We performed a comparison between IIS and Microsoft System Center based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Infrastructure solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."This is definitely a stable solution."
"The solution is simple and very easy to manage compared to Linux."
"The product is easy to configure."
"The solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"Windows Server IIS is stable."
"The solution is highly reliable."
"The product is flexible."
"The most valuable feature of IIS is the database it provides."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft System Center is its GUI (graphical user interface)."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"Many processes could be implemented out-of-the-box, and this helped to adopt processes in areas which we lacked."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the ease of configuration and the easy discovery of the environment."
"Performance-wise, certain improvements in IIS are needed...IIS is not scalable. Its scalability is less."
"The price of the solution could be less to improve."
"Occasionally, we encounter performance issues with IIS where it becomes unresponsive and requires a solution restart."
"IIS has some stability issues and needs restarting."
"I would like to see NLB features in IIS."
"The solution's stability needs improvement."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting."
"I am using an older version of Windows Server IIS and the general management and navigation to get something done is not as straightforward as I hope it to be. The interface could be improved."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"Implementation and integration in the case of multi-tenant environments needs improvement."
"Could be more user friendly."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"Something super important that we need is this integration via Intune Configuration Manager."
"Most of the documentation is online, however, there are some gaps there. The product documentation still refers back to the 2012 Server. We're pretty much in 2022. There's a ten-year gap there."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
IIS is ranked 1st in Application Infrastructure with 53 reviews while Microsoft System Center is ranked 14th in Application Infrastructure with 17 reviews. IIS is rated 8.0, while Microsoft System Center is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of IIS writes " A simple and easy-to-use solution but not recommended for public apps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft System Center writes "Good review of configurations, effective antivirus administration, and has weekly reports". IIS is most compared with NGINX Plus, Apache Web Server, Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic Server and JBoss, whereas Microsoft System Center is most compared with Oracle SOA Suite. See our IIS vs. Microsoft System Center report.
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