Automox vs Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security comparison

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Automox and Microsoft are both solutions in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category. Automox is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.7, while Microsoft is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0. Automox holds a 1.5% mindshare in EMM, compared to Microsoft’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Automox users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 1, 2024

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security and Automox are both robust tools for enterprise security management. Users generally find Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security more comprehensive due to its wide range of features and integrations.

Features: Users value Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security for its conditional access, identity protection, and integration with other Microsoft services. Automox is known for its efficient patch management and cross-platform support.

Room for Improvement: Users have pointed out the complexity and learning curve associated with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security, suggesting the need for a more intuitive setup process. For Automox, users highlight the need for more advanced reporting capabilities and expanded third-party software patch support.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is praised for its smooth deployment, especially in environments already using other Microsoft products. However, its customer support is considered average. Automox is noted for its straightforward and quick deployment, with more responsive and helpful customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is seen as high-value considering its extensive features, despite its potentially higher upfront costs. Automox is generally seen as cost-effective with a quicker ROI due to its efficiency in patch management.

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Microsoft Intune

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 19.9%, down from 30.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Automox is 1.5%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is 2.1%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Intune	19.9%
Automox	1.5%
Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security	2.1%
Other	76.5%

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)

Featured Reviews

Anumula Hitesh

Senior Business Development Executive at Digitaltrack

Centralized device management has automated onboarding and improves remote security compliance

One thing I feel Microsoft Intune could improve is troubleshooting visibility. In many cases, when a policy or application deployment fails, the error messages are a bit generic. So, admins still spend time checking logs manually or testing on devices one by one. Compared to the simplicity of deployment, troubleshooting sometimes feels less mature. I also think reporting and real-time monitoring could be stronger. The dashboard gives useful information, but in large environments, many teams still depend on additional tools or scripts for deeper reporting and analytics. If I had to focus on one area first, I would probably choose troubleshooting and reporting. Deployment through Microsoft Intune is generally straightforward, but when something fails, identifying the exact root cause can still take more time than expected. Error messages are sometimes too generic, and admins often have to dig through logs, sync status, or multiple portals to understand what actually happened. I think user experience and policy management could also improve further. Microsoft Intune has become much better over the years, but sometimes the admin portal still feels fragmented because certain configurations open in different sections or redirect to older interfaces. For new admins, especially, it can take time to understand where everything is located. Another thing is policy conflict handling. In larger organizations, multiple device policies, compliance rules, and configuration profiles can overlap. When conflicts happen, the visibility is not always very clear, so admins spend time figuring out which policy actually won or caused the issue.

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Naqash Ahmed

Senior Data Reporting Analyst at University of Bradford

Automation has saved time and improves secure, centralized patching across all our devices

While Automox has very good features, I think there's still room for improvement. I want the custom reports to be even more detailed, specifically where I can add more details. It would be nice to have more filters in reports based on location and department more easily. Secondly, the notifications could be more customizable. Many times notifications come, but we don't have control over which notification is urgent and which is not. For example, if there's an alert of a critical update or pending approval, it can help me focus better. An alert of a security threat could be another type of notification that tells me something is important. Customized notifications would be much better. I would say the user interface could be improved as well. Some parts of the dashboard are a bit hard to understand. If they could be improved to be more intuitive, for example, if it could be easy to navigate between devices and reports, that would be great. I would say if Automox could also provide automation templates, that would help. I know there are templates, but I want more templates. Having ready-made worklets for common tasks can save a lot of time. Lastly, it should also support the interface for mobile screens.

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Robert Veprek

Consultant for Licensing and Sales at AutoCont CZ a. s.

Have experienced inconsistent support while maintaining strong outcomes in complex projects

My biggest advantage with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is that I have really deep knowledge about Microsoft licenses, allowing me to offer our customers some non-usual configurations or special offers because I have experience working in Microsoft and many contacts, helping us to provide the best conditions for long-time contracts. The installation of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security is quite easy. Azure Active Directory Premium helps to manage user access and security; it's the basis of our communication and our project, as it's essential for all security for our customers. Features within Microsoft Intune such as MDM and MAM help to protect data in general. Intune is a general tool for mobility management and device and user management.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."

