BigPanda vs. SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

BigPanda

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
BigPanda	Score 7.4 out of 10	N/A	BigPanda is designed to enable enterprise IT to intelligently automate and scale service operations to meet the complex demands of the modern datacenter. The vendor says their algorithmic service operations platform turns IT noise from fragmented clouds, teams, applications and monitoring tools into actionable insights to speed the resolution of IT incidents. Customers include Intel, Workday, News Corp, Macy’s and Cisco.	N/A
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	SolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.	N/A

Pricing

BigPanda

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
BigPanda	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	BigPanda	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Considered Both Products	BigPanda KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Chose BigPanda TrueSight didn't provide many customization options. The features provided were primitive as compared to BigPanda. TrueSight was being used just for alert visibility and assignment to a proper support group from a single console. Although Moogsoft had similar features as … Incentivized Helpful?	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) The compare well against the others - the pricing models for all but Splunk (free version) are based on EPS/TB consumed... the problem they pose is guesstimating the price tag per month. SolarWinds Security Event Manager gets around that. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It came down to price on this one. SolarWinds gave us a great break on it. For the features that we were looking for, SolarWinds is a great value for our dollar. As far as features go, we were looking for some Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) easier to use than Splunk, light linux core Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Not applicable Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was the first product we used in this category and we are very happy with it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Solarwinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is the best solution for price/performance. The solution has an easily understandable architecture and also the solution can be installed easily. The solution is a very stable and fast solution for our company size. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Ease of deployment Good UI Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Fortianalzyer can only do logs from FortiGate so usefulness is limited. Elasticsearch was a lot slower than Solarwinds and the filters were a lot harder to set up and use. The connectors for SEM were far more stable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Splunk was a pretty good product but the licensing structure needed a lot of work. They changed the structure three times that I am aware and I still had problems understanding LogRhythm had a lot of issues correlating users to IP addresses, the mappings were frequently wrong … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We found that SolarWinds performed poorly when the Architecture included many large data centers spread across the globe. When evaluating the SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) solution we quickly realized that we needed a distributed architecture with log aggregation to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We chose this product because of its integration to SolarWinds Orion. We were Threat Monitor users previously. This product has been a great substitute. Dollars to dollars this product performs fairly well. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SEM is much better value proposition due to being priced by node and not by size of the event database. It's also much easier to configure that splunk and needs much less infrastructure to run. Out of the box SEM beats splunk on functionality. We looked at many products and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I find Tripwire Log Center to be adequate and stable but it lacks the graphics and the unified UI that you can have with SolarWinds products. It is also not as simple to set up and operate. One more advantage that SolarWinds products have is the THWACK forum, a big user base … Incentivized Helpful? KS Kim Schroeder CTO (Chief Technical Officer) Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is more of a complete, turn key approach to event management. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) It is a bit hard to compare, since Cortex XDR is kind of a different starship, with endpoint protection and such, and not really great for auditing Windows Event Logs. ELK stack on the other hand is free in some of it's editions but seems much similar then Cortex. SolarWinds SEM … Incentivized Helpful? Tim Short Infrastructure Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We picked SolarWinds because of the better price point, integration with other SolarWinds products, and the ease of training. Because we were already familiar with the SolarWinds way of doing alerts and reports, it made this product a nice fit for our company and it has great … Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We had an older version of SolarWinds SEM, however, it was not being utilized. Incentivized Helpful? AR Adam Radics Production Data Systems Superintendent Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) This was recommended to us by a vendor. As we were using other SolarWinds products, we did not analyze many options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) The first reason is the ease of installation. Unlike competitor, SEM was running and partially deployed within a day. With the defaults already in the SEM, it's super easy to get result quickly, without a consultant. Also, it's not too resource-intensive, and does not … Incentivized Helpful? AG Alex Giralias System Support Engineer Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds SEM was selected because it integrates with VMAN on the Orion platform and allows all monitoring information and alerts to be aggregated in one place. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) Several clients have moved away from LogRhythm because of cost. SEM offers the best ROI for the function. Its interface is much cleaner then LogRhythm. However, there is a steeper learning curve with SEM. The ease of search and data integrity offered by SEM is definitely a … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I know the Qradar is not the right SIEM tool to compete with Solarwinds SEM but when we looked from a cost, audit & compliance perspective (which are major for many customers), we knew the log management and compliance with regulation would be achieved with SEM. But no machine … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) SolarWinds provides support so when you have problems you don't need to turn to information bases as you can just get a hold of SolarWinds support. I would say another reason for getting SEM is that it is generally easier to configure and easier to learn than the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) I have additionally used Netwrix Auditor, which has some similarity with SolarWinds SEM. I use both hand in hand, but typically use the SEM first since it is easier to manage. With Netwrix custom searches are more complex than customer searches in the SEM. The SEM makes it easy … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) We implemented SolarWinds Security Event Manager to replace our Cisco MARS appliance. We found the Cisco MARS appliance cumbersome and difficult to connect to and use, as well as very costly from a support and maintenance perspective. SolarWinds Security Event Manager has more … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

