We performed a comparison between BMC Client Management and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about JAMF, Microsoft, Kandji and others in Mobile Device Management (MDM)."It's a scalable solution. We have deployed it for customers using 3000 nodes to those using 300,000 nodes."
"The inventory and patch management tools are very valuable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are patch management and software license management."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its patching capabilities and the help it offers when it comes to use cases, like prompting for the reboot after a certain period of time."
"The support from BMC Client Management is very good."
"One feature I like, that was especially valuable during the pandemic, is remote control. Remote control grants administrators and support personnel access to the laptops and PCs of employees (who might be working from home) in order to fix any issues that come up as and when they come up, even without having to wait for a support request."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"We're a Microsoft-centric organization, so we are happy with the integration between products."
"The scalability to deploy the package."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"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."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"It is a good choice for deployment that performs very well."
"BMC Client Management supports only iOS devices. It would be good if they would support Android as well."
"The on-premises version of BMC Client Management has powerful remote control functionality and decent compliance features, but these features both rely on the discovery tool in order to gain a complete set of insights about the endpoint's environment. Now, BMC's discovery solution depends on having an agent installed in each endpoint and sometimes the agent doesn't work properly, making it difficult to get an accurate understanding of the environment (including special topologies) even with BMC's discovery tool."
"It would be good if BMC Client Management can perform vulnerability assessment scanning at the endpoint on its own and mitigate that. Then, we wouldn't have to rely on a third party VA tool. I would like to see this application move to being a web-based one."
"BMC Client Management could improve in the area of integration."
"The solution needs to add whitelisting because many customers request it."
"The solution does not offer the functionality of remote access to users."
"They need to improve the support for the Mac operating system."
"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."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"The tool's deployment is difficult. Microsoft needs to improve documentation with videos."
"The setup was complex and I faced a lot of problems initially because I was new to the solution."
"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."
"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."
"I'm looking for a single solution for all discovery needs. It fulfills about 40% of the requirements, and I'd like to see the other 60% so that I don't have to keep doing this."
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BMC Client Management is ranked 5th in Mobile Device Management (MDM) with 6 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. BMC Client Management is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Client Management writes "Efficient remote control capabilities; compliance features greatly reduced customers' licensing costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Affordable, easy to use, and easy to understand". BMC Client Management is most compared with Microsoft Intune, BigFix, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, VMware Workspace ONE and Ivanti Endpoint Security for Endpoint Manager, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Tanium and NinjaOne.
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