IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs InfoVista VistaInsight comparison

IBM and Infovista are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. IBM is ranked #47 with an average rating of 7.5, while Infovista is ranked #94. IBM holds a 1.0% mindshare in NMS, compared to Infovista’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Infovista users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

InfoVista VistaInsight and IBM SevOne Network Performance Management are competing products in the network performance management category. InfoVista VistaInsight is favored for its more accessible pricing, while IBM SevOne NPM is preferred for its advanced feature set.

Features: InfoVista VistaInsight includes customizable dashboards, comprehensive reporting, and robust analytics for various network environments. IBM SevOne NPM offers real-time analytics, extensive data collection, and in-depth network performance insights.

Room for Improvement: InfoVista could enhance its real-time analytics, improve data collection capabilities, and offer deeper performance insights. IBM SevOne may work on simplifying its complex deployment process, enhancing initial usability, and reducing the need for extensive technical expertise.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: InfoVista VistaInsight is considered easier to deploy with straightforward configuration and strong support. IBM SevOne provides comprehensive technical documentation and a highly knowledgeable support team but may require more technical expertise for deployment.

Pricing and ROI: InfoVista VistaInsight typically offers a more attractive initial setup cost and quicker ROI due to its cost-effectiveness and immediate usability. IBM SevOne NPM's higher initial investment is offset by its long-term value from its rich features and superior analytics.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SevOne Network Performa...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

47th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (20th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (46th), Log Management (46th), Cloud Monitoring Software (30th)

InfoVista VistaInsight

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

94th

Average Rating

7.0

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Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) is 1.0%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of InfoVista VistaInsight is 0.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Grzegorz Nowak

Solution Architect at Wingu

Improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic

We use SevOne to collect and report on network flows SevOne improves infrastructure planning by helping us analyze network traffic. We can look at bandwidth for specific endpoints on the customer's network and analyze traffic to identify issues. For example, maybe some connectors are unavailable.…

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Youssef El Hayek

OSS Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

A powerful service that is very stable and scalable

It's a very powerful service, you have to use your training and understand how to work it. After that, it's very easy to collect and to use. It may be hard to use for the administrators. It's like a Ferrari, if you're a very good driver you'll go to 300 but you have to know how to drive it. If you have a Ferrari but you don't know how to use it, it's not going to be good. Also, it's very important to understand what the customer needs to decide on what kind of products you are going to use, and what product and what solution to implement. I would rate the solution nine out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"The feature that I have found most valuable is the scale-up and scale-down. The scale-up is an operation where the CPU boosts-up and then the memory will boost-up. That works awesomely."

"Data Insight reporting tool is the most valuable feature. They came up with it a couple of years ago. The most pleasing factor is the dark theme. You don't have a white background. It has templates that you can create for all kinds of reports that you can hit on the fly. It's much better printing of the reports. If you want to send PDFs to people, the reports are actually decent. Whereas for years, the old architecture of the PDFs was rubbish and even our customers said, "We have to manipulate your PDFs because they all have bad margin breaks. SevOne fixed that a couple of years ago with the new Data Insight. It's fantastic."

"It also gives us the closest thing to real-time insight into network performance that we have, with just a 10-second delay. It's very important for us to know the health of the infrastructure very quickly."

"One of the solution's biggest strengths is its capacity management performance, with out-of-the-box reports through NMS, as well as its ability to collect NetFlow-related data from devices. The collection of network performance and flow data is important because we have many critical business applications."

"We've had great feedback from our customers about SevOne support. They're willing to set up a remote session upon request. You have to go through three tiers of support with most vendors, and they ask a lot of screening questions before they will do a remote session. You need to spend a lot of time before an engineer will host a remote session to look at your problematic system."

"The automation feature is good because if your CMDB is OK and it is already in sync, then the automation part is good to go."

"It's a great solution for highlighting and discovering useful information regarding our network's elements."

"The out of the box reports and workflows are pretty good and they meet our requirements well."

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"My experience with technical support has been perfect."

Cons

"The reports are easy to configure but they are a bit outdated in terms of appearance and visualization."

"Software upgrades can be tricky is not easy."

"The GUI: both the dashboard/user view and the admin tool."

"Would benefit with the addition of AI modules for proactive data insights."

"High-frequency polling is data-intensive because you're pulling more. If SevOne could figure out a way to manage the impact of high-frequency polling on the system, that would be very popular."

"One area that requires a little bit of improvement is the topology of visualization and being able to map out connections, end-to-end. It's able to do that, but it's not as impressive as we would like it to be. We would like to understand the different interface types and the connection points better, through the visualization. Heatmaps also need further development."

"The reporting of NMS is good, but it could be better."

"There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities."

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"The presentation of the features can be improved. It can be more user-friendly for the visual part of the portal and to allow the customer to be able to use."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The pricing has not evolved with the market, which is one of the reasons we are moving to a new product."

"It is inexpensive compared to other monitoring tools."

"The pricing has been fair."

"There are cheaper solutions available."

"Choose a SevOne partner who can provide SevOne as a service and can deliver professional services and maintenance."

"Have a bank of licenses, because it is about the number of objects (RAM, ports, CPU, etc.)."

"There are different options available for licensing, with the per-device option being more expensive but more flexible."

"Prices per license are not huge, but they exist."

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"The license is expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SevOne Network Data Platform?

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What is your primary use case for SevOne Network Data Platform?

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What advice do you have for others considering SevOne Network Data Platform?

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Overview

The IBM® SevOne Network Performance Management (IBM SevOne NPM) solution helps you spot, address, and prevent network performance issues early with machine learning-powered analytics from a single source. Boost network performance and improve your user application experience by proactively monitoring your multivendor end-to-end network across enterprise, communication, and managed service provider networks.

Transform raw network performance data into intelligent and actionable insights. The IBM SevOne NPM solution goes beyond detection, combining industry-leading expertise and advanced technology to help your IT team plan and optimize your network and act on what matters: improving network performance to provide an exceptional customer experience.

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InfoVista VistaInsight is a pre-built service assurance solution that provides the benefits of off-the-shelf software, while enabling rapid configuration and tailoring to meet the unique needs of communications service providers (CSPs) and sophisticated large enterprises. Built upon InfoVista's scale-as-you-grow, distributed collection and reporting, organizations are empowered to monitor the performance of their data center infrastructure, network layers and domains, and physical and virtual components. VistaInsight delivers usage and forecasting to engineering, enables service exception alerts for operations, and manages and demonstrates SLAs for both internal stakeholders and end customers all through a web-based portal.

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ATOS, Devereux, Spark New Zealand, Access4, Rogers Communication, Lumen (formerly known as CenturyLink)

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