Compare SCCM vs. SolarWinds Pingdom
SCCM is ranked 1st in Server Monitoring with 13 reviews while SolarWinds Pingdom is ranked 13th in Server Monitoring with 2 reviews. SCCM is rated 8.0, while SolarWinds Pingdom is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SCCM writes "Enables us to set up schedules, according to security needs, to automate server and desktop patching". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SolarWinds Pingdom writes "Good network monitoring and alerting to potential problems". SCCM is most compared with Ansible, BigFix, Quest KACE Systems Management, Ivanti Patch for Windows and Chef, whereas SolarWinds Pingdom is most compared with Zabbix and Catchpoint. See our SCCM vs. SolarWinds Pingdom report.
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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. Patching is the main feature because SCCM is made to control the entire environment without manually interpreting. So it is good to use for patching. The most valuable features are application deployment and task-sequenced imaging. The most valuable features are Remote Connect, SUP, Cloud functionality, Report, Query, and third-party patching. This solution has made life easy with respect to patching, compliance, and OSD. This has made the management of our environment easier. This solution helps us by automating the patching of our system. The most valuable feature is the graphical-based reports of software updates that have been successful, the ones that have failed, and a summary of where the failures are what security breaches may occur. | The most valuable features are monitoring and reporting. There are alerting mechanisms in place to let us know, for example, if a device is not responding to a ping test and is probably not going to work. |
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We'd like the solution to make it easier to manage remote users. The main room for improvement is the on-screen display. I think it would be good if some improvements were made. The operations could be faster and you need some patience with this tool. The cost of the product can be improved. This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems. Not everything is readily available, and there are a lot of commands that are only executable via PowerShell. This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections. I would like to see an agentless version of the solution. | Technical support could use some improvement. I would like to see better integration with other products. |
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The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for. SCCM comes with its own version of SQL Server. If you use that SQL Server with SCCM and don't use it for another applications than you get an SQL Server for free. Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing. Pricing and licensing are a downside of SCCM. It's expensive. I'd have to confirm this, but I think they changed the licensing to core-based instead of socket-based. It's not cheap, because you have to buy the software, you have to buy SQL. Another thing we learned from talking to Microsoft is that they provide you a license for SQL if you run it on the same box as the primary server. If you run it outside that box, you have to buy SQL. Microsoft does recommend you running it on the same box because of performance. But then, in order to run SQL, SCCM, and everything on the same box, you better have some resources. It's an expensive solution. There's no doubt about it. Pricing and licensing are horrible. You have to not look at dollar value to use SCCM. It's super-duper expensive but it works. The acquisition cost is expensive, it's labor-intensive. But it works. | This price of this solution is reasonable. |
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Also Known As | |
| System Center Configuration Manager | |
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| Microsoft | SolarWinds |
Overview | |
| With System Center Configuration Manager, you can manage PCs and servers, keeping software up-to-date, setting configuration and security policies, and monitoring system status while giving your employees access to corporate applications on the devices that they choose. | SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution. It’s one product providing comprehensive web app performance and user experience monitoring consisting of four major capabilities: 1. Uptime monitoring for webpages and other critical components like APIs, CDNs, DNS, networks, email, and more. 2. Page speed performance monitoring and page rankings. 3. Synthetic transaction monitoring from the simplest to the most complex transactions. 4. Real user monitoring (RUM), enabling a deeper and wider understanding of the user’s digital experience, and web application availability and performance. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Bank Alfalah Ltd., Wªrth Handelsges.m.b.H, Dimension Data, Japan Business Systems, St. Lucie County Public Schools, MISC Berhad | Spotify, MailChimp, Slack, Twitter |
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Computer Software Company22% Construction Company11% Financial Services Firm11% Government11% Computer Software Company35% Comms Service Provider12% Government8% Retailer5% | No Data Available |
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Small Business24% Midsize Enterprise21% Large Enterprise55% Small Business5% Midsize Enterprise12% Large Enterprise83% | No Data Available |
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