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SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) vs. Splunk Enterprise

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds LEM is security information and event management (SIEM) software.N/A

    Splunk Enterprise

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ASplunk is software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, via a web-style interface. It captures, indexes and correlates real-time data in a searchable repository from which it can generate graphs, reports, alerts, dashboards and visualizations.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk Enterprise
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk Enterprise
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk Enterprise
    Considered Both Products
    SolarWinds
    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
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    We use Splunk to also collect Syslog data across our enterprise. However, it is quite different in the correlation process. Splunk is less user-friendly and requires advanced-level training to manage. Solarwinds SEM is a lot easier to manage and set-up.
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    easier to use than Splunk, light linux core
    Incentivized
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    • Ease of deployment
    • Good UI
    Incentivized
    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
    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
    Chose SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    Solarwinds LEM lacks a lot of the features and power of their competitors. It also appears, at least at the outside of the competitors, that it is less user friendly and out of the box ready. We ended up with the Solarwinds solution because of budgetary constraints and …
    Incentivized
    Cisco
    Chose Splunk Enterprise
    Splunk is the industry leading log correlation company. After a presentation and POC, it was clear to go with the best.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk Enterprise
    Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
    Comparison of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) features of SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) and Splunk Enterprise
    Feature
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)
    8.9
    18 Ratings
    Splunk Enterprise
    7.1
    56 Ratings
    Centralized event and log data collection9.018 Ratings9.055 Ratings
    Correlation8.015 Ratings9.054 Ratings
    Event and log normalization/management8.018 Ratings9.555 Ratings
    Deployment flexibility10.018 Ratings7.050 Ratings
    Integration with Identity and Access Management Tools8.013 Ratings6.051 Ratings
    Custom dashboards and workspaces9.017 Ratings5.956 Ratings
    Host and network-based intrusion detection10.03 Ratings4.939 Ratings
    Data integration/API management00 Ratings8.06 Ratings
    Behavioral analytics and baselining00 Ratings5.96 Ratings
    Rules-based and algorithmic detection thresholds00 Ratings7.56 Ratings
    Response orchestration and automation00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Reporting and compliance management00 Ratings6.46 Ratings
    Incident indexing/searching00 Ratings6.57 Ratings
    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM)Splunk Enterprise
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (46 ratings)
    7.8
    (73 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (17 ratings)
    8.4
    (17 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)