We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Endpoint Central and Sophos Mobile based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It supports end-users who tend to lock their devices quite frequently. Its conditional access policy helps us keep the users logged into their devices."
"The aspects I find most valuable are the managing the data and applications. I can also restrict the users to install any applications. I can also wipe the data if the phone was missplaced or stolen. These are the basics for me."
"Application deployment and keeping the devices secure no matter where they are, by having this cloud solution — that has been great."
"It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"It's easy to manage."
"We have one MDM that works with Windows, iOS, and Android."
"The ability to (somewhat) manage full Windows 10 computers including EXE-based or MSI-based application deployments using Azure Active Directory as Identity."
"The biggest thing for us is enforcing logins only from devices that are managed by Intune."
"The most valuable in Desktop Central is the way it is tightly coupled with the rest of the modules and the entire gamut of ManageEngine."
"The ability to run event viewer, task manager, services, command, file browser, certificate all remotely without interrupting users is the most valuable aspect. Software deployment and prohibiting, allowing us to standardize on the software that has been deployed through the environment and then prohibiting illegal software such as torrent applications has been valuable."
"Page management and ADA integrations are the most valuable features of ManageEngine Endpoint Central."
"ManageEngine Desktop Central has greatly improved our organization by utilizing Service Desk Plus to monitor and keep track of issues that our end users report to our Help Desk Department. We also have written in the ode of our company's software to notify Support if an end-user experience an issue and does not report it."
"It's a complete product that allows you to remote troubleshoot, has an inventory of systems."
"Everything is easily centralized and managed under this one product."
"ManageEngine has improved my organization because right now we can actually monitor and find out which software products are installed on each desktop. We can then figure out which ones have to get patched and so forth."
"ManageEngine Desktop Central automatically alerts you if there are newer releases or updates. You do not have to go to their website and check."
"The solution provides us with data protection."
"In terms of valuable features, we liked the lock feature, the roll-out white feature, and the find feature. I think that Sophos had a GPS locator, so you could figure out where the phone was from a GPS location."
"The most valuable feature is the mobile device management capability. You can easily manage all of your mobile devices."
"The utmost importance lies in mobile security and its performance."
"Sophos can block the Wi-Fi connection on a mobile device. That's one feature we wanted, but the main thing is the ability to disable the device if it's lost or stolen. We need to shut down PayPal, so it can't be used to make unauthorized purchases."
"The solution is quite user-friendly."
"The remote management and cloud-based maintenance features of this solution are very useful for our organization."
"The security features work well."
"The reporting could be improved, as it's pretty poor compared to other products of this type."
"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."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"We haven't really gone through all the features of Intune. We are just discovering them. Every day, we see a new feature that we want to apply, but what will be great for Intune is to be able to deploy apps in a simple fashion. We should be able to easily install various apps on the Windows platform, iOS, and Android. Currently, we have to write some scripts. It's not as straightforward as we would like it to be. It should be simplified so that we can do it just with three clicks—next, next, finish—without needing to write a script."
"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."
"The closest Microsoft Intune can be to GPOs, the better. There needs to be more granularity on application deployments. However, they have done better recently with the application deployments."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"It needs certificate provisioning for S/MIME purposes."
"The team I've currently got is not using it particularly well, due to the fact that they don't know how to use it particularly well. They've not done any training and so on."
"The solution is expensive."
"I would like to see them include the ability to find out the network usage but I believe that might be a feature of it already."
"The reports provided by the product are an area of concern where improvements are required. The visibility provided by the reports is not very attractive."
"Improvement of the chats on the web communication through the WAN would be helpful."
"Desktop Central has very good information, however, you can't customize the dashboards."
"The pricing could be a bit better."
"We would like to see options for deploying Microsoft 365 accounts into Outlook. For now we only can use it to deploy exchange accounts. Also we would like to see an option do decline Windows 7 ESU patches in a bulk."
"The features of Sophos Mobile could improve. The way the system works together could be better. Additionally, the integration with other Sophos products could improve."
"In terms of what could be improved, the initial configuration and setup of the environment could probably be made a little bit easier. There are so many pieces that go into it. Intune is absolutely insane and Sophos is better, but it still is a bit complex to get it all set up correctly."
"The setup should be made easier."
"We have experienced issues in updating iOS devices when we set a minimum version requirement policy, and we do not have the option to force automatic installation. This means that the device must be supervised in order for updates to be applied, which we would like to see improved."
"They continue to work on integration with mobile device management and mobile security. They are improving the protection but I think that the capabilities still need to be enhanced."
"The product does not work well in iOS."
"There may be necessary adjustments that need to be made because we are facing certain restrictions within the work profile."
"To manage the Apple devices is not that straightforward there are a lot of features the other third parties solutions are offering which Sophos Mobile is not."
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ManageEngine Endpoint Central is ranked 3rd in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 60 reviews while Sophos Mobile doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 13 reviews. ManageEngine Endpoint Central is rated 8.2, while Sophos Mobile is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Endpoint Central writes "An in-depth and intuitive product with good cross-platform capabilities, but they should have a more global support channel". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sophos Mobile writes "Stable product with central administration to manage device security ". ManageEngine Endpoint Central is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Workspace ONE, Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and Google Cloud Identity, whereas Sophos Mobile is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, Lookout, IBM MaaS360 and SOTI MobiControl. See our ManageEngine Endpoint Central vs. Sophos Mobile report.
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