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What is Device42, A Freshworks Company?

With customers across 70+ countries, organizations of all sizes rely on Device42 as the most trusted, advanced, and complete full-stack agentless discovery and dependency mapping platform for Hybrid IT. With access to information that perfectly mirrors the reality of what is on the network, IT teams are able to run their operations more efficiently, solve problems faster, migrate and modernize with ease, and achieve compliance with flying colors. Device42 continuously discovers, maps, and optimizes infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, while intelligently grouping workloads by application affinities and other resource formats that provide a clear view of what is connected to the environment at any given time. As part of the Freshworks family, we are committed to, and you should expect us to provide even better solutions and continued support for our global customers and partners, just as we always have.

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Product Description

Device42 is a comprehensive data center and network management software.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Device42 is the broadest and deepest agentless discovery system for hybrid IT. It's designed for large, complex, heterogeneous environments, and works within a secure architecture model to deliver actionable data on the entire IT estate.

What Device42 Does
Generates dependency diagrams that highlight your hardware, software, service, and application dependencies and relationships - including protocols and listening ports.

Creates Affinity Groups based on observed communication patterns to visually analyze application dependencies.

Creates custom maps of Business Applications featuring business-critical functions based on your specific criteria.

Collects and examines server resource usage metrics with its Resource Utilization feature to support advanced business and capacity planning decisions, migration planning, move-group selection (via Affinity Groups), cloud target right-sizing, and a variety of other digital transformation projects.

Provides all the details you need to plan and right-size your next cloud migration by comparing costs between cloud service providers (CSPs) in its Cloud Recommendation Engine.


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Device42
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Year Founded
2010
HQ Location
West Haven, CO
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@device42
1,695 Twitter followers
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122 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

With customers across 70+ countries, organizations of all sizes rely on Device42 as the most trusted, advanced, and complete full-stack agentless discovery and dependency mapping platform for Hybrid IT. With access to information that perfectly mirrors the reality of what is on the network, IT teams are able to run their operations more efficiently, solve problems faster, migrate and modernize with ease, and achieve compliance with flying colors. Device42 continuously discovers, maps, and optimizes infrastructure and applications across data centers and cloud, while intelligently grouping workloads by application affinities and other resource formats that provide a clear view of what is connected to the environment at any given time.


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2.5 out of 5
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They are great at using the latest trends in asset management, most complete hybrid IT discovery.
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The platform helps enterprises gain visibility into their IT assets, applications, and network dependencies.
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"Powerful discovery and ADM solution and outstanding support"
Overall we're ery happy to be a Device42 customer, they're very customer oriented and working together with them happens always on a partnerhsip le...
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Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - Device42 Business Applications
Leverage Business Applications to accurately model your most complex business apps & processes.
Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - Device42 Dashboard
The Device42 dashboard provides a powerful search function and an at-a-glance overview of your IT infrastructure.
Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - Discovery Jobs Dashboard
Quickly see running discovery jobs and their progress at the Jobs dashboard; click any job for more detail, or to admin the job!
Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - D42 Affinity Groups
Affinity Groups allow you to explore the auto-discovered dependency details for your critical applications, servers, services, and more, with the ability to drill-down to find exactly the details you're looking for.
Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - D42 Subnet Usage Tree view
The subnet usage tree provides an overview of your subnets, including used and free IP address info, details, and more in an easy-to-consume view.
Device42, A Freshworks Company Demo - Device42 Impact Chart example
This is an example of an automatically generated Impact Chart, created by Device42 from discovered servers, applications, services, and connections found across your IT enterprise.
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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Device 42 is a tool easy to use, but also easy to manage and maintain. Easy to run updates, deploy settings etc ...

Year after year, we receive valuable new features and the product increasingly meets business needs.

Every time we have support request, we have someone engage to close the case.

On top of that, with API provided by D42, we do many integration with our internal tools, it is very help full for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

We run D42 for years, there is nothing we dislike, but if we can have an external database to offload VM load when we have high volume of requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Datacenter are most of the time hosted outside of the company. Having a sharp idea of how our datacenters or server rooms are is very important to be able to take good decision and be able to run remote support with physical devices.

Also audit period is very stressfull, now with D42, we have scheduled reports and it is easy to show to auditors what they need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sharish A.
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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

They are great at using the latest trends in asset management, most complete hybrid IT discovery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Some users reported occasional performance slowdown especially dealing with huge data or requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automated asset discovery and dependency mapping, it reduces manual work + cost saving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Overall we're ery happy to be a Device42 customer, they're very customer oriented and working together with them happens always on a partnerhsip level and in a very kind way.

