We performed a comparison between BigFix and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature for us is the security, including risk analysis and patch management."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"The aspects I find most valuable are the managing the data and applications. I can also restrict the users to install any applications. I can also wipe the data if the phone was missplaced or stolen. These are the basics for me."
"We have found the solution is capable of scaling."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"It has improved my organization because we can automate a lot of tasks. We went from manually patching machines or doing our best and having very little visibility into it to us being able to set it and forget it and getting really good results on first-pass patching."
"The older version of the tools that I use also included the connectivity aspect, and the fact that the tool now has it separate from the collection of usage data makes the deployment of these tools much easier."
"It is for multiple use cases. A lot of people are looking at it just for security, and that's really endpoint security. The endpoint management part of it in terms of being able to constantly do patching for Windows, Unix, macOS, Cloud, Raspberry, VMware, and all Linux flavors is important, and they are very good at that. They have support for virtually every OS on the market."
"Ability to run custom reports and custom relevance."
"It has plugins development options, which are great."
"Between the user groups, the community, the AVP support, the direct access via technical route and the PMR support, half the time I don't even need to do a formal PMR because the solutions from the community resolve whatever issues we're having. It's the best community and support based system I've ever used."
"BigFix is easy to use."
"It allows for visibility into the OT, the industrial environments, that didn't exist before which is a big piece and has benefited my organization. Second, the speed at which people can patch is night and day versus SCCM scan or another similar solution."
"There are a lot of useful features, such as DRS, ease of use, and many configuration options."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a very good product, it works well."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a stable solution that is very easy to manage and deploy."
"There are a lot of features, but I've found vMotion and VRS most valuable."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ability to manage all of our environments allowing us to have better functionality and high availability."
"It is a very stable solution."
"This is the best solution for management for the server administrator. VMware has been on the market for many years, so they have a lot of solutions. For on-premises, VMware is the best available solution."
"vCenter alone is enough for me because vCenter is a cluster environment and cluster solution for virtualization environments."
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"They should make it easier to order it, however, that's generally true for everything from Microsoft."
"Integration with Mac devices requires some improvement."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"The UI is not user-friendly and has room for improvement."
"There's quite a lot of development that they can do within their Intune dashboard. I think there are too many lines hyperlinked to move you around. Others, in contrast, give you a simple dashboard and an intuitive administrative walkthrough."
"No option to do end-to-en macOS management. Slow implementation of policies."
"There are some issues using the solution with macOS and iOS, and it offers limited granular control with them. Intune works better on Windows and Android."
"The self-service application seems to need some work to replace the client UI. There are a lot of pop-ups if you use a baseline as the object that you're setting to a workstation. Unless you're using web UI, the message is not customizable in the user notification."
"The only thing that I don't like about BigFix is that it does not support other devices such as printer firmware, router firmware, and things like that. I will be happy if I can control everything and get everything else in there, even if it is just a line item. They can do some enhancements to the Web UI. I am trying to get customers to be able to manage their environment by using Web UI, and it would be good if we can delete endpoints by using Web UI. We should also be able to generate Excel content or data tables from the Web UI without having to go to the console. It is small stuff, and it drives me crazy that I have to go to another console to do these things."
"I self-taught for this online, so the initial setup was a little difficult to pick up at first. I had to create a couple of testing environments and destroy them in order to learn how to use it. There was a lot of trial and error, a lot of reading of the manuals."
"IBM has not focused on the Web Reports capabilities."
"The console interface is not friendly, and requires training before using it in production."
"I would like the dashboard to be improved to show the problematic machines and good machines."
"The reporting structure could be a little more simplistic. Currently, it throws too many vulnerabilities. Some of them are not needed because they are only informational and limitations, and they are not of much help. It doesn't need to show us these things."
"I would like to see more emphasis on using the web console, to have the same power as the full fat client console that they do they now. It's a lighter way to log in and it would be faster for our operators to do their work. The console tends to take a long time for a large number of clients."
"It is not so user-friendly that you can just start the host and everything works."
"It should be easier to use alternate storage."
"When vCenter is in a Microsoft environment, there is a lot of licensing involved, where we face some difficulties."
"If the solution could manage on-premises and cloud resources with the help of one tool, it would be an extra agent."
"The functions are not running in HTML5."
"The reporting could be improved."
"It lacks the capability to manage the other systems."
"The technical support is not as responsive as it could be. They are slow to respond to our issues with a resolution. There should be online chat support added."
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BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 11th in Configuration Management with 46 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Tanium, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and Red Hat Satellite. See our BigFix vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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