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Dell OpenManage Enterprise vs Device42 comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Dell OpenManage Enterprise
Ranking in Data Center Infrastructure Management
2nd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Device42
Ranking in Data Center Infrastructure Management
1st
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
33
Ranking in other categories
IT Asset Management (6th), Configuration Management Databases (2nd), IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Data Center Infrastructure Management category, the mindshare of Dell OpenManage Enterprise is 6.8%, down from 17.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Device42 is 8.0%, up from 6.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Data Center Infrastructure Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Device428.0%
Dell OpenManage Enterprise6.8%
Other85.2%
Data Center Infrastructure Management
 

Featured Reviews

Juan LuisNuñez - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Director at MC Microcomputación
Proactive and improved inventory management with seamless infrastructure integration
The solution is primarily used to manage the inventory of hardware and to scan for firmware packages that have not been updated. This helps customers to anticipate potential problems with the hardware by not doing patches. We also use it in network management to view and manage all network devices…
Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning
Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the ability to manage the entire inventory of the data center, even if they are not Dell products."
"Device42 is a source of trust for many things in our company, like IP addresses."
"The topology layout is the most valuable feature."
"Device42 is a fully-featured tool that includes everything we need with powerful auto-discovery and intelligent application dependency mapping, and it is great in saving time and cost."
"The solution's agentless approach to asset discovery is very important for us because installing agents on physical or virtual devices is not easy in our company. We have to escalate these kinds of things to different levels of security. Not having to install agents makes it easy for us."
"It has agentless discovery; you don't need to put agents on your servers. You can open one or two ports to discover all your infrastructure."
"The solution's automatic IT asset discovery and inventory functionality are top-notch. The thing I like is that it's open-source. If I need to change them — and they've given me links on GitHub to have them — I can go and change them to pull exactly what I want, as frequently as I want."
"The solution has some very good relational capabilities that show us how certain devices relate to each other and how some of our environment actually works together."
"Device42 has positively impacted my organization by helping us lead successful migration and transformation projects, and I have successfully completed cloud movement implementation from standard data center deployments to the cloud."
 

Cons

"The solution could improve in its integration with digitalization solutions and Kubernetes releases, like SUSE Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift."
"For the iPhone, the device diagram cannot be downloaded. You have to go to each device and download the device diagram for that device."
"The dependency mapping can be quite slow sometimes, if you've got a lot of things connecting to services. It can be very slow to build up the map."
"Their pricing model is very poor. For instance, software licensing, at one point in the distant past, was a standard feature."
"I think the graphical representation of all associated machines needs improvement to better illustrate how these systems have dependencies on each other."
"If they could make it so their remote connector could do as much as 10,000 devices, that would be better."
"It was hard to know which assets I'd already looked at because if I looked up another asset with a similar name, they would still pop up. I would have to make sure I was looking at the right asset. The search function should be improved."
"Since I was focused on deploying connectors and getting all the servers to be scanned, one of the biggest pains was when a job would fail, then the output (logging) was poor."
"The resources table needs a few tweaks. We've raised a feature request for this. When you click on resources, it opens up the entire CMDB or the entire data stored in Device42. If that could be customizable, it would be good. We should be allowed to add our own columns to that by writing a script or something like that. There should be an option to add or limit whatever we want."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Functionality-wise, Device42 is on par with industry standards, but price-wise, the solution is expensive. I'm rating the pricing for the solution as eight out of ten."
"It's in the top-three most expensive solutions in terms of cost, but it has all the features that are needed."
"The product cost is low. It is quite cheap."
"The problem with using other vendor, like BMC, is the pricing. The price is so horrible and nobody wants to pay this money."
"We pay $100,000 per year."
"I am not involved in its pricing, but I have seen their plans during a discussion with the customer. For 500 servers, they were asking 50,000 USD. The cost of BMC Discovery was less than half. For the same thing, they were charging only 10,000 USD. Its pricing needs to be improved. As compared to other discovery tools, such as BMC Discovery and ServiceNow Discovery, its price is a little bit higher."
"On a yearly basis, our licensing is $10,000. However, our license is now nearly full with devices. We need the next bigger license with 5,000 devices, which will cost us $19,000. We pay for a set of licenses, a maximum number of devices, and a maximum number of IP addresses. We have the smallest amount of features, which is enough for us at this time."
"Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
18%
Computer Software Company
11%
Educational Organization
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Dell OpenManage Enterprise?
The main advantage is that OpenManage is a free tool unless additional software packages are integrated, which require payment. We usually install the free solution provided by Dell.
What needs improvement with Dell OpenManage Enterprise?
The solution could improve in its integration with digitalization solutions and Kubernetes releases, like SUSE Rancher and Red Hat OpenShift.
What is your primary use case for Dell OpenManage Enterprise?
The solution is primarily used to manage the inventory of hardware and to scan for firmware packages that have not been updated. This helps customers to anticipate potential problems with the hardw...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...
What needs improvement with Device42?
Device42 can be improved by adding more reporting features and architectural diagrams. If visual representations for application dependencies could be incorporated, that would be helpful.
 

Also Known As

Dell EMC OpenManage
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Sample Customers

University of Pisa, CERN
Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.
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