We performed a comparison between Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to use, easy to implement, and easy to manage."
"Clear visibility regarding the status of the endpoint."
"When it comes to Ivanti Patch for endpoints, I find peer-to-peer patching valuable. Having a peer-to-peer patching capability is highly beneficial for us."
"It's been doing a lot for us, especially with third-party software patching and scheduling. We create multiple projects for monthly patch distribution and manage it all well."
"This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD."
"The major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur."
"It uses detailed descriptions of the workstations, and that is good for me."
"Technical support was helpful and responsive."
"The most valuable feature of SCCM is the application distribution."
"The solution is user-friendly and easy to learn."
"Inability to configure a rule-based management."
"It would be great to have an easier way to patch Linux machines within the product."
"The UI must be more user-friendly."
"The major challenges are macOS updates, patching, and backups. And for drawbacks, I wish Patch management was cloud-based instead of hosted on our own server."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"Devices like smartphones and tablets are managed very well on VMware, however, they are absent in SCCM. I could configure iPad from the VMware site and it was done very easily. It should be just as possible on SCCM."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"The tool's deployment can be cumbersome."
"It should provide the ability to remotely connect to mobile devices. There are some solutions that are doing that, but with Microsoft Intune, the only way to remotely connect to devices outside the organization and mobile devices is by using TeamViewer. It is pretty strange for a big company like Microsoft to not have something for that."
"I'm looking for a single solution for all discovery needs. It fulfills about 40% of the requirements, and I'd like to see the other 60% so that I don't have to keep doing this."
"Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager could improve the integration."
"Marketing: Our management doesn't understand that there is a piece of software which helps them automate and manage the entire network, as far as operating systems on computers."
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Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager is ranked 17th in Patch Management with 4 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews. Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager writes "Smoothly handles software patching and scheduling, enabling monthly patch distribution across multiple projects". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager is most compared with GFI LanGuard and Ivanti Security Controls, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, Microsoft Intune and Tanium. See our Ivanti Patch for Endpoint Manager vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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