We performed a comparison between CA Harvest Software Change Manager and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."Using this solution, we were able to implement a full process for all of our lifecycles."
"The ability to give our teams functionality from a control perspective, allowing them to decide how they want to implement the tool, is valuable."
"With the SCCM inventory, we found a lot of rogue applications. We were able to identify them, find out who was running them, and either put them on our application list or remove them."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is very scalable."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to learn."
"What's valuable is the basic management of the systems, being able to control who can access the systems."
"This solution captures all the devices in our infrastructure."
"I like Mircosoft's technical support. Microsoft has a few updates, like some of the critical KBs. They are published within the interval time, and in case of an escalation on the client missions, we will raise a ticket with the Microsoft team. They will create a hotfix or a critical update. They will chat with us, and that is one thing I like about Microsoft. Whenever any issues occur at my organization, they will help you out soon as possible within the SLA."
"You can remote control or RDP. That has been the most valuable because we can go into one console and can get to anything we want. Instead of going to all these different consoles, we centralized everything."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"Security features can be improved."
"Technical support for this solution is very good, although they can still use improvement in some regards."
"Password complexity is not enforced by the tool."
"The solution is on-premises. The cloud version of the product, if a person needs to be on the cloud, would be InTune, which already exists as an option. SCCM doesn't need to offer cloud features for this reason."
"Troubleshooting in general needs improvement. There's just a ton of logs to go through, and so finding the error log that corresponds with that you're doing can sometimes be difficult."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"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."
"There is no asset management package included."
"Some of the capabilities aren't fully developed yet. It's an ongoing work in progress. I think they are making some steps in the right direction as far as managing workstations centrally, like Intune."
"The deployment process is lengthy and should be quicker to complete."
"The ability to integrate MDM would be great."
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CA Harvest Software Change Manager is ranked 8th in Software Configuration Management while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. CA Harvest Software Change Manager is rated 7.2, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of CA Harvest Software Change Manager writes "Powerful UDP functionality with a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". CA Harvest Software Change Manager is most compared with Endevor, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium.
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