FireMon Asset Manager vs IFS Cloud Platform comparison

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FireMon and IFS are both solutions in the IT Asset Management category. FireMon is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.7, while IFS is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.0. Additionally, 100% of FireMon users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of IFS users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

IFS Cloud Platform and FireMon Asset Manager compete in enterprise solutions and asset management. IFS Cloud Platform appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive enterprise solutions and superior integration.

Features: IFS Cloud Platform provides enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and supply chain management tools that enhance business operations. FireMon Asset Manager delivers advanced security management with real-time security analysis and network visibility, concentrating on specialized asset management functionalities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IFS Cloud Platform offers a flexible deployment model with strong integration capabilities and comprehensive customer support. FireMon Asset Manager provides a straightforward installation process with a focus on security configurations and efficient customer service tailored for security-specific environments.

Pricing and ROI: IFS Cloud Platform presents a competitive setup cost with substantial ROI through its integrated business solutions. FireMon Asset Manager justifies its investment through enhanced security posture and compliance capabilities, reflecting its emphasis on security-specific ROI.

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Automation Anywhere

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Venkat Sivaprakash

Management Consultant at Accenture

Has significantly improved document-driven workflows and reduced processing time across finance and HR functions

Automation Anywhere has evolved significantly and upgraded itself to provide agentic AI and AI-based automation solutions for document automation. The product has matured considerably over time. We can create workflows that can call an API. We can include prompts in particular workflows for ChatGPT-related functions, connecting to an LLM and RAG to perform tasks. For document automation, modern features are available to train documents, ensuring high accuracy and repeatability over time. The system is very easy to use. I recently completed a course in document automation, typically designed for people involved in coding and technical aspects. Though I understand coding comprehensively, I don't do actual coding. The course was very accessible. Currently, extensive coding isn't necessary due to the hybrid model incorporating GenAI aspects, low-code, no-code capabilities, APIs, and numerous pre-built objects in Automation Anywhere. The features include GenAI-driven prompting methods and workflow creation capabilities. In these workflows, we can create decision boxes and call APIs without coding. We simply pull objects, drop them, connect them, and add minimal coding when needed. The most crucial aspect isn't coding but rather sizing the automation and fleshing out the details. Automation Co-pilot takes notes and performs automated analysis. It can extract details from videos, summarize conversations, and provide detailed information. During calls, it identifies instructions and performs tasks such as preparing reports and reconciliation. Automation Anywhere can also connect with Microsoft Co-pilot. Through Co-pilot, real-time operations can be executed, allowing direct interaction between vendors and automation through this component.

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Marck Chanpagne

Business Continuity And Disaster Recovery Manager at Cadence Bank

Continuous asset discovery has strengthened audits and BCDR planning but reporting needs improvement

FireMon Asset Manager supports my disaster recovery and business continuity planning through continuous real-time discovery, which is the foundation of everything. The fact that it's not a point-in-time scan, but ongoing, passive and active discovery, means my inventory is always current. That's what makes it useful for BCDR, where stale data is dangerous. The best features FireMon Asset Manager offers include leak path detection, which is genuinely valuable. It identifies rogue internet connectivity, unauthorized connections, and paths in and out of the network that shouldn't exist. In a bank, that's both a security concern and a BCDR concern because undocumented network paths create recovery risks I don't know I have. The topology mapping is also excellent. Being able to visualize how assets connect to each other and to the network helps my BCDR team understand dependencies between systems, which is critical for sequencing recovery procedures correctly. If I'm recovering a system, I need to know what it depends on and what depends on it. FireMon Asset Manager has positively impacted my organization primarily on our audit and examination posture. Before FireMon Asset Manager, when examiners asked about our asset inventory, I was presenting data I knew had gaps and hoping nobody looked too closely. Now I can walk into an examination with a continuously updated, discovery-validated asset inventory and answer those questions with confidence. That's a qualitative shift, but it has real consequences. Examination findings in banking are not trivial. This shift has led to measurable outcomes, such as reducing the time to compile our annual BIA asset inventory from roughly three weeks of manual effort down to essentially a report pull. That's significant staff time saved. I've also seen our CMDB accuracy improve. FireMon Asset Manager's continuous discovery keeps finding things that manual processes miss. And from a regulatory standpoint, I've had two examinations since deploying FireMon Asset Manager, and in both cases, the asset inventory questions that were previously a weakness in our program were answered cleanly. That's the metric that matters most in a regulated banking environment.

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reviewer2268153

Cloud Operations Engineer

Integrated planning has improved production scheduling and now reduces downtime and costs

The biggest friction point I have run into with IFS Cloud Platform is user adoption, which has been the biggest challenge, as different users in the organization need to get accustomed to the new processes after years of using spreadsheets and legacy systems, requiring training and a mindset shift, along with challenging data migration and process standardization. My advice to someone considering IFS Cloud Platform with a similar workflow is to spend sufficient time understanding and standardizing their business processes before implementing it, as the technology is very powerful, but the real value comes when processes, data, and teams are all aligned. I would rate my overall experience with IFS Cloud Platform as a 9 out of 10.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"IQ Bots are extremely powerful. We are using them increasingly more where we're about to look through a lot unstructured sources, like PDF documents, scanned images, contracts, etc. We are able to take the data out, then use that toward processing structured data and creating insights for our clients."

"I appreciate that Automation Anywhere is so user-friendly, and currently, our team is learning Power Automate and migrating some of the processes as we go."

"We have definitely experienced an ROI in terms of saving, for example, the costs of service delivery contracts have come down because of our use of automation and it saves me around $100,000 a year."

"The best feature is the drag-and-drop command. Users with less coding knowledge can also automate their end-to-end processes very easily."

"Features such as MetaBot and IQ Bot are very advanced and capable as compared to reading PDFs using OCR."

"Automation Anywhere is a great tool."

"With Automation Anywhere, it has become very easy for us to do invoice billing. It has saved us about 80% of the time."

"I would rate Automation Anywhere overall a nine out of ten."

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"The most valuable feature is the change modules. Whenever there is a change in the firewall, it automatically reflects on FireMon."

"FireMon Asset Manager fills a genuine gap in network security visibility that many organizations underestimate."

"It offers a single platform for managing firewalls of different brands and simplifies policy deployment and auditing. It helps push policies to different firewalls, and it also helps with policy auditing."

"Now I can walk into an examination with a continuously updated, discovery-validated asset inventory, and I can answer those questions with confidence."

"The most valuable aspects of FireMon Asset Manager are its integrations and its ability to passively monitor the network for unknown assets."

"FireMon Asset Manager supports my disaster recovery and business continuity planning through continuous real-time discovery, which is the foundation of everything."

"We applied the ISO 20000 standard using Assyst."

"The main reason for the ERP project was to bring together our fourteen sites, which had until then worked in separate silos."

"Having a young talented programmer, during the six years of use, we were able to save around 75 000 EUR preparing simple modifications using customization rather than ordering them in IFS / Partner."

"Our ROI is 4.5 times our investment in 18 months."

"Feature-wise, I like the way it provides inventory details...It is a stable solution."

"The financial posting controls are quite handy. The user interface is really friendly, highly flexible, and pretty intuitive for end users."

"One of our favorite features is the "Info-Zone", which provides operational intelligence in flight and in context to guide both business users and support teams to productivity."

"IFS Applications is very user-friendly and easy to deploy, and it's suitable for small and medium enterprises."

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Cons

"The scheduling is a little difficult at times. Rather than setting up individual instances, it would be really nice if we had the ability to set repetitive jobs easily. Right now, if you want a job to run every 15 minutes, you have to schedule it a lot of times. I'd rather have the ability to just say 'run every 15 minutes.'"

"Understanding what we wanted to do the tool after setup, that was complex."

"As a developer, the biggest con is the lag; it's pretty inconvenient to face that delay in things happening."

"This solution saves us time but there are some things that make it clumsy for the end-users."

"It is a bit wonky with HTML when I'm working with it. There are times when it's not able to detect the technology that we are using. I don't know whether it's an Automation Anywhere issue or an internal issue. I want it to work smoothly with more technologies."

"The only thing I see as room for improvement is that the number of products being offered in the product list are too many."

"There are a number of current tools which can be improved because they have many limitations. Like some better controls in emails, and better support for features in Excel and PDF."

"They sell every different functionality in too many separate packages, making the procurement process complicated as it requires paying additional licensing for more features."

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"While passive discovery remains important, active retrieval of asset details would be valuable, and this functionality is starting to be implemented, as I've observed in recent updates but it is not fully there yet."

"The discovery process could be improved. If incorrect credentials are entered, it should give an error message. That would make our work easy rather than having to troubleshoot why the issue is occurring."

"I find that FireMon Asset Manager's reporting customization is more limited than I would like."

"The biggest friction point or frustration I have encountered with FireMon Asset Manager is the support experience being inconsistent."

"It is not very good at monitoring the Check Point firewall, but it works very well with other firewalls such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA."

"FireMon Asset Manager can be improved in reporting customization, which is more limited than I'd prefer."

"Documentation-wise, they need more."

