IBM SevOne Reviews & Product Details

IBM® SevOne, now part of the Concert platform, gives NetOps teams deep, real-time visibility into hybrid cloud and SD-WAN performance — combining network-layer intelligence and app-aware insights to speed up resolution, reduce complexity, and ensure seamless digital experiences. In a world of hybrid clouds and ever-rising user expectations, downtime is not an option. IBM SevOne 8.0 equips NetOps teams with real-time, unified visibility across complex networks—from SD-WAN and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) to Kubernetes. Built for speed and scale, it reduces time-to-value with native widget deployment, enhances diagnostics with advanced Flow Filters, and integrates seamlessly with vendors like Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto. The result? A cloud-smart, app-aware network that proactively detects issues before they impact users. With SevOne, you don’t just monitor. You take control of the future of network observability—today.

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Solution Type

All-in-One

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Sanchita Chakraborti

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

2 months

Return on Investment

11 months

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User Insights

Average based on 72 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

2 months

Perceived Cost

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IBM SevOne Integrations

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Verified User in Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/24/2021

"Network Expert with years in telecom and enterprise product management"

2.5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

The project didn't come to fruition, but it was designed to deal with large-scale switching in the backbone of an operator whilst maintaining application-level detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

SDN is a very basic need for any traffic management solution. One can use the ability to change traffic according to many parameters and not just the protocols used by IEEE, allowing a much better service to users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM SevOne?

There are some issues with having a centralized controller, so it's not a real distributed architecture in its nature, but it has grown much since 1.0. Lack of application-level visibility or deep packet applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM SevOne solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick service changes for business, network operation quick monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sankaran S.

Technology Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/16/2021

"Security using SDN"

4/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

The SDN architecture helps in featuring new security controls over the network. The network security components like firewall, IDS, IPS function decoupled and controlled over the software layer and with the help of NFV the network security can be managed with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

The decouple of plane in SDN architecture helps in flexible and modular networking and there is no more vendor locked components. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravi J.

Software Engineering Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/17/2021

"Used OpenSource SDN solutions for many network usecase realization."

5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

We had used ODL Openflow for L2 VPN configuration on Pica8 White box switches. We had used ODL Netconf for RAN device configurations. We had used ODL BGP for generating the BGP LS network topology. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

We can build network applications using a variety of protocols, like Netconf, Openflow, P4. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM SevOne?

Lack of community support for open-source SDN products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM SevOne:

Choose the solutions that are microservices aware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM SevOne solving and how is that benefiting you?

It gives us the flexibility to program the algorithms on the network gears. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Networking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/27/2021

"use SDN controllers to manage the networks and get higher flexibility"

5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

using SDN controller in TSN-enabled networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

simplicity and the big picture on network reconfiguration using SDN Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM SevOne?

lack of tools and software on light SDN controllers for resource-constrained networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM SevOne:

SDN is a most in future network design Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM SevOne solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use SDN to apply more intelligence and management to the network Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Research

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/24/2021

"Integrating SDN for network management in low-power IoT networks"

4/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

Integrating SDN for network management in low-power IoT networks. One of the major benefits was devising mobility management solutions using SDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

Flexibility and reconfiguration features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amol N.

Lead Solutions Architect

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2021

"SDN is reduce operation effort and manage network complexity efficiently"

4.5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

We have deployed SDN in packet core network for slicing automation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

Automation, complexity management, traffic automation via program like service chaining, agility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santosh S.

Principal Engineer

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/12/2021

"Building adaptive networks using sdn"

3.5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

Traffic monitoring

Network troubleshooting

Network SLA

Bridging across virtual and physical network

Overlay networks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

Easy to build Control loop

Network visibility

Extensibility and programmability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2021

"Best match for Network infrastructure"

5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

It's very helpful to remove legacy hardware and update software-defined infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

SDN controller and orchestrators used for all automatically deployment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM SevOne?

Performance is less in SDN infrastructure with the comparison with high end routers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering IBM SevOne:

First of all, customers should think to save a lot of loss while adopting SDN infrastructure as it helps to reduce costs. Secondly, it helps with application visibility and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is IBM SevOne solving and how is that benefiting you?

Capex and opex

Agile methodology

Application performance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/26/2021

"By SDN Controller, can we achieve commandable control over packets"

5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

Converting multicast packets to unicast packets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

It opens gate to have software power on network nodes effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/18/2021

"Future of SDN"

4.5/5

Describe the project or task IBM SevOne helped with:

SDN makes network admin easy to control the network control traffic and data traffic. Centralized management, reduce work load. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you like best about IBM SevOne?

Central policy management, decoupling control and data traffic. User defined and easy to manage. Automate the network design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.