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BlueCat Integrity vs Device42 comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

ROI

Sentiment score
5.2
BlueCat Integrity delivers ROI by cutting IT costs, simplifying infrastructure, and enhancing deployment speed and cost efficiency.
Sentiment score
6.6
Device42 enhances ROI by streamlining IT asset management, application mapping, and offering insightful reports for cost-effective operations.
As we are migrating other tools into this one, there can be 30% to 40% cost savings.
System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees
We did see a return on investment as we only have a team of six who are managing BlueCat Integrity infrastructure 24/7, and with the help of automation, we were able to reduce the headcount as we automated most of the requests using BlueCat Integrity API.
Soc For Ddi at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The consolidation of five different tools into one BlueCat solution did provide savings.
DevOps at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
The TCO calculations based on five years and three years have yielded a remarkable ROI compared to on-premise workload, validating the business case submission to the customer.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
I can confidently say at least 30% is the savings which we have seen.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 is a fully-featured tool that includes everything we need with powerful auto-discovery and intelligent application dependency mapping.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
8.8
BlueCat Integrity's customer service is highly rated for speed and expertise, excelling beyond competitors like Microsoft and Infoblox.
Sentiment score
8.1
Device42's customer service is praised for prompt, knowledgeable support, despite occasional delays, frequently earning high satisfaction ratings.
At that tier, when you are willing to pay for it, their support level is impeccable.
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
I would give the support a score of 10.
Senior Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The support from BlueCat was exceptional, as all issues were addressed without any major impacts, with support being very quick and faster compared to the previous vendor we had.
Senior Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Customer support for Device42 is fantastic.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Our internal teams have also leveraged the platform which is available for the customers and the partners to onboard them, have a bit of training on the tool and then ask any specific questions to either the TAM or the customer support team.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
When it comes to resolving technical issues, the support team is responsive and always available to help.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.9
BlueCat Integrity efficiently scales and adapts to large networks but may face cost challenges transitioning to cloud infrastructure.
Sentiment score
7.2
Device42 effectively scales for organizations, enhancing expansion with API integration and Remote Collectors, despite horizontal scaling limitations.
Currently, we are at over 150 BlueCat Integrity devices, running at least 70 primary mainstream hospitals and over 1,200 clinical locations.
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
If we have the virtual infrastructure up and ready, we can scale without a need for licensing.
Soc For Ddi at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Regarding scalability, our solution has so many servers and so much redundancy, and we did not even get into a point where we needed to add more servers because of load.
Senior Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
It is very much scalable and allows you to design your discovery solution without facing any challenge.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42's scalability works well for me; if I want to add more resources, such as a Remote Collector for a new site, I can easily connect it to the main appliance.
Senior Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
The scalability is good and with the increase in the size of the environment, it has definitely grown and changed over the last couple of years.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
8.0
BlueCat Integrity is praised for reliability, enhancing network stability with minimal disruptions despite occasional challenges like high CPU utilization.
Sentiment score
8.0
Device42 proves reliable with minimal downtime, easy integration, manageable resources, quick issue resolution, and high user satisfaction.
With the assistance of BlueCat Integrity and re-architecting, redesigning, and redeploying, our failure rate has gone to zero.
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
BlueCat Integrity is a platform that is mature and that we can trust.
Senior Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
We encountered a couple of situations where our BlueCat Integrity Address Manager was in a hung state, requiring us to rebuild it after performing an upgrade.
Senior Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Device42 is stable and has been reliable for my organization.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Device42 has been pretty stable.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Stability for Device42, in terms of reliability, is generally acceptable.
Solutions Architect at KAF Group
 

Room For Improvement

BlueCat Integrity requires improved security, cloud support, and user interface, alongside better documentation, automation, and deployment processes.
Device42 users seek enhanced interface, integration, pricing, with improved widgets, graphics, navigation, automation, and support efficiency.
One has to be very clear with their requirements in terms of what they want to achieve in the target design before making a purchase decision.
Soc For Ddi at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The API aspect could be improved with more use cases and better handling of object attributes.
System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees
In order to update this environment with 150 plus devices, I have to go through one at a time.
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
Device42 could benefit from improvements, specifically regarding the deployment of the software, which sometimes can be hectic and become time-consuming.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
I foresee areas of improvement for the agent-less solution, which could be very useful for those organizations that might not allow configuring an agent in their source machines for workload discovery.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
From an ITSM and ticketing perspective, I would say if there were integrations available, that would have really been better because a lot of times what we end up seeing or leveraging is ServiceNow because they have that native or out of the box capability, and even Freshservice has that capability out of the box.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
 

Setup Cost

BlueCat Integrity's pricing is competitive, offering value and flexibility, viewed as cost-effective despite higher costs than alternatives.
Device42 offers cost-effective pricing for managing 1,000-2,000 devices, though addon costs and competition may affect perceptions.
Our licensing model with BlueCat Integrity is cheaper than Infoblox.
System Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 501-1,000 employees
I heard that it wasn't that expensive, and what BlueCat offered for the price was very worthwhile.
DevOps at a marketing services firm with 10,001+ employees
We did see a cost reduction in overall infrastructure as BlueCat Integrity offered services at much more effective rates compared to other OEMs.
Soc For Ddi at a tech consulting company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Compared to other competitors, it does not cost much, and I would recommend it from a cost perspective.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
For example, I felt the BMC Discovery pricing was quite high.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable.
Financial Specialist at Wells Fargo
 

Valuable Features

BlueCat Integrity offers reliable, scalable IPAM, DNS, and DHCP management with automation, cloud compatibility, and robust security features.
Device42 excels in asset discovery, dependency mapping, and integrated IT management, enhancing security, cloud readiness, and efficiency.
Centralized management is the number one and most critical advantage.
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
The primary benefit my previous company realized from using BlueCat Integrity was that it was very cost-effective.
Senior Engineer at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
BlueCat Integrity provides a single-pane-of-glass view of the IP address space through integration of all infrastructure with BlueCat Integrity's Address Manager.
Lead Engineer at a consultancy with 11-50 employees
Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud.
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
We have leveraged that to discover IT assets such as physical servers, VMs, network devices, containers, storage devices, the applications, cloud resources and their relationships or their dependencies with each other and to the outside.
Sr PreSales Cloud Architect at a outsourcing company with 10,001+ employees
Device42 has positively impacted our organization by helping us become one of the best companies for asset management and inventory for the enterprise businesses we work with.
Cloud Presales Engineer at Activedge Technologies Ltd.
 

