We performed a comparison between Microsoft Configuration Manager and NinjaOne based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"It lets you know what your infrastructure is like and what state you are in."
"Provides great insight into the functionalities of the data scope."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"The most relevant feature is the monitoring, which provides built-in tools for sending commands."
"NinjaOne helps us view the status of software patching, whether the PC is locked or unlocked."
"It just works as advertised and serves the purpose for which we got it."
"The solution's most valuable feature is related to its remote access...I know that NinjaOne's technical support is good."
"We can use it for remote monitoring, and it also works great as a troubleshooting tool. We are able to open up a command line or a PowerShell session remotely without having to disrupt the user. They have a limited network device monitoring capability, but for workstation servers, we have the event logs. We can do performance monitoring, system changes, software deployment, and patch management. We can also push scripts. It has a very simple web interface. There are no additional things to do there. Security is also pretty good. It does the same things that the other competitor's tools do. One of the advantages of Ninja is that they have a more capable mobile app, which allows you to see the alerts immediately. I get alerted to major critical issues."
"The installation is easy, it only took two minutes."
"The most valuable feature we have found currently is probably patch management."
"It helps us to be able to have visibility into the overall performance of the servers, laptops, and desktops that we are managing currently."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager can improve by allowing us to schedule the scripts, we don't have a script scheduling option and have to do it manually."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."
"I would like to see more automation."
"The configuration of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could be improved, it is a bit complicated."
"The TSM component could be improved."
"I currently need to increase my compliance level in the patching processes which this solution could improve on."
"I'm looking for a single solution for all discovery needs. It fulfills about 40% of the requirements, and I'd like to see the other 60% so that I don't have to keep doing this."
"NinjaOne's reporting module is cumbersome."
"The ticketing system in NinjaOne is not the best."
"I wish that they integrated it with more antivirus solutions. Currently, they only push Defender, but it doesn't really have integration with SentinelOne. It also didn't integrate with Trend Micro, which we were using previously. I would also like to have more control from the mobile app. As of now, I am able to see some performance values, but I can't see, for example, disk activity or disk performance values. If they can improve their app a little bit, it would help greatly. They can also improve the tech interface. If I assign certain techs to a bunch of specific machines, they only get those alerts that they're assigned to."
"It can have more integrations with third-party providers, such as Deep Instinct. They do partner with certain antivirus or remote access tool partners, but they can increase their portfolio to have more choices."
"I would like to see more scripts for PowerShell commands."
"The solution could improve by optimizing the internet connection being used."
"The remote connectivity could be better. It works most of the time, but sometimes, there are issues."
"The NinjaOne distribution server is highly dependent on an active directory."
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Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews while NinjaOne is ranked 5th in Patch Management with 14 reviews. Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2, while NinjaOne is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NinjaOne writes "A tool that helps with a lot of configurations and creates automation processes that work perfectly". Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune and BigFix, whereas NinjaOne is most compared with Atera, N-able N-central, LogMeIn Central, ConnectWise Automate and Kaseya VSA. See our Microsoft Configuration Manager vs. NinjaOne report.
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