We performed a comparison between Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) and ManageEngine Endpoint Central based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a stable solution."
"Intune device restriction policies enable me to enforce limitations on the device, like blocking the mobile camera or restricting the employees from using and inserting USB devices, including thumb drives and flash drives."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"The product has eased the deployment of Microsoft apps to the devices. We can manage it properly. We can control it and push the updates. Another company helped us with the deployment. However, we can do it internally."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The synchronization of Intune with other Microsoft solutions is a valuable feature."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"The solution is easy to use and support."
"The solution is simple."
"The best features of Cisco Meraki Systems Manager include its simplicity and ease of use. It is straightforward to set up and manage devices compared to other products."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) are its ability to do geofencing for devices, manage thousands of devices with only a push of a button, and quick application deployment in seconds. It's amazing. For example, in an education scenario, you can deploy an application update for thousands of iPads in two clicks."
"It's a very easy solution for the most part, it's very easy to implement and very easy to administer."
"We use this solution for MDM."
"The central management console on the cloud is fast and is the solution's most valuable feature."
"Initial setup was easy."
"ManageEngine Desktop Central automatically alerts you if there are newer releases or updates. You do not have to go to their website and check."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"The reporting tool is very good."
"The initial setup is pretty straightforward."
"The solution's most valuable features are its patch management capabilities, especially for third-party applications, along with quick and easy configuration and deployment processes."
"The stability is very good."
"It's a complete product that allows you to remote troubleshoot, has an inventory of systems."
"Since deploying Desktop Central our endpoints are all updated. We use configuration management to deploy shortcuts to our users' desktops with ease. Also, we use configuration management to map logical hard drives to our users. Our users are very happy with how much ease IT can solve their problems."
"There is room for improvement, particularly in terms of compatibility, extending beyond the well-known major brands."
"Some enrollment features could be improved."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"The scalability could be improved, and like most other MDM products, Intune is good but not 100% there yet."
"Lacking ability to leverage more iOS device management internally."
"Intune has some limitations when it comes to application updates for third-party applications. You can schedule an update, but when it's a package setup, you need to supercede and replace it each time."
"The reporting and cost have room for improvement."
"Once it's configured it is unobtrusive, but it does take some hands-on to configure and deploy it properly."
"They need to allocate more energy in terms of their offering to devices that are not Apple devices."
"There are problems with the connection on the client side, and the app that was deployed could be better."
"The price could be better."
"Security could be improved, and there could be more features that enable you to customize the end customer solution."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"Because Cisco has improved a lot and is competing with other technologies that are innovative and brand new to the market, the only improvements they have to make are to keep up with the current competition and remain competitive with other solutions."
"Integration with other tools, such as, ConnectWise Automate."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"The product must provide more API integrations with different ERP tools."
"The Deployment scheduler needs updating to support various methods for deployment."
"The OS deployment could be better."
"The support could be faster."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"The performance sometimes lags a bit because the solution is demanding on system resources."
"I would like to see them include the ability to find out the network usage but I believe that might be a feature of it already."
"The team should work on improving the stability, particularly with massive patches deployment, clients are not 100% getting patches and the information provided by the system does not help; more detailed report would be very useful."
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Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) is ranked 6th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 26 reviews while ManageEngine Endpoint Central is ranked 4th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 59 reviews. Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) is rated 8.4, while ManageEngine Endpoint Central is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) writes "Easy to use and excels in generating reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ManageEngine Endpoint Central writes "An in-depth and intuitive product with good cross-platform capabilities, but they should have a more global support channel". Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, IBM MaaS360, SOTI MobiControl and Google Cloud Identity, whereas ManageEngine Endpoint Central is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and SOTI MobiControl. See our Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) vs. ManageEngine Endpoint Central report.
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