FireMon Asset Manager vs ManageEngine IT Asset Management comparison

FireMon Asset Manager vs. ManageEngine IT Asset Management

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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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Marck Chanpagne

Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Manager at Cadence Bank

Continuous asset discovery has strengthened audits and BCDR planning but reporting needs improvement

FireMon Asset Manager supports my disaster recovery and business continuity planning through continuous real-time discovery, which is the foundation of everything. The fact that it's not a point-in-time scan, but ongoing, passive and active discovery, means my inventory is always current. That's what makes it useful for BCDR, where stale data is dangerous. The best features FireMon Asset Manager offers include leak path detection, which is genuinely valuable. It identifies rogue internet connectivity, unauthorized connections, and paths in and out of the network that shouldn't exist. In a bank, that's both a security concern and a BCDR concern because undocumented network paths create recovery risks I don't know I have. The topology mapping is also excellent. Being able to visualize how assets connect to each other and to the network helps my BCDR team understand dependencies between systems, which is critical for sequencing recovery procedures correctly. If I'm recovering a system, I need to know what it depends on and what depends on it. FireMon Asset Manager has positively impacted my organization primarily on our audit and examination posture. Before FireMon Asset Manager, when examiners asked about our asset inventory, I was presenting data I knew had gaps and hoping nobody looked too closely. Now I can walk into an examination with a continuously updated, discovery-validated asset inventory and answer those questions with confidence. That's a qualitative shift, but it has real consequences. Examination findings in banking are not trivial. This shift has led to measurable outcomes, such as reducing the time to compile our annual BIA asset inventory from roughly three weeks of manual effort down to essentially a report pull. That's significant staff time saved. I've also seen our CMDB accuracy improve. FireMon Asset Manager's continuous discovery keeps finding things that manual processes miss. And from a regulatory standpoint, I've had two examinations since deploying FireMon Asset Manager, and in both cases, the asset inventory questions that were previously a weakness in our program were answered cleanly. That's the metric that matters most in a regulated banking environment.

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Sampath Kumar K

IT infra Admin at synu

User-friendly modules impress with customization options while IT knowledge base updates remain incomplete

It's a vast product, and we use ManageEngine IT Asset Management because it has an Ops Manager, Event Viewer, Site 24/7, PAM360, and AD Manager among many options that we plan to explore in the future environment. ManageEngine IT Asset Management explores detailed aspects such as RAM frequency, RAM brand, product, expiry date, users, roles, technicians, groups, support groups, Active Directory, SAML, single sign-on, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, proxy settings, and template forms. We are satisfied with the product because each module is user-friendly, and we can customize it based on our organization's requirements. We are looking into the automated IT asset discovery feature. We have configured the incoming and outgoing mail server so that when users send an email to our standardized mail ID, it automatically creates a ticket. In the future, we will explore automation features such as SLA, KPI, and KRA to align targets, manage resources, assess project utilization, and assign tickets based on priority levels.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"By implementing it, we were able to solve the issue of automation, which we had almost given up on."

"The general features, that we can automate a task that takes hours into minutes, are valuable."

"The most valuable thing about using this product is that we are able to use the time that we spent doing manual processing for other progressive purposes."

"The deployment of Automation Anywhere went smoothly. They were very supportive with the migration of all of our existing automations and also being there and supportive with the development of the new automations."

"We have found that the automation bots we have developed give great savings in terms of higher productivity and efficiency."

"When this technology first came to market, I thought it was about robotic things, which we cannot do, however, when I started to learn about Automation Anywhere, it's completely different; it's a user friendly tool with drag and drop commands and a person just needs technical, logical thinking."

"One very useful feature is the IQ Bot, which is helpful in the operation of the data input process to all of their applications."

"With Discovery Bot, we can even have our business people enabled with process finding and do an evaluation on whether it can be converted into an opportunity."

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"Now I can walk into an examination with a continuously updated, discovery-validated asset inventory, and I can answer those questions with confidence."

"FireMon Asset Manager fills a genuine gap in network security visibility that many organizations underestimate."

"It offers a single platform for managing firewalls of different brands and simplifies policy deployment and auditing. It helps push policies to different firewalls, and it also helps with policy auditing."

"FireMon Asset Manager supports my disaster recovery and business continuity planning through continuous real-time discovery, which is the foundation of everything."

"The most valuable aspects of FireMon Asset Manager are its integrations and its ability to passively monitor the network for unknown assets."

"The most valuable feature is the change modules. Whenever there is a change in the firewall, it automatically reflects on FireMon."

"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."

"The ability to define custom templates for asset management helps track assets, budgets, warranties, and expiries effectively."

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

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

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

"It's very smart. I use it with minimal adjustments needed."

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

"In my opinion, it is the MDM; patch management and deployment are the valuable features."

