BMC TrueSight Server Automation vs vCenter Configuration Manager comparison

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Intune
Sponsored
Ranking in Configuration Management
3rd
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
168
Ranking in other categories
Remote Access (4th), Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) (1st), Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) (1st), Microsoft Security Suite (3rd)
BMC TrueSight Server Automa...
Ranking in Configuration Management
12th
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
19
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
vCenter Configuration Manager
Ranking in Configuration Management
11th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
52
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 12.3%, up from 10.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BMC TrueSight Server Automation is 2.5%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Configuration Manager is 0.9%, down from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Configuration Management
Unique Categories:
Remote Access
4.5%
Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
36.2%
No other categories found
No other categories found
 

Featured Reviews

Joery Van Den Bosch - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 23, 2024
Centralizes endpoint and security management, is easy to use, and can help simplify app updates
The Intune suite offers a lot of features. The AutoPilot feature is helpful. Endpoint privilege management is very good. You can bring your own device setup. You can use it in combination with conditional access policies for encryption. Migration from on-prem to cloud is good. The settings catalog and configuration profiles are also very, very useful. Intunes brings all of our endpoint and security management tools into one place. This is a good thing. We now have one portal to check instead of dozens. I'm really happy with that. The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune. We've used CoPilot. We have nothing to complain about, however, it is very expensive. With CoPilot, we summarized a few of our policies and devices, which were great. We check the properties of the devices, hardware, of the devices, and so on. Mostly, we played around with the summaries of the policies, however, we switched it off since it was running for a couple of days, and it was a few hundred euros for those few days. Witnessing the benefits of Intune happen quickly. Clients usually begin to see benefits after the kickoff meeting. Intune is an ongoing development product. It helps both greenfield and existing setups. It's not static. We'll work with policies and versioning, and after every quarter, we'll review our policies and update where necessary. If clients used Intune managed services, they get policy updates included in the managed service. Intune is good for securing hybrid work and protecting data of the company while bringing our own devices. We use device framework policies from Microsoft themselves with some minor adjustments. They have level one, level two, and level three policies. You can just fix the settings of their site, and that's also what we use. Then we just tweak and bring in our own experiences. The endpoint privileged management enables users to enforce privileged access and can positively affect user productivity. In in small environments, the end users are, in 99% of the cases, also local admins on their devices, which is obviously not good. In bigger environments, we get into that less often as it's more of an organized thing. That said, in small environments, everybody is a local admin and that brings certain risks with it. So users can install and download everything they want. With endpoint privilege management, we can set rules for specific applications, and then, a user can ask for approval to run a certain application, which is very good. Intune positively affects overall IT productivity in organizations. If users need to install it on a device that they need in their workday or day-to-day business, they can just grab it themselves from the company portal app. They do not have to wait. They do not have to enter a support ticket that goes to the help desk to request a certain type of software. They can do it themselves, so they save a lot of time. Intune, when applied on the cloud, can save on costs. With the cloud, there's no on-prem infrastructure that needs service, electricity, space, or cooling, for example.
Ilhami Arikan - PeerSpot reviewer
May 30, 2023
Helps to automate and configure the endpoints of servers
We use the product for server automation. It helps us to automate and configure endpoints of servers which can include application servers, database servers, etc.  The solution is stable.  We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the…
TB
Apr 25, 2022
Cloning via live migration is a useful feature
We use Configuration Manager for our production servers. We only have two users, and they're both admins Configuration Manager has allowed us to reduce the number of admins needed from three to one. Configuration Manager simplifies management. Cloning via live migration is a useful feature.…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"The many policies available in Microsoft Intune for managing our devices are valuable."
"It's easy to manage and easy to configure."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"It allows our clients to have the confidence to centrally manage policies for security. It helps them in securing the organization from a technology aspect."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"Intune's feature that I have found most valuable is its auto-pilot feature."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is its ability to remediate quickly and efficiently across a number of IT assets at the same time. It takes away manual efforts from the team to go out and fix those vulnerabilities through patching, conflict updates, etc."
"Can standardize patching and deployments across affiliates."
"The ability to script and create BL packages to perform various functions. This makes automating our environment relatively easy to do."
"BMC Bladelogic Automation can be used across many OS platforms, providing us flexibility for deployments."
"It makes deployment easier and allows us to put restrictions on the server using role-based authorization."
"Scalability is good."
"Technical support is good."
"The management of vCenter Configuration Manager can support the UI interface. It helps in monitoring, logging alert and performance, forecasting the system to provide services in the environment."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"There are a lot of useful features, such as DRS, ease of use, and many configuration options."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a mature solution with high quality."
"The most valuable feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the automated processes."
"vCenter alone is enough for me because vCenter is a cluster environment and cluster solution for virtualization environments."
"The product's initial setup process is very simple."
"In large implementations, especially in regulated environments, vCenter's automation capabilities prove invaluable for implementing new processes efficiently."
 

Cons

"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"The biggest problem we ever have is when something goes out of date after 30 days when nobody has logged into it. We do have a problem trying to get those back online. We've been working with Microsoft to resolve that problem, but that's been the only issue that we've had in the last few years."
"The installation could be improved to be simplified."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"In the next release, I would like a feature to be able to properly lock down the device. For example, if an attacker or somebody steals the phone, you can be sure that the pin cannot be broken."
"Areas for improvement in Intune include expanding support beyond Samsung devices to accommodate other Android manufacturers like Redmi and Motorola."
"There is improvement needed in integrating with the installed Office solutions versions, such as Office 2019. The Office 365 integrates without a problem."
"A better CLI Database cleanup tool would help us with our regular maintenance of BladeLogic Server Automation."
"There is no option to see all the servers we patch and we cannot find what the server status is. Of course, we can what has been completed and what is pending and which servers have failed, but we cannot find server status from the BMC tool. For example, is the RDP up or not. We are using separate scripts for that."
"Needs more use cases into compliance management and the remediation process."
"Resource management on the base servers is sluggish and could be improved."
"The number of APIs available within the tool needs improvement. At the moment, we have a couple of different scanning tools used within the organization, but only one of those is integrated back into Server Automation. There is another tool that they use in another part of the business where it doesn't have an out-of-the-box adaptor for it. We would have to go and create or develop something bespoke to be able to integrate it with that scanning tool. Whereas, with the other scanning tool, there was an API available. To make it easier, I would like to have more APIs available for different scanning tools within that line of business."
"Another area for improvement is group scheduling if I'm trying to do all the servers. For example, if I want to do all the 2012 Servers - since the patches are the same for all of them - I can't do so."
"More use cases can be automated. The user interface of BMC TrueSight Server Automation could benefit from enhancements, as it currently lacks refinement."
"We encountered some reporting issues. Also, we needed to gather information from the backend before the product execution. The output's format is not good."
"It can take a long time for the first information to become available. On the other hand, that's normal. It has to collect a lot of information before it can predict future needs. But it would be nice if there was some kind of base level to get started."
"It should be easier to use alternate storage."
"Error reporting should be more precise and descriptive, and there is no way to filter the logs. It would be helpful if its logs analysis can be more detailed, and the logs can be filtered."
"It would be better to integrate this infrastructure with native cloud environments, but we can't do it. We are trying to improve our experience by converting our infrastructure through virtualization on native cloud environments and workloads."
"Many major industry players like VMware, Microsoft, and Oracle often fall short in software coding and the smooth release of new versions."
"The VxRail configuration is very complicated and a little bit too difficult to guess what the final product is going to be."
"I think the logging side should be improved because it's pretty difficult to keep up to date VMware and with vCenter."
"When vCenter is in a Microsoft environment, there is a lot of licensing involved, where we face some difficulties."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not expensive."
"Our enterprise agreement includes Microsoft Intune at no additional cost."
"It is not a cheap solution. The price for a device when you start using it at a large scale can be improved. It is covered under our enterprise agreement. We pay once a year. I am not aware of any additional costs."
"The cost is handled through our Office 365 license, so I have yet to be able to compare it directly with other tools in its class."
"I recently got to know that the AD P1 license is compulsory to use Intune Autopilot, which was surprising for me. Earlier, this was not the case. It is the wrong thing to do. We now need to purchase AD P1 licenses for us and for our customers. I would rate it a seven out of ten for pricing."
"We don't pay for Intune because it is bundled with the premium subscription to Office 365. It includes Intune and Defender. I don't have to buy two extra products to manage my enterprise."
"Microsoft Intune has a user-based subscription model. You can go for a monthly or a yearly payment."
"The pricing is competitive, but it is not cheap."
"Licensing is a bit pricey. Be mindful about the components that you need and buy as appropriate."
"The product is expensive."
"We're looking at less than $100,000 USD for this solution."
"The product's pricing depends on the number of servers."
"The solution is quite expensive compared to other vendors."
"I have a license to cover four hosts."
"It's a large application. It consumes a lot of resources. Sometimes the price is too high for our customers. If they buy it directly from VMware, its hard to convince the customer that we will bring down the total cost of ownership, in the end."
"The pricing is mid-range so I rate it a six out of ten."
"There is a free license for the standard version. Their enterprise version is expensive. I would advise starting with one server and working your way up as you go. The enterprise version provides support."
"I am not knowledgeable with the pricing of the product."
"The price of the solution is too expensive for us and we are looking to move to another solution."
"The price of the solution is expensive. However, it is reasonably priced compared to competitors."
"vCenter's pricing is reasonable, but nowadays, they are drastically increasing their prices, which is pathetic."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
24%
Computer Software Company
12%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
28%
Computer Software Company
11%
Government
8%
Wholesaler/Distributor
7%
Computer Software Company
19%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Government
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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What do you like most about BMC TrueSight Server Automation?
The product's valuable feature is its ability to conduct patching for multiple servers simultaneously.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for BMC TrueSight Server Automation?
The product is expensive. However, they provide all the essential services, including quick support solutions.
What needs improvement with BMC TrueSight Server Automation?
BMC TrueSight Server Automation's scripting needs improvement.
What do you like most about vCenter Configuration Manager?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for vCenter Configuration Manager?
The product price and licensing fees are reasonable, especially when compared to other products in the market.
What needs improvement with vCenter Configuration Manager?
The product's high price is an area of concern where improvements are required.
 

Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager
TrueSight Server Automation, BladeLogic Server Automation, BladeLogic Automation Suite
vCM
 

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Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway
State of Michigan, Fujitsu FSAS, Transamerica Life Insurance Company, SAP
Bank Al Bilad, Thomas-Krenn.AG, Pronto!, Unimed Juiz de Fora
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