BigFix vs vCenter Configuration Manager comparison

HCLSoftware and Broadcom are both solutions in the Configuration Management category. HCLSoftware is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.3, while Broadcom is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.8. HCLSoftware holds a 4.8% mindshare in CM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 97% of HCLSoftware users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

vCenter Configuration Manager and BigFix compete in enterprise management. User reviews indicate BigFix has a slight edge in overall satisfaction.

Features: vCenter Configuration Manager offers centralized compliance management, tight integration with VMware products, and detailed auditing capabilities. BigFix provides comprehensive endpoint management, real-time data visibility, and extensive platform support. Users find BigFix's feature set to be more robust.

Room for Improvement: vCenter Configuration Manager needs better scalability, improved reporting capabilities, and enhanced user interface. BigFix could benefit from enhanced patch management, more intuitive automation processes, and additional integration options. Feedback indicates vCenter Configuration Manager faces more performance criticisms at scale.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: vCenter Configuration Manager seamlessly integrates with VMware environments but has a steeper learning curve. BigFix is straightforward to deploy and offers effective customer support. Users generally find BigFix easier to deploy and praise the responsive support team.

Pricing and ROI: vCenter Configuration Manager has a reasonable setup cost but long-term ROI concerns due to additional costs for advanced features. BigFix users feel the product is worth its price, citing a quicker ROI and lower total cost of ownership over time.

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Microsoft Intune

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Configuration Management category, the mindshare of Microsoft Intune is 4.9%, down from 10.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of BigFix is 4.8%, down from 9.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of vCenter Configuration Manager is 2.1%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Configuration Management Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Microsoft Intune	4.9%
BigFix	4.8%
vCenter Configuration Manager	2.1%
Other	88.2%

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Featured Reviews

OluwashileAdeniyi

Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Centralized endpoint security has improved and supports hybrid work and BYOD policies

Regarding what I dislike about Microsoft Intune and its downsides, I would say that more Mac controls are needed because we have limited Mac and Linux control. When comparing controls and policies between Windows, Mac, and Linux, Windows has almost everything you can think of, while Mac and Linux have limited types of control. You cannot implement certain things on Mac and Linux that you can on Windows. The limited controls are a major issue. Additionally, if Microsoft could find a way to embed servers into Microsoft Intune, that would be beneficial. Microsoft Intune is not really designed for servers or Windows servers. It is more tailored towards Windows 11 and Windows 10 operating systems. Windows servers are not fully supported. Enterprise organizations usually have both servers and endpoints, which are users' workstations. For servers, most people look for other solutions such as SCCM, which is Configuration Manager. However, SCCM is what Microsoft Intune is trying to replace. Both SCCM and Microsoft Intune belong to Microsoft. Microsoft is trying to transition organizations into Microsoft Intune, the native cloud solution. However, because this update is still in process, servers are not fully compatible with Microsoft Intune and cannot be managed by it. The current policy that has emerged from issues with clients is what they call co-management, which is relatively new, and I do not know if adoption is significant. Many legacy or older customers who have been using these products for decades still have SCCM. When it is time for them to manage their Windows devices, they use what is called cloud attach. Cloud attach is a term whereby your SCCM is connected to your Microsoft Intune. Most people do not know about it, but I have deployed it for several organizations. Cloud attach and co-management work together so that your device is in SCCM, but some policies are pushed from Microsoft Intune. It is like two different solutions working hand in hand. That is what they call co-management. Microsoft Intune does not bring all of your endpoint and security management tools into one place, which is the goal and how it should be. However, as I mentioned, servers are not included. If we talk about end users, Microsoft Intune does bring all your devices together. In a typical enterprise environment, you have end users with workstations, laptops, company-issued phones, and bring your own devices. You can create policies for all of these. However, for the backend, your servers do not have much coverage. Servers are not really covered by Microsoft Intune in that way.

