Infraon IMS vs Meraki Dashboard comparison

EverestIMS and Cisco are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. EverestIMS is ranked #83, while Cisco is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.5. EverestIMS holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Cisco’s 0.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of EverestIMS users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Cisco users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Meraki Dashboard and Infraon IMS compete in the network management category. Meraki appears to have the upper hand due to its superior cloud management features and customer service.

Features: Meraki Dashboard offers presence analytics, cloud management, and dynamic network monitoring. It ensures ease of use with its single pane of glass management tool. Infraon IMS provides detailed customization options, real-time network monitoring, and drill-down capabilities for enhanced visibility and control.

Room for Improvement: Meraki Dashboard could enhance device cloning, licensing management, and VPN solutions. Users also look for more intuitive configurations and better integration options. Infraon IMS can improve AI features, GUI, and reporting abilities, while also addressing role-based access issues and integrative functionality gaps.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Meraki Dashboard offers flexible deployment via private and public clouds and is recognized for responsive customer service despite occasional long wait times. Infraon IMS, often deployed on-premises, provides competent technical support but lacks cloud extensively supported by Meraki.

Pricing and ROI: Meraki Dashboard is a high-end solution with significant licensing costs, perceived by some as an expensive but valuable investment. Infraon IMS offers competitive pricing and flexible feature-based payment, potentially appealing to budget-conscious users seeking customized solutions.

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Categories and Ranking

Infraon IMS

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

83rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (32nd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (56th), Cloud Monitoring Software (48th)

Meraki Dashboard

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

11th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Infraon IMS is 0.5%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Meraki Dashboard is 0.7%, down from 1.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Meraki Dashboard	0.7%
Infraon IMS	0.5%
Other	98.8%

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it_user1631601

GTM Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Our process efficiency has improved by having all the information in one place, which has reduced manpower

The product is great. We integrated the ticketing tool with the monitoring tool. The agent ID creation is very easy when using this tool. It is so user-friendly. The user interface is good and also the pricing is great. The user interface is good, even a business user or layman can raise a ticket. They provide an all-in-one monitoring tool. If an issue happens, it gets integrated with the email, then proactively that ticket is being raised, which is good. The reporting is good. It is very clear. It is a customized report; however you want it, you can customize it. We use the solution’s role-based dashboards. The head of IT wants to use it so he can see holistically what is happening, e.g., what are the tickets being raised, what is a major issue, and what escalations are happening. There are different dashboards that are customized. For our head of IT, we made a separate dashboard. Then, for the executives, we made a separate dashboard based on time, like hourly or daily. All these reports were customized. While they didn't provide a BI dashboard, they provide a kind of graphical dashboard for whatever the issue is. Once you click on a particular ticket, it drills down to the issue, what it is and when the issue was raised. The drill down is good. It is more like a business intelligence (BI) tool. You can just scroll and zoom in. It goes deep into the issue. Once you click a particular dashboard, it will take you to the next page, then it takes you to the issue. Infraon IMS provides workflow automation for real-world use cases. This makes our work easier. It is just drag and drop (no coding) to build the workflows. For example, a particular ticket is being raised. It gets routed to three important IT executives within our team. From our team, it gets routed to the next level. The learning curve is good. Initially, there were no issues. As soon as the users saw the product, they understood what the product was. There wasn't any kind of training required for this product because it is very straightforward.

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MURALI NIDAMANURI

Managing Director at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

Dashboard provides comprehensive network security and management capabilities

I don't have specific handy names. Meraki Dashboard uses multiple functions where we can configure SSIDs, firewall policies, DHCP, multiple VLANs and DHCP configurations, VLAN configurations, access control policies, MAC binding, client access based on MAC authentication and certificate-based authentication. We have configured SSO for Windows Active Directory by configuring the RADIUS services. We have implemented many customer requirements in Meraki Dashboard. With the detailed visibility feature of Meraki Dashboard, I get connected clients information, including how much data each client downloaded and what applications they accessed. I can obtain detailed data including ISP links level monitoring and speed. I can perform speed tests, generate analytics reports, convert to Excel based on each user for each department, create dashboards, monitor and limit bandwidths, and restrict specific URLs. The advanced security configuration in Meraki Dashboard is useful for network security. Substantial security can be achieved within Meraki Dashboard itself, eliminating the need for additional firewalls to protect your network. You can configure WAN monitoring, users' ACLs, URL filtering, web filtering, and department-wise access configuration for specific client applications. It's completely cloud-managed, and in a simplified way, you don't need to visit any physical infrastructure to monitor activities. Apart from access points, everything is in the cloud. We have monitored IoT solutions, CCTV monitoring, and can detect and control intrusions. When people connect IoT devices to your network, Meraki Dashboard can detect what device it is and control those access controls, even with different operating systems.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Overall, it's a wonderful one-stop ITSM solution for infrastructure."

