We performed a comparison between Quest KACE Systems Management and vCenter Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have not experienced any bugs or glitches with this solution."
"The solution is scalable. We currently have tens of thousands of users within our organization using the solution."
"Its security is most valuable. It gives us a way to secure devices, not only those that are steady. We do have a few tablets and other devices, and it is a way for us to secure these devices and manage them. We know they're out there and what's their status. We can manage their life cycle and verify that they're updated properly."
"The ability to block and erase remote devices is valuable to us, especially when those devices are lost."
"The aspects I find most valuable are the managing the data and applications. I can also restrict the users to install any applications. I can also wipe the data if the phone was missplaced or stolen. These are the basics for me."
"The key benefit of Intune is its integration with the Microsoft ecosystem."
"Agile and easy to deploy MDM solution that covers the maximum number of policies. Stable, scalable, and with knowledgeable technical support."
"The stability of Microsoft Intune is good."
"This solution makes it easy to control assets and upgrade all types of software."
"The information available via KACE is up to date, critical to our normal operations, and has become the go-to tool of our IT teams for extended support."
"The Systems Deployment Appliance is magical when it comes to automating deployment... Not only can we have multiple images, specific to end-users' uses, but we have a plethora of post-installation tasks to install or configure the system, tasks that can be re-used for each system. You just have one basic base image, and then you use the post-install tasks to customize everything else. It is amazing."
"Using this solution saves us lots of time, especially when it comes to performing updates."
"It also does patch management. At the moment, I'm rolling out a new feature update, 20.8.2, and it's a great challenge because we have to deploy it to 1,200 computers in the home office. We want to do it without interrupting production, but KACE is reliable and it's easy to adapt it to my needs for how and when to deploy the feature update."
"With KACE, we were able to have a simplification of the software deployment management with more granularity and flexibility."
"The ability to push an image to a machine, wake that image up, and just blast a new image to a computer without even having to touch it, and then push the software to that machine. This just made things so much more convenient for us and so much more efficient."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to have an overview of all devices that are accessing our environment."
"My experience working with this solution has been good and I recommend it."
"The product's deployment phase was easy."
"The most valuable features of vCenter Configuration Manager are highly mature technology."
"The most valuable features that VMware's vCenter Configuration Manager have, when compared with other solutions, are their disaster recovery and business connectivity capabilities."
"The clustering part and the load balancing part are most valuable."
"It's a very nice solution for our needs."
"The market share of VMware is huge. It is not even necessary to prove the capabilities attached to the product."
"vCenter Configuration Manager is a very good product, it works well."
"Microsoft Intune is not user-friendly to manage and has room for improvement."
"It just doesn't handle software updates well at all by itself. You need to be a scripting wizard to make those happen properly, or you use third-party tools. The Windows feature updates are very difficult to implement. I would like to see a proprietary built-in remote control tool. I know that they have Team Viewer integrated, but it is not seamless. It would be nice if they had a seamless remote desktop capability directly from the Intune console."
"I'd like some more reporting so that I don't have to delve into PowerShell and I can pull more of the local device information such as memory, apps installed, etc. It would be nice to be able to see the apps that are present there but might not be managed. For example, if they installed 7Zip, it could report that back via an installed program or feature to see what was currently installed."
"Could benefit from user having more control over devices."
"The configuration could be better by consolidating options and making it simpler."
"There are some issues using the solution with macOS and iOS, and it offers limited granular control with them. Intune works better on Windows and Android."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with Apple."
"I would like some integration with the Microsoft reporting platform Power BI."
"Easier integration would be beneficial."
"It could be designed a little bit more intuitively in terms of administration."
"I would sure like them to be able to copy and paste out of OneNote. That drives me nuts. You can't copy from OneNote into KACE."
"Its dashboard needs improvement. Currently, there is no way to modify the dashboard. There should be more flexibility so that we can create views according to our use case."
"There isn't a lot they need to improve with the solution itself at this point. It is pretty close to providing a single pane of glass for everything that we need for endpoint management specifically on all devices. There is very little that it doesn't provide for us, and for those, we have to go to other methods. There are some of the patching solutions that it doesn't take care of for us. So, we have to do those manually on the devices, and that's really the biggest thing. It doesn't do patching really well for non-Microsoft applications. The major application updates, particularly Windows updates, don't function nearly as well, but, for the vast majority of things, it does just fine. If they could improve in this aspect, that'd be great, but I don't know if they're going to be able to do that."
"I would like them to implement VBScript language in KACE Systems Management. Currently, we can only use PowerShell."
"Scalability is my primary concern right now."
"We'd love to see support for larger dependencies in the scripting feature."
"I think the logging side should be improved because it's pretty difficult to keep up to date VMware and with vCenter."
"Users need to pay a licensing fee for the solution, which could be cheaper."
"The solution could be more integrated with the Microsoft environment."
"We would like to improve the UI interface and customer experience in vCenter Configuration Manager. We need a speed-based system, which is methodology checked. The migration functions, from one hardware to another and the nodes must be a partner of four nodes, which acts as a weakness. They should have advanced training and course material for vCenter solutions."
"The solution needs to add its own backup system because it has issues integrating with third-party solutions."
"The dashboards in vCenter Configuration Manager are an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."
"Acquiring certifications often require extensive training and successfully passing an exam, which can be costly and time-consuming, particularly if you already possess experience in the domain. As a result, this can increase the overall cost of obtaining certification and may present a challenge that requires addressing."
"There isn't a clear document covering all the errors. It would be helpful if the company provided better documentation for solving issues."
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Quest KACE Systems Management is ranked 8th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews while vCenter Configuration Manager is ranked 10th in Configuration Management with 50 reviews. Quest KACE Systems Management is rated 8.8, while vCenter Configuration Manager is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Quest KACE Systems Management writes "Easy to use, saves us time, and increases IT productivity". On the other hand, the top reviewer of vCenter Configuration Manager writes "A solution with a range of functionalities and several pricing plans that suit your needs". Quest KACE Systems Management is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, BigFix, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Ivanti Neurons Patch for Intune, whereas vCenter Configuration Manager is most compared with Microsoft Configuration Manager, Red Hat Satellite and BigFix. See our Quest KACE Systems Management vs. vCenter Configuration Manager report.
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