We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Microsoft Intune based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Intune has a slight edge over Google Cloud Identity in this comparison, mainly because it is the more user-friendly solution.
"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"The initial setup is easy."
"I think the first thing that is great is that it gives you a lot of features, like login, and then vaulted passwords and secure LDAP. It becomes easier for the end customer to leverage all those features without going to a higher SKU of G Suite."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is group access. You are able to assign policies to groups instead of users individually."
"It is a very stable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."
"Intune enables us to manage our devices from anywhere."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"Autopilot is a great feature. Most users are looking for a zero-touch deployment."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"One of the most valuable aspects of Microsoft Intune is its seamless integration with Azure Active Directory, offering capabilities akin to Group Policy Objects."
"Intune provides full visibility into all active mobile device users. If their devices are noncompliant with our security policies, I have the flexibility to update them remotely."
"Google Cloud Identity the UI could improve."
"The interface could be improved by simplifying it further."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"There is room for improvement in the configuration of their security policies. It seems quite basic."
"The solution's storage capacity could be increased."
"We cannot manage the attributes of SSPR."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."
"The pricing for this solution is a little bit higher than AWS and others, which is something that should be improved."
"What would make this product better is adding more security policies and features in the next upgrade."
"An issue we have run into with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that we cannot patch third-party products like Adobe and Chrome with it."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"The configuration and pricing can be improved."
"It needs incorporation of Knox, ZeroTouch, etc."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"The reporting is subpar. That's the only issue we have with Intune. We use another solution for that purpose."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 7th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 21 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 165 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes " A stable solution that can help with collaboration and productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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