Device42 vs ManageEngine IT Asset Management comparison

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Device42 and ManageEngine are both solutions in the IT Asset Management category. Device42 is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.2, while ManageEngine is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.6. Additionally, 100% of Device42 users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ManageEngine users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

ManageEngine IT Asset Management and Device42 offer IT asset management solutions. Device42 seems to have the upper hand due to its feature-rich options for managing complex environments.

Features: ManageEngine IT Asset Management provides comprehensive asset tracking, customizable reporting, and license expiration tracking. Device42 offers advanced automatic discovery, application dependency mapping, and agentless monitoring.

Room for Improvement: ManageEngine could enhance automatic discovery capabilities, improve integration with third-party tools, and simplify the interface for better user experience. Device42 could benefit from a more user-friendly deployment process, better scalability for larger enterprises, and improved reporting functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: ManageEngine IT Asset Management features simpler installation and straightforward customer service interactions. Device42's deployment is more complex but offers extensive customer service resources and dedicated support.

Pricing and ROI: ManageEngine has lower upfront costs, appealing for budget-conscious buyers. Device42, despite higher setup costs, offers substantial long-term ROI with its comprehensive feature set.

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Manmohan Rao

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.

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Md Abdul Hakim

System Engineer at Corporate Projukti Limited

Helpful smart automation and tracking that can be used with minimal adjustments

This is a recording system, and it's an automation system. It's very smart. I use it with minimal adjustments needed. The focus is on test management. Everything can be tracked from asset management. Asset management offers many facilities. It doesn't require additional training for ManageEngine or technicians. Assets are simply reported from the dashboard, indicating where IT is missing, where compliance is mentioned, or where action is needed, with driver updates. All facilities are available in the enterprise edition, allowing users, customers, or any organization to easily obtain their referred insights. Anyone can easily install it. There are no handbells. An app provides instructions, with documentation available. Sometimes, IT issues arise like fraud blocking or service-related problems. Upon facing an issue, feedback is integrated, and the solution is provided from their end. This is a very IT-friendly solution. We get LiveSat and IT management. Facilities are accessible, like exporting the installation folder, making the migration process easy. Failover or redundancy can occur within two to five hours, making it scalable. This is a very stable solution.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The universal recorder along with the Excel basic and advanced packages has been highly valuable."

"It's very easy for business users to learn Automation Anywhere."

"Automation Anywhere's most valuable feature is its seamless integration into procurement software, allowing for the automation of purchase orders, billing, employee travel details, and other tasks."

"Automation Anywhere has a Bot Store. E.g., you can download the bot from the Bot Store and utilize it's data extraction capabilities. You can extract unstructured data through IQ Bot. Getting unstructured data is not difficult. I once obtained an 84 page PDF file using an IQ Bot. This was just the trial version, and it was really good. I was able to get all the circuit IDs and properties that wanted in a simple CSV format. I had not seen anything like this before. When compared to other platforms, such as UiPath, they don't have these capabilities right now. They have activities like PDF extraction, but that's not good enough."

"We have a very resourceful pipeline to use AA bots in our RPA projects and we are looking to be more engaged with the AA team in deploying these bots."

"We have solved many problems we had in the past before using Automation Anywhere, mainly we saved a lot of time and money, we reduced and minimized the risk of human errors and got rid of all the manual repetitive tasks so we can focus on the core of our business."

"The core RPA service that it provides and the stability that it has in maintaining that as a cloud service solution is a key enabler for us. Its stability is good, and the low-code/no-code setup that it has is very user-efficient."

"Automation Anywhere is a very good tool because it helps you along the process."

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"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."

"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."

"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."

"The topology layout is the most valuable feature."

"Device42 is a really impressive tool."

"The import/export for bulk operations is a valuable and good feature."

"The asset inventory is great because previously we had devices all over the place. We have been able to do multiscans to find devices that we didn't know about, which was great."

"The Insights+ component is useful for us because it does business application mapping and helps us visualize it. It saves us time because we don't have to hunt for data."

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"This is a very stable solution."

"It is a great product, and we are very satisfied with the features."

"The auto-discovery feature has helped us a lot."

