Virima vs Lansweeper
Effective IT asset discovery and service mapping are pivotal for streamlining IT Service Management (ITSM) and IT Asset Management (ITAM) processes. While Lansweeper offers basic capabilities suited for simpler setups, it often falls short when navigating the complexities of hybrid IT environments and advanced operational needs.
This is where Virima sets itself apart, delivering a comprehensive solution that combines enhanced discovery features, dynamic service mapping, and actionable intelligence with ease of deployment and superior scalability. Its ViVID™ overlays and bi-directional ITSM integrations further solidify its position as a modern and powerful choice for multifaceted IT infrastructures.
In the comparison below, we delve into how Virima and Lansweeper measure up in IT discovery, service mapping, and operational intelligence.
Virima vs Lansweeper: How do they compare?
IT Discovery: Virima vs Lansweeper
Lansweeper specializes in IT asset discovery through agentless scanning methods for asset inventory management. While effective in simpler setups, it offers very limited functionality for managing hybrid IT environments and complex dependencies. Its capabilities are less tailored to intricate IT ecosystems requiring advanced features in consistent tracking or IT asset management.
Virima, on the other hand, delivers a robust asset discovery solution that spans both on-premises and cloud environments. It excels in uncovering intricate relationships and dependencies, providing full lifecycle visibility into IT assets. With additional features like software usage tracking and IT asset management, Virima goes beyond basic discovery to deliver the comprehensive insights needed for dynamic and multifaceted IT environments.
Service Mapping: Virima vs Lansweeper
Lansweeper provides manual service and dependency mapping. While the maps may provide functional visualizations, they lack the depth, automation, and accuracy required for enhancing ITSM processes and collaboration in complex IT environments.
Virima, by contrast, delivers automatically updated, multi-layered service and dependency mapping that shows application dependencies, infrastructure relationships, communication flows, network topology, cloud and virtualization hierarchies, and affected business services. These highly customizable, dynamic, and accurate maps uncover intricate relationships for modern, multifaceted IT infrastructure.
Operational Intelligence: Virima vs Lansweeper
Lansweeper’s manual diagrams lack ITSM records and vulnerability overlays. Together with the inability to uncover intricate relationships and dependencies, Lansweeper leaves IT Ops teams yearning for the intelligence to effectively identify incident root causes, assess the impact of changes, and prioritize vulnerability remediations.
Virima, on the other hand, offers the Virima Visual Impact Display (ViVID™) with ITSM records and vulnerabilities displayed on the automated service maps. Together, ViVID™ and service mapping provide teams with the depth and precision they need to turbocharge ITSM, ITAM, and IT security success.
Virima’s discovery and service mapping highlights
- Robust discovery for hybrid IT environments
- Automated CMDB functions
- Advanced Service Mapping
- Virima Visual Impact Display (ViVID™) with ITSM and vulnerability overlays
Native integration to most popular ITSM platforms for maximum portability
- Faster time to value/lower costs
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Feature comparisons: Virima vs Lansweeper
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Agentless network discovery |  | |
| Agents for Windows, Mac and Linux | | |
| Public cloud discovery | | |
| Off-network agent discovery | | |
| Hardware and software inventory | | |
| Vulnerability insights | | |
| Software usage metering | |  |
| IT asset management (ITAM) | | |
| TLS certificate discovery and management | | |
| Service Asset Configuration Management certified | | |
| Automated relationship and application dependency mapping | | |
| “Start anywhere” service mapping | | |
| Impactful service maps with filterable and shareable views | | |
| Change, Incident and Vulnerability Impact Display | | |
| Service Asset Configuration Management Certified | | |
| Bi-directional ITSM integrations | | |
| Automated human intelligence discovery | | |
| Enterprise level support with all plans | | |
What our customers are saying
“Virima’s integration with our ITSM platform gives us a reliable and complete CMDB and their ViVID service mapping vastly improves our Incident-Problem-Change processes meaning less guesswork and faster recovery when something does go wrong.”
– VP of Corporate Applications, A large Fintech customer
Turbocharge your ITSM with Virima
- On-demand demo: Learn how Virima’s discovery bundle enhance your ITSM and ITAM
- Hassle-free Integration: Out-of-the-box simplicity and flexibility
- Fast time to value: High touch implementation support from start to go live
Frequently Asked Questions
The key difference between Virima and Lansweeper is the maturity and comprehensiveness in their IT asset discovery, service mapping features, and their ability to provide true operational intelligence to ITSM teams.
Virima developed ViVID to turn service maps into a collaborative nexus for IT teams by overlaying vulnerabilities and real-time data from ITSM platforms. This helps to truly enhance incident, change, and vulnerability management. Lansweeper can’t do it because they don’t have a bi-directional integration with ITSM platforms or the ability to ingest ITSM records. It’s also a matter of their R&D priority.
The pricing is generally based on the number of assets to be discovered or included in the CMDB. However, unlike Lansweeper, Virima’s pricing doesn’t increase when you add locations to be discovered and world class support is always included.
While both Virima and Lansweeper integrate with multiple categories of discovery and management systems, Virima excels with out of the box bi-directional integrations with major ITSM platforms that enable data ingestions for true operational intelligence to ITSM teams. This includes integration with ServiceNow, Ivanti, HaloITSM, Jira Service Management, and Xurrent.
All Virima subscriptions include high touch technical support. Virima also offers in-house professional services which includes implementation leadership, go-live support and ongoing white glove services. This leads to faster time to value and achieving earlier ROI.