HPE System Management Homepage vs Microsoft Configuration Manager comparison

HPE System Management Homepage vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

HPE System Management Homepage

Ranking in Server Monitoring

14th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Microsoft Configuration Man...

Ranking in Server Monitoring

7th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Configuration Management (4th), Patch Management (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the Server Monitoring category, the mindshare of HPE System Management Homepage is 1.7%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Microsoft Configuration Manager is 5.4%, down from 8.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Server Monitoring

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Juan Esteban

Consultant at Freelance

Offers reliability and helps with the virtualization part

The product integrates with our company's existing IT infrastructure, especially when it comes to MicroK8s and other on-premises servers. The tool also helps with the virtualization in the ecosystem of our company, where there are other tools from HPE. Performance and network optimization are some of the beneficial areas in terms of server management. Speaking about how the remote management ability of the product impacted our company's IT operations, I would say that my organization has dealt with areas like RDP, DDI, and DMC, depending on the requirements of our final customers. In my experience, the product has contributed four hours in terms of reliability and to ensure the uptime of our servers. When it comes to the day-to-day use of HPE System Management's interface, I would say that it connects with some of the best tools and Hyper-V console with the help of Microsoft. I recommended the solution to those who plan to use it. I rate the overall product an eight out of ten.

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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

"I think it's stable, scalable, and flexible."

"The interface is in continuous development and improves version by version."

"The managing and monitoring are the solution's most valuable features. They are something I find quite helpful in my work."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy with the help of the framework consisting of Microsoft Azure."

"This solution has improved our organization through the provision of efficient resource utilization and capacity planning."

"This is a good product and I recommend it."

"We have found the scalability to be quite good."

"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."

"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."

"Provides great insight into the functionalities of the data scope."

"The scalability to deploy the package."

"The solution is stable."

"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is valuable in keeping our systems updated. We are able to send updates to all the systems. Additionally, the Intune integration is helpful."

"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."

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Cons

"The quality of service and support for this solution needs to be improved."

"The return on investment report is too difficult to understand."

"If the solution could provide better integration to make it easier to manage everything on different servers, that would be helpful. Whatever servers a company has, be it IBM, Dell, etc., if the System Management could be a platform that links all of them together, it would make management across different server types easier."

"I think that support integration could be improved."

"The product should increase the processing capacity and allow speedy deployment, as both of them are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Our customers would like to see the price lowered."

"The time the solution takes for updating systems could be quicker. For example, the system information status is not updating as it should. Additionally, the database synchronization querying is slow and could be improved."

"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."

"SCCM does not scale well, which is one of the reasons we are not going to continue to use it."

"Cloud-based improvements need to be better managed."

"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."

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

"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."

"Based on my experience with SCCM 2016, the main, big issue is not having a good user-friendly environment. It needs much better GUI."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"My company has invested 30,00,000 USD in the product."

"The license was included when we purchased the server."

"The support is yearly-based and the license is permanent."

"The price of this product is fair."

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

"As far as I know, it is an annual operating expense license."

"I would rate the cost as eight out of ten."

"Pricing and licensing are a downside of SCCM. It's expensive. I'd have to confirm this, but I think they changed the licensing to core-based instead of socket-based. It's not cheap, because you have to buy the software, you have to buy SQL. Another thing we learned from talking to Microsoft is that they provide you a license for SQL if you run it on the same box as the primary server. If you run it outside that box, you have to buy SQL. Microsoft does recommend you running it on the same box because of performance. But then, in order to run SQL, SCCM, and everything on the same box, you better have some resources. It's an expensive solution. There's no doubt about it."

"SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free."

"The price could be better."

"The price model is different for every client."

"Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Retailer

11%

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

11%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about HPE System Management?

The product's initial setup phase is easy with the help of the framework consisting of Microsoft Azure.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for HPE System Management?

My company has invested 30,00,000 USD in the product.

What needs improvement with HPE System Management?

The product should increase the processing capacity and allow speedy deployment, as both of them are areas with certain shortcomings where improvements are required.

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Also Known As

HP System Management

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

Overview

The HPE System Management Homepage (SMH) consolidates and simplifies the management of ProLiant and Integrity servers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, or HPE 9000 and HPE Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i. By aggregating data from HPE Insight Management Agents and other tools, SMH provides a secure and intuitive interface to review in-depth hardware configuration and status data, performance metrics, system thresholds and software version control information. SMH can also be used to access the HPE Lights-Out Management processor on ProLiant and Integrity servers. SMH is part of the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) or the Integrity Support Pack (ISP), and can be extended to meet specific system management requirements by integrating additional plug-in tools. SMH is easy to install and can be extended to meet specific system management requirements by integrating additional HPE plug-in management tools that include HPE Online Diagnostics and HPE Software Version Control Agents.

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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.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

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Bank Alfalah Ltd., Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, Dimension Data, Japan Business Systems, St. Lucie County Public Schools, MISC Berhad

HPE System Management Homepage vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager