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About

BackBox offers a simple way to intelligently automate the backup, restoration, and management of all devices on a network by providing centralized management of devices such as firewalls, routers, switches, and load balancers. Each of these devices plays a critical role in the availability and security of an organization’s network, and BackBox ensures they all continue to function effectively and effortlessly, streamlining operations for optimal performance. BackBox provides a foundation to harmonize the configuration between multiple devices, enabling seamless integration, and assuring compliance to organization or industry security policies, standards, or guidelines. IT administrators can easily employ BackBox to track configuration changes and see the deviation with the baseline for compliance validation and remediation.

About

Pliant’s solution for IT Process Automation simplifies, streamlines, and secures how teams build and deploy automation. Reduce human error, ensure compliance, and elevate your efficiency, with Pliant. Ingest existing automation and write new automation with single-pane orchestration. Ensure compliance using consistent, practical built-in governance. Pliant has abstracted thousands of vendor APIs to create intelligent action blocks allowing users to drag-and-drop blocks, rather than writing and rewriting lines of code. From a single platform, citizen developers are able to build consistent and meaningful automation across platforms, services, and applications in minutes — maximizing value across the entire technology stack in one place. ​With​ ​our​ ​ability​ ​to​ ​add​ ​new​ ​APIs​ ​in​ ​15​ ​business​ ​days,​ ​anything that​ ​is​ ​not​ ​already​ ​out​ ​of​ ​the​ ​box​ ​will​ ​be​ ​in​ ​an​ ​industry​ ​leading​ ​timeframe.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

Enterprises and managed service providers in need of an intelligent automation solution for their network and security devices

Audience

Process automation platform that simplifies, streamlines, and secures how IT teams build and deploy automation

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Please contact BackBox for pricing.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

No information available.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.5 / 5
ease 4.5 / 5
features 4.2 / 5
design 4.0 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 4.8 / 5
design 4.8 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • They have amazing support and respond far quickly than big Networking conglomerates. Easy to use Interface and support for almost every type of backup.
  • You can quickly back up from a single point without looking for a wide variety of brand-independent solutions. Open to new developments, easily updated, customizable.
  • Simple product but does its job as expected. It's a bundle containing operations, backup, automation, compliance, and governance and also solving secure remote access. The price is fair. It supports legacy and cloud infrastructure. We have been using for hybrid environment without any issues. Lots of device supported. Nearly every version of devices is supported. Product support is agile and eager to solve all the problems. Intellicheck is massive. Lots of signatures and checks in the Intellicheck. It is a perfect match for our disaster recovery scenarios.
  • The price is low but the value of the product is high. Technical support is awesome. It has a vast array of integration. Even if there's no already built-in integration, technical support assists for the new device type or model. Automation is already inside the product. I like the dashboard, very simple and shows the highlist. I can assign anybody to watch over the backbox solution. There's no need for special training. It supports distributed deployment where we're deploying regional collectors to get the data. Intellichecks has lots of checks built-in coming with the product. We have lots of cases where we need to roll back or restore, Backbox built-in these tasks without any problem. Upgrades or fixes through the Backbox is simple, one click and done.

Cons

  • The logs are not always properly readable. And troubleshooting yourself is an issue. However the support team ensures that the resolution is swift and quick.
  • We did not see any serious shortcomings. The lack of documentation in the first versions has been fixed.
  • Integration with other products is not straightforward. There's no direct integration with Jira, CMDB, or ServiceNow. You need to write some coding to make this integration working. Reporting lacks. Intellicheck signatures are updated within the releases not through a real-time update. There's no real-time check-monitoring option available. The product does not have AI or ML inside. Manual tasks are somehow interesting, tasks/scripts are defined from the operational perspective, they're not APIs.
  • Main drawback, It's not a real-time product for monitoring. You should give time schedules, especially for checks and automation. There's no incident management inside the product. I can't assign a task or job to a team member. It's a problem especially for the intellichecks. I need to assign the check output for one of my team member follow-up. Notifications are somehow bulky. Reports also are very legacy look and not modern compared to other products. There are lots of intellichecks available. We need to modify some checks before running to get the best results. Siem integration is not straight forward.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • We use Pliant almost exclusively to provision bare metal. we deploy and operate infrastructure for a number of carrier accounts on a global scale and use Pliant to do the repeatable work.
  • I like that they offer a free version of the product so i could just try it out. I wanted to play with an automation tool that wasn't just for kids. I didn't want to pay or pay much.
  • The API gateway they have makes this tool so much more valuable than some of the other solutions out there. We found pliant in the marketplace to automate some network config and now i'm using it build and package my own APIs.
  • Pliant has a ton of APIs available to use immediately. We were able to integrate our software system into more than 5 external APIs within the first 24 hours and we have not gone back because of how scalable the product is with our needs.
  • Pliant provided numerous integrations making Pliant a very easy tool to use for any company or organization.

Cons

  • This is more us than them, but because they're earlier in their maturity they weren't an approved vendor in our system so we had to look at incumbents first.
  • I'd really like to be able to add credits to get a little more functionality, but overall it's good and surprisingly capable for building automations -- they have tons of integrations.
  • Their free version has these guides that really help with onboarding, but when we upgraded to their starter edition they went away. Would really like to have them as an option.
  • Currently, we do not have really any cons associated with their product. I do wish there were more options for templates available but their support team has been amazing in helping to build those out for us because once there is a template it can be used over and over again.
  • Pliant needs better integration with Angular or React to allow custom user portals for better optimization of the user experience.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

BackBox
Founded: 2009
United States
backbox.com/request-a-demo/

Company Information

Pliant.io
Founded: 2017
United States
pliant.io

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Categories

Categories

IT Management Features

Capacity Monitoring
Compliance Management
Event Logs
Hardware Inventory
IT Budgeting
License Management
Patch Management
Remote Access
Scheduling
Software Inventory
User Activity Monitoring

Network Automation Features

Compliance Monitoring
Configuration Backup
Configuration Changes
Network Orchestration
Performance Monitoring
Tool Access Control
Vulnerability Assessments

IT Security Features

Anti Spam
Anti Virus
Email Attachment Protection
Event Tracking
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
IP Protection
Spyware Removal
Two-Factor Authentication
Vulnerability Scanning
Web Threat Management
Web Traffic Reporting

Network Security Features

Access Control
Analytics / Reporting
Compliance Reporting
Firewalls
Internet Usage Monitoring
Intrusion Detection System
Threat Response
VPN
Vulnerability Scanning

Integrations

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Integrations

A10 Thunder ADC
Arista Converged Cloud Fabric
MySQL
NorthStar Navigator
Avaya Cloud Office
Bitdefender GravityZone
Centerity
Clearswift Secure Email Gateway
FireMon
Forcepoint Trusted Gateway System
FortiGate NGFW
HubSpot CRM
IBM QRadar SIEM
LogRhythm SIEM
MongoDB
Nexpose
Rackspace OpenStack
Radware DefensePro
Riverbed NetProfiler
Slack
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