"The backup, restore, and comparison features are all good."

"Being an engineering product, the customization is easy for us compared to SolarWinds and ManageEngine."

"If you are looking for the best product with the best price, Infraon is the best product."

"Once we installed this central system, our site engineers who provide the data started believing in the data's accuracy."

"The role-based dashboards provide data points and charts and topology diagrams in a single window. It's like a spider web, where the application, connectivity, and everything is defined for each user of those applications."

"The most valuable feature is alerting. We get email alerts when a link is down that tell us which device is having a problem."

"Their discovery is very quick and they have a CSV file upload mechanism that allows you to onboard five thousand devices a day."

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"Meraki Dashboard offers an exceptional centralized management solution that allows easy updates and monitoring of various network features, including bandwidth usage and content filtering."

"I use Meraki Dashboard for monitoring purposes, the detailed visibility feature of Meraki Dashboard is useful for troubleshooting purposes, and it helps a lot."

"For us, it serves as a single pane of glass."

"With the detailed visibility feature of Meraki Dashboard, I get connected clients information, including how much data each client downloaded and what applications they accessed."

"It's really user-friendly."

"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."

"The ease-of-use and the analytics are really effective tools."

"We like how Meraki Dashboard lets you manage all the devices in a single pane of glass. The dashboard is intuitive and easy to use. They are constantly updating the functionality. Switches from other vendors have the same features for the life of the device, but Meraki is always improving."

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Cons

"This solution is available in SaaS. The reason why we have not gone to SaaS is they do not have a country-specific separation of assets."

"There might be some features in other products that are currently not there in Everest IMS and can be included. I have not yet compared it with any other product."

"This solution is available in SaaS. The reason why we have not gone to SaaS is they do not have a country-specific separation of assets. There are GDPR and other requirements that might require country-specific sensitive information to be filtered as well as other things that need to be taken care of. Normally, if we need to do any compliance, like ISO27000 compliance, they don't have such a report within their system. This kind of report is missing from their SaaS. That is one of the reasons that we have gone to the on-prem version, where I am assured that my data is secure."

"Technical support could use some improvement in terms of their response times and diagnostic accuracy."

"The GUI is in need of improvement. It is not drag-and-drop or easy to use."

"I would like to see an integrated view of Infraon IMS and Infraon Desk. It would be very helpful if that were integrated into the solution."

"Email support is a bit slow. Once you drop an email, it takes time."

"I would like to have the option to add a new device or meet with the next release. Right now, it needs to be done from the backend which results in a heavy reliance on R&D."

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"They can improve the landing page in Meraki Dashboard. When I go into an organization, they can include a lot more infographics. They can also simplify it a bit and consolidate it. For example, if I've got five branches and I go into customer A's profile or organization, I'd like to see an infographic on the landing page providing a snippet of the entire network layout, that is, all branches in one snapshot. From there, I would like to go into the network that I want to work on or view."

"The downside to the simplicity is that you can't get as granular as you could with the Cisco APs."

"More integration would be an improvement."

"For instance, you should be able to see if something has been blocked by a firewall rule by looking at a live log of traffic moving through the device. It helps you troubleshoot issues and understand if your rules are working. You need to ensure the firewall is blocking the right things. That's unavailable in the Meraki Dashboard. You have to send the logs to a log server. We use SolarWinds locally, but it's not natively built into Meraki. We're also using Cisco ISA and another tool called Smoothwall."

"There is a bit of a problem when you try to log in and you don't have a fixed IP address. If you're granting access, you need to log in by using the IP address. If your administrator's IP address is not a fixed IP address and it has changed, you might need to update the changed IP address in the interface. For this, you need to log in to the interface to update the IP address. This issue might not have so much to do with Meraki interface."

"I think Meraki Dashboard can be improved by trying easier menus because the menus get a little cluttered."

"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."

"We are at the point now where we are starting to not involve tech support because we are not finding any value in it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost model is within our budget. I have less than 180 critical assets, but the moment that I have 1,000 assets, then the license model is totally different. I don't know whether they are capable of handling that kind of a load. They could revisit the licensing model."

"I think that the pricing for this solution is reasonable and varies by number of devices."

"If you are looking for the best product with the best price, Infraon is the best product. We evaluated five to six products and finally felt Infraon was better because of the pricing model, especially because it was more flexible."

"We pay for a number of devices on the accounts and since it is on-premises, we pay the maintenance charges for the year."

"The pricing is reasonable, given the features that they provide."

"Licensing is calculated on a per-user basis."

"Licensing for Meraki Dashboard is paid every year, and it's on a per-device model that costs roughly $300 to $400 per device, but that comes with full support and troubleshooting, etc. Compared to similar products, Meraki Dashboard is quite high-end, but the costs you pay are all-in."

