We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and Microsoft Configuration Manager 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."The ability to deploy patches seamlessly is the solution's most valuable aspect. It allows us to not only deploy patches but to monitor the deployment of those patches."
"The tool's most valuable feature is performance."
"You can create remote sessions for client systems."
"The solution's technical support is top-notch. Whenever I have a question, they get back to me immediately, which is probably one of the best features of the solution's technical support."
"The fetch repository is a good feature."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is centralized management."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It's a stable product."
"Provides great insight into the functionalities of the data scope."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"The major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"It works well for the endpoints for the customer I'm consulting. It has a bunch of knobs, and you can tune it to do lots of things."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"It does the job and meets our needs. With everybody working remotely these days, we are using this solution to deploy everything. The deployment of PCs is easy."
"The user interface of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to be made more user-friendly, simplified, and less complicated."
"The tool's support needs improvement."
"The solution's initial setup is not straightforward, and we have to customize it with our relevant features."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to improve speed."
"There are limitations to this solution when we are working with iOS, Apple laptops or desktops such as the Mac and iMac."
"I find the user interface a little bit intimidating and not very appealing."
"The cloud version should have option to add all the endpoints using the agent. Not only for Windows, but also the Linux version. There are some versions which are not compatible with SaaS Manager. So some customers do not want to use the latest version of Linux latest version of CentOS. Actually, CentOS is not available. But some are using and patch manager is compatible for some versions only, not older older versions. So there are some pros and cons that are referred to patch management."
"The solution should have a customer label where we can label those servers or include those servers for specific customers."
"SCCM can improve on third-party application support."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"Built in PowerShell cmdlets would be a nice feature because managing clients remotely can be a pain without knowing the WMI calls to run."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"They should improve their anti-malware policies like the SCEP policies. For instance, you can't have different policies for different servers, there is only one policy in all the servers, and everything is covered under that. For example, say you want to scan one group of servers on Saturday, and then you want to scan another group of servers on Sunday, you can't do that. You have to scan all your servers, a regular scan or a full scan, on the same day and at the same time. That's definitely one thing they need to resolve. In the next release, it would actually be nice if they included Apple products. It will also help if you can use Intune again. Their compliance reporting feature could also be better. They can maybe work a bit on that for patching now. It would be better if SCCM came with the functions of Right Click Tools built-in. If SCCM would have all those functions already built-in, we won't have to go and spend $5,000, just as an add-in from another company to get those functions."
"There should probably be better remote support. They should also continue to improve on patch management, patching, and creating or turning products in software into deployable apps."
"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."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
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ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is ranked 7th in Patch Management with 12 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews. ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus writes "Good scalability and a responsive tech support team ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is most compared with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, BigFix, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, GFI LanGuard and N-able N-central, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium. See our ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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