Device42 vs. Pliant Comparison


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About 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.	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 Device42 serves the information technology industry. Data centers with more than 100 devices are entry-level candidates for Device42.	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
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Pricing $1499.00/year Pricing is based on the number of devices and IP addresses. Free Version Free Trial	Pricing No information available. Free Version Free Trial
Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.7 / 5 ease 4.7 / 5 features 4.7 / 5 design 4.4 / 5 support 4.8 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 4.8 / 5 ease 4.8 / 5 features 4.8 / 5 design 4.8 / 5 support 4.8 / 5 Read all reviews
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros It is easy to install and configure. The reports are completely customizable. Seamless integration with third party applications. It allows us to discover networks, physical and virtual servers easily and import data. It allows visualizing of application dependency mapping. The best feature of Device 42 is that it is highly customizable and flexible in terms of integration with other software programs. The user interface of the software is designed in such a way that it displays all the necessary data in an organized manner. It offers various pre-defined reports and built-in dependency mapping topologies that cut down the input time and increases the overall productivity. Device42 is a great software product that our business team really requires to work on a day to day basis. It is very helpful and really increases productivity. The Room, Rack, and Device model layouts are some of the best features in Device 42. Very much a lightweight Visio for building server rooms, cable diagrams, and rack elevation diagrams for ones IT companies. I like how customizable and versatile of an infrastructure platform Device42 is. The support is better than its peers. Cons Occasionally the system may be slow which can cause decrease in speed of completing tasks. The user interface and the graphics used in the software feels a bit outdated in use. Not many issues specifically with the product or software. There could be some more functionality built into the product. The UI is a bit dated, lacks modern graphic elements like one we need for a pure data center operations. It can feel slow at times/somewhat laggy, due to how central it is.	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.
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Company Information Device42, A Freshworks Company Founded: 2011 United States www.device42.com	Company Information Pliant.io Founded: 2017 United States pliant.io
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Categories Application Dependency Mapping Asset Tracking Barcoding Cable Management Capacity Planning CMDB Continuous Integration Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) Data Center Management DevOps Inventory Management IP Address Management (IPAM) IT Asset Management IT Documentation IT Management ITSM Network Access Control (NAC) Network Configuration Network Mapping Shadow IT Discovery	Categories API Gateways Cloud Infrastructure Automation Container Orchestration IT Automation IT Management ITSM Network Automation Network Configuration User Provisioning and Governance
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