The pricing is good. I'd rate its affordability eight out of ten. It could always be cheaper, however, we are pretty happy with the cost.

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. This option was available a few years ago, I assume it still is around.

I would rate the cost as eight out of ten.

Microsoft provides a steep price for their enterprise products, but they offer very competitive pricing for their legacy customers. We have been using Microsoft products for the past six to seven years and have found that the cost is considerably less than if we were to purchase a single product. For example,  ManageEngine is passed on to us at an individual price, which makes the overall cost much higher.

I cannot speak on pricing. I let the procurement team deal with it. Therefore, I don't have any information on licensing fees, et cetera.

The price is reasonable, especially if the user has an active directory and can buy a configuration after buying the firmware.

MECM is more expensive than Ansible, which is open and free. That's why we'll use other tools as needed for automation. 

There is an annual license needed to use the solution.

Microsoft comes with an end-to-end package that can include Office 365 and many other applications put together, it makes it a very integrated system for people to use.

We have a support license from Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager and the overall price of the solution is reasonable.

Its licensing is quite complicated because we are getting the license not only for SCCM but for the full Microsoft package. We don't need to pay for a separate license. We need to have one license that includes everything we need, such as Windows, Microsoft 365, SCCM, encryption, and so on. So, we don't have a specific price for it. Perhaps, it is good that it includes the full suite of licensing of Microsoft. It is expensive, but we are getting a lot of features.

Although the solution is not as expensive as Ivanti, the cost is still quite high. Certain licensing arrangements can get you a better deal, but it's still expensive. It's based on a CAL license, so if you have a client on an endpoint, there's going to be a charge. I think it's around $US35 per license per year. It's not too bad. 

If you have a small company and you have a simple need to install operating systems remotely, you can install WDS (Windows Deployment Service) on a server, which can help with the task of deploying operating systems and software remotely. But if your company has a lot of applications and devices that need monthly updates, it is better to buy a license for MECM.

I don't have the figures for the licensing because it's another group that manages the accounts and licensing for all the servers, but I believe it's quite expensive. The reason I say it's expensive is because we have a lot of products in our company, especially Microsoft products such as Microsoft Office and Microsoft System Center Orchestrator. 

Along with buying a license for MECM, we also have to buy a service called CMG (Cloud Management Gateway) which is a virtual machine in the cloud with which you can link your MECM to the Azure tenant so as to manage teleworkers. To explain a bit further, the teleworkers' machines communicate with the CMG as a tenant service in Azure, which then communicates with your MECM and on-premises policies, which then communicates back to the teleworker client.

This is a necessary process, but at least it is only a small feature and it is not difficult to add this relationship to your MECM as long as you have people experienced in the Azure tenant service.

The price could be better.

The price of SCCM depends on the size of the organization. The price is competitive.

I rate the price of SCCM a three out of five.

Microsoft has affordable pricing for Small to Medium Businesses, and it comes with many SMB packages already. It is worth investing in these, because the returns in automation and environmental integrity pay back the cost.

We use the tool's free license. It is expensive. 

I rate the price of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager an eight out of ten.

As far as I know, it is an annual operating expense license.

The price is competitive and reasonable. I would give the solution an eight out of ten on price.

The price of Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is expensive.

I have a very good idea of what my present workplace pays for this solution because it's usually a mixture of different solutions. For example, if you have an Azure P2 license, it tends to cover Microsoft 365 E5. We have a number of licenses. 

The licensing is typically paid monthly or annually as part of the agreement by the customer.

We do pay a licensing fee on a yearly basis. 

There is a license cost and it is licensed per deployment. We do pay licensing costs for all of the deployments that we have on our end, across the enterprise.

With the way everything is moving to the cloud, you need to have all of these licenses in place.

Licensing is better than with other solutions because it's Microsoft-based. Microsoft offers multiple options which works for us. 

Presently, I am using a free trial version. 

The solution is pretty expensive. A company really needs to consider their environment.

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.

The solution operates on a licensing model that can be expensive. 

Pricing is reasonable for small companies but large companies or enterprise environments require multiple licenses. 

Pricing is not in my work description and is left up to management and my colleagues. 

I don't deal with the pricing. I'm not aware of the costs in general. I can't say if it's reasonable or expensive. It's not my area of expertise.

Pricing is negotiable with Microsoft, depending upon which of their packages you choose. They're changing their packages, and I don't know how they're changing them yet. It's been a few years since I have worked in that capacity.

The license price could be reduced for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager  They should make the price more affordable for smaller companies, most companies would be able to use the solution if it was priced better.  There are more people on this cloud because you don't have to have either a server room or an on-premise server. You can have one IT person handle this without any local infrastructure. 

You receive a license for Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager when you buy an EMS E3 license. 

We have to pay for a license.

I don't know much about the licensing structure but I believe everything is probably included within the package.

The licensing is good because they have various options, depending on what you are looking for. There are one-year up-to three-year license contracts.

They are always changing their price model, which I don't like. It would be better if they didn't keep adjusting their price model.

The price model is different for every client. It depends on the corporation, the company's subscription balance, and how many machines they have. For us, it fluctuates. 

Some clients have a smaller infrastructure, and for those with large infrastructures, it will cost them more. Others will also have multiple versions of it for backup and failovers.

Setup and licensing was quite expensive as well at start up stage. When all procedures have been implemented like collections, application and packages, wsus automatically deployment, O.S preparation, mobile management policies, reporting day by day, time to be spent to manage it would be more limited but, considering the importance and quantity of activity done from SCCM it would be normal to have a lot of hours daily spent from a team to utilize this product (obviously it would depends on company too)

I'm more interested in features, which is where I spend most of my research time with products. I don't really get into pricing. I'm not sure of the exact price. I can't say if it's cheaper or more expensive than other options.

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.

There is not a license needed to use the solution. 

For enterprises, there is an annual license required to use this solution. The price of the solution could be cheaper. However, this is mostly because of the exchange rate from the dollar to the Nigerian currency.

Its price is okay because it is part of our licensing.

Overall, I think it's fine. It's pretty much in-line because there are ways to offset it with the Office 365 licensing.

We have a basic enterprise agreement with Microsoft which isn't cheap, per se.

I can't get into the exact cost structure.

The question of pricing is a bit relative. The enterprise-level that we use is always a negotiation. I don't want to use the word monopoly, however, there's no alternative enterprise vendor that covers all bases, from server storage and backup and everything else in between. Pricing is just a matter of negotiation every time the contract renewal period comes up.

There are a few licensing required. When you purchase the SCCM licence the SQL server license is included. When you compare this solution with other tools in the market you might actually find a lot of variation in the pricing and that's why people opt for the other tools rather than Microsoft tools.