Their support is really outstanding, of course during the implementation there were challenges and areas for improvements, but they picked them up and made sure they get solved. This was not just limited to the beginning, they really try to make sure we're continously a satisfied customer.

In case we run into questions or issues we can always rely that the support is picking it up very open minded and tries to help us to get it solved, without questioning immediately whether we can proof that the root cause isn't in our environment but in Device42, that's great team work.

They're also very good in continuoulsy developing the product further, release new features and strive to make it better and better. The solution is very user friendly designed, but also very powerfull with all it's discovery features.

At the beginning I was a bit missing a standardized training approach, like web based trainings to have an easier entry to some topics, as it might be a bit overwhelming studying the documentation or always engaging a Customer Success Engineer, but recently they also started their Academy which contained from the begining a good set of trainings and also a certification apporach. Also here the content is constantly growing and improving.

When we were looking for a discovery solutions with Application Dependency Mapping feature, Device42 made a big difference to their competitors during our evaluation from a functional perspective and also with their support concept and they proofed it until today that we went for the right solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

I can't really say there is somehitng I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Device42 is designed in a way to cover everything you need, to discover your environment entirely and get great visibility to everything. Previously we struggled that we have ONE solution to discover all kind of servers properly, be able to do Application Dependency Mapping and also be able to dicover typical data center infrastructure devices and their relations in an easy and professional way, Device42 definitely solved this challenge. Furthermore they also do there best to get most out of the data in an automatic way and show what we have in our environment (e.g. overview about subnets, vendors, models, software). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

The platform helps enterprises gain visibility into their IT assets, applications, and network dependencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

The organization should provide a demo or free trial for businesses and individuals to try out if the platform meets their need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Device42 provides comprehensive solutions for IT infrastructure, including asset management, data center management, and dependency mapping. With a growing customer base and strong industry presence, Device42 is recognized as a reliable and innovative IT asset management solution provider. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Best thing about Devie42 is very easy to understand , implement , discover all kind of devices in your infrastructure . Device42 has it all what is needed to anaylse your datacenter infra , not only physical compute , network devices but also you can analyse power usage .

10/10 to Device42 team and customer service support team . Customer service support is always prompt in helping and they are simply genious who can turn around thigs very quickly .

Thank you team , Keep doing the great work you are doing !!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

There is nothing to dislike Device42 but yeah as tool is very cool to use , implement , we like customers , our expections keep growing , we hope device42 will keep growing and keep adding new features to their product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

There are so many problems which we have managed to analyse using device42 portal . Definately its benefiting us and if you are looking for device42 , i would recommend you go for it as you will understand benefits once you start using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

I really appreciate how Device42 integrates with legacy solutions and enhances the portfolio of tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

I wouldn't call it dislike, but I hope that Device42 would be more ITIL aligned at some areas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Device42 enhances Configuration Management process and acting as CMDB and Auto Discovery tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Easyness of use. The product get better with every update. The support teams are fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Getting results was slkow until this new release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cisco, printers,servers, laptops, newtwork switches, ap Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Do you really know what you have infrastructure wise, getting Device42 to discover your infrastructure either on-prem or cloud and you will Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

Nothing, always evolving with customer needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding expiring certificates, zombie servers, right sizing servers when migrating to the cloud, new devices customers didnt know they have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

DEVICE42 is a very advanced IP manager. The auto-discovery feature makes it very easy to map out already existing infrastructure. It is able to produce powerful and detailed reports on the network. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

DEVICE42 is quite advanced and using it without prior experience or training might seem a little intimidating. It takes some time to get used to the interface and navigation in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use DEVICE42 mainly for IP management and to make sure there are no overlapping subnets in the large network. We are also using the 'Secrets' feature to store sensitive information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

The Room, Rack, and Device model layouts are some of the best features in any software I've tried. It's like having a lightweight Visio for building server rooms, cable diagrams, and rack elevation diagrams for your IT datacenters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Device42, A Freshworks Company?

The UI is a bit dated, lacks modern graphic elements (such as different font/color themes). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Device42, A Freshworks Company:

I'd highly recommend contacting D42 sales and getting your hands on a Demo. I wasn't initially sold until I got into the product and saw how it interoperated. Additionally, since this runs up in the Cloud, you can quickly provision a Cloud Server to run a POC as the system requirements are relatively moderate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Device42, A Freshworks Company solving and how is that benefiting you?

Installbase management was the key feature of D42 that we investigated. It does this very well and allows us to retire our old spreadsheet methods for tracking the data in favor of a singular database with some excellent reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.