We performed a comparison between SOTI MobiControl and VMware Workspace ONE 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.
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"Fortunately, now everything is streamlined into a single, unified platform."
"I like the fact that it's integrated with the rest of the Microsoft products, so customers can manage it from their Office 365 portal or Azure portal."
"Microsoft's cloud comes with a lot of extra features that are free of charge."
"It has helped with compliance. It has helped to ensure that devices comply with the organization's policy. If they are not compliant and secure, they cannot access the resources."
"The policy and compliance monitoring of devices and the software deployment are most valuable."
"I like that it's very good and very simple. I found that we just needed to have a proper subscription for an Intune tenant, and from the subscription, if we have the right role assigned, like the global admin role or the owner role, we can use Microsoft cloud resources. With the help of that, we can do many things like setting up Microsoft Intune in the cloud to create our virtual machines. All these can be done, and the steps are very simple. I really liked it. I like features like Windows Auto-Enrollment. I like it very much because whenever you supply it to the end-user, it will be ready to use immediately. The end-user only needs to provide the user credentials, and then they are good to go. I also really like Cloud PC, which was recently launched on Azure."
"The company's support is the best. That'd be the number one thing."
"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."
"It is a scalable solution."
"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 most valuable features are remote control, remote monitoring of the mobile phone data, GPS localization, automobile network management, identity management, speaker logging, and remote management of mobile content."
"The best feature is its compatibility with various device versions, such as Windows, making it work seamlessly."
"The product provides us with information about the incidents. It helped us block specific devices remotely."
"We can do auto patch updates using SOTI. SOTI has been well placed in terms of the number of endpoints it can handle."
"The contained browser is a good feature."
"We've found the solution to be easy to use."
"The feature with the highest rating for me is its employee management. I can also praise how versatile it is in terms of operating systems. It has good support for multiple operating systems and can easily manage them all. Not just that, but it can also support any kind of tool that can be run on all these operating systems."
"The product enables us to access our internal applications from anywhere in the world."
"Sometimes, we face an issue and raise a ticket. The technical support team is fantastic and resolves the issue."
"If an outside person tries to track or hack information, it is not possible without us being notified."
"The Identity component of this solution is its most valuable feature."
"No issues with scalability."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"Microsoft Intune lacks the ability to provide seamless remote assistance or remote control."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"The pricing could be improved."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"The Mac integration has room for improvement."
"Onboarding of endpoint devices is not straightforward. The onboarding process was a little heavier than I thought it would be. That's the key improvement area. Obviously, the more control you have over the devices, the better it is."
"It would be great to see on-premises mailboxes and for the solution to have geofencing capabilities."
"Its user interface needs to be improved."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the ability to customize devices and choosing what information goes onto them."
"In future releases, I would like to see a better configuration of the dashboard."
"Companies like SOTI and Mobile Iron are working with Google to help them manage these devices and eliminate the use of bar code scanner sales and mobile device sales. That's kind of crazy."
"The pricing policy of SOTI is not stable. You buy it today at one price, and the following year, it becomes something like 5% or 7% higher. From my point of view, SOTI is a little bit weak in terms of implementation on the new Windows 10 devices, and they have to work on this. It can't compete with Intune and other solutions when it comes to Windows implementation. It almost doesn't work with iOS. It works well with Android."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"SOTI MobiControl is very good for Android and Windows, but it should add a little bit on the Apple side because it doesn't have much control on the Apple side."
"They should improve the lockdown feature."
"Pricing is the only challenge right now. The licensing fee should be simplified a little bit. They have kept too many products as add ons. These need to be bundled with the low-cost, standard version. This will help customers in adopting this technology at a faster pace."
"VMware Workspace ONE platform offers support for Mac Books and we see that there is some room for improvement in that area versus all the products out there."
"AirWatch doesn't seem to empower IT admins to try new things or get creative with implementations."
"I'd like to see expanded device support, particularly for IoT things like SCADA devices."
"Patching, fixing, and training for VMware Workspace ONE are areas that need to be improved."
"There are some bugs that our team needs to work around. It required some API integration required because visitor integration was not there. For example, we are currently working on a tunnel issue, and VMware doesn't have this solution."
"We're unhappy with the quality of support we get for it. We're unhappy with how upgrades occur, so we are migrating away from it. We have an on-premise AirWatch solution and for us to do upgrades we have to call AirWatch to be able to perform the upgrades. They're busy, and scheduling it is not timely enough for us."
"The location service could improve and more integration with other devices, such as Android enterprise and Apple devices."
SOTI MobiControl is ranked 5th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 46 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 81 reviews. SOTI MobiControl is rated 8.2, while VMware Workspace ONE is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of SOTI MobiControl writes "Provides enterprise mobility and remote control mobile device management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workspace ONE writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and offers single sign-on". SOTI MobiControl is most compared with 42Gears SureMDM, Jamf Pro, IBM MaaS360, ManageEngine Endpoint Central and Scalefusion, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Citrix Workspace and Cisco Meraki Systems Manager (MDM+EMM). See our SOTI MobiControl vs. VMware Workspace ONE report.
See our list of best Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) vendors.
We monitor all Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.
