We performed a comparison between BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Cloud Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."You can tie together your public and private cloud infrastructure into a "single pane of glass"."
"By allowing end users to request their own services, the request process for systems is much quicker and more accurate."
"Supports unattended installs and image-based, script-based, or template-based provisioning."
"Integrates role-based access control with pre-configured policies for CIS, DISA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, NIST, and SCAP documentation and remediation."
"CLM has a multi-cloud portal because they have the resources to implement in various environments in various ports."
"Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system."
"Assesses change impact or completes an audit using multiple dashboard views."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"It can generate KPIs and management reports with monthly presentations on activities and updating the environment (success and failure)."
"The installation process is easy."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"Needs integrations with other providers to provide a custom public cloud environment."
"The installation and configuration can be tricky due to it being built on Remedy."
"One of the major problems is that support is not so good."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"For me, the tool's UI seems to be too old."
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BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is ranked 43rd in Cloud Monitoring Software while Microsoft System Center is ranked 29th in Cloud Monitoring Software with 18 reviews. BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is rated 7.8, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management writes "Automates Java EE Application Deployment from an SCM system". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Makes user management and application management easy for users". BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management is most compared with CloudBolt, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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