We performed a comparison between Aruba ClearPass 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 comes out on top in this comparison. It is a powerful product with a proven ROI. In addition, according to reviewers, it is easier to deploy than Aruba ClearPass. Aruba ClearPass does come out on top in the Support category, however.
"What I like most about Aruba ClearPass is its access tracker that serves as its monitoring feature. The access tracker is really helpful when you want to troubleshoot authentication failures."
"It eliminated the management of 10 different individual discrete RADIUS servers."
"Gives us network access control, visibility, scalability, security, and control in what is becoming an uncontrollable, inundated BYOD and IoT world."
"The web dashboard and the policy manager are very intuitive and very easy for the engineers to use."
"Aruba has improved my organization because it supported me on my level of access."
"The setup is simple."
"The most valuable features of Aruba ClearPass are its ease of use and the general network access controls."
"What I like best about Aruba ClearPass is its 802.1X certificate-based authentication feature."
"This product works very well for companies already using the full Microsoft suite."
"The ability to wipe data from and reset devices is one of the most important and valuable features. If a device is reported stolen, we can freeze it or wipe the data from it, preventing data leakage."
"The overall user experience is quite nice. I have no complaints from end users regarding their devices enrolled in Intune."
"There is a single pane of glass for user access and a single sign-on facility for the user. If you have already logged in to Microsoft Azure or on-premises, you can redirect directly to Microsoft Endpoint Manager, monitor all your security threats, and analyze the data associated with the application in a single, unified way."
"Internet-based access with security is what I have found to be most valuable. It is also a stable and scalable solution."
"We use a local Active Directory, but we weren't able to manage all our on-site systems without a solution like Intune, and we needed to deploy software like VPNs and other things. It's seamless now to to this through Intune."
"I like that we can implement conditional access."
"The Asset Management and Auto Pilot are valuable features."
"The improvement can be in the cloud area. They can improve it for the cloud so that we can deploy it on the cloud."
"The initial setup was quite complex, it is not that easy."
"A specific component is part of the solution called ClearPass Onboard, which can sometimes be complex and challenging to set up. If they could simplify the process and make it easier, that would be a benefit."
"Aruba ClearPass has fewer deployment scenarios and flexibility than Forescout."
"The initial setup phase of the solution was really very difficult, owing to which the setup phase can be considered as an area that can be improved."
"I remember our technical team stating that the installation front of the solution was a bit difficult when compared to other solutions."
"There is room for improvement in the support."
"Configuration should be more easy to understand between the link of two topics."
"They should improve its compatibility with other operating systems such as iOS and Linux. It supports Linux but they still need to work on the iOS part."
"Regarding mobile devices, Intune is good, but there are other services that I would say are ahead of Intune from an administration and reporting point of view."
"It would be beneficial to have a more straightforward understanding of Intune's capabilities, presented in a simplified manner."
"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."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"Intune's reporting and logging could be improved. When troubleshooting, it's difficult to collect the logs and determine what's happening. If I want to filter out the compliant devices, I can see it from the logs, but I would like the option to drill down further."
"The mobile and tablet-based versions need improvement because they are not completely user-friendly, compared to the web version. Also, data synchronization with our existing asset manager, the synchronization between multiple assets and multiple devices, takes a lot of time due to the security scanning. It should be reduced."
"The current Intune reporting functionality could benefit from some improvements."
Aruba ClearPass is ranked 2nd in Network Access Control (NAC) with 75 reviews while Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) with 165 reviews. Aruba ClearPass is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Aruba ClearPass writes "Easy to use, multifeatured, and reliable policy management platform for identity authentication and new device onboarding". 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". Aruba ClearPass is most compared with Cisco ISE (Identity Services Engine), Fortinet FortiNAC, Forescout Platform, Ruckus Cloudpath and macmon Network Access Control, whereas Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, VMware Workspace ONE, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Entra ID and SOTI MobiControl.
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