We performed a comparison between BMC Client Management and Fortinet FortiClient based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Endpoint Compliance solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the solution are patch management and software license management."
"The inventory and patch management tools are very valuable."
"The support from BMC Client Management is very good."
"One feature I like, that was especially valuable during the pandemic, is remote control. Remote control grants administrators and support personnel access to the laptops and PCs of employees (who might be working from home) in order to fix any issues that come up as and when they come up, even without having to wait for a support request."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its patching capabilities and the help it offers when it comes to use cases, like prompting for the reboot after a certain period of time."
"It's a scalable solution. We have deployed it for customers using 3000 nodes to those using 300,000 nodes."
"I find all of the features valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiClient is its performance."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its integration capabilities. The processing is fast and the reporting is also very good."
"There is a lot of documentation available online."
"FortiClient is very easy, useful, and practical."
"FortiClient has good signatures, good protection and, up until recently, it integrated really well with our firewall."
"For our clients with remote sites and deployed firewalls, the filtering and authentication features are very helpful."
"What I like most about FortiClient is that it's easy to use. The way it displays information is very straightforward."
"BMC Client Management could improve in the area of integration."
"The on-premises version of BMC Client Management has powerful remote control functionality and decent compliance features, but these features both rely on the discovery tool in order to gain a complete set of insights about the endpoint's environment. Now, BMC's discovery solution depends on having an agent installed in each endpoint and sometimes the agent doesn't work properly, making it difficult to get an accurate understanding of the environment (including special topologies) even with BMC's discovery tool."
"The solution does not offer the functionality of remote access to users."
"The solution needs to add whitelisting because many customers request it."
"It would be good if BMC Client Management can perform vulnerability assessment scanning at the endpoint on its own and mitigate that. Then, we wouldn't have to rely on a third party VA tool. I would like to see this application move to being a web-based one."
"BMC Client Management supports only iOS devices. It would be good if they would support Android as well."
"Initially, the support was very poor. It is getting better, but they should continue to improve this."
"The solution should have faster turnaround when it comes to new technology."
"The pricing could use improvement."
"Technical support is awful. Their online response time is not prompt. They should not respond after four or five days. Their support guys are not competent enough. Small issues are taking time."
"The initial setup was probably more complex. The configuration was somewhat unclear."
"We've had some problems with having to remove the current version and either reinstalling an old version or updating to the new one."
"There should be more frequent releases or updates."
"I would like Fortinet to improve FortiClient's compatibility with macOS."
BMC Client Management is ranked 7th in Endpoint Compliance with 6 reviews while Fortinet FortiClient is ranked 1st in Endpoint Compliance with 85 reviews. BMC Client Management is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiClient is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of BMC Client Management writes "Efficient remote control capabilities; compliance features greatly reduced customers' licensing costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiClient writes "Easy to set up and user-friendly with good support ". BMC Client Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix and VMware Workspace ONE, whereas Fortinet FortiClient is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiEDR, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business. See our BMC Client Management vs. Fortinet FortiClient report.
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