IBM Workload Automation vs Microsoft Configuration Manager comparison

IBM Workload Automation

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between IBM Workload Automation and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Workload Automation

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Workload Automation (14th)

Microsoft Configuration Man...

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (2nd), Configuration Management (2nd), Patch Management (1st)

Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Workload Automation category, the market share of IBM Workload Automation is 7.5% and it decreased by 14.7% compared to the previous year. The market share of Microsoft Configuration Manager is 0.6% and it increased by 850.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Workload Automation

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Server Monitoring

7.9%

Configuration Management

15.8%

Featured Reviews

Suresh Ramadoss

Information Technology Advisor at a wellness & fitness company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 13, 2023

Great ability to pre-schedule jobs but unfortunately the simulation is complicated

We use this product for batch processing. We have hundreds of users and carry out 25,000-30,000 jobs per day The solution has helped us because we have multiple node servers and the workload is distributed between them. The key valuable feature is that jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes.…

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AkramullaMohammed

System Specialist at Tata Consultancy

Dec 13, 2023

Improves time and security and helps with patch management

We use Microsoft Configuration Manager for patch management. The product has improved time and security. Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products. The product needs to improve scalability. I have been working with the product for three years. I rate…

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The project we worked on involved the running of nearly 24,000 job instances in a single day, so I would say that the solution is stable."

"The support from Cisco is very good. I was with them as a company for 40 years"

"The technical support is great, the product is easy-to-use, and it is stable."

"The whole product is valuable because it is a tool for batch automation."

"This solution has a request feature where users can request the added features they need to have developed. Based on client voting for those features, these are developed and released."

"Jobs can be triggered in multiple nodes."

"The most important feature is the creation of folders. It's a really great feature because you can organize the process with naming conventions."

"The DWC, when configured correctly, is a great GUI tool to provide Self-Service Scheduling capabilities to the user community."

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"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the availability of being able to manage the Microsoft estate. It handles many areas, such as asset management and tracking."

"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."

"The cloud account management is a valuable feature."

"There have to be made some improvement in WSUS and control in other non-Microsoft products updates."

"Provides great insight into the functionalities of the data scope."

"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the software deployment. Additionally, Microsoft integrates most of the other solutions well with one another."

"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."

"The product is useful for patch management."

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Cons

"The schedule refreshes daily and that's a challenge for us."

"The performance of the previous versions could be better."

"This solution does have bugs and could be improved in this regard. However, these bugs are resolved relatively quickly."

"There should be more custom documentation, specifically around Java APIs. There should also be more training. In terms of features, we are currently using only 50% of its features. We don't use all features that are available, but there is always room for improvement in all of the tools."

"It is missing some features and can improve in areas where the competition is somewhat better like linking job dependencies."

"Slow down on the releases a bit. I fully understand that IWA functionality is increasing at an amazing rate, but trying to keep up with the upgrades is rough."

"The configuration of IBM Workload Automation has some challenges. We have a difficult time customizing it, but it is similar to other solutions."

"Scalability-wise, it can be a little bit challenging."

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"Cloud-based improvements need to be better managed."

"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."

"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."

"Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run."

"There is a reboot issue with the patching. Sometimes, if patching runs into any issue whatsoever, it doesn't reboot but it doesn't tell you it errored out. It just sits there and we don't find out until the next day whether it patched or not. That was a big issue for us. We're working through that. They added some stuff in there now where you can actually tell reboot is pending. But we still need some kind of notification that if something fails or is pending, we know. We shouldn't have to go in and look. They don't have anything for that right now."

"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."

"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."

"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We transitioned from a server license to per job license, and that saved us a lot money."

"Pricing depends on the number of agents that you install."

"The contract is with the customer with whom we are working, so IBM is not directly involved in this."

"It is about one-third of the cost of a controller."

"To my knowledge, IWA is the only WLA product that will provide "parallel tracking" capability to assist in upgrading from one platform to IWA."

"The license price could be reduced for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager They should make the price more affordable for smaller companies, most companies would be able to use the solution if it was priced better. There are more people on this cloud because you don't have to have either a server room or an on-premise server. You can have one IT person handle this without any local infrastructure."

"When you compare this solution with other tools in the market you might actually find a lot of variation in the pricing and that's why people opt for the other tools rather than Microsoft tools."

"Pricing and licensing are horrible. You have to not look at dollar value to use SCCM. It's super-duper expensive but it works. The acquisition cost is expensive, it's labor-intensive. But it works."

"Along with buying a license for MECM, we also have to buy a service called CMG (Cloud Management Gateway) which is a virtual machine in the cloud with which you can link your MECM to the Azure tenant so as to manage teleworkers."

"I would rate the cost as eight out of ten."

"There is not a license needed to use the solution."

"SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free."

"As far as I know, it is an annual operating expense license."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

33%

Computer Software Company

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

12%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about IBM Workload Automation?

The initial setup is easy.

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What needs improvement with IBM Workload Automation?

Sometimes we have issues with the solution's stability. So, stability can be improved. Reporting and visibility of the solution need improvement. These days, we need more visibility. We need to acc...

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What is your primary use case for IBM Workload Automation?

We are using IBM Workload Automation to run batch operations. The development teams batches, and the team that makes a plan and schedules the batches to be executed, and keep track of the summary o...

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How does Ansible compare to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM)?

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager takes knowledge and research to properly configure. The length of time that the set up will take depends on the kind of technical architecture that your org...

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How to choose between ManageEngine Desktop Central and Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (formerly SCCM)?

ManageEngine Desktop Central is very easy to set up, is scalable, stable, and also has very good patch management. What I like most about ManageEngine is that I can log on to every PC very easily a...

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What do you like most about SCCM?

One of the standout features of SCCM is its application management capabilities. It allows us to create packages efficiently and deploy them to specific groups within our network. This streamlined ...

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Also Known As

IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IBM TWS

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM )

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Overview

IBM Workload Automation is a complete solution for batch and real-time workload management, available for distributed mainframe or hosted in the cloud. Use it to drive business and IT workloads on hosted servers, with virtually no cost of ownership for your central server. Increase your productivity with powerful plan- and event-driven scheduling, and run and monitor your workloads wherever you are. This includes interfaces dedicated to application developers and operators, providing them both autonomy and precise governance.

Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.

New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.

Sample Customers

Standard Life Group, Banca Popolare di Milano, A*STAR, ArcelorMittal Gent

Bank Alfalah Ltd., Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, Dimension Data, Japan Business Systems, St. Lucie County Public Schools, MISC Berhad

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