We performed a comparison between BigFix and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"The solution has reduced the risk of security breaches by 30%."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"I like how Microsoft Intune lets me lock down the email profile and make it accessible only on certain devices."
"One of the standout features of Intune is its seamless accessibility to work data, eliminating the need to be tied to an office or a desktop."
"The standout features of Intune are its excellent mobile device management and highly effective application management capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the UEM capabilities."
"The main advantage is that Intune performs its intended functions effectively."
"The most valuable feature of BigFix is the software deployment."
"We are able to go from patching thousands of machines by twenty to thirty people to one person."
"The product is less costly when compared to other solutions, and this is a good solid solution for what we have paid."
"It has improved reliability upon delivery of software and has also helped reduce software expenses. The extensibility of BigFix helps to create custom solutions where we may have considered purchasing something instead."
"This has very much improved our organization by saving time to deploy thousands of endpoints to our customers."
"The most valuable features of the solution are Windows patching and the hardware and software inventory."
"It has improved my organization because we can automate a lot of tasks. We went from manually patching machines or doing our best and having very little visibility into it to us being able to set it and forget it and getting really good results on first-pass patching."
"We rely on BigFix as part of our consulting engagements. It's more efficient from a visibility and discovery standpoint on the initial phase, the consulting engagement. It also increases our efficiencies on the remediation phase of our engagements."
"It's a very nice solution for our needs."
"Configuration Manager simplifies management. Cloning via live migration is a useful feature."
"This solution is good for individual storage."
"The solution is excellent at automating processes."
"I appreciate it because it's very easy to set up and configure new disks and servers."
"The most valuable features that VMware's vCenter Configuration Manager have, when compared with other solutions, are their disaster recovery and business connectivity capabilities."
"The stability and reliability are great."
"The clustering part and the load balancing part are most valuable."
"One area for improvement is app deployment. Another is the Windows update rollout. If you're rolling out an object to a device that's offline, Intune stops trying to reach this device after it sits idle for a bit. We are forced to find a workaround that could help manage that."
"Reporting and troubleshooting for the application deployment could be better. It's very difficult to understand."
"It doesn't economize when you scale up. We have over 14,000 employees, and we have between 7,500 and 8,000 city-owned or personal devices being used to conduct city business. Its price can be improved. It is not a cheap solution."
"The security features should be improved."
"Intune doesn't provide much control over Windows servers. It's something we struggle with."
"Microsoft Intune could improve by being more user-friendly and having it geared toward device management. The graphic interface is not very good."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
"I would like to see the ability to deploy custom packages as a Windows 64-bit package, as opposed to the Windows 32-bit, which is the only one available now."
"I would like the dashboard to be improved to show the problematic machines and good machines."
"The reporting and dashboard parts have room for improvement."
"I would like to see more custom content."
"I'd definitely like to see additional feature parody in the web UI versus the console. There are certain things that you can only do in the console and they're very cumbersome to do, like secure parameters, for example. That's definitely something that has a wide degree of utility but it needs to be easier to surface. At this particular juncture between the transition, between the legacy console and the web UI, it's hard to justify dealing with the cumbersome aspects of the legacy console when theoretically everything's been through the web UI."
"In order to derive maximum benefit from BigFix, it is essential that we configure all of its features and implement them effectively. If the automation could be improved we would be able to mitigate the risks associated with zero-day threats."
"I want to see a solution for being able to deploy automated software to a Mac running OS X 10.13, something that's going to deal with kernel exceptions and answering prompts for user permissions for data folders and whatnot. They need to really streamline and automate the Mac software deployment."
"I self-taught for this online, so the initial setup was a little difficult to pick up at first. I had to create a couple of testing environments and destroy them in order to learn how to use it. There was a lot of trial and error, a lot of reading of the manuals."
"The tool should be more friendly in terms of Web UI and should be having better vulnerability scanning mechanisms so a third-party application is not required to fulfill that aspect."
"The solution needs to add its own backup system because it has issues integrating with third-party solutions."
"Some of the migrations are difficult to manage since the solution is not compatible with a few of the operating systems, which poses a challenge during the physical to virtual migration process."
"It lacks the capability to manage the other systems."
"The only challenge my company faces with the solution in relation to the customers is something that is directly related to the tool's pricing."
"The functions are not running in HTML5."
"Acquiring certifications often require extensive training and successfully passing an exam, which can be costly and time-consuming, particularly if you already possess experience in the domain. As a result, this can increase the overall cost of obtaining certification and may present a challenge that requires addressing."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"The interface itself is not very user-friendly."
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BigFix is ranked 5th in Configuration Management with 91 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 9th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. BigFix is rated 8.6, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of BigFix writes "Very stable and easy to deploy with excellent patch compliance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". BigFix is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Tanium and ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager and Red Hat Satellite. See our BigFix vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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