"We have had an issue that we don't get proper after-sale service when we get technical glitches."

"Technical support could be improved."

"The CRM was shaky and although this improves in Apps 10, there is room for improvement."

"The customer service is not good as expected but we can say its fair."

"IFS Applications can improve the reporting capabilities and increase the speed of feedback time in the IFS Applications. This would help with the overall performance of the solution and provide better experiences for customers."

"When it comes to AI, I feel that is the area where we expect something more from IFS Cloud Platform."

"I'm a business analyst, so I do a lot of customer-facing work. I take calls from businesses I have to troubleshoot. One thing that bugs me is the error messages you get from IFS. If I get an error message, I have to dig to find the cause because, often, the error message doesn't precisely describe the problem. It'll hint about where the problem lies, but you have to work to find the root cause. It doesn't help in my situation. You expect an error message to point to the field or what is causing the issue."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It costs up to $1,200 per license."

"My understanding is that the license cost of Automation Anywhere is more reasonable than UiPath and Blue Prism."

"We would like to use Citrix going forward. We use Bot Runners to scale up, and it gets to be expensive. Using Citrix, it can mitigate costs."

"We have seen ROI on one of the process, but not on the other processes yet."

"We have seen the tangible benefits of taking monotonous work off people's plates, creating capacity, and cost reductions."

"Its usage is expensive for us because my user base is mostly in Manila and KL. The unit cost of labor is cheaper there than in the U.S. or Australia, which puts a bit more stress on how to get a positive ROI while continuing to use it."

"On average, a bot runner in Automation Anywhere can cost $5,000, while in Microsoft Power Automate, you can get most of the same functionality for $100."

"The pricing model can be a bit more flexible."

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"FireMon Asset Manager's pricing has been reasonable and has worked well for us from a licensing standpoint."

"FireMon is more expensive than other brands but justified by its comprehensive feature set. It includes several functions that might require additional subscriptions in other solutions."

"Compared to SAP, the pricing for IFS Applications was very affordable. People using the solution would find that it's worth the money."

"IFS Applications are competitive in terms of pricing compared to other vendors, such as SAP, Oracle, and Epicor. They are generally cheaper, especially for licensing costs."

"IFS Applications is expensive software, but it's on par with SAP and Oracle. It's for large enterprises and government entities and not for small and medium-sized enterprises. They have one licensing model, but if you want to have a module-specific license, they provide component-based licenses. Unlike SAP and Oracle, it doesn't have different levels of licensing. It's one level of licensing."

"There are varying license levels that you can purchase."

"It is better to buy implementation services from IFS than from partners"

"The product is reasonably priced."

"I consider it to be a well-priced solution compared to other mid-range or high-end ERP solutions."

"The pricing of the solution may appear to be expensive for smaller companies with only tens of users; however, for larger and mid-size industrial companies, IFS is able to win deals and the pricing is competitive in the market."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

14%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

22%

Comms Service Provider

20%

Media Company

10%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

12%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	162
Midsize Enterprise	86
Large Enterprise	565

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	4

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	16
Midsize Enterprise	9
Large Enterprise	10

Questions from the Community

How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It depends on your use case. Is it simply to automate a couple of processes? Is it to augment a human team? AA is ver...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

From my experience using AA tool, it depends on the applications that you want to automate, because there some applic...

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How good is Automation Anywhere for RPA processes?

It is a highly preferred RPA tool. You can check my Automation Anywhere Review to know more.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FireMon Asset Manager?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing reveals that it's not inexpensive. The license cost is manageab...

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What needs improvement with FireMon Asset Manager?

The biggest friction point or frustration I have encountered with FireMon Asset Manager is the support experience bei...

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What is your primary use case for FireMon Asset Manager?

My main use case for FireMon Asset Manager is continuous network asset discovery and visibility. We have a complex hy...

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What needs improvement with IFS Applications?

There are features that came up during implementation that we are not actually using today, such as field service man...

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What is your primary use case for IFS Applications?

My main use case for IFS Cloud Platform is for production planning, where I typically use it for production schedulin...

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What advice do you have for others considering IFS Applications?

The biggest friction point I have run into with IFS Cloud Platform is user adoption, which has been the biggest chall...

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Also Known As

Automation Anywhere, Testing Anywhere, Automation Anywhere Enterprise, Agentic Process Automation System (Now Certified for WorkSpaces)

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IFS Applications, Assyst, IFS Cloud

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Overview

Automation Anywhere offers ease of use, robust system connectivity, and GenAI-driven document automation through a cloud-native platform, significantly enhancing productivity across multiple industries with advanced AI features.