Categories and Ranking

BlueCat Integrity
Ranking in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools
1st
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
30
Ranking in other categories
Managed DNS (3rd), DDI (1st)
Device42
Ranking in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
34
Ranking in other categories
IT Asset Management (5th), Configuration Management Databases (2nd), Data Center Infrastructure Management (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools category, the mindshare of BlueCat Integrity is 18.2%, up from 15.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Device42 is 8.0%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
BlueCat Integrity18.2%
Device428.0%
Other73.8%
IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools
 

Featured Reviews

Bob Fuller - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Specialist at Community Health Systems
Centralized DDI management has transformed our hospitals and now cuts manual effort to a minimum
There is not much to dislike about it. It is not a Microsoft product. It is based on Linux. I am a Microsoft guy learning to run these Linux environments. So there is a little bit of a learning curve there if you are not already a native or natural Linux user. We do have to patch our environments, probably quarterly, with hot fixes or updates that we have to apply. Updates and maintenance and applying them could be improved. Unfortunately, we can only do them one at a time. We have to follow them sequentially. We cannot do them all in mass. That does become a problem for us, especially if we have a zero-day threat that is sitting out there that is live. If I cannot update my environment within moments, then I am challenged. In order to update this environment with 150 plus devices, I have to go through one at a time. That can take us several days to be able to patch. Our API is the only automation capability. Our networking team who provisions our new networks as we build a new environment or a new site or we acquire a new organization handles a lot of that through automation via API. They provision and build up the permissions and rights and access model for each new network and sub-network. We are considering and trying to determine if we need to get even more automated and whether or not we need to leverage more API capability. We are building a team of automation engineers, and they are looking around and digging to find something to work on. We could do some more automation, but what would we do? We still have not figured out what else we would do. For my team that runs the actual BlueCat Integrity environment, we do not use API automation. Our networking team who provisions and builds the new networks handles that via API. We have thought about going through more in-depth automation, but we cannot find a good use case for it in terms of what level of engagement we want to take with it and how dedicated we want to be to become a development shop. That is still on the wings and we are trying to figure out if this is something that we can handle, or do we continually have to rely upon an external developer. BlueCat Integrity does not develop for us. They have a certain level of liability that they will not accept when it comes to automation and scripting through their API. They say they will guide us, but they will not do it for us.
Manmohan Rao - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate Vice President at Hitachi Systems India Private Limited
Granular discovery has ensured confident workload migration and optimized cloud move group planning
Device42 offers the best features for workload assessment, particularly useful for cloud-to-cloud workload or on-premise data center workload, especially when planning for workload migration to the public cloud. For application and infrastructure discovery, Device42 has enabled me to know the number of machines running in the on-premise environment and has managed to capture complete utilization metrics or trends of their utilization. This has benefited me in right-sizing systems for my public cloud total cost of ownership (TCO) planning, providing me granularity to right-size these systems while planning a migration to the public cloud. Device42 has positively impacted my organization by providing granularity toward application discovery compared to other assessment tools, which is a differentiator since none of the other tools provide such granularity, leading to better decision-making for my migration to the public cloud. Device42 has improved my migration projects by providing granularity around system dependencies that gave me confidence knowing which systems communicate with each other parked in a particular move group. My move group planning became so robust that I am not leaving any system behind in the on-premise data center from my planning, which saves a lot of time and effort, leading to cost optimization—a value addition.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Computer Software Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Healthcare Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise24
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise6
Large Enterprise20
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
When evaluating BlueCat Integrity, challenges with dynamic DNS updates were encountered, but configuration issues can be fixed to mitigate those. Unlike QIP, BlueCat Integrity presents some complex...
What is your primary use case for BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
I currently integrated BlueCat Integrity with AWS and GCP, supporting multi-cloud environments. BlueCat Integrity helps manage the IPAM structure in a unified manner through a gateway that integrat...
What advice do you have for others considering BlueCat Adaptive DNS?
BlueCat Integrity's automation capabilities are leveraged, especially through the gateway with GCP, allowing automatic registration of host names in BAM whenever a virtual instance is provisioned u...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Device42?
The pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Device42 are relatively cost-effective and affordable. I do not know if a small organization would be able to afford it, but I presume it would also be co...
What needs improvement with Device42?
I think Device42 can be improved by adding more features around the CMDB aspect and lifecycle management. I do not think many people use it for that functionality, but if they were to expand the su...
What is your primary use case for Device42?
My main use case for Device42 is that we use it as a CMDB and affinity map to check out network topology or determine when we need to decom something in a life cycle. We use it for many different p...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

BlueCat Adaptive DNS, BlueCat Automation Manager, BlueCat DDI
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Overview

 

Sample Customers

Computer Sciences Corporation
Computershare, Concur, Doosan, Fitch Ratings Inc., Fujitsu, HomeAway, Jasper Wireless, Mercedes-Benz, Square, Twitch, UCSB, Zayo Group Inc.
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