"Technical support, in general, has been quite helpful."

"It is a helpful tool to manage BYOD policies."

"What I appreciate the most about Microsoft Intune is that it's quick and easy to use from an authenticator perspective. There is simplicity in securing our platform. Microsoft Intune benefits my company because of its simplicity of use and cross-functional integration."

"I would say that Microsoft Intune is absolutely the right choice for any organization that is already invested in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem and wants a unified cloud-native endpoint management approach."

"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."

"Microsoft Intune's autopilot has been nice to have."

"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."

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"Literally, it's our go-to product for patching and we don't use anything else."

"Automox provides complete visibility for any laptop, desktop or server in our environment, regardless of whether the person is on the train, in the cloud or on the move."

"The flexibility in creating tools to make changes on remote machines is most valuable to me. The reporting feature is also fantastic because on any given day I can bring up a list of machines that don't have patches, for example. Or I can bring up a list of machines that are in my environment on a certain day. The solution helps me with not only my own role, and what I look for internally myself, but it also helps during audits. I can go in and look at the number of machines in there, and their owners and timelines. It certainly helps tell a story for anything that IT requires."

"Automox's real-time visibility and control through its intuitive dashboard is important for our response to emerging threats because it tells us which applications need to be updated on a real-time basis."

"We love the overall patch management abilities; it's the main driver of why we adopted Automox, and it has definitely stood up to the test of time."

"Coming from prior solutions that were a lot more effort, Automox's patch management abilities are transformational."

"I am a strong proponent of Automox; it's a huge time-saver, it's accurate, it's easier to use, and it's way more stable than any endpoint security add-on."

"Automox has eased our operations; it is very simple to use and does not have heavy workflows."

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"I am very happy with it currently."

"Integration between our departments has been the most valuable."

"Basically, the solution ensures that computers are safe and secure."

"The product is a unified solution and you don't require to purchase tools from different vendors. The system analyzes behavior and activity and takes steps for protection."

"The solution is very good at securing files. For example, if I forward a secure document, it's blocked from others, as I can send it with restrictions in relation to who can open it."

"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."

"A good feature that is present is MAM or Mobile Application Management. We can deploy this feature on the device, which is not managed by the organization. If I apply some security configuration on a personal device, the user would be really disappointed. What we do instead is that we give all access to the applications related to corporate and ask the users to use the application. We secure the application by putting the security features on the applications and not on the users' devices. This way, the users are happy, and we also meet our company's compliance standards. Then, everyone is happy."

"Microsoft Mobility and EMS include Intune for Mobility, which provides mobile device management and mobile application management. With mobile device management, you can control the entire device in an organization."

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Cons

"In Microsoft Intune, there is significant slowness, and there needs to be more logs when we deploy software, parameters, or scripts to troubleshoot problems and errors in the interface, workstations, and Android devices."

"You can have a bad day where 80% of the enrollments failed. The next day it's running with the same devices without any changes, and you don't know why."

"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."

"The reports that are generated aren't so great. They don't give a lot of meaning so far, but that could be down to user knowledge than the actual reporting side of things. I'm not a big user of it, but I was a bigger user of MaaS360, and we used to be able to run weekly and monthly reports. In the case of any deviations. we'd get a warning immediately. That's not so easy to do or to get in place for Intune. This could be just a user issue, but when I compare both, that's the only thing that's lacking for me."

"I assess the stability of the product as low. I have faced downtime crashes and performance issues with Microsoft Intune."

"Manually syncing devices to enforce policies is cumbersome."

"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."

"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."

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"There should be better inventory capabilities; right now, they only allow you to have insight into software out-of-the-box, and it would be nice to also extend that into custom inventory that can be modified and managed by the practitioner."

"It should have integrated workstation access. So, there should be a remote desktop feature."

"I think Automox can be improved by providing more advanced reporting and analytics, with greater customization of dashboards and compliance reports."

"The only thing that we've ever truly wanted is an onsite repository. Currently, all updates are provided directly from the internet. So, if you have 1,000 devices, all 1,000 devices go directly out to the internet. We would love the option of being able to put the updates on local storage so that we're not consuming as much bandwidth. That is literally the only thing that we've ever wanted."

