We performed a comparison between Qualys VMDR and Spiceworks based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Asset Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The biggest benefit is from a security operations perspective, where we are able to drive our security posture upwards by remediating any discovered vulnerabilities."
"I find the solution's dashboard interesting...The response time is fine. You can pull up reports without dragging or consuming bandwidth."
"I am impressed with the VMDR feature."
"Qualys VM had a recent upgrade and the newer version is supporting the cloud."
"It's really beneficial for scanning and interacting with the agent."
"Intuitive and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the external channel."
"The most recent is VMDR, which provides a comprehensive overview of how to detect, patch, and remediate specific vulnerabilities."
"Helpdesk and inventory are both equally valuable, and they form the true core of the product."
"The solution is very stable. It's reliable and efficient."
"If you're in the market for a low-cost service desk system, Spiceworks is a good software solution to start out with, especially when it comes to startups and those organizations that don't currently have any existing service desk software in place."
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"It's easy to understand."
"It was easy to integrate Spiceworks with our existing setup."
"The nice thing about Spiceworks is always it's free. Monitoring of printers for low toner. Finding machines that have low memory or low hard disk space."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to manage."
"Improve the user interface."
"If anything, I would like to see the user interface modernized a bit more."
"Improve the API speed."
"There's a need to upgrade or fix the potential vulnerability rate. Around 20,000 potential vulnerabilities were showing in Qualys VMDR, but none of the other tools showed them. When we checked, it wasn't the case. Support explained that even small issues were being counted as vulnerabilities, causing issues in our audit. So, the security features could be improved to identify vulnerabilities accurately."
"They should make it accessible for more operating systems."
"The ability to manage user accounts and give rights to the operator to know about abnormalities of applications is something that needs improvement."
"The solution is a bit expensive if you do not have access to discounts."
"Certain integration factors between different options could be improved."
"There are a lot of disadvantages to Spiceworks because it's not an agent-based solution."
"The SNMP sniffer requires a lot of work to get right."
"I would like to see more information when drilling down into access permissions, assignments management, or tagging. When I click a note or a device, I should be able to see more details about the router and modem. For example, I want to see the version, downtime, availability, latency, etc. I should have easy access to everything about our assets at a glance."
"Having an integrated asset management tool, where I can plug in things that are offline, would be good."
"The network mapping could be improved. Putting together an actual bonafide network map would be really nice."
"Sometimes, it can be difficult to integrate what you need."
"The GUI must be improved."
"Since Spiceworks is a free tool, it's not very scriptable or customizable."
Qualys VMDR is ranked 4th in IT Asset Management with 77 reviews while Spiceworks is ranked 10th in IT Asset Management with 47 reviews. Qualys VMDR is rated 8.2, while Spiceworks is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Qualys VMDR writes "Good visibility but expensive and needs better support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spiceworks writes "Good low-cost service desk system, but lacks in automation workflows and categorization ". Qualys VMDR is most compared with Tenable Nessus, Tenable Security Center, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management and Tenable Vulnerability Management, whereas Spiceworks is most compared with Zabbix, Lansweeper, ServiceNow, Freshdesk and ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus. See our Qualys VMDR vs. Spiceworks report.
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