We performed a comparison between VMware Workspace ONE 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: Based on the parameters we compared, Microsoft Intune has higher ratings and is more affordable than VMware Workspace ONE.
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"It's really easy to access."
"It works pretty well for us."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"The best feature is that we don't need to worry about downtime. We don't need to worry about the network connections of our office or the virtual private network. Everything is being done through the internet. Using Intune Autopilot, we can configure and deploy everything to the devices."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"...Intune itself integrates with that entire Microsoft ecosystem. As an individual product itself, it's okay. It holds up. But when you start saying "I've bought this as part of a wider solution, as a company we are going Microsoft throughout," then it makes more sense to have Microsoft Intune... so you have that single dashboard."
"It works well if you have a Microsoft environment."
"The most valuable feature is the security policies."
"It's a tool that can be managed in various departments."
"VMware Workspace ONE has been stable so far."
"Good device management and good integration with third parties."
"We recently integrated Workspace ONE with our intelligence report, and this is a great tool from a reporting point of view. In our daily business, we get several requests from businesses to provide an Adobe request for monitoring, whether it is for Android or iOS devices. The main benefit of this tool is that we can exclude the report for applications."
"The feature with the highest rating for me is its employee management. I can also praise how versatile it is in terms of operating systems. It has good support for multiple operating systems and can easily manage them all. Not just that, but it can also support any kind of tool that can be run on all these operating systems."
"It is like any other mobile solution. It gives us the ability to control remotely, and that is what we like. We can wipe out and deploy remotely."
"The Identity component of this solution is its most valuable feature."
"Microsoft Intune lags market leaders, such as Apperian, in its MAM capabilities."
"There are items that require improvements. One is the controls from iOS."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"Reporting in Microsoft solutions is pathetic. With Intune, I'm getting a free inventory tool, but I don't get a reporting tool. When I go to Intune, I can see one machine's entire data in terms of the hardware and the software running on it, but I cannot generate a report for all the machines in the organization. The reporting is the only feature holding back the functionality that is already there."
"The add-ons must be integrated into the solution."
"The solution could improve its flexibility."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"Cost of licensing is quite high."
"There should be better compatibility with Linux devices."
"Feature-wise, it is fine, but its pricing could be better, given that Microsoft is on a bundling spree. AirWatch would benefit from reducing the license pricing per user per month."
"Integration with Microsoft needs improvement. There are some dependencies with Microsoft that aren't 100% yet, for example: compliance synchronization."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive to our requests."
"The length of time it takes to deploy an application could improve."
"Windows 10 management is there, but VMware only recently developed that part, and it's not fully mature. Patch management and other integrations are there as well as the application-pushing part, command line, mandatory commands, etc. Some out-of-the-box solutions should be available to better integrate a broader range of applications and handle application push. That's the roadmap we should look at."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 67 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 27 reviews. Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0, while VMware Workspace ONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "Enabled us to manage our remote workers' devices, which has been especially helpful since the start of the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workspace ONE writes "Quick to set up and easy to implement platform for monitoring and managing mobile endpoints". Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl, IBM MaaS360 and Microsoft Entra ID, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, Citrix Workspace and ManageEngine Endpoint Central. See our Microsoft Intune vs. VMware Workspace ONE report.
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If you are only using Windows, it will be a great decision. However, if you are using Mac and Linux you will still need WS1 /JAMF or any other MDM solutions. Intune has extensive capacities on Windows but limited capabilities on MAC.
My suggestion will be
MAC - WS1/JAMF
Windows : Intune
Compliance check: Intune for the entire fleet. This will allow you to leverage the conditional access capabilities of Azure AD.
First of all, what is WS1? I think you should have Intune now as part of your E3 subscription (not sure of it, so please check your billing menu). Intune gives you a lot of flexibility to set rules to deploy to systems.