Device42 vs IBM Capacity Management Analytics

Device42 provides agentless discovery, asset management, and dependency mapping for data center, cloud, and hybrid IT environments. Its scope includes CMDB, DCIM, ITAM, IPAM, password management, and application dependency mapping, in a self-hosted deployment. It can discover network devices through SNMP and cloud resources across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and OpenStack.

For data centers, its visual models cover buildings, rooms, racks, cabling, and patch panels, with power and temperature heat maps. Core includes discovery, inventory and asset management, integrations, REST APIs and webhooks, warranty and SSL certificate management, cable and password management, and IPAM. Device42 also tracks software licenses, contracts, and barcodes, and lists more than 30 integrations. Licenses count devices with IP addresses; non-IP assets do not count, and user seats are unlimited. If the device limit is exceeded, the software keeps running but stops collecting additional information until the license is increased. Pricing is available on request, and a free trial is offered.

IBM Capacity Management Analytics helps IT infrastructure managers and data center executives analyze performance, availability, scalability, resource use and planned capacity across IBM z Systems and distributed infrastructures. Its Solutions Kit includes a predefined data model, reports, and predictive and prescriptive models for examining and planning IT resource use. The product forecasts future capacity requirements and detects CICS transaction anomalies in real time. Reports can drill through to related reports and prompt for date range, time range and aggregation interval. The distributed-platform product includes IBM Cognos Analytics, IBM SPSS Modeler Gold, IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio, the Solutions Kit and the Solutions Installer. IBM Tivoli Decision Support for z/OS is a separate purchase for that product; the z/OS edition includes it. Deployment is on-premises, with a long-term planning horizon. Installation can use the Solution Installer or manual component setup. The installer supports Linux on System z or x86-64, but requires English on both the installer operating system and client computers. The product is paid, and no plan price is listed.