use case for Fortinet FortiManager?
My main use case for Fortinet FortiManager is to manage multiple FortiGate devices. I can confirm that I use Fortinet FortiManager perfectly in my main use case.
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Telenet
Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data
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