"To me, the most valuable feature of Clarity CA is the timesheet. It's the only feature I use because I just support the tool, and I just enter time on it. Others use Clarity CA for other purposes, such as resource management, project management, scheduling, and financials. The tool also has a fairly simple integration with other systems, so at the moment, it's working fine. I also like that you can write your own code in Clarity CA, and you can make changes to it based on your needs."
"It's helped us solve problems surrounding patching, installing, and reporting different patches, etc., on the virtual machines."
"The tool's most valuable features are easy patch management and software deployment."
"The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching."
"I like a lot of the reporting capabilities and baseline configurations."
"The solution is highly scalable."
"It saves a lot of money when you can install things automatically and they are installed the exact same way on every computer."
"The solution has a very good set of features."
"Microsoft is being very competitive right now, and they are really investing in a lot of new features to be more competitive in the marketplace."
"What could be improved in Clarity CA is its UI, but I know the Clarity team is working on a new UI, so I'm expecting its UI to get better. The software also has too many functions, so it would be good if the functions or features could be split up, rather than needing to buy the whole Clarity CA package, when you'll only use a few of its functions. This increases the cost of the software, so that's another area for improvement. How Clarity CA is marketed could also be improved."
"One area of improvement is regarding the patching of Office 365 products. We have some difficulties on this side, and it can be improved."
"Our company would prefer not rebooting computers while people are using them. There seems to be no strategy behind it."
"It would be better if reporting were more user-friendly. I would like to see an upgrade in the reporting structure in the next release. At the moment, you have to use an SQL query or configure it to pull reports through the graphical user interface. Their updates could be more regular. I think Mircosoft updates it every six months. They are also moving many things to Intune, and Microsoft decided to move the deployment solution there. I think SCCM is getting old, and Intune is new."
"The solution is on-premises. The cloud version of the product, if a person needs to be on the cloud, would be InTune, which already exists as an option. SCCM doesn't need to offer cloud features for this reason."
"The App to upgrades to the server needs to be improved."
"The database should be made to be more stable and robust, but not so much the configuration."
"It is a bit of an old and outdated product."
"I would like to see some improvements in WSUS and control of other, non-Microsoft, product updates."
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Clarity CA is ranked 3rd in Client Desktop Management with 2 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 2nd in Server Monitoring with 78 reviews. Clarity CA is rated 8.0, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Clarity CA writes "Multipurpose and useful for managing projects and resources; easy to integrate with other systems, and has a knowledgeable technical support team". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". Clarity CA is most compared with , whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium.
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