We performed a comparison between BMC Client Management and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about JAMF, Microsoft, Kandji and others in Mobile Device Management (MDM)."One feature I like, that was especially valuable during the pandemic, is remote control. Remote control grants administrators and support personnel access to the laptops and PCs of employees (who might be working from home) in order to fix any issues that come up as and when they come up, even without having to wait for a support request."
"It's a scalable solution. We have deployed it for customers using 3000 nodes to those using 300,000 nodes."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its patching capabilities and the help it offers when it comes to use cases, like prompting for the reboot after a certain period of time."
"The most valuable features of the solution are patch management and software license management."
"The support from BMC Client Management is very good."
"The inventory and patch management tools are very valuable."
"Valuable features include configurations enforcement, compliance data gathering, and deployment of a standardized OS."
"Software deployment and WSUS are most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is the software deployment. Additionally, Microsoft integrates most of the other solutions well with one another."
"Automation of operating system, application, and update deployments massively reduces IT operations effort."
"It's a stable product."
"It is a very good solution. It has a good interface and is easy to use. On top of that, it is very reliable in terms of distribution as well as getting the report."
"Technical support was helpful and responsive."
"With the SCCM inventory, we found a lot of rogue applications. We were able to identify them, find out who was running them, and either put them on our application list or remove them."
"BMC Client Management could improve in the area of integration."
"The solution needs to add whitelisting because many customers request it."
"BMC Client Management supports only iOS devices. It would be good if they would support Android as well."
"The solution does not offer the functionality of remote access to users."
"The on-premises version of BMC Client Management has powerful remote control functionality and decent compliance features, but these features both rely on the discovery tool in order to gain a complete set of insights about the endpoint's environment. Now, BMC's discovery solution depends on having an agent installed in each endpoint and sometimes the agent doesn't work properly, making it difficult to get an accurate understanding of the environment (including special topologies) even with BMC's discovery tool."
"It would be good if BMC Client Management can perform vulnerability assessment scanning at the endpoint on its own and mitigate that. Then, we wouldn't have to rely on a third party VA tool. I would like to see this application move to being a web-based one."
"Could do with some cosmetic improvements on the user interface."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"There's no way to say, "I want this maintenance window to be on the second Tuesday of the month." It's strict. This window is this and that's it. You can't fluctuate."
"The assets have reached their end-of-life, and patching them is a complex and laborious task. It would be highly advantageous if there were an integrated solution that provided distinct options for each end-of-life asset, streamlining the process and facilitating comprehension."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
"The tool's deployment is complex and depends on the architecture you want to implement."
"The setup was complex and I faced a lot of problems initially because I was new to the solution."
"The solution could improve the functionality for automating, license management. Additionally, more and better-looking reports are needed."
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BMC Client Management is ranked 5th in Mobile Device Management (MDM) with 6 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. BMC Client Management is rated 8.6, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of BMC Client Management writes "Efficient remote control capabilities; compliance features greatly reduced customers' licensing costs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". BMC Client Management is most compared with Microsoft Intune, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, BigFix, VMware Workspace ONE and Ivanti Endpoint Security for Endpoint Manager, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Kaseya VSA.
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