We performed a comparison between AutoSys Workload Automation and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about BMC, Tidal Software by Redwood, Redwood Software and others in Workload Automation."The most valuable aspects of AutoSys Workload Automation are its performance, scalability, and ease of getting started for new users."
"The features that I have found most valuable with AutoSys are that it is scalable, easy to use, fast, and always available. That's very important because if it's not steady then it's a real problem. So, at this point, we are satisfied with it."
"It can run an object on our Windows systems or our Unix systems, and then send messages to the other system when they are complete."
"I prefer AutoSys over the other ones out there for ease of use, ease of understanding, and getting people to understand how the tool works."
"It is stable, it works, and it does what it is supposed to."
"The customized views that each individual can create, and views that can be made free-form, makes this very popular with the programmers."
"Integration with multiple services and applications across the enterprise."
"The ability to create calendars, calendering for batch jobs to run on a scheduled frequency."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"The most valuable feature of SCCM is the application distribution."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager gives different tools in one solution."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"I like its ease of use. It does what you need it to do, and it's a one-stop-shop for the company and for all your deployments. If you incorporate Intune into it, you can have both. You can bring your own devices and corporate devices, and everything runs out of SCCM and Intune."
"Needs better documentation with fully explained examples for some of the job types."
"We had a few issues, however, the issues were more on the infrastructure rather than with the application itself."
"Performance improvements in the UI would be appreciated."
"We have to escalate through channels to get to somebody who knows what's going on. It takes time that we do not necessarily have."
"Reduce the number of operational files. This would make the job of a system programmer supporting ESP easier."
"Documentation and cross-application externals could be improved."
"Some of the reports are either a bit hard to understand or don’t give you what you might expect to see."
"I would like to see the Service Orchestrator, a B2B product, and maybe a process audit."
"The solution is a bit heavy on the sources such as RAM or CPU and the software needs to be a bit lighter."
"The time the solution takes for updating systems could be quicker. For example, the system information status is not updating as it should. Additionally, the database synchronization querying is slow and could be improved."
"There is no asset management package included."
"The reports are too busy. They could be simpler. I'm a technician, so I don't care how pretty the reports look. They should be easy to read. I'm designing this for production folks. They need to read the reports quickly when they're patching in the middle of the night."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"In terms of scalability, I believe there's room for improvement. While SCCM is capable of handling our current needs effectively, scalability could be enhanced to accommodate future growth and larger deployments."
"The downside of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is it's an on-premise-based solution. With the pandemic coming on board the need to support users across the globe has increased. For a while, we would use the in-built Microsoft Teams screen sharing feature but the disadvantage of that is you cannot perform privileged access. Microsoft does not give you access to that. That's where you need cloud-based tools, such as BeyondTrust or Freshservice."
"There is a reboot issue with the patching. Sometimes, if patching runs into any issue whatsoever, it doesn't reboot but it doesn't tell you it errored out. It just sits there and we don't find out until the next day whether it patched or not. That was a big issue for us. We're working through that. They added some stuff in there now where you can actually tell reboot is pending. But we still need some kind of notification that if something fails or is pending, we know. We shouldn't have to go in and look. They don't have anything for that right now."
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AutoSys Workload Automation is ranked 6th in Workload Automation with 79 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. AutoSys Workload Automation is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of AutoSys Workload Automation writes "Helps us manage complex workloads, reduce our workload failure rates, and save us time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". AutoSys Workload Automation is most compared with Control-M, IBM Workload Automation, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Automic Workload Automation and Stonebranch, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and Microsoft Intune.
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