We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center and Zend PHP Engine 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."Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"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."
"Step-by-step documentation that clarifies the implementation procedure."
"We like Microsoft System Center's Operations Manager. That is primarily why we use it."
"Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project."
"Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system."
"Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications."
"It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues."
"The solution's initial setup process is easy."
"The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature."
"Zend PHP Engine is more secure than any other framework, and I usually prefer Zend PHP Engine for big applications."
"The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers."
"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 platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"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."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"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."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it."
"Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster."
"The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved."
"The solution can be quicker."
"Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas."
"In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel."
"The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework."
"SQL queries have always been an issue with PHP, especially if you use large tables, which require caution from the side of the developer."
Microsoft System Center is ranked 15th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews while Zend PHP Engine is ranked 12th in Application Infrastructure with 10 reviews. Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8, while Zend PHP Engine is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zend PHP Engine writes "The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature". Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite, whereas Zend PHP Engine is most compared with Apache Web Server and NGINX Plus. See our Microsoft System Center vs. Zend PHP Engine report.
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