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Cons

"There have been many instances, particularly in my previous organization where we did a lot of development in Automation Anywhere, catering to clients like CPA firms in America, where we raised tickets for solutions but did not always find a satisfactory resolution, despite connecting over a call."

"In A2019 the dependencies that are being downloaded take a longer time that should be reduced. Migration utility should be provided so we can easily migrate from lower versions to higher versions."

"For future prospects, this tool should 80 percent deal with neural networks, deep learning, and artificial intelligence and that has to be integrated a lot. As these are future skills, these integrations will help us take the tool to take to the next level."

"I noticed that from version 10.5 to 11.3 the number of clicks to start a bot through the Control Room and Schedule Manager have increased. In certain cases, I would like to see that become simpler, faster, and easier."

"I would like to see a technology where they can automatically update or upgrade themselves to the latest version, without having to uninstall the current bot."

"The website can be buggy at times, and I would like to see improvements in latency and slow response times."

"With the automation copilot, if I have any internal tool or application and I want to pass on variables, I don't have it. Maybe the team can work on it to make it more efficient to make it work better across all automations."

"The UI could be made better because the UI in Version 11 was better and easier as compared to a2019."

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"I find that FireMon Asset Manager's reporting customization is more limited than I would like."

"It is not very good at monitoring the Check Point firewall, but it works very well with other firewalls such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA."

"The discovery process could be improved. If incorrect credentials are entered, it should give an error message. That would make our work easy rather than having to troubleshoot why the issue is occurring."

"While passive discovery remains important, active retrieval of asset details would be valuable, and this functionality is starting to be implemented, as I've observed in recent updates but it is not fully there yet."

"The biggest friction point or frustration I have encountered with FireMon Asset Manager is the support experience being inconsistent."

"FireMon Asset Manager can be improved in reporting customization, which is more limited than I'd prefer."

"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."

"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."

"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 engineering area needs improvement."

"I would love to see a digital adoption feature or guide that navigates first-time users through the application, as it is quite complex with many relevant and irrelevant elements."

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

"Responses from ManageEngine should be faster."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is cost-efficient in terms of licensing. I found their support good when I was working for the airline client. However, I hear from my managers here that the support price for Tier 3 or premium is a little higher. That is why we are not going for Automation Anywhere. Its price was okay for our client, but for us, it seems expensive."

"The cost of this solution is a little bit high, but it is worth the price."

"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."

"The pricing and licensing are definitely moderate to costly but easily recoverable by achieving ROI quickly."

"On a scale of one to ten with ten being the most expensive, I rate the price of Automation Anywhere an eight out of ten."

"Licensing costs range from $50,000 to $200,000."

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

"We are interested in saving manual engineer man-hours. So far, we have saved $100,000."

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"FireMon Asset Manager's pricing has been reasonable and has worked well for us from a licensing standpoint."

"FireMon is more expensive than other brands but justified by its comprehensive feature set. It includes several functions that might require additional subscriptions in other solutions."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Outsourcing Company

20%

Comms Service Provider

19%

Insurance Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

14%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	157
Midsize Enterprise	82
Large Enterprise	558

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

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Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

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...

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...

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.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon Asset Manager?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reveals that it's not inexpensive. The license cost is manageab...

What needs improvement with FireMon Asset Manager?

The biggest friction point or frustration I have encountered with FireMon Asset Manager is the support experience bei...

What is your primary use case for FireMon Asset Manager?

My main use case for FireMon Asset Manager is continuous network asset discovery and visibility. We have a complex hy...

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...

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...

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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Also Known As

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.

Automation Anywhere

FireMon Asset Manager provides insightful monitoring and management of your network assets, helping organizations maintain security compliance and optimize asset usage effectively.

FireMon Asset Manager offers a comprehensive view of network assets, assisting in identifying security compliance gaps and optimizing resource utilization. Designed for enterprises requiring robust asset monitoring, it ensures efficient tracking, enabling proactive threat management and policy adherence across digital environments.

What are the important features of FireMon Asset Manager?

Real-Time Monitoring: Continuously tracks network assets to provide up-to-date security insights.
Compliance Assurance: Ensures assets meet security policies and regulatory requirements.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers detailed reports for better visibility and analysis of network assets.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from FireMon Asset Manager?

Enhanced Security Posture: By maintaining compliance and identifying vulnerabilities, it minimizes risks.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines asset management, reducing manual interventions and resource wastage.
Cost Savings: Prevents potential security incidents, saving costs related to breaches and non-compliance fines.

In industries like finance and healthcare, FireMon Asset Manager plays a crucial role by providing meticulous asset tracking essential for maintaining stringent compliance requirements. It enables organizations to swiftly adapt to changing regulations and safeguard sensitive information effectively.

FireMon

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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Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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