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's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"This product offers an alternative solution to other UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) solutions."
"There has been a noticeable increase in productivity for both my organization and clients."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"Initial setup was easy."
"It's robust, and we like the device availability, ease of purchase, and supplier stock availability."
"The web portal provides status reporting and ease of configuration."
"I have found the location analytics feature that is built into the APs to be the most valuable. It allows you to compare data and to single out individuals who are repeatedly coming into your store. We can observe different trends. This is what separates it from a lot of the other solutions."
"It’s helped us manage our endpoints."
"It's a very easy solution for the most part, it's very easy to implement and very easy to administer."
"Security is the main feature because the company is reliable."
"It's very easy to just keep adding devices as needed."
"ManageEngine has improved my organization because right now we can actually monitor and find out which software products are installed on each desktop. We can then figure out which ones have to get patched and so forth."
"The setup is pretty simple."
"Very good, functional solution for endpoint management."
"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 stability is very good."
"One of the benefits of Desktop Central is it made the provisioning process simpler because now we have a provisioning package. We have around 1,500 laptops at the moment and all these PCs were provisioned by a provisioning package. In the provisioning package, we have integrated every aspect of renaming, deploying applications, patching, etc., so we simply execute the provisioning package and as soon as it's executed, it will install the management agent. Once the agent is installed, it will take care of all the tasks, so we don't have to sit in front of the computer to prepare the machine. This really helps us to provision the PC quickly with our agent."
"What is great about the patch management solution, is that it patches OS, applications, browsers, plug-ins, and firmware updates."
"The centralized control of all of our Windows hardware that this solution offers has been most valuable to our organization."
"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."
"The Mac integration has room for improvement."
"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."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"There should be more focus on mobile device security and integration."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"The maintenance is average."
"The cost of installing this solution can be more expensive depending on who is doing the installation. Cisco is very expensive, and I'd like to see a reduction in cost."
"Linux compatibility needs improvement."
"The solution can be expensive."
"The price of the solution could be reduced."
"One area for improvement in Cisco Meraki Systems Manager is the ability for more advanced users to make detailed and non-standard changes."
"Meraki is limiting our connections."
"They need to allocate more energy in terms of their offering to devices that are not Apple devices."
"The reporting analytics could improve in ManageEngine Desktop Central. However, there are some third-party add-ins or modules you can purchase to do reporting analytics."
"Compared to the solution we use to manage our Mac products, this solution lacks the ability to create dynamic groups. We would like the ability, for example, for machines which have been upgraded to form part of a grouping based on this upgrade."
"The OS deployment could be better."
"We are looking for a complete solution for patch management with central management and the cloud which ManageEngine Endpoint Central does not provide."
"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."
"The solution isn't fully stable, and, when it goes down, it's hard to get it up and running."
"ManageEngine Endpoint Central’s scalability could be improved."
"Desktop Central has very good information, however, you can't customize the dashboards."
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Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) is ranked 6th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 25 reviews while ManageEngine Endpoint Central is ranked 4th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 58 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 and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus. See our Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM) vs. ManageEngine Endpoint Central report.
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