We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity 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: Microsoft Intune has a slight edge over Google Cloud Identity in this comparison, mainly because it is the more user-friendly solution.
"It's easy to set up."
"Although we have not looked at the whole product and explored it completely, we find that all the authentication features that we are using now are valuable."
"One of the most useful features was the single sign-on. You can use it as an identity provider or service provider. And you can use their organization unit feature to enable or disable some of the features for a specific group of users."
"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is group access. You are able to assign policies to groups instead of users individually."
"Cloud Identity is scalable enough for our needs. It's serving more than 3,000 users in our organization."
"The solution is primarily used for single control and single sign which helps with the security and authentication of multiple devices."
"The Cloud Identity is well advanced in terms of features, applications, and the components that it is offering."
"It allows our clients to have the confidence to centrally manage policies for security. It helps them in securing the organization from a technology aspect."
"There is a single pane of glass for user access and a single sign-on facility for the user. If you have already logged in to Microsoft Azure or on-premises, you can redirect directly to Microsoft Endpoint Manager, monitor all your security threats, and analyze the data associated with the application in a single, unified way."
"The most valuable feature is probably mobile device management. Small businesses are coming under greater scrutiny and requirements for compliance as time goes on. We don't have to worry about a VPN because we can manage these devices, control company data, and lock users out. If needed, we can remotely wipe devices and deadman-switch them."
"We have found the solution is capable of scaling."
"We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"Conditional access helps me control uncontrolled access."
"The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"The tool's most valuable feature is Autopilot."
"Google Cloud Identify could make the technology used easier to understand as a layman making it more user-friendly."
"The management of external users needs to be introduced in the tool as it is an area of concern in the tool presently."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"In the next release, I would like to see integration with different systems, mainly wireless SIEMS and other analytical systems that we want to introduce."
"I would like to see more integration in future releases."
"The integration should be made easier."
"The interface could be improved by simplifying it further."
"To improve the product, the integration with third-party products could always be smoother."
"There is no catalog for mobile access management (MAM) security."
"I think that there is room for improvement with the reporting. If this is done, it will be a better product."
"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."
"It's the granularity: 'Is your firewall on? Is BitLocker on?' It's not amazing granularity. But I've looked into other products, like Duo, and they're all similar."
"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."
"Deploying an app can be a complex process due to dependencies."
"The solution requires Mac support."
"In terms of what can be improved, I am looking for better enhancements regarding Apple management, not only on the mobile device, but also on the laptop."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 7th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 21 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 164 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "A stable and scalable cloud solution easily compatible with Google office Suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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