CloudBees vs Microsoft Configuration Manager comparison

CloudBees and Microsoft are both solutions in the Configuration Management category. CloudBees is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.3, while Microsoft is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.0. CloudBees holds a 0.2% mindshare in CM, compared to Microsoft’s 11.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of CloudBees users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

Microsoft Configuration Manager and CloudBees are strong contenders in the IT management and DevOps realms, respectively. Microsoft Configuration Manager has a slight edge in comprehensive feature offerings, while CloudBees shines in the CI/CD space due to its scalability and integration capabilities.

Features: Microsoft Configuration Manager provides robust software deployment, patch management, compliance reporting, and mobile management integration through Intune. It supports a standardized operating system environment and offers automation to minimize IT workload. CloudBees excels in CI/CD with advanced integration, scalability for large teams, and features designed for complex pipelines. It is particularly valuable in DevOps due to its automation and application delivery strengths.

Room for Improvement: Microsoft Configuration Manager could improve usability for non-scripting users, enhance support for non-Microsoft updates, and simplify troubleshooting. CloudBees users would benefit from improved management of older plugins, enhancements in real-time usability, and reduced dependency on vendor updates for maintaining efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Microsoft Configuration Manager is mainly deployed in on-premises environments but is also used in hybrid scenarios. It’s recognized for its stable on-prem setup. CloudBees offers mainly cloud-based deployments, giving flexibility for distributed teams. Microsoft’s technical support quality varies, while CloudBees generally receives positive feedback for its support and comprehensive online documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Microsoft Configuration Manager can be expensive for large enterprises due to licensing and additional SQL costs, but offers a significant ROI through operational efficiencies. Small businesses find the bundled offerings financially accessible. CloudBees, though not inexpensive, delivers substantial value with its automation and streamlined processes in CI/CD environments, offering an excellent return on investment for large-scale deployments.

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Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 10.2%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of CloudBees is 0.2%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Configuration Manager is 11.9%, down from 13.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Joseph Merusi

Collaborations engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Everything has worked better since we started using it

Sometimes the syncing is inconsistent. I'm confident that the devices are checking in every eight hours, but sometimes the devices aren't picking up the settings as quickly as I would expect. Some features haven't been updated in a while, and Microsoft doesn't seem interested in developing them. Unless you talk to an engineer, you don't know whether there will be an update. There are communication issues, so you might start working with a feature without knowing if it will be deprecated six months from now. Some reporting areas still need development. For example, I noticed that the reporting for driver updates is still confusing.

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YashBrahmani

Senior Associate at BNP Paribas CIB

Offers a clear visualization and overview of workflows and helpful in managing CI/CD processes

Improvement in the sense that they can do better in terms of management of logs and stuff like that because the console logs are very extensive, and that causes a lot of storage issues. That is one of the things which is there. Also, with respect to the traditional platform and the modern platform, many things have upgraded, and it has quite improved. But when we talk about the performance of the agents, it’s still very crucial because it’s not up to par. It takes a lot of time to provision the agent and to finish the build because of the SSH connection and the JNLP connection. Due to that, sometimes the agent doesn’t get provisioned. Those are some of the blockers that meet up the time in terms of administering the instance.

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MikeNelson2

IT Infrastructure Coordinator at NSW Government

Deployment recovery works well but requires configuration improvements

While I do not use the product frequently, many issues were due to configuration rather than the product itself. I cannot give an exact recommendation as it is not my area of responsibility. The team that uses it finds it adequate. It is presently good enough for us not to investigate other options. Overall, I rate the product a six out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is a very stable and scalable cloud-only solution."

"Microsoft Intune's autopilot has been nice to have."

"I haven't used other mobile device management solutions, but compared to SCCM, we eliminate a lot of on-premises infrastructure and maintenance by using Intune."

"We have a BYOD policy, and this solution helps us manage our devices."

"What I like the most about Microsoft Intune is its ability to manage mobile devices. Through integration with System Center, it can also manage desktops and laptops."

"The stability of Microsoft Intune is ten out of ten."

"Intune simplifies compliance. The ability to manage software updates and policies on endpoints has helped us meet contract requirements."

"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."

