IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) vs Kaseya Traverse comparison

IBM and Kaseya are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. IBM is ranked #42 with an average rating of 7.5, while Kaseya is ranked #67 with an average rating of 6.3. IBM holds a 1.0% mindshare in NMS, compared to Kaseya’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of IBM users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Kaseya users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

IBM SevOne Network Performance Management and Kaseya Traverse compete in the network performance management and monitoring category. IBM SevOne NPM holds the upper hand with its scalability, flexibility, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities, surpassing Kaseya Traverse's basic monitoring and limited reporting features.

Features: IBM SevOne NPM provides detailed infrastructure visibility without agents, allowing comprehensive data collection and quick reporting. It offers efficient performance monitoring and the ability to customize alerts and thresholds. Kaseya Traverse includes good remote support and data collection features, but its monitoring functions and reporting capabilities are seen as basic compared to SevOne.

Room for Improvement: Users of IBM SevOne NPM suggest improvements in reporting functions, better integration with other technologies, and a more streamlined administrative process. Kaseya Traverse could benefit from enhanced reporting, AI capabilities, and integration with other systems to reduce false positives and improve user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM SevOne NPM offers on-premises and hybrid cloud deployment options, with users commending its exceptional technical support and customer service. Kaseya Traverse's deployment is straightforward, with similar deployment choices, but it lacks the extensive customer service experience noted by SevOne users though its support is considered reasonable.

Pricing and ROI: The pricing model for IBM SevOne NPM is based on network elements with a pay-as-you-grow approach, leading to high initial costs but significant ROI due to efficiency and improved monitoring. Kaseya Traverse, priced on a monthly per-device basis, is cost-effective but perceived as basic, impacting its overall value against SevOne’s comprehensive offerings.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM SevOne Network Performa...

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

42nd

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

29th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (19th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (46th), Log Management (48th)

Kaseya Traverse

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

67th

Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software

38th

Average Rating

6.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Mindshare comparison

As of May 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 Kaseya Traverse is 0.3%, up from 0.2% 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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AMMAR HUMAIDY HUSIN

Technical Consultant at a university with 11-50 employees

Automation increases efficiency, but pricing needs to be more competitive

Improvement is needed in making it cheaper, of course. I am not emphasizing making it cheaper, however, it should be more competitive with other products. The product itself is very good and helpful for me as a customer. The issue always is the price, as we cannot beat most of our competitors on pricing alone. If a product is just nice to have, not essential like an antivirus, if it's not really competitive with pricing, we cannot sell it.

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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

"We have benefited mainly from the use of the dashboard interface. It makes the network visually interesting for other people who are not in the network. A lot of people are not network techies who understand streams in the network. Based on location, we have streams coming in and out. They can see visually when there is some problem. They don't need to understand all the network technology behind it to be able to understand if everything is working well or if there is a problem."

"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."

"Flexible architecture: You can extend the system and its capacity by attaching another cluster pair."

"Its ability to monitor practically any type of network device via SNMP is most valuable. This is the main functionality that we're using. If a network device exposes a metric, such as interface utilization, SevOne will monitor it for us."

"The most valuable feature is the NMS because that's the core of the system. Without the NMS, the other tools aren't that usable."

"In 90% of the cases, new devices are plug-and-play, so when a new version comes out then SevOne has support for it out of the box."

"Another useful feature is that SevOne gives you real-time insights into your network performance. It polls every five minutes. That is important for our customers because there are some network teams that are always monitoring their networks."

"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."

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"Most of the features are pretty good and the solution is user friendly."

"The remote support and data collection features are great."

"It's a simple and humble tool."

"Kaseya Traverse is a very stable solution and very sustainable in terms of what the market wants, what is out there, price-wise and functionality features. They're quite competitive and they are always innovating."

"We have found the solution to be very flexible to our requirements. We have been able to configure it on-premise effectively when we were using less of the cloud."

"If I want to automate the management and maintenance of my server automatically, this product is a good use case for that."

"Everything is running seamlessly on the solution, to the point where you don't see any gap."

"Automating processes is crucial for me, so the automation part stands out."

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Cons

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

"In terms of having a complete view of our network performance, I would rate it a nine out of 10. The reason for not giving it a 10 is that there is no packet capture associated with SevOne, but we do have other tools in place to do that."

"The customizations are very hard. The person doing it has to be very good at analytics and has to be very good in all languages"

"There is no service mode setup in this monitoring tool if you want to snooze alerts for any specific amount of time, to account for any activity change or major incident."

"When I started using it, I tried adding one of the BroadWorks application servers into SevOne... it created thousands and thousands of objects from that one application server and we immediately ran out of license... It would help, when new objects are discovered, if there were a way to categorize those objects and to pick the part of the object you need..."

"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."

"Some similar solutions offer end-to-end visibility."

"There are a lot of pain points. My main problem is that we don't have a high availability system. There are 20 peers. We're going to lose the end-of-life appliances that are old. If we lose a peer and it doesn't come back, we lose all that data. The reason we don't have high availability is because it's double the charge."

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"The tool needs to have some AI capabilities, which it lacks currently."

"Kaseya Traverse can improve by adding a Service Map to help us create a configuration management database (CMDB), this would be helpful for us."

"We've noticed a few bugs as of late. However, this seems to only be in the reporting part of the product."

"Reporting is tedious and not organized in the way customers expect."

"Dashboards and Central Protection were an issue. Also, database monitoring was not there. Even though they said that it was there at an additional cost, that tool was very basic. We couldn't have device configuration backup also."

"In terms of what could be improved, we are innovating all the time, as well as having a look at different avenues so that the strategy follows the structure. I think the software is still a little bit too new to actually fully asses what it has."

"Improvement is needed in making it cheaper."

"However, the issue lies in the adequacy of the responses to my questions, which are usually not up to par."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"A blocking point is the high upfront cost because it is challenging to get it accepted and the purchase approved."

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

"The pricing has been fair."

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

"Many tools price things based on the number of KPIs that you're collecting around a device. In many cases, there could be hundreds of metrics that you need to collect. SevOne provides device-level pricing. That gives us the flexibility to turn on, and expand on, the metrics that we're collecting around those devices, without taking a financial hit."

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

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

"There are cheaper solutions available."

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"The price depends on whether you are monitoring different applications, especially in bulk, and depends on what you're doing. If you're monitoring one endpoint, it will cost you 150 ZAR."

"The solution is not cheap, but it is not too expensive."

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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with SevOne Network Data Platform?

There is room for improvement in the integration with different vendors and the reporting capabilities. It would be beneficial to have out-of-the-box integration with third-party vendors and improv...

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

The primary use case of IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) ( /products/ibm-sevone-network-performance-management-npm-reviews ) is network monitoring. It helps to maintain the infrastru...

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

To compete with custom-built tools, IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM) should accommodate the desired features and be timely in the delivery of feature updates. I would rate the overal...

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What do you like most about Kaseya Traverse?

The remote support and data collection features are great.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kaseya Traverse?

The solution is not cheap, but it is not too expensive. We pay an annual license fee. There are no additional fees associated with the product.

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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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Immediately identify impacted IT services using insights based on rich data analytics of events such as SNMP traps, Windows events and Syslogs. Resolve faults quickly via NetFlow enabled root cause analysis across cloud, on-premise, hybrid cloud and virtualized IT environments.

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

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