"I would add that remote support for iOS could be better, and remote support of Linux is also lacking."

"The only thing that we've ever truly wanted is an onsite repository."

"As concerns the patching concepts, there's a bit of a learning curve in terms of working out how Automox wants you to work within the console, not only splitting up everything into groups, but then having the various policies assigned."

"When we bring on a new client, we need to go into that client and manually set up my account, my chief engineer's account, three technicians' accounts, and a billing person's account all over again, which is annoying. We have probably up to 15 or 16 of our clients on Automox now. For every single one of those, we have had to go in and set this up. Then, if anything changes, we have to remember to go to Automox and change it 15 or 16 times. So, we just want inheritable permissions, and that is it. We have talked to them about this, and they are like, "Yeah, we hear a lot of complaints about it." I am thinking, "Guys, I have been complaining about this for a year and a half. When are you going to do it?" It must be some tricky thing or not an easy fix, because I can only assume if it were easy, then they would have done it by now."

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"There are certain shortcomings in the licensing model of the product where improvements are required."

"The auditing and reporting could be updated and upgraded. I would like to see light applications because they consume a lot of the device's memory at present."

"Its performance needs enhancement."

"They should improve dedicated solutions because they offer everything, but you always end up missing something."

"Microsoft's feature management is based on licenses. Microsoft follows ethical licensing and hence do not restrict the use of it."

"The licensing is quite expensive."

"The technical support from Microsoft could be better."

"The MDM part of the engine could be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Intune is included in the Microsoft 365 licensing package that we have."

"All security solutions worldwide are expensive. Microsoft has allowed a small scale of features within Microsoft Intune for cost-efficient solutions. If you want the full suite, you need to invest more to gain better security features."

"The pricing for Microsoft Intune is reasonable. Our clients are satisfied."

"The pricing is inherently reasonable, as Microsoft leverages market insights to maintain the total cost of ownership at around ninety to ninety-five percent of what would be incurred in an on-premise scenario."

"Every customer used to purchase licenses based on their needs."

"No one can compete with Microsoft when it comes to price, and the features it is offering."

"It is not expensive."

"The pricing needs improvement."

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"The pricing and licensing costs have been great for us... My advice to others who are evaluating or thinking of implementing Automox is to give it a shot. If a free trial is still available, definitely use it, because it makes life a lot easier."

"There are no additional costs in addition to the extended licensing fees with Automox. You get your support and your per endpoint license with what you purchased."

"We are on the premium licensing, which is the one that has the API capability that we use."

"The cost is very reasonable compared to the competition."

"Automox just charges us a set amount per user, per month, for using the product. That is very important to us. Because it's a cloud-native solution, you're saving on the cost of hosting an on-premises solution on your servers."

"The product is a great value."

"For all these software tools, it is usually a subscription model. There is a monthly charge that we need to pass along to our clients because we are doing all this for their benefit. It is only a couple of bucks a month per computer, and that is a low enough price point where our clients, without exception, have accepted it, and said, "This is great. We will pay that. It sounds like a worthwhile thing.""

"Its licensing for a year was nine grand. There was no additional fee."

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"The increase in the prices of the product might not be the actual problem, but things become complex with some new plans that were introduced by Microsoft recently."

"I would rate pricing at eight out of ten. It is a bit higher because of the security features that Microsoft provides."

"The solution is cost-effective."

"We have to pay 10 dollars per user. I would rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."

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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company

10%

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Financial Services Firm

11%

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Outsourcing Company

13%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

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Small Business	191
Midsize Enterprise	63
Large Enterprise	187

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Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	4
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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Automox?

Our experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing was very pleasant.

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Overview

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service designed for device management, security, and compliance. It supports automation and facilitates endpoint management for Windows, iOS, and Android devices, ensuring data protection and efficient policy enforcement.