BigPanda

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of Product A and Product B
	BigPanda - Ratings	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) 8.9 Ratings 14% above category average
Centralized event and log data collection	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Correlation	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Event and log normalization/management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Deployment flexibility	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Custom dashboards and workspaces	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Host and network-based intrusion detection	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	BigPanda	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	- (0 ratings)	7.3 (0 ratings)
Usability	- (0 ratings)	8.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	7.5 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	BigPanda	SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
Likelihood to Recommend	If the organization has a proper CMDB asset record then BigPanda features can be utilized to their true potential as it has alert correlation capability. The alert can be redirected to the proper support team using the auto-share feature. This wouldn't be the case where asset records are not updated and the Operations have to manually assign the alerts to support groups. Incentivized KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Read full review	Solarwinds SEM is great for generating reports for investigation purposes. Once you set up the connectors you can walk away and the product runs without needing maintenance. It was however pretty difficult to create the reports and alerts when now starting out and it can be very intimidating for new users. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Alert correlation feature helps in grouping similar alerts together Alert Enrichment to enhance the data after it arrives on the tool Integration with multiple tools The console is very user friendly and provides ease of administration Incentivized KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Read full review	SolarWinds easily provides the much needed visibily into changes in an Active Directory (AD) environment. Email alerting can be configured to alert a team if an account is locked out, disabled by another users, or if users and/or computers accounts are created. SolarWinds allowed a searchable audit feature. Microsoft Windows can be configured to log many different parts of a system, but search those logs can be difficult. SEM allows you to search for specific users or events. Incentivized Adam Morrison Director of IT Engineering Read full review
Cons	Tool should have a feature to query the data The dashboard feature needs improvement It should have a dark mode Incentivized KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Read full review	Compared to other SIEMs, there are features that are missing. Machine learning, automatic event correlation, ability to correlate multiple sources together. The UI is clunky, and the New event log analyzer page felt really disjointed from the rest of the product. In my experience, the dashboards were almost unusable. They persisted across login per device, and even then they sometimes would reset and go back to the ''Getting Started'' look. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	No answers on this topic	It is pretty likely that we will renew SEM when the time comes up. It is easy to use and maintain so there isn't much of a need to replace this product. It is also a pretty fair price for the capabilities provided by the SEM Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No answers on this topic	It is very good - but you get what you pay for. The intent is not for a Fortune 500 that needs more "heavy lifting" with SolarWinds Security Event Manager & for whom the price tag is not (much of) a consideration. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	The quality of support can vary depending on whom you end up speaking with. I was fortunate enough to work with a support representative who was very familiar with the product. He had even authored some of the support documentation on the website. On the flip side, I had two other experiences where I was simply directed to online training material. Incentivized Brandon Demko Systems Administrator Read full review
Alternatives Considered	TrueSight didn't provide many customization options. The features provided were primitive as compared to BigPanda. TrueSight was being used just for alert visibility and assignment to a proper support group from a single console. Although Moogsoft had similar features as compared to BigPanda, the user administration and ease of use were a bit complicated. BigPanda provides a much simpler user interface. Incentivized KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Read full review	The compare well against the others - the pricing models for all but Splunk (free version) are based on EPS/TB consumed... the problem they pose is guesstimating the price tag per month. SolarWinds Security Event Manager gets around that. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	BIgPanda is very easy to implement and use Better than the previous tool, provides more functionality BIgPanda's alert enrichment feature very helpful Incentivized KT Kaushal Thakur Site Reliability Engineer Read full review	It saves a lot of time when we had issues trying to figure out where the user account lockout was coming from. With it being an affordable SIEM, we are able to have the ability to do the actions associated with a SIEM and the advantages of not “breaking the bank account”. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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