We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Microsoft Intune based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Intune has a slight edge over Google Cloud Identity in this comparison, mainly because it is the more user-friendly solution.
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is group access. You are able to assign policies to groups instead of users individually."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"Google is always on its own. Google Cloud Identity is pretty good on every point."
"It's easy to set up."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs. It's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"The solution is moderate to difficult to use. I found the approach was practical. Following the steps made it very easy to use."
"We are using the mobile feature, and we are also using MDM to lock the devices, to push restrictions, et cetera"
"I like that it's very good and very simple. I found that we just needed to have a proper subscription for an Intune tenant, and from the subscription, if we have the right role assigned, like the global admin role or the owner role, we can use Microsoft cloud resources. With the help of that, we can do many things like setting up Microsoft Intune in the cloud to create our virtual machines. All these can be done, and the steps are very simple. I really liked it. I like features like Windows Auto-Enrollment. I like it very much because whenever you supply it to the end-user, it will be ready to use immediately. The end-user only needs to provide the user credentials, and then they are good to go. I also really like Cloud PC, which was recently launched on Azure."
"The solution is stable."
"There are so many features, but Windows Autopilot is one of the features that are very valuable for most customers."
"Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"The ability to manage devices with different sets of policies is most valuable."
"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"The one place it could be improved is the password vaulting. The password vaulting does not prevent the admins from reading users' passwords, and that's a debate."
"Technical support is slow."
"Google Cloud Identity the UI could improve."
"It's only good for a Microsoft environment."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"The synchronization could be improved."
"There are a lot of small use cases where we realized that some technical solution was missing in Microsoft in comparison to other products. For example, it lacks something similar to sensing or location-based rules and configurations."
"From a new user's perspective, it may be a little overwhelming because there are quite a few things to look at in the console, however, once you are sort of acclimated and are familiar with your core functions, it's fairly simple and straightforward."
"They need to add more group policies. Intune currently does not have many group policies that you can deploy. Its reporting, which is very limited at the moment, also needs improvement. It will be great if they can add report customization. Its stability needs to be improved. Sometimes, when you register a device in Intune, it doesn't show up instantly on the engine portal on the admin side. They need to provide better support for complicated issues. They also have a long turnaround time."
"It should be easier to define policies and comply with those policies."
"The solution can have some compliance problems in general and the end-point user can bypass easily the company policies in Intune."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 7th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 6 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 76 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "You don't need much expertise or previous experience to work with it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "Enables you to use MDM to lock devices and push restrictions, but isn't as stable as other solutions". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Okta Workforce Identity, VMware Workspace ONE, JumpCloud and OneLogin by One Identity, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, IBM MaaS360 and SOTI MobiControl. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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