Microsoft Intune offers seamless integration with tools like Windows Autopilot to automate device setup and deployment. Integrated with Azure Active Directory, it enhances policy management while providing robust reporting and analytics tools for compliance tracking. Despite its intuitive interface aimed at simplifying navigation and device security management, there are challenges such as compatibility issues with Linux and Mac, limited policy support for Android, and demands for better third-party integration. It's widely used for both corporate-owned devices and BYOD scenarios in dynamic IT environments.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Windows Autopilot: Automates device setup for rapid deployment.
Azure Active Directory Integration: Enhances user policy management.
Reporting and Analytics: Improves compliance visibility.
Mobile Application Management: Ensures app security without compromising personal data.
Cloud-Based Management: Allows management from any location.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Time Efficiency: Automation reduces time in policy enforcement and configuration updates.
Enhanced Security: Ensures data protection across corporate-owned and BYOD devices.
Improved Compliance: Advanced reporting tools enhance compliance visibility.
Flexible Management: Cloud-based nature supports management from any location.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure data protection and compliance with regulatory standards. Manufacturing sectors utilize Intune for managing a distributed workforce across global locations, while educational institutions employ it to secure and manage devices in learning environments supporting both students and faculty.

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Automox offers automated patch management with cloud-native architecture, cross-platform compatibility, and ease of use. It provides real-time visibility and streamlines operations across Windows, macOS, and Linux, making it ideal for complex IT environments.

Automox empowers organizations with features like Worklets and remote management, enhancing security and efficiency through customizable patching policies, PowerShell script execution, and detailed reporting. It's primarily used for automated patch management, patch remediation, and compliance maintenance across diverse systems, ensuring cybersecurity and reducing vulnerabilities. Enhancements are desired for user access control, policy synchronization, and integration with tools like Tenable. Support for offline patching, rollback features, enhanced reporting, and notification customization are in demand. Improvements in cost effectiveness and multi-group policy applications are also suggested.

What are the key features of Automox?

Automated Patching: Streamlines updates across operating systems.
Cloud-Native Architecture: Offers real-time visibility and ease of use.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supports Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Worklets: Custom scripts for automating tasks.
Remote Management: Manage devices from anywhere.
Custom Patching Policies: Tailor updates for specific needs.
Insights Reporting: Generate detailed reports to enhance efficiency.

What benefits and ROI can users expect when evaluating Automox?

Time Efficiency: Saves time by automating complex tasks.
Increased Security: Enhances security through effective patch management.
Compliance: Maintains cybersecurity compliance.
Network Visibility: Provides comprehensive device network oversight.
Scalable Management: Handles extensive network updates effectively.

In industry applications, Automox is widely used for managing and updating vast fleets of devices, particularly in sectors requiring stringent cybersecurity measures. It ensures seamless operations through its centralized automation and management capabilities, making it essential for organizations handling extensive IT networks.

Automox

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security empowers organizations by offering seamless integration and robust data protection, supporting centralized identity management and collaboration.

Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security integrates tools like Windows Defender and Advanced Threat Protection for high security, supporting multi-factor authentication and centralized identity management. Its scalability and unification of Microsoft products boost operational efficiency. Offering mobile application management, it ensures protection and user compliance satisfaction. Challenges include complex licensing and the need for better network-level protection and technical support. Users experience memory consumption issues and stability concerns. Improved remote features and user-friendly license management are necessary.

What are the key features of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security?

Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with Microsoft products, enhancing efficiency.
Robust Data Protection: Utilizes Windows Defender and Advanced Threat Protection for security.
Multi-factor Authentication: Ensures secure access to systems.
Centralized Identity Management: Simplifies user management across platforms.
Mobile Application Management: Protects mobile apps while ensuring compliance.

What benefits and ROI should organizations look for in Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced via integration with Microsoft tools.
Data Security: Strong protective measures secure sensitive information.
User Compliance: Ensures satisfaction with safeguard measures.
Scalability: Grows with business needs, handling an increasing number of devices and data.

Organizations in sectors like finance and healthcare implement Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security for mobile device management, file protection, and endpoint security. By integrating services such as Intune and Azure, they manage devices and communications securely, ensuring compliance with regulations. EMS is essential in managing mail, Office apps, and facilitating effective collaboration.

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Sample Customers

Mitchells and Buzzers, Callaway

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Mars, Whole Foods, Land O'Lakes, Dow

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