"The pricing of the tool is relatively high compared to other solutions. It comes with a premium that exceeds that of its competitors by approximately 25 percent."

"The pricing for a small setup is only a few hundred dollars a year. The fee is subscription-based."

"My view is that it's expensive, but it's the best."

"The solution is currently the most expensive on the market."

"It is said to be expensive."

"You don't have to pay for the dashboard."

"Meraki Dashboard is a utility and portal that's part of the Meraki solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

13%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	29

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Meraki Dashboard?

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What is your primary use case for Meraki Dashboard?

The main use case for Meraki Dashboard is to manage the Meraki Dashboard ecosystem, and the main reason is the ease of use.

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Overview

Infraon IMS offers network monitoring with real-time dashboards, customizable GUIs, and integrated tools, supporting device management and workflow automation efficiently.

Infraon IMS delivers stable performance with features tailored for easy customization and detailed network management. Users benefit from real-time monitoring through role-based dashboards and integrated ticketing tools. However, improvements in reporting, GUI usability, and AI integration are needed. Challenges include monitoring non-IPBS devices and improving connectivity visibility. Users require seamless Infraon Desk integration, ease of device addition, and enhanced topology views.

What are the key features of Infraon IMS?

Stable Performance: Provides consistent network oversight.
Customizable Dashboards: Role-based, interactive GUIs for tailored views.
Real-Time Monitoring: Comprehensive network visibility and alerts.
Workflow Automation: Streamlines operational processes.
Configuration Backup: Ensures data integrity and easy recovery.
Granular Reporting: Delivers detailed insights and analysis.
Intuitive Interface: Enhances user interaction and experience.
Quick Device Discovery: Facilitates effective network management.
Email Alerts: Keeps users informed on device status.
CSV Upload: Manages high-volume device data efficiently.

What benefits do users find in Infraon IMS?

Centralized Access: Simplifies firewall and device management.
Enhanced IT Management: Improved monitoring of uptime, downtime, and utilization.
Flexible Deployment: Support for global locations with cloud and on-premises options.
Link Monitoring Automation: Boosts operational efficiency.

In industries like IT infrastructure and data center management, Infraon IMS is utilized for network monitoring and managing key components such as leased lines and firewalls. Its capabilities aid diverse geographical locations in overseeing data centers, offering centralized monitoring and access to critical infrastructure.

EverestIMS

Meraki Dashboard offers intuitive, cloud-based network management, simplifying tasks with centralized control, real-time monitoring, and comprehensive security.

Offering ease of use and a single-pane-of-glass view, Meraki Dashboard enhances network management through centralized monitoring and configuration. Its intuitive interface allows remote device management, policy configuration, and real-time alerts. Cloud-based access provides scalability and automatic updates, while detailed analytics and security measures ensure robust control over networks. Though some users mention complexity in certain configurations and third-party integration gaps, its continuous improvement and network management efficiency accommodate extensive business requirements.

What are the Key Features of Meraki Dashboard?

Ease of Use: Simplified interface that allows easy navigation and operations.
Single-Pane-of-Glass View: Centralized management of all network components from one platform.
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides up-to-date insights for proactive network management.
Cloud-Based Access: Accessible from anywhere, enabling remote management and updates.
Automatic Updates: Ensures the system is always up-to-date with the latest features and security patches.
Detailed Analytics: Offers insights into network performance and security analytics.
Comprehensive Security Measures: Features built-in security protocols and tools for enhanced protection.

What Benefits and ROI Should Users Consider?

Centralized Control: Streamlines network management across multiple sites.
Scalability: Grows with business needs, supporting a wide range of devices and configurations.
Integration Capabilities: Merges easily with existing systems, though improvements are desired for third-party devices.
Improved Network Efficiency: Enhances visibility and control, reducing downtime and improving performance.
Remote Management: Facilitates convenient configuration and monitoring from any location.

Enterprises deploy Meraki Dashboard for diverse network management purposes, including monitoring, access point deployment, security configuration, and VLAN and LAN management. In education, it provides centralized Wi-Fi management and ensures secure student access. Retail businesses utilize it for seamless device integration and analytics, while healthcare facilities employ its robust security and real-time monitoring to safeguard patient data and maintain network efficiency. Its cloud-based interface enhances control and visibility across numerous sites, simplifying management and configurations.

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Sample Customers

Airtel, BSNL, BlackBox Corporation, ACT, Geojit, Canara Bank, Federal Bank, Corporation Bank, Birla Corporation, CESC Limited, Mphasis, GAIL, Udaan, Cowrks, SEBI, PowerGrid, ION, Summit Communications, National Information Technology Center (Nepal), Bhutan National Bank, Servion T, Greenlam, Translab Technologies, CMSIT Services, Nelco, HPCL, Navitas Life Sciences etc.

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