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.
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The security-related tools are excellent; these features allow us to secure devices, lock them down, and ensure compliance."
"At the moment, Autopilot is the most valuable feature."
"The feature I like the most is that we can perform remote tasks. If we want to retire or wipe out personal data or corporate data from a device, we can use Microsoft Intune remotely, and with the click of a button, data is removed automatically. Nothing needs to be done from the end-user side."
"Intune provides full visibility into all active mobile device users. If their devices are noncompliant with our security policies, I have the flexibility to update them remotely."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"Also, although they're Apple products, we don't use the Find My iPhone feature because that would require us to use so many fake numbers or come up with a list of numbers. SOTI has been super-helpful in helping us track where an iPad is and knowing that we can remote-access it."
"The other one would be just how easy it is to deploy applications."
"The Lockdown Kiosk Mode is very useful... When you have 9,000 people remotely using your applications, you want to make sure that they don't play with Facebook while they're supposed to be working... It also prevents installation of software that could be harmful or compromise the security of the phone."
"I've really enjoyed the use of the file sync when I'm administrating version control in my program."
"It's been very stable over the past few years."
"The best feature is its compatibility with various device versions, such as Windows, making it work seamlessly."
"Among the valuable features are managing configurations of all devices and being able to remote into devices... We send out configurations for each site that has its devices. Each site has a different configuration, and SOTI manages each configuration for each site"
"SOTI's most valuable feature has to be mobile device management and visibility through the main console. There's a central dashboard that you can use to monitor the devices and keep track of usage, battery consumption, and battery life."
"It has good stability."
"The product has fully automated features that help people do tasks easily."
"App delivery and management platform that's user-friendly, with a good interface. Easy to scale, easy to set up, with good stability."
"The most valuable features are the ones that control the leaking."
"The most valuable features of VMware Workspace ONE are security and having support for all the latest features that are coming out from Apple. They're pretty fast at adopting new features. This is one of the most vital aspects of mobile device management systems."
"Its UI is extremely easy to use whether you're an advanced user or a novice user. When I first opened it up and had to learn the product, I was easily a novice. By the end of the third month, I was digging into the backend of the system and using it as a highly advanced user to accomplish what I needed to accomplish, and I was able to do it through the UI mostly."
"It is easy to start something and work from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of VMware Workspace ONE is its reliability."
"In terms of what can be improved, I am looking for better enhancements regarding Apple management, not only on the mobile device, but also on the laptop."
"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."
"Lacks the ability to deploy more ways of management, managing devices and processing the policies."
"I think there should be a better tracking of the cell phones used on the Intune."
"The security features should be improved."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"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."
"Additional application deployment options e.g. MSI deployment with more complex parameters or additional side-by-side files, and non-MSI deployment options."
"The scalability is horizontal, not vertical. One machine has to have all the accounts. That's one of the issues that we have found with scalability: You always have to keep the same machine. If you want to add a second machine, you need to split the account and that removes flexibility of management."
"In the next release, they should make it easier to migrate."
"Improving the reporting section would be beneficial for enhancing the product's overall functionality."
"The main feature that we would like to have with Soti is the ability to push an iOS update without having people come to my office. That is the main reason why we went with Soti. And that feature is not working on my version."
"One issue is that if someone is using an Apple device and they're on the SIM card for data, it does not push the SOTI management system through immediately. It only works when you have it on WiFi. That's something I've noticed as we're troubleshooting and deploying devices into the field."
"SOTI MobiControl's user interface is very tough to handle and should be made more user-friendly."
"Where they need improvement is not as much on the technical side but, rather, on their communication. In general, that has been poor. Account management and communication could be greatly improved..."
"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."
"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."
"I prefer to work with Jamf Pro because it is more specific to working with the iPad features."
"I would like to see some integration with native Microsoft products such as Anti-value."
"When we had some issues, the support did not respond quickly, and they did not provide a solution."
"They need a more flexible pricing model."
"There are other solutions that might be better for certain use cases. This is not an all-purpose solution."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive to our requests."
"We'd like more useful support."
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.
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