We performed a comparison between Meraki Dashboard and Versa Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Great visibility on the dashboard."
"Meraki dashboard deserves an Oscar."
"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."
"It has improved my organization in the way that we've got a much better wireless coverage than we had before, and secondly, we have the visibility of all the users."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki Dashboard is we can manage our switches and access point in one place."
"We have found the client dashboard to be very simple to use, especially in our Meraki environment."
"There is no need to swap the hardware at all the locations, and importing the APs into the Dashboard was a simple and quick process."
"I like that Meraki Dashboard is a user-friendly product."
"Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."
"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics."
"Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management."
"The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."
"The tool needs to incorporate more integration platforms. Integrating technical support features directly into the dashboard would be highly beneficial. This would allow technicians to troubleshoot issues more efficiently."
"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."
"Not a lot of training is available."
"Something that needs to be improved, is the fact that you if you don't renew the subscription license, it stops working. I would also like to see SSL BPM support for anything else."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"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."
"Meraki lacks their own software for connecting to the VPN which creates some issues."
"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best."
"It requires some simplification."
"What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good."
"Versa could be more AI-oriented."
Meraki Dashboard is ranked 9th in Network Monitoring Software with 51 reviews while Versa Director is ranked 56th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. Meraki Dashboard is rated 8.6, while Versa Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Meraki Dashboard writes "Incredibly easy to use, great troubleshooting and prevention of malicious events". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". Meraki Dashboard is most compared with Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds NPM, ThousandEyes, Mist AI and Cloud and Zabbix, whereas Versa Director is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor. See our Meraki Dashboard vs. Versa Director report.
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