We performed a comparison between ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus and Microsoft Configuration Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Patch Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The fetch repository is a good feature."
"The initial setup was easy."
"The tool's most valuable feature is performance."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is lightweight and has a remote push feature that helps me manage several main sites and subsites."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus covers almost all my end devices, and I can easily look over my device's hardware status."
"It is a highly stable solution."
"The most valuable features are patch management and mobile device management."
"The initial setup is fairly straightforward."
"I have found the solution to be scalable. We have around 50,000 users using the solution."
"The initial setup is straightforward and not too complicated."
"Microsoft Configuration Manager helps with patch management."
"Technical support is very helpful and very responsive."
"The major features of this product are the reporting tools. The most valuable features are package deployment and application deployment. Security management is also good because any vulnerability will be identified, and you can fix it. It's the best tool because you never know what kind of client you will have. For example, you may have your offices in low bandwidth remote areas. But it's achievable because it accommodates the bandwidth that you have available. Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager is an excellent reporting tool for your environment. If you want to know the details about the hardware configuration, software configuration, what is causing a problem, or when a new feature update comes in for Windows, even that goes on SCCM itself. A lot of deployment stuff."
"This has made the management of our environment easier."
"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 agent can be a bit more intelligent."
"The solution's UI is an area that requires improvement."
"The user interface of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to be made more user-friendly, simplified, and less complicated."
"There are limitations to this solution when we are working with iOS, Apple laptops or desktops such as the Mac and iMac."
"ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus needs to improve speed."
"The tool's support needs improvement."
"The cloud version should have option to add all the endpoints using the agent. Not only for Windows, but also the Linux version. There are some versions which are not compatible with SaaS Manager. So some customers do not want to use the latest version of Linux latest version of CentOS. Actually, CentOS is not available. But some are using and patch manager is compatible for some versions only, not older older versions. So there are some pros and cons that are referred to patch management."
"The only area for improvement in ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus, which I noticed, is the reporting."
"In spite of us being a premier customer we find the support unsatisfactory."
"This solution should be simpler, and more consistent across modules/sections."
"As far as load balancing across, they don't have that support yet, so that you can actually build multiple primaries and have it load balance across. They don't have any of that functionality yet. That would be a nice feature, to scale that way."
"It needs to be able to load faster during deployment."
"This solution needs to be supported on all Operating systems."
"It is not easy to get good technical support, especially at level one."
"Their compliance reporting is not accurate, and they admitted it on the phone when we had a call with them. We were trying to understand why their numbers didn't match on our compliance reports. It is not accurate and you cannot depend on the compliance reports. The numbers just don't match, and we can't figure out why. We called Microsoft and they said, "Yeah, that's a known issue." But there is no word that they're working on it."
"The analysis is something that can be integrated. Their report analysis can be improved a little bit due to the fact that most of the time complaints policies are saved by the admins. It's something that we need to look into and search for."
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ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is ranked 7th in Patch Management with 12 reviews while Microsoft Configuration Manager is ranked 1st in Patch Management with 78 reviews. ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Configuration Manager is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus writes "Good scalability and a responsive tech support team ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Configuration Manager writes "Seamless system updates, useful integration, and reliable". ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus is most compared with Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, BigFix, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, GFI LanGuard and N-able N-central, whereas Microsoft Configuration Manager is most compared with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Microsoft Intune, BigFix and Tanium. See our ManageEngine Patch Manager Plus vs. Microsoft Configuration Manager report.
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