# Cisco Edge Intelligence Reviews
**Vendor:** Cisco  
**Category:** [IoT Analytics Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/iot-analytics-platforms)  
**Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 14
## About Cisco Edge Intelligence
Connect, automate, and scale with Cisco Kinetic




## Cisco Edge Intelligence Reviews
  ### 1. Ease to use

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arif H. | Technology Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Easy to create Dashboard with widgets.
Creation of SOP would be made much easier to configure. Currently it is quite complex.
Alert management needs to be improvised with unique IDs

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Alert management needs to be improvised with unique IDs. Geospatial information services should be is missing. Summarized Dashboard widget do not carry the meaning of full information

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Problems solving with Cisco kinetic is, connecting all Silo OT systems and providing a unique pane of glass on a single screen visual.
Asset management and SoPs is the benefits has been realised

  ### 2. easy to connect distributed devices

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Industrial Automation | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Cisco Kinetic makes it easy to connect distributed devices (“things”) to the network, and then extract, normalize, and securely move data from those devices to distributed applications. The Kinetic platform also plays a vital role in enforcing policies defined by data owners, so they can control which data goes where, and when.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

nothing as such as of now, its a very good for distributed apps

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

good product

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Cisco Kinetic makes it easy to connect distributed devices (“things”) to the network, and then extract, normalize, and securely move data from those devices to distributed applications. The Kinetic platform also plays a vital role in enforcing policies defined by data owners, so they can control which data goes where, and when.

  ### 3. Review on Cisco Kinetic

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Darshan B. | Finance Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

In the recent era or digital transformation, Cisco Kinetic is useful for digital analysing segment wise data and providing high end resolution and expansion of business and poviding  oppertunities.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

One can not track when the segment analysis goes with higher number of areas and analysis becomes bulky and derived result can be fluctuated that can vary the decision.

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Domestic as well as International data can be tracked and Increase and decrease can be noted with specific reason and such a helpful in pandemic while the affection ratio differs country to country.

  ### 4. Purposeful built SAAS

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Deepak Chakradhar N. | Associate Business Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Best fitment across all the industry verticals and domains with very low code or zero code to make ease of integration and implementation

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Event management and GIS need more focused and decision making process approach to be improved in the product

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Smart cities deployment
Ports and Airports
Manufacturing and outcome based financial modeling in smart cities

  ### 5. Its easy to connect distributed devices to the network and extract, normalize and securely move data

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** ganesh b. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 24, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Easy connect, and extract data from network devices

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Didn't find any disadvantages. No, any comment now

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Data/result is very normalized or fruitful while getting the data from a device

  ### 6. Experienced Kinetic User

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Real time incident tracking with GUI Dashboard. 

Option to connect legacy devices data.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Failed/Error data from bad actors or faulty devices takes focus away from real issues sometimes.

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Worked with a (confidential) client and the problem we were trying to solve was street lighting solutions. Domain as a service (DaaS) provides an amazing API to track things which we really benifited from.

  ### 7. Cisco kinetic

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Nikhilesh G. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Its user experience is amazing as compared to any platform

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Few limitations which we are not able to use.

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

Definitely

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

IOT sevice for security and surveillance projects

  ### 8. Super tool to be used

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 02, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Its it very easy to operate create dashboard with different widgets

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Summarised dashboard can be improved.
Alert management can be improved

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

Its very good and easy to use

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Iot service for security

  ### 9. Best solution

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mohamed  E. | D, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Help us to match with customer expectations

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

More performance to be the best solution ever

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

Sure

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Easy and more intelligent

  ### 10. Cisco kinetics can be a very helpful platform. I used cisco kinetics for my research work in IoT.

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 19, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

it can help in the IoT data and make out the best out of it.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

use of shared memory space sometimes makes it misbehave. memory space is a constraint.

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

its good if you know where to use it

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am working in edge computing in vehicular system using cisco

  ### 11. Without getting any disturbances we can transfer the data from one device to another

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 11, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Without getting any disturbances we can transfer the data from one device to another

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

latency while transferring the data from one device to other

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

use autosacling or loadbalancer kind of things

  ### 12. Cisco

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

its makes the cities and towns into the intelligent - smart cities

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

nothing, to say, everything makes a best

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

technically top because some of the problems facing in SAAS platform, there can be solved

  ### 13. Easy to use.

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2022

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

It has the best user experience in comparison to other platform.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Less  Limitation  function  is available.

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

There is nothing to say.

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

IOT service for  surveillance projects

  ### 14. Cisco Kinetic; a core of the data-driven networks

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Prashant P. | Quality Assurance Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2020

**What do you like best about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

Connecting to the data server, getting an automated response, and scaling up with Cisco Kinetic to securely connect your devices.

1. Data Reduction: Computing data in distributed nodes, Harnessing Innovative Internet
of Things (IoT) data to boost productivity.
2. Increase yield: Analyzing pinpoint causes of a bottleneck, focusing on proportionate planning and inventory management.
3.Latency Optimization: Optimizing overall operations and reducing service costs.
4.Partitioning: Using IoT data to manage energy costs,  perform distributed micro-processing from edge to endpoint.
5.Application Simplification: Empowering employees with operational insights, correlating data to help streamline operations.

**What do you dislike about Cisco Edge Intelligence?**

With all these extensive features, still, the application has a downside on implementation, making critical decisions might be a hectic job when it comes to create, extract, compute, or move your IoT data.

**Recommendations to others considering Cisco Edge Intelligence:**

If you're thinking of secure data-driven networks for increasing operational efficiency for your organization, then this platform will be the right choice.

**What problems is Cisco Edge Intelligence solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Getting our work done from edge to cloud, and making use of data-driven networks for better business outcomes, increasing
operational margins, reducing equipment downtime, and lowering energy costs are the best things that Cisco kinetic has offered to date.



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## Cisco Edge Intelligence Features
**Data Sources**
- Pre-Built Connectors
- API
- Performance and Stability

**Analytics**
- Queries
- Dashboards
- Visualizations
- Insights

**Metrics**
- Device Performance
- Operational Performance
- Environmental Conditions
- Resource Usage

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