We performed a comparison between Google Cloud Identity and Microsoft Intune based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Microsoft Intune has a slight edge over Google Cloud Identity in this comparison, mainly because it is the more user-friendly solution.
"I used it as an administrator without implementing it myself. As for valuable aspects or benefits, the significant point is that it's a straightforward, single solution that just works."
"It is a stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Google Cloud Identity uses what they call organizational units (OUs) instead of the security groups you'd find in Microsoft's Entra."
"The solution is primarily used for single control and single sign which helps with the security and authentication of multiple devices."
"Although we have not looked at the whole product and explored it completely, we find that all the authentication features that we are using now are valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Google Cloud Identity is its stability."
"The main control page and the ability to manage all our users from a web-based portal are the most valuable aspects of the solution. That's particularly useful because we're a heterogeneous network."
"The tool provides a free service that you can integrate for laptop authentication. You also don’t need a separate Active Directory."
"A valuable feature is user enrollment, where users can enroll their devices in their organizations themselves."
"As the solution is a software as a service, the scalability is unlimited."
"The key benefit of Intune is its integration with the Microsoft ecosystem."
"Remote Wipe and Autopilot is one of the best features."
"I like the tool's integration with Apple. Anyone who creates an ID in Intune will get an Apple ID."
"Intune is effective because of the configuration management and endpoint security it provides. The graphical interface makes it easier to configure and deploy devices."
"The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"The conditional access policies that we set up are very useful."
"The integration should be made easier."
"The management of external users needs to be introduced in the tool as it is an area of concern in the tool presently."
"The solution's storage capacity could be increased."
"I would like to see more integration in future releases."
"I want the tool to improve its support. It should also incorporate some functionalities. Currently, preparing presentations in Google is a pain point. The tool’s certain features like user provisioning are not intuitive as well. The product’s LDAP support is very poor. Clients do not trust the product due to the spam."
"If you want to set up some alerts, you don't have much control over the configuration. You have to use their default alerts. And they only provide alerts for certain activities, so you cannot customize those. Monitoring isn't very helpful either."
"Technical support is slow."
"The pricing for this solution is a little bit higher than AWS and others, which is something that should be improved."
"We need the capabilities of the Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) to be enhanced through Intune instead of Azure."
"I would like to see micro VPN. I like the way that some of the other providers have done something similar where, as you open that app on an end-point device, it creates a micro VPN straight into your device, which is quite a nice little feature. Also, Microsoft Intune relies heavily on its fellow products in the suite. It would be nice if Microsoft Intune could stand on its own two feet."
"There is room for improvement in integration and security as well."
"There can be delays in the deployment of new policies."
"A new Intune feature allows application packaging, but it incurs additional licensing costs for a significant number of applications."
"There are a lot of small use cases where we realized that some technical solution was missing in Microsoft in comparison to other products. For example, it lacks something similar to sensing or location-based rules and configurations."
"An issue we have run into with Microsoft Endpoint Manager is that we cannot patch third-party products like Adobe and Chrome with it."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
Google Cloud Identity is ranked 7th in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 21 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 164 reviews. Google Cloud Identity is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Google Cloud Identity writes "A stable and scalable cloud solution easily compatible with Google office Suite". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Intune writes "We can manage all aspects of our devices from a single console, easy to scale, and quick to deploy". Google Cloud Identity is most compared with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta Workforce Identity, JumpCloud, VMware Workspace ONE and ManageEngine Endpoint Central, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. See our Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Intune report.
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