Commercial NMS products require extensive professional services for a full-featured deployment. The deployment will often cost five to ten times the cost of the software license itself, can take a year or more to complete and often requires extensive ongoing management.

Observium is different. Observium can be installed and running in less than an hour and collecting data from an entire network's worth of devices in a day. Because of our development model and update delivery system we can rapidly respond to feature and bug fix requests from users and have new code developed and deployed quickly.