We performed a comparison between Citrix Endpoint Management and ManageEngine Endpoint Central based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, VMware, ManageEngine and others in UEM (Unified Endpoint Management)."Its direct integration with all the other products that we have from Microsoft is valuable. We're using the E5 license, and we have a whole wealth of different products available. It just makes it easier to have everything from one provider."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"The initial setup is not complex."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"It's not working perfectly, but Microsoft's Autopilot offers great visibility into automated deployment solutions."
"We can securely manage both company-owned devices and personal devices enrolled in our BYOD program."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The product is capable of acting in many different ways to help secure architecture."
"ShareFile, in particular, is valuable with its ease of sharing, and the best category security that is in the hands of users."
"We have seen improvements in compliance management on the devices."
"A valuable feature of Citrix Endpoint Management is that it's stable. The stability is not a challenge among the move to the cloud."
"The MAM applications of the product are great."
"One key feature is secure application delivery, which enables the secure delivery of mobile and web applications to end-user devices. This ensures data protection and compliance with corporate policies."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Patch 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."
"I like being able to image over the network. That's a nice feature that it has. Patch management is pretty decent on it as well."
"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 I like best about this product is that I can log on to every PC, very easily, and chat with the user via the chat feature."
"The patch manager is good, and it's easy to use."
"ManageEngine Desktop Central is stable."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"The technical support could be improved."
"There are a couple of issues with stability."
"It should be simplified. I've worked with many different mobile device management solutions, and Intune is one of the more complex ones. It could be more simplified, and some of it is related to the wording that is being used, such as a configuration profile versus a policy. They really should have had different names to make it less confusing."
"When somebody has a customized application or their own company's application, we cannot deploy that application."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"The tool’s battery usage was high."
"Requires integrating with ABM before enabling some of the features."
"Citrix needs to improve the architecture. They also need to strengthen the application integration. They keep referring to some things to be required as security, and they keep selling the next level and on-premise separately. They should give the customer the opportunity to decide whether they want to use the next level on-premise or on-cloud, but they should not charge additional fees if the customer wants to deploy the next level on-premise because the customer is already being charged as the end user. They should allow next level on-premise optimization without any additional charges."
"Support for inventory management of Apple devices should be added."
"Citrix often depends on other services like backend data centers, network security, and application firewalls. Issues in these areas can be misinterpreted as Citrix issues by users."
"The pricing is lower than other well-respected solutions in this category."
"The performance sometimes lags a bit because the solution is demanding on system resources."
"The OS deployment could be better."
"The solution is expensive."
"The only problem with it is that the setup isn't very intuitive. I know that they just upgraded the product to make it a little bit easier to use, but compared to some of the other platforms, it is not easy to configure it, set it up, and get it running. However, once you have set it up and got it running, it runs great."
"There are no dynamic changes on web pages and it's lacking visually."
"ManageEngine could be improved by giving customers an option to perform certain actions proactively. Since I was a consultant, I worked on different products and some had advantages over ManageEngine. For example, proactive remediation—you want to proactively check something on the computers and run the script. In ManageEngine, you have the option to run the script, but Intune has the option to do so proactively. ManageEngine doesn't have this. You should have the option to act proactively, not just going ahead and fixing it once it's done. Proactive remediation should be a feature."
"It is compatible with the systems such as Windows and Mac but not with Linux systems."
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Citrix Endpoint Management is ranked 7th in UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) with 10 reviews while ManageEngine Endpoint Central is ranked 3rd in UEM (Unified Endpoint Management) with 59 reviews. Citrix Endpoint Management is rated 8.2, while ManageEngine Endpoint Central is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Citrix Endpoint Management writes "Offers flexible application management that allows secure delivery of applications to endpoints, enabling users to operate applications on the go". 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". Citrix Endpoint Management is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, MOBI, Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM), CyberArk Identity and Ivanti Endpoint Manager, whereas ManageEngine Endpoint Central is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and SOTI MobiControl.
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