We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Endpoint Central and SOTI MobiControl based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have one MDM that works with Windows, iOS, and Android."
"The ability to push applications on devices is valuable. You do not have to manually install applications one by one. If you like to use ten different applications, you do not have to manually go and download them one by one. Intune can compile a package for you, and then you can just push them from the admin center."
"The Microsoft Windows Autopilot and Defender policies are the most valuable features of this solution."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"The mobile application management, MAM, is the most useful aspect of the solution."
"With on-premises Active Directory, the main challenge was that we had no control when a user was working from home. We didn't know what exactly a user was doing and whether the AV was up to date or not. Intune provides better control of their machines."
"Its protection policies are most valuable. It protects mobile devices as well as individual apps. It is pretty scalable, and its documentation is also pretty good. It is also pretty straightforward to deploy."
"...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."
"ManageEngine Desktop Central has greatly improved our organization by utilizing Service Desk Plus to monitor and keep track of issues that our end users report to our Help Desk Department. We also have written in the ode of our company's software to notify Support if an end-user experience an issue and does not report it."
"The patch management aspect of the solution is the most valuable part for us."
"Has good functionality and is user-friendly."
"The mobile functionality is very easy."
"What I like best about this product is that I can log on to every PC, very easily, and chat with the user via the chat feature."
"Its cross-platform capabilities and the ability to do both OS-level patching and third-party patching are valuable. It is difficult to find a software product that will do all that for you out of the box, and you don't have to do any configuration other than your initial setup. Once you do that, there is a very minimalistic approach to getting it operational. You can have it up and running within a 20-minute time span."
"Page management and ADA integrations are the most valuable features of ManageEngine Endpoint Central."
"Very good, functional solution for endpoint management."
"It is very reliable, and their support is excellent."
"SOTI MobiControl is the right solution for customers who want a reliable and low-cost MDM solution."
"I've really enjoyed the use of the file sync when I'm administrating version control in my program."
"The feature I find most valuable within Soti is the ability to reset or unlock a device. A lot of the devices that we use are in the field. We have locations in Dallas, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, and Phoenix, Arizona and there isn't always someone, within our company, who is managing these devices. Sometimes it's the doctors' offices that we partner with where they use these devices. Having the ability to remotely reset a device or unlock a device has been super-crucial for me."
"The company's support is the best. That'd be the number one thing."
"The installation is very straightforward."
"The licensing is simple."
"One of the most valuable features is the ease of moving items from one configuration to another; it's a Windows-like setup. Also, the admin console is very easy to manage and to move through."
"I expect Microsoft Intune to have more features in the cloud because there are two major functionalities that we need to be added. This is software metering and license management. These functionalities, for now, must be on-premise. For this purpose, we have set up a SQL Server and I hope that in near future this option will be in the cloud in Microsoft Intune."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"I have a lot of Apple products in my environment. It would be nice to have an improved integration of Apple products with Microsoft Intune without Jam."
"When Microsoft Intune is used with different android devices it does not always work as it is supposed to."
"It would be nice to have a location tracker for the mobile device management tool. I'm not sure if it exists but hasn't been configured or if it's missing, but we've been unable to utilize the location features."
"It would be great to see on-premises mailboxes and for the solution to have geofencing capabilities."
"I would like some integration with the Microsoft reporting platform Power BI."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"I would like to see them include the ability to find out the network usage but I believe that might be a feature of it already."
"The MDM feature isn't very good. It doesn't support Amazon vendors."
"The reporting analytics could improve in ManageEngine Desktop Central. However, there are some third-party add-ins or modules you can purchase to do reporting analytics."
"There is a slight delay in customer support, which is something that can be improved."
"There are occasional glitches."
"The team I've currently got is not using it particularly well, due to the fact that they don't know how to use it particularly well. They've not done any training and so on."
"The reports provided by the product are an area of concern where improvements are required. The visibility provided by the reports is not very attractive."
"The support could be faster."
"They could make it easier to configure. While setting it up from scratch, I find many networking issues, and I have to call our network people for them, but our network people don't understand. It's a nightmare to try to communicate to them that this port needs to be open, or this needs to be opened here or there. Networking people are very security conscious, and they're wary of doing anything. So, if you can't tell them exactly why they need to do something, they get really paranoid. SOTI could do a better job of making the configuration of their software easier to understand and more clear. The prerequisites should be clear. They should clearly specify what is required to get this software working. There should be a list of prerequisites that is easier to understand and trust."
"They have legacy design architecture, and sometimes the support isn't helpful."
"In the next release, they should make it easier to migrate."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the ability to customize devices and choosing what information goes onto them."
"Adding more features for iOS devices would be an improvement."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"SOTI MobiControl could improve by being more user-friendly."
"You need to get used to the admin console. I think it could be improved. It's not the best I've seen. Certainly, the software has a lot of features so you necessarily have some complexity in the interface, but I've seen better. They could make it easier in certain aspects."
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central is ranked 4th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 60 reviews while SOTI MobiControl is ranked 5th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 47 reviews. ManageEngine Endpoint Central is rated 8.2, while SOTI MobiControl is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Endpoint Central writes "An in-depth and intuitive product with good cross-platform capabilities, but they should have a more global support channel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SOTI MobiControl writes "Provides enterprise mobility and remote control mobile device management". ManageEngine Endpoint Central is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and BigFix, whereas SOTI MobiControl is most compared with VMware Workspace ONE, 42Gears SureMDM, Jamf Pro, IBM MaaS360 and Scalefusion. See our ManageEngine Endpoint Central vs. SOTI MobiControl report.
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