We performed a comparison between IIS and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is very easy to use and offers a quick deployment."
"This is definitely a stable solution."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"IIS is scalable."
"The solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"IIS is useful for the deployment of web applications...Its stability is good."
"The product is easy to use."
"The solution is very simple to use and easy to deploy."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"The deployment and asset management features are the most valuable. These are the product's main features."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"The availability performance matrix and the reporting capabilities are the solution's most valuable features."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"I would like to see NLB features in IIS."
"The user interface could be improved."
"IIS could improve by having some features related to ASR and HTTPS certificate generation."
"The graphical user interface has room for improvement and can be more user-friendly."
"The security must be improved."
"Sometimes if you are using IIS in large-scale scenarios, meaning that if you are deploying an application within IIS service and you are expecting a large number of users to use this application, you can sometimes find some problems, meaning that the service can shut down by itself unexpectedly if you don't configure your IIS with the correct configuration that can handle this number of users."
"The price of the solution could be less to improve."
"The cost is a bit too high."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Less server consumption would help, as would better, more flexible reports."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"The solution's dashboard needs improvement."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"The solution’s pricing could be improved."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tomcat and JBoss, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our IIS vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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