"We are satisfied with the product because each module is user-friendly, and we can customize it based on our organization's requirements."

"The most valuable component of the ITSM tool is the help desk due to its organized way of raising tickets."

"As far as IT Asset Management is concerned, I would rate it at ten out of ten."

"The technical support is great."

"ManageEngine IT Asset Management helps with guarantee and warranty period management, license expiration tracking, device patches, and integration with our finance system for depreciation and invoicing."

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Cons

"The starting price, which is a one-off fee is a bit high and this may deter mid and small-sized companies from acquiring and decide to shun the platform."

"IQ Bot does have some limitations."

"What we currently have with Fortress IQ needs to mature more, and I say this since people spend weeks creating PDDs documentation."

"The solution should have a more robust forum to help users navigate the solution, learn about it, and get help when they need it."

"Excel functionalities, the macro interface can be improved in the next release of RPA platform Automation Anywhere."

"I would like to see them expand the service catalog with RCA add-ons to the current RPA package."

"I feel the cost of licensing is very high for the A2019 version."

"In the control room, the manual bot update should be looked at."

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"Configuring rPDUs in the data center for Device42 required us to add multiple discovery jobs. The rPDUs were referred to the ISPDUs and daisy-chained. They would automatically assign a unique SMP port, but Device42 didn't allow SMP ranges, so we had to create a discovery job for each rPDU individually. We submitted a feature request to mitigate that."

"From a documentation and reporting standpoint, at present, it is useful, but I feel that it can be improved because it currently feels incomplete in certain areas."

"It gets a bit confusing sometimes when you're trying to map things to a certain spot when you are trying to configure it."

"I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management."

"Device42 can improve in the area of updates."

"I have not seen a return on investment with Device42, as it primarily provides information and not revenue."

"Device42 is a main part of our processes. We need reliability, not only in terms of the data but with the solution itself. It's really difficult when we have 10 minutes of Device42 downtime because none of our teams can work for those 10 minutes, and it's more time lost if there is longer downtime. An improvement would be to have a cluster implementation of Device42 to have high-availability and ensure that we don't have downtime in case of failure."

"If I want to delete an asset from a cabinet it does take a while. And if I'm doing it in bulk — say, for example, if we have one cabinet that has 20 servers in — if I want to remove all 20 servers, I have to do them individually, which is a bit time-consuming. If there were a way that I could just bulk-remove everything from there, that would definitely save some time."

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"I hope it includes barcode features, as barcode scanning and MacAdes cannot currently be mapped with this field."

"The asset management tool is costly compared to other tools in the market."

"Currently, we are having some challenges in managing assets. We are still managing them in Excel sheets and keeping a track of them outside the system."

"It requires some development to be better, more comfortable, and usable, enhancing customer satisfaction."

"The engineering area needs improvement."

"Responses from ManageEngine should be faster."

"It would be helpful if there were a premium technician license that includes all the suites, eliminating the need to buy separate licenses for each feature."

"The assets that can be discovered are pretty easy to manage, but there should be a better way to manage non-discoverable assets. Our development team works on bots and tests particular hardware. They have got different varieties of hardware. They want a feature for managing these assets within a warehouse kind of environment. For example, our IT has received 100 items, and they have assigned these items as a bulk unit to a project manager. The project manager further wants to distribute these items within his or her team. Instead of maintaining a separate Excel sheet, the project manager should be able to reallocate these items from within the tool so that we have hierarchical entities for the same unit."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not involved in the pricing, but based on what I hear from our central RPA team, it is not very expensive; it is also not cheap. Its price is in the midrange."

"Time-wise: We have saved hundreds of thousands of hours."

"We are a partner of Automation Anywhere and find the pricing to be reasonable."

"The licensing needs to be made simpler or shortened."

"Automation Anywhere is affordable."

"The price of Automation Anywhere is a little higher than some of the competition, such as UiPath. However, depending on the use case and other factors we are able to receive some discounts."

"Automation Anywhere University is pretty good. They make it available free for everyone."

"I believe it is $10,000 for Bot Creator."

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"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."

"The product cost is low. It is quite cheap."

"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."

"Our licensing costs are on a yearly basis."

"It's in the top-three most expensive solutions in terms of cost, but it has all the features that are needed."

"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."

"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."

"Its price is reasonable, but I wish it was lower."

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Top Industries

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Outsourcing Company

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Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Healthcare Company

Outsourcing Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

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Company Size

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Small Business	161
Midsize Enterprise	82
Large Enterprise	560

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Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	20

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Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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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 ...

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What needs improvement with Device42?

I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management. I do not th...

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What is your primary use case for Device42?

My main use case for Device42 is that we use it as a CMDB and affinity map to check out network topology or determine...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine IT Asset Management?

The pricing of ManageEngine IT Asset Management is publicly available, so customers can verify its fairness. Some com...

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What needs improvement with ManageEngine IT Asset Management?

When we encounter issues with ManageEngine IT Asset Management, we check the online portal or ChatGPT, and they provi...

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What advice do you have for others considering ManageEngine IT Asset Management?

The pricing of ManageEngine IT Asset Management is handled by the management team, so I am not involved with that asp...

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Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

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Device42 empowers enterprises with automatic IT asset discovery, application dependency mapping, and agentless discovery, streamlining asset management, improving decision-making, and supporting migration initiatives.

Device42 automates network discovery and provides comprehensive IT data management, making it indispensable for asset and infrastructure management. The platform’s integration capabilities, such as with ServiceNow, allow seamless management of physical and virtual environments. Its application dependency mapping is a critical feature for efficient cloud migration, while advanced search and dashboards enhance operational tasks. Device42's ease of deployment coupled with integration into cloud services offers robust operational insights and simplifies onboarding.

What are Device42's key features?

Automatic IT Asset Discovery: Enables detailed information collection on hardware and software.
Application Dependency Mapping: Facilitates tracking of application dependencies for effective cloud migration.
Agentless Discovery: Assists in uncovering assets without the need for specialized agents.
Network Topology Visualization: Assists in visual representation of network connections.
Cloud Integration: Simplifies the integration with cloud services for enhanced insights.

What benefits should be evaluated in Device42?

Improved Decision-Making: Optimizes resource utilization and boosts strategic initiatives.
Seamless Integration: Enhances connectivity with platforms like ServiceNow.
Efficiency in Auditing: Eases compliance and auditing processes.
Simplified Onboarding: Streamlines initial setups and deployment.
Enhanced Operational Insights: Supports better management through comprehensive data visualization.

Device42 is widely used across sectors for IT asset and infrastructure management, where automation in inventory and documentation aids compliance and resource optimization. It excels in industries requiring integration with existing systems and comprehensive network solutions. Application dependency mapping bolsters cloud migration efficiency in enterprise environments.

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ManageEngine IT Asset Management offers a comprehensive platform for tracking IT assets, simplifying tasks like warranty management and license expiration notifications while integrating with ServiceDesk Plus for seamless asset visibility.

This solution provides automated IT asset discovery, robust inventory capabilities, and effective integration with financial systems. Users benefit from features like automated ticket creation and powerful help desk functionalities. Asset tracking through custom templates and extensive reporting options enhance asset insights, ensuring effective asset and network management. ManageEngine supports license expiration tracking, patch management, and seamless service desk integration. Scalable and efficient management supports diverse IT environments.

What are the key features of ManageEngine IT Asset Management?

Ops Manager: Enhance IT operations management effectively.
Event Viewer: Gain visibility into IT infrastructure events.
Automated IT Asset Discovery: Identify and track assets efficiently.
Integration with Financial Systems: Streamline financial operations.
Custom Templates for Asset Tracking: Optimize tracking processes.
Patch Management: Ensure up-to-date system security.
Service Desk Integration: Seamless asset visibility and ticketing.

What are the benefits to look for in ManageEngine reviews?

Automated Features: Reduce manual tasks with enterprise-grade automation.
Comprehensive Asset Insight: Link assets with tickets, track system status.
User-Friendly Interface: Improve management efficiency.
Scalability: Manage growing IT infrastructures effortlessly.

ManageEngine IT Asset Management is widely adopted across industries like finance, healthcare, and education, providing a comprehensive view of IT environments. It links IT assets with user-submitted tickets, providing essential insight into system status and supporting effective IT operations management across diverse sectors.

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