Delivering a comprehensive suite of tools designed for easy integration and rapid deployment, Automation Anywhere drives efficiency by reducing costs and automating repetitive tasks. Its cloud-native platform supports broad industry adoption, including advanced AI features like process automation and Co-Pilot, streamlining complex workflows with minimal technical skills required. Users benefit from robust integration capabilities, which facilitate seamless interaction with multiple systems. However, there is room for improvement in areas such as user-friendliness for beginners, stability, flexible licensing, and enhanced OCR functionality. Organizations in sectors such as banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare gain from the improved operational efficiency and ROI Automation Anywhere offers.

What are the important features of Automation Anywhere?

Ease of Use: Simplifies automation tasks with a user-centric interface.
Robust Connectivity: Provides seamless integration with multiple systems.
GenAI-Driven Document Automation: Leverages AI to automate document management.
Process Automation & Co-Pilot: Enhances workflow automation with advanced AI.
Cloud-Native Platform: Enables rapid deployment and integration.

What benefits should be evaluated in reviews?

Time Savings: Automation drastically reduces manual processing time.
Cost Efficiency: Decreases overall operational costs by automating tasks.
Productivity Enhancement: Streamlines workflows with AI-driven tools.
Improved Integration: Enhances ability to work with multiple systems.
Scalability: Supports growth with a flexible cloud-native architecture.

In the insurance industry, Automation Anywhere is utilized for automating processes such as enrollment management and compliance checks. Its applications extend to supply chain management, financial transactions, and business performance monitoring across sectors like banking, finance, manufacturing, and healthcare, helping organizations to automate routine tasks, improve efficiency, and reduce costs.

Automation Anywhere

FireMon Asset Manager provides insightful monitoring and management of your network assets, helping organizations maintain security compliance and optimize asset usage effectively.

FireMon Asset Manager offers a comprehensive view of network assets, assisting in identifying security compliance gaps and optimizing resource utilization. Designed for enterprises requiring robust asset monitoring, it ensures efficient tracking, enabling proactive threat management and policy adherence across digital environments.

What are the important features of FireMon Asset Manager?

Real-Time Monitoring: Continuously tracks network assets to provide up-to-date security insights.
Compliance Assurance: Ensures assets meet security policies and regulatory requirements.
Reporting Capabilities: Offers detailed reports for better visibility and analysis of network assets.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from FireMon Asset Manager?

Enhanced Security Posture: By maintaining compliance and identifying vulnerabilities, it minimizes risks.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines asset management, reducing manual interventions and resource wastage.
Cost Savings: Prevents potential security incidents, saving costs related to breaches and non-compliance fines.

In industries like finance and healthcare, FireMon Asset Manager plays a crucial role by providing meticulous asset tracking essential for maintaining stringent compliance requirements. It enables organizations to swiftly adapt to changing regulations and safeguard sensitive information effectively.

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IFS Cloud Platform offers a modern, adaptable enterprise management tool with a user-friendly design, providing seamless integration and customizable modules for efficient operations.

IFS Cloud Platform streamlines enterprise processes through its cloud-based architecture, favoring adaptability and swift updates. It supports industry standards and offers deep analytics and flexible customization, benefiting industries like aerospace, defense, and manufacturing. Despite needing enhancements in documentation, mobile compatibility, and reporting tools, it remains a viable choice for comprehensive ERP applications in finance, HR, and supply chain management. Integration with systems such as Azure and NetSuite further optimizes manufacturing schedules.

What are the key features of IFS Cloud Platform?

Modern Design: Offers an intuitive interface.
REST APIs: Enables seamless integration.
Customizable Modules: Enhances finance and service management.
Analytics: Provides deep insights into operations.
Cloud-Based: Ensures quick updates and adaptability.
Industry Standards: Supports service-oriented architecture.

What benefits or ROI should be considered in reviews?

Increased Efficiency: Streamlines enterprise management.
Enhanced Connectivity: Facilitates system integration.
Flexibility: Customizable to business needs.
Improved Operations: Optimizes schedules and resources.
Cost-Effectiveness: Competitive in enterprise solutions.

In aerospace and defense, IFS Cloud Platform assists with planning and scheduling, while in manufacturing, it manages inventory and service management efficiently. Companies implement it for ERP applications across finance, HR, and supply chain, integrating with Azure and NetSuite to enhance IT service management and project-based scenarios, leveraging its AI-driven PSO component.

IFS

Sample Customers

Google, Linkedin, Cisco, Juniper Networks, DellEMC, Comcast, Mastercard, Quest Diagnostics

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China Airlines, Electrolux Group, Babcock, Cimcorp, Sky, Multiplex, Veolia.

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