"It's really user-friendly."
"It's a scalable solution."
"Meraki Dashboard does not require a lot of maintenance. Cisco tells communicates through the Meraki Dashboard web client, it will automatically send updates to the equipment. They will send you an email on what day the updates will take place. If you want to proceed, you can click on accept, or you can decline them and schedule the updates at another time."
"We find that Meraki has all the features you need to be able to enable complex network protocols for AV equipment. We deal with a streaming product over IP, and Meraki is fantastic at that."
"Everything is in a single pane and you can look at your network in one centralized place."
"The most valuable feature is its simplicity in navigating through the dashboard. It's well set out, and the layout is nice and user friendly. A lot of clients enjoy seeing layer 7 visibility. They get a good indication and insight into what is happening in their network and what applications are being used the most. They can then customize and give preference to business-critical applications."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"The product can scale if you need it to."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"I like that SolarWinds NPM is a strong tool for monitoring network devices, switches, and routers. It's also a user-friendly tool. My team also likes how scalable it is."
"The most valuable features are language support and technical support."
"Being able to easily, and quickly obtain disc space statistics from servers and determine how much was free or used on various volumes."
"The product covers our needs for the basic care and feeding of servers, whether they are physical or virtual."
"What I've found most valuable about the solution is that it's scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"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."
"When users are trying to roam from one location to another location, geographical tracking would be helpful."
"Some features could be added."
"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."
"More integration would be an improvement."
"For my purposes, I don't need to see any other features added to the Meraki Dashboard. I have no criticisms and I do like the tool. If I had a criticism for it, it would be about the pricing because it could be a little less, but again, for the service that you get, I won't complain about that too much."
"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."
"Meraki Dashboard could improve the user interface by making it more user-friendly. The configuring can at times be difficult."
"Being able to detect devices that are trying to connect wirelessly would make using this solution much easier."
"We decided that we were no longer going to trust that their products have not been capitalized."
"It has covered everything, so no improvement is required at their end. The only thing is the price."
"I would like to have a Syslog server module for this product. That would make the solution better."
"Fortigate firewalls are one example of a product that we are unable to monitor properly via SolarWinds NPM."
"I would like to see some enhancement on the reporting side, such as making it a little bit easier to create reports or having a larger assortment of canned reports."
"Each model has different features, so clients need to purchase a separate model for SQL monitoring, database monitoring, network traffic analyzer, HTTP traffic, etc. So each feature they need is in a different model, but customers would prefer an all-in-one solution."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 8th in Network Monitoring Software with 17 reviews while SolarWinds NPM is ranked 3rd in Network Monitoring Software with 38 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 9.0, while SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Centralized dashboard management for all devices on your network that is easy-to-use". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "Make monitoring key performance factors in your enterprise customized and effective". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Auvik and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, ManageEngine OpManager, PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor and Datadog. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. SolarWinds NPM report.
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