We performed a comparison between BigFix and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the best features is Windows Autopilot because if you change any of your devices, whatever security policies and compliance policies that applied can be easily migrated to the new devices. Windows Autopilot gives you that flexibility."
"It is helpful for managing devices anytime and any place without requiring dependency on the local networks."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"Compliance and the policies that can be set are the most valuable features."
"The initial setup is not overly complex or difficult."
"...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."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"DOWNLOADING-PATCHES; It has also helped to reduce network traffic when it comes to downloading patches. By only having to download the patch once to the central location and then utilizing the relay structure to then download the patch to a specific site and then everything gathering at local, it greatly reduces the bandwidth of multiple endpoints."
"BigFix is incredibly fast and accurate in patching, reporting, and remediation."
"The most valuable aspect of BigFix is its ability to patch desktops. While we have complete control over servers and can easily push patches to them, desktops pose a greater risk for leaks and vulnerabilities if patches are not installed in a timely manner. By using BigFix, we have significantly improved our ability to patch desktops, whether they are laptops, desktops, or other mobile devices used by end-users."
"It allows us to quickly deploy capabilities that we need, whether it be security or non-security. We use it to keep systems up to date, deploy new drivers, find the information we need in the case of security incidents. The capability allows us to gather a lot of information very quickly and it also allows us to have a centralized reporting feature and a centralized deployment capability which is nice."
"It's very straightforward."
"It has improved my organization because we can automate a lot of tasks. We went from manually patching machines or doing our best and having very little visibility into it to us being able to set it and forget it and getting really good results on first-pass patching."
"The architecture for patching and the 100% correct reporting makes BigFix stand apart from other solutions."
"Ability to run custom reports and custom relevance."
"The technical support services are good."
"The solution is stable and reliable."
"My experience working with this solution has been good and I recommend it."
"It's a very nice solution for our needs."
"The most valuable feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the ease of provisioning."
"This solution supports multiple platforms in a single solution."
"Reliable, stable and scalable."
"The stability and reliability are great."
"It would be better if they can reduce the cost of the license."
"The reporting is subpar. That's the only issue we have with Intune. We use another solution for that purpose."
"Lacking in features such as Wi-Fi and network security."
"There can be some added features, such as an improved dashboard. Any new feature that could be a benefit to our customers would be good."
"An area for improvement is the absence of seamless integration, particularly with external dashboards."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"Its configuration is fairly complicated. You have to do quite a bit of discovery to be able to deploy it for a customer. You have to ask them a lot of questions. So, its initial deployment is the biggest challenge. They should make it easier to deploy with the use of Wizards or something else. During the deployment stage, there could be profiles for the customers who are particularly wanting to use certain feature sets of Intune."
"Intune lags all of its competitors in terms of report generation."
"I would like to see improvements in the Web UI program and also a BigFix console for Mac OS."
"The new EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) feature, Detect, is new and still needs a few updates."
"I would like to see SDK for Web UI included in the next release."
"I would like to see more integration with external data."
"I'd definitely like to see additional feature parody in the web UI versus the console. There are certain things that you can only do in the console and they're very cumbersome to do, like secure parameters, for example. That's definitely something that has a wide degree of utility but it needs to be easier to surface. At this particular juncture between the transition, between the legacy console and the web UI, it's hard to justify dealing with the cumbersome aspects of the legacy console when theoretically everything's been through the web UI."
"There is no support for patch management on SLES on IBM pSeries (only the Intel platform is supported)."
"The product is quite buggy and complicated to use."
"Its pricing should be improved. It is too costly."
"The solution could be more integrated with the Microsoft environment."
"It lacks the capability to manage the other systems."
"The solution could provide even more capacity."
"The Self Service Interface is not very good and it needs improvement."
"The solution's pricing is very high and could be improved."
"There isn't a clear document covering all the errors. It would be helpful if the company provided better documentation for solving issues."
"Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper."
"It would be better to integrate this infrastructure with native cloud environments, but we can't do it. We are trying to improve our experience by converting our infrastructure through virtualization on native cloud environments and workloads."
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BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Tanium and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and Red Hat Satellite. See our BigFix vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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