ScienceLogic Skylar AI (formerly SL1 AI)
The AI inside ScienceLogic's IT monitoring platform, now branded Skylar AI, that links events across a company's IT map and drafts root-cause explanations.
An IT analytics and reporting tool from ManageEngine whose AI assistant, Zia, turns plain questions into charts and dashboards.
ManageEngine Analytics Plus is an IT and business analytics tool from Zoho's ManageEngine division. Teams use it to build dashboards and reports from over 250 connected applications, including other ManageEngine products. Its built-in AI assistant, Zia, answers plain-language questions that you type or speak and turns them into a chart or dashboard. Zia also gives smart suggestions as you search and can be trained on company-specific terms for better results. The platform ships with more than 400 prebuilt reports covering common IT scenarios like help desk or asset trends. Zia and its predictive analytics features come included at no extra cost as part of the regular subscription.
This fits a company that already uses several ManageEngine or Zoho tools and wants one place for combined reporting, especially an IT operations or help desk team that needs regular reports but has no dedicated data analyst. A practical start is the free plan, which covers one user and 10,000 rows of data, to test how well Zia answers your real questions. Paid plans run up to about 499 dollars a month for 10 users and 25 million rows; treat this as a planning figure and confirm current tiers with ManageEngine before you commit. One risk is data quality: Zia's answers are only as good as the connectors and data feeding it, so plan time to clean up source data first.
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These estimates cover licensing, setup, integrations, staff time, security, administration, and support.
| Cost measure | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-year total | $80.5K | $126.5K | $203.2K |
| Three-year total | $174.8K | $263.3K | $406.3K |
| First-year cost per unit | $80.5K | $126.5K | $203.2K |
| Average annual cost per unit (over three years) | $58.3K | $87.8K | $135.4K |
| Component | Low | Base | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licensing and usage | $27K | $36K | $48.6K |
| Implementation | $13.2K | $22K | $37.4K |
| Integration | $14.3K | $26K | $46.8K |
| Staff time and change management | $8.4K | $12K | $16.8K |
| Security | $6.7K | $9.5K | $14.3K |
| Administration | $4.9K | $6.5K | $8.8K |
| Support | $2.3K | $3K | $4.1K |
Estimate assumptions: This scenario uses a category-based allowance, not a verified price for this product. Based on 1 production deployment. Confirm the vendor’s billing unit and current price or quote before budgeting.
Benefits have not been estimated: The current research does not estimate potential savings, return on investment, or how long it would take to recover the cost. Earlier benefit estimates are excluded.
Confirm current product identity, commercial packaging, data processing terms, sign-in and access rules, retention, integrations, support model, implementation effort, and rollback conditions.
Verify identity, package, availability, ownership, pricing, and security evidence before approving a pilot
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
Define what success looks like for a test of ManageEngine Analytics Plus AI and assign someone to lead it.
Once the requirements above are met, compare a small trial with how your team works today.
Track adoption, output quality, business results, and actual costs against the estimate.
Use the results to decide whether to stop, adjust, or expand the pilot.
Confirm encryption, how the vendor uses your data, customer data separation, how long data stays and how to delete it, activity records, sign-in and user setup, where data is handled, other companies that process data, past incidents, and what your team must manage.
Review before rollout: confirm how to export your data, revoke access, and return to your existing workflow. Assign an owner and test the rollback plan before expanding use.
Do not approve a pilot yet. Verify the current product identity, package, availability, owner, pricing, and security evidence; then define one workflow, a baseline, and rollback criteria.
The AI inside ScienceLogic's IT monitoring platform, now branded Skylar AI, that links events across a company's IT map and drafts root-cause explanations.
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