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"I find the automation feature most valuable. CloudBees is highly scalable and supports both small and large teams. The deployment process is also faster when compared to on-premise."

"It can manage multiple Jenkins instances."

"CloudBees is a user-friendly tool."

"CloudBees is the Jenkins tool for building and deploying. There's open-source Jenkins, which is free and can be used by any organization, but it offers a different architecture for Jenkins. If your organization is larger, you might choose the architecture. This way, you can have different masters for different applications, and different teams can manage their masters separately. However, a single person can still control all the masters, whoever manages it for the organization."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility."

"CloudBees's user interface is very simple and user-friendly."

"One recent product feature that stands out is the pipeline explorer, which is providing significant value for us right now."

"The security audit product offered by CloudBees is particularly beneficial in automating audit processes, which reduces the time developers spend on audits."

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"This has made the management of our environment easier."

"Microsoft Configuration Manager is integrated with other Microsoft products."

"Endpoint Manager is valuable to our organization because it allows us to connect to our enterprise from remote locations securely. The most useful feature is its robustness and scalability. It is highly scalable and flexible, allowing us to use it in various environments. Additionally, we can specialize the policies related to each device group. This ensures that each group has access to the applications they need for their work and non-work hours."

"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."

"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."

"You can remote control or RDP. That has been the most valuable because we can go into one console and can get to anything we want. Instead of going to all these different consoles, we centralized everything."

"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."

"I manage software updates and operating systems for devices, and within seconds, we can remotely deploy a system for, say, 2,000 devices. Not only that, but we can also deploy scripts and create comprehensive compliance rules."

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Cons

"Microsoft Intune has potential for improvement; I would like to see a lot more customization in the reporting tools."

"Technical support is not that great."

"Reporting needs improvement."

"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."

"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."

"We would like to see the ability to use multiple personas on a device, similar to Samsung Knox, included in future updates."

"In terms of the admin experience, it is straightforward, but the Windows enrollment experience could be improved. Sometimes, for enrollment, we have to reset devices and re-enroll them."

"In future releases, I would like to see better integration with Apple products."

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"It could improve the document upload process."

"The setup is somewhat complicated. You need a cloud architect and engineer to set it up properly. The initial setup will take time, so you need a good engineer and architect to handle it."

"To use the tool, you need to be familiar with the tool itself and with how it will be incorporated into the culture."

"The problem with CloudBees is that when you merge it, the pipelines would randomly fail multiple times."

"There are connection issues with CloudBees, specifically between Sybase and CloudBees. W"

"I noticed that CloudBees runs too slowly because some applications run more than 50 pipelines."

"If you're logged in and working for about thirty minutes and then go idle for five to ten minutes, Jenkins will prompt you to re-authenticate."

"We've noticed occasional issues with folder permissions changing unexpectedly. Specifically, permissions sometimes shift from the CloudBees user to the root user. This can cause pipeline failures, as pipelines require the correct CloudBees user permissions to execute properly."

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"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."

"They should improve their anti-malware policies like the SCEP policies. For instance, you can't have different policies for different servers, there is only one policy in all the servers, and everything is covered under that. For example, say you want to scan one group of servers on Saturday, and then you want to scan another group of servers on Sunday, you can't do that. You have to scan all your servers, a regular scan or a full scan, on the same day and at the same time. That's definitely one thing they need to resolve. In the next release, it would actually be nice if they included Apple products. It will also help if you can use Intune again. Their compliance reporting feature could also be better. They can maybe work a bit on that for patching now. It would be better if SCCM came with the functions of Right Click Tools built-in. If SCCM would have all those functions already built-in, we won't have to go and spend $5,000, just as an add-in from another company to get those functions."

"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."

"Its client interface should be more accessible, and the notifications should be more customizable from the console. It should be more user friendly and have some kind of customized notifications so that we can use it on the client side. These are the reasons why we restricted its use only for the server environment and didn't use it on the client side."

"It would be nice to have everything in one place. Now they have Intune for the desktops and SCCM to handle their servers."

"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."

"The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool."

"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft Intune is a cost effective choice. It is less expensive than other products on the market."

"The solution is cost-efficient."

"Microsoft Intune costs about $7 per user per month, which is somewhat on the pricier end. That said, it's a reliable product, so it's fair."

"Intune's pricing is competitive. For example, the license of Blackberry's Enterprise Mobility Suite was costly, but Intune is affordable. It is included as an additional feature when you buy security enhancements for your organization. For example, let's say I have fifty users in my organization and all of them are using Microsoft cloud services, like Teams, Office 365, and OneDrive."

"The price of Microsoft Intune is reasonable."

"While I don't have access to high-level financial information, I believe we have achieved lower costs with this implementation."

"The cost is somewhat on the higher side, particularly when considering certain price points, especially in markets like India."

"I liked the tool's pricing until P2 came into effect. I am unsure about the current value versus the cost of the new licensing model."

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"There is not a license needed to use the solution."

"We have a support license from Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager and the overall price of the solution is reasonable."

"The price is competitive and reasonable."

"Pricing and licensing are horrible. You have to not look at dollar value to use SCCM. It's super-duper expensive but it works. The acquisition cost is expensive, it's labor-intensive. But it works."

"Its price is okay because it is part of our licensing."

"Its licensing is quite complicated because we are getting the license not only for SCCM but for the full Microsoft package. We don't need to pay for a separate license. We need to have one license that includes everything we need, such as Windows, Microsoft 365, SCCM, encryption, and so on. So, we don't have a specific price for it. Perhaps, it is good that it includes the full suite of licensing of Microsoft. It is expensive, but we are getting a lot of features."

"We have to pay for a license."

"The price model is different for every client."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

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Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

25%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Legal Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

10%

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What is your primary use case for CloudBees?

We use CloudBees for deploying the code in higher environments, such as QA, C2, staging, and production.

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What advice do you have for others considering CloudBees?

I would recommend CloudBees to others because building jobs is much easier than with other solutions.

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

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Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM )

Overview

Microsoft Intune provides centralized management of mobile devices and applications, ensuring security, compliance, and productivity through integration with Microsoft services like Microsoft 365 and Azure Active Directory.

Organizations use Intune for managing mobile devices and applications, enhancing security and compliance across platforms. With features like single sign-on, conditional access, and zero-touch deployment via Autopilot, it facilitates efficient operations. Intune's scalability, easy enrollment, and capabilities such as remote wipe support diverse device management, offering robust data protection and efficient operation. Despite its features, improvement areas include reporting, compatibility with non-Microsoft devices, and better support for macOS and Linux devices.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Seamless Integration: Works with Microsoft 365, Azure Active Directory, and System Center for streamlined management.
Conditional Access: Enhances security with policies that restrict access based on conditions.
Autopilot: Provides zero-touch deployment for setting up new devices efficiently.
Mobile Device Management: Enables control over both personal and corporate devices.
Application Deployment: Facilitates app delivery across a range of devices.

What benefits should users look for in reviews?

Centralized Management: Reduces complexity by managing devices and applications in one place.
Security Enhancement: Protects data with features like remote wipe and compliance monitoring.
Improved Productivity: Enhances efficiency with seamless integration and automation features.
Device Scalability: Supports diverse device management for growing business needs.

In industries such as finance, healthcare, and education, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure secure and compliant device management. Companies leverage its capabilities to deploy security policies and manage both corporate-owned and BYOD environments, facilitating a unified approach to data protection and compliance.

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CloudBees DevOptics is a robust software utilized primarily to enhance CI/CD processes by offering real-time visibility into Jenkins pipelines. It facilitates effective monitoring, incident management, and decision-making through comprehensive data analysis. Users value its features like DevOps performance metrics and seamless tool integration, leading to improved operational efficiency and productivity in organizations.

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Microsoft Configuration Manager helps IT manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. When Configuration Manager is integrated with Microsoft Intune, you can manage corporate-connected PCs and Macs along with cloud-based mobile devices running Windows, iOS, and Android, all from a single management console.

New features of Configuration Manager, such as the support of Windows 10 in-place upgrade, co-management with Microsoft Intune, Windows 10 and Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Servicing Dashboard, integration with Windows Update for Business, and more make deploying and managing Windows easier than ever before.

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