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Ravi Khanchandani

Founder Director at Techsa Services

Long-term partnership improves customer satisfaction and delivers efficient endpoint management

BigFix supports something known as Patch Policies, which allows users to define that whenever critical patches are released, they should get evaluated against machines and automatically deploy them. Their software distribution is very efficient because they use a pull mechanism rather than a push mechanism, allowing each machine to download from the closest repository and install themselves. The same assessment mechanism applies for real-time vulnerability remediation, allowing identification, evaluation, and automatic remediation across machines. Compliance metrics typically measure the patch percentages deployed against the number of endpoints, which could be various device types including virtual machines and mobile devices. Measurements are taken against each device type, looking into compliance percentages for browsers such as Chrome and Edge based on their versions.

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Mohamad Irshidat

Principal Consultant Engineer at Estarta Solutions

Migration streamlines processes while real-time monitoring opportunities remain

The migration feature of vCenter Configuration Manager is the most loved feature so far. This particular feature is valuable because it is vendor-oriented and works with VMware, which makes your life easy. Regarding system reliability, it is helpful. When you design it for the process, it will help you minimize the downtime, and it will help the reliability of the system. vCenter Configuration Manager has impacted my organization positively, but it's not fully deployed yet; we only use it for one or two tasks, and our team goes back to using the vCenter itself. However, further on, maybe we'll find a use case that will help us use the configuration manager.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"If you want to manage your mobile devices as well as your Windows 10 devices, Intune is the best option."

"As an IT administrator, I appreciate Intune's ability to implement granular device-level policies for our organization's employees."

"The most valuable feature is Intune's ability to push out updates for the security and antivirus. I also like Intune's copilot and the ability to automate processes. For example, if you have 5,000 employees who are issued new PCs and you need to set them up with everything they need."

"Microsoft Intune has a pretty positive impact overall, especially in terms of device management efficiency and supporting remote work."

"What I like most about Microsoft Intune is that it's agile and easy to deploy, and it covers the maximum number of policies."

"The most valuable aspect of the product is that we are able to send application deployments and certifications for conditional access."

"The most useful features in Microsoft Intune are the policy enforcement and conditional access. These features make our operations easier from a company perspective."

"From a solution perspective, I always recommend that you go for it."

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"Servers are patched more consistently than they have been previously."

"It is pretty secure, and it gives extensive vulnerability features as compared to other applications. It supports multiple languages, and the security checks are pretty high as compared to other tools in the market."

"This solution is giving us the results that it's meant for."

"BigFix is easy to use."

"IBM BigFix is one of the easiest client management tools to install."

"It is a great product."

"Prior to BigFix we used Altiris, which was distributed. We had to manage multiple servers, and duplicate the tasks that we did on each server. BigFix tremendously reduced the amount of work that we had to do on each server in a centralized manner. We could minimize the work that we had to do, and we had a lot more control over the tasks and what machines they ran on."

"I would recommend this solution to others."

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"I would recommend people use this solution because it can make your life a lot easier and it has a lot of features which could help a system administrator prevent problems and foresee potential issues."

"Configuration Manager has allowed us to reduce the number of admins needed from three to one."

"The solution overall is very good, the online configuration, especially in the latest version, is very good, and it's worked well for us so far and hasn't disappointed on any level."

"I would recommend this solution to others, it has worked very well for me."

"By taking manual tasks and automating them, it provides a great value for the customer."

"vCenter Configuration Manager is a mature solution with high quality."

"In India, basically, in the banking sector, we do not use particular open-source products, so the tool is beneficial for us."

"This solution is good for individual storage."

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Cons

"I have faced stability issues with Microsoft Intune plenty of times, but I think it's part of the process."

"It's only good for a Microsoft environment. While it works very well for Microsoft users but if you have other kinds of operating systems, it's very painful to use."

"The feature that allows us to import the business application from the configuration manager to Intune is not very good at this time."

"When pushing anything from Microsoft Intune, the sync timing is 48 hours. While sometimes it takes 5 to 10 minutes, the official period given by Microsoft is within 48 hours, which can be time-consuming for policies, applications, or patches."

"There were several bugs with stability."

"It would be better if Microsoft can reduce the cost of the license, as we know the Intune device subscription is licensed per device at a cost of $2 a month, but for the best enhanced security and features we must add an add-on license or buy or upgrade to a bundling license such as M365E5."

"Policy and app deployment should be faster, as it currently takes between minutes to hours to apply, with an average of one hour."

"In the future, I would like to see improvements in Microsoft Intune, especially related to policies and GPU."

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"We're a partner, so we deliver technical support to customers. When we need to talk to the product support, traditionally, with the product over the last five years, I would not say support has been supportive. I hope that changes."

"Implementing a business solution with BigFix has some issues, primarily concerning the time required for distribution to clients if there are too many."

"I would request them to build a robots, or an easier way for integration with the other tools, like ITSM tools."

"I'd like to see better API integration with BigFix. We have some tremendous API capability inside of CyFIR and the ability to take textual search results, for example, and bring that back into the BigFix dashboard. This would be of extreme interest to us and our customers."

"Relay selection and availability needs improvement as an incorrect relay selected can cause network chokes."

"The solution could improve by adding support drivers for different systems and equipment. When you have a lot of different computers if they could fix how to install any updates, firmware, or drivers for different systems or servers it would be good."

"Dynamic messaging needs improvement because one of the things that we deal with a lot is the messaging when pushing releases out."

"Web reports. The interface for web reports is still pretty basic, and really hasn't changed in the seven years that we've had the product, so that would be one thing that would be really nice."

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"SAP CRM could improve by adding additional automation features."

"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."

"Error reporting should be more precise and descriptive, and there is no way to filter the logs. It would be helpful if its logs analysis can be more detailed, and the logs can be filtered."

"It is not so user-friendly that you can just start the host and everything works."

"The solution needs to add its own backup system because it has issues integrating with third-party solutions."

"vCenter Configuration Manager could improve by having more integration."

"This product is not cheap. I have a yearly license for vCenter and the license is not cheap."

"It lacks the capability to manage the other systems."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Microsoft licenses are costly."

"The price is reasonable, but they should lower it a bit to make it more competitive. It's cheaper than AirWatch and other products, but I still feel like Microsoft can make a base version or with Exchange online or a la carte only Intune version which will be useful. A customer who doesn't want to go full-fledged E3 or E5 can take out or consume an Intune solution only for their purpose, and we want to target that customer."

"We have a limited budget for security investments, so Microsoft should consider reducing pricing in our region. This would make investment more viable, especially since larger businesses in other countries can afford it easily."

"The solution is cost-efficient."

"I would rate the price a four out of ten with ten being the most expensive."

"It's affordable. It's cheaper if you have an Office 365, E5, or E3 subscription because everything is there."

"I am satisfied with the pricing."

"While I don't have access to high-level financial information, I believe we have achieved lower costs with this implementation."

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"The license is subscription-based."

"The cost is slightly high."

"Its price is very reasonable."

"The price is very fair."

"The price of BigFix could be lower. However, I am always seeking a lower price."

"The price is reasonable, but our customers find it expensive."

"I would stay with the Managed Virtual Server license model, which is a 1-to-1 license per OS whether it is virtual or physical."

"There's not much big cost. We only have to pay the agents' cost for the server, and for the systems."

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"It is on a yearly basis."

"Their licensing costs are high. But I think for the scale that we are using, it's suitable. If you use it on a larger scale with many servers, you have to pay a lot of money for them. I think it's suitable for organizations that don't need expert people that want more money each year or each month because it's a straightforward solution. We prefer to pay for these products that are integrated and straightforward."

"The product price and licensing fees are reasonable, especially when compared to other products in the market."

"The price of the solution is too expensive for us and we are looking to move to another solution."

"vCenter's pricing is reasonable, but nowadays, they are drastically increasing their prices, which is pathetic."

"Price-wise, the product is an affordable one. The additional expenses, apart from the licensing costs of the solution, are attached to the support a user wants to receive from vCenter Configuration Manager's end."

"The solution comes with three-year support. We have to renew the support annually after the three years are up."

"The solution is quite expensive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Marketing Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	186
Midsize Enterprise	62
Large Enterprise	184

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	30
Midsize Enterprise	12
Large Enterprise	67

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Small Business	27
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	20

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Also Known As

Intune, MS Intune, Microsoft Endpoint Manager

Tivoli Endpoint Manager

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Overview

Microsoft Intune is a cloud-based service designed for device management, security, and compliance. It supports automation and facilitates endpoint management for Windows, iOS, and Android devices, ensuring data protection and efficient policy enforcement.

Microsoft Intune offers seamless integration with tools like Windows Autopilot to automate device setup and deployment. Integrated with Azure Active Directory, it enhances policy management while providing robust reporting and analytics tools for compliance tracking. Despite its intuitive interface aimed at simplifying navigation and device security management, there are challenges such as compatibility issues with Linux and Mac, limited policy support for Android, and demands for better third-party integration. It's widely used for both corporate-owned devices and BYOD scenarios in dynamic IT environments.

What are the key features of Microsoft Intune?

Windows Autopilot: Automates device setup for rapid deployment.
Azure Active Directory Integration: Enhances user policy management.
Reporting and Analytics: Improves compliance visibility.
Mobile Application Management: Ensures app security without compromising personal data.
Cloud-Based Management: Allows management from any location.

What benefits and ROI can users expect?

Time Efficiency: Automation reduces time in policy enforcement and configuration updates.
Enhanced Security: Ensures data protection across corporate-owned and BYOD devices.
Improved Compliance: Advanced reporting tools enhance compliance visibility.
Flexible Management: Cloud-based nature supports management from any location.

In industries such as finance and healthcare, Microsoft Intune is implemented to ensure data protection and compliance with regulatory standards. Manufacturing sectors utilize Intune for managing a distributed workforce across global locations, while educational institutions employ it to secure and manage devices in learning environments supporting both students and faculty.

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HCL BigFix offers a Unified Endpoint Management platform that enhances security, reduces costs, and simplifies IT operations across hybrid, multi-cloud environments through a centralized control structure.

BigFix streamlines enterprise IT management by integrating infrastructure security, endpoint remediation, and employee experience automation within a single platform. It enables IT Operations and Security teams to function efficiently from a unified control plane, managing over 155 million endpoints. Its robust architecture supports continuous compliance and automated vulnerability remediation, closing the gap between detection and fix. It excels in digital employee experience by ensuring proactive monitoring and utilizing agentic AI for self-healing workflows and intelligent automation, thereby reducing manual efforts and enhancing productivity.

What are BigFix's key features?

Efficient Patch Management: Automates and optimizes patch distribution across platforms.
Compliance Integration: Ensures robust adherence to compliance standards through automated processes.
Scalability: Capable of managing and securing an extensive range of endpoints.
Multi-Platform Support: Provides management for various operating systems through a single console.
Customization Options: Enables API-based customizations and versatile reporting capabilities.

What are potential benefits and ROI factors?

Enhanced Security: Swift vulnerability management reduces risk exposure.
Cost Efficiency: Centralized management minimizes operational complexities and expenses.
Operational Resilience: Maintains compliance and security across distributed environments.
Ease of Management: Simplifies diverse environment management with robust tools.
Boost in Productivity: Reduces manual IT efforts while improving employee experience.

Industries such as telecom, finance, and industrial facilities leverage BigFix for comprehensive patch management, software deployment, and inventory solutions. They benefit from its capacity to support endpoint security, compliance, and diverse operational needs, using it for vulnerability assessment and custom content creation.

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vCenter Configuration Manager offers a robust platform for managing virtual environments and optimizing IT infrastructure. It supports multiple platforms while facilitating virtualization, migration, and compliance processes.

vCenter Configuration Manager efficiently manages virtual machines, data centers, and servers. It enhances system performance through automation and centralized management of ESXi clusters. Known for its reliability, it also simplifies patch management and supports hyper-converged infrastructure. Challenges include improving integration, user interaction, and support for cloud and hybrid environments. Licensing transitions and compatibility issues with operating systems are areas of focus. Its strong presence in India enhances VMware environments.

What are vCenter Configuration Manager's key features?

User-Friendly Interface: Simplifies navigation and operation tasks.
VM Management: Efficient management of virtual machines.
Migration Capabilities: Streamlines the migration process.
High Availability: Ensures continuous operation without downtime.
Automation: Facilitates automated processes to improve efficiency.
Support for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure