We performed a comparison between VMware Workspace ONE 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: Based on the parameters we compared, Microsoft Intune has higher ratings and is more affordable than VMware Workspace ONE.
"Being able to manage the devices remotely is most valuable. We can push security requirements through Microsoft Intune."
"It is a very helpful solution."
"It's easy to manage."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"The one feature we find most useful is the Mobile Application Manager. There are two types, we have the complete MDM and the Mobile Application Manager(MAM). We don't give our users phones, it is their own personal phone, and we need to allow them to have access to the company detail on their phone. We need to create a balance between their own personal data and the company data. We deploy the Mobile Application Manager for them so that we won't be able to interfere with their own personal data."
"Great for software update needs, operating system version updates, and security policy enforcement."
"Intune's most valuable features are the device, compliance, and configuration policies."
"Microsoft Endpoint Manager is not expensive overall, especially for small environments."
"The most valuable feature depends on the use case of the clients. However, one feature I like is the Kiosk Mode. In the Kiosk Mode in most cases, the clients only can make available one application developed by the solution and permit the employee or the final client to use only this one application for interaction. This provides a security control layer limiting only one application functionally."
"It's all about centralizing your data and making sure that your data is centralized and secure."
"The solution has very good documentation."
"The remote management and location capabilities are good."
"VMware Workspace ONE is a platform that's really good at monitoring and managing mobile endpoints. It can be set up quickly and implemented easily. Technical support for this solution has always been good."
"The most valuable feature is the interface with SCAP, which is the Security Content Automation Protocol."
"The solution can scale."
"It seems highly stable and scalable."
"The solution could be improved by the opportunity to connect third-party application databases, such as Chocolatey or another setup store, to Intune."
"There is room for improvement in integrating additional features such as Purview and SharePoint activities into Intune."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"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."
"While Intune works perfectly well, the only potential downside is that the deployment could be a bit complex for some users."
"One big problem with Microsoft is that they're changing the names of the products quite often, or they're quite consistently doing so. Intune is now Endpoint administration. Constantly switching the user interface or the administrative interface makes it quite hard to keep pace. If you are on a two-week holiday and you come back and look at the same screen you have looked at for the last couple of months, it looks different, which is annoying. Changing things around all the time doesn't make it easy."
"Sometimes, updating a client policy is very difficult. This needs to be improved."
"Reporting could be improved. It needs to be more expensive and robust."
"The product's initial setup phase was quite complex."
"Setup is not too complex."
"The length of time it takes to deploy an application could improve."
"One thing VMware needs to improve is compatibility with different operating systems."
"It's not accurate enough when it comes to sending items to end-users."
"The setup was very difficult. It was not as easy as I had expected."
"There is room for improvement in customer service and support."
"Technical support needs to be more responsive to our requests."
Microsoft Intune is ranked 1st in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 164 reviews while VMware Workspace ONE is ranked 3rd in Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) with 81 reviews. Microsoft Intune is rated 8.0, while VMware Workspace ONE is rated 8.2. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Workspace ONE writes "The solution is stable, scalable, and offers single sign-on". Microsoft Intune is most compared with Jamf Pro, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, SOTI MobiControl, Microsoft Entra ID and IBM MaaS360, whereas VMware Workspace ONE is most compared with VMware Horizon, Jamf Pro, SOTI MobiControl, ManageEngine Endpoint Central and Citrix Workspace. See our Microsoft Intune vs. VMware Workspace ONE report.
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If you are only using Windows, it will be a great decision. However, if you are using Mac and Linux you will still need WS1 /JAMF or any other MDM solutions. Intune has extensive capacities on Windows but limited capabilities on MAC.
My suggestion will be
MAC - WS1/JAMF
Windows : Intune
Compliance check: Intune for the entire fleet. This will allow you to leverage the conditional access capabilities of Azure AD.
First of all, what is WS1? I think you should have Intune now as part of your E3 subscription (not sure of it, so please check your billing menu). Intune gives you a lot of flexibility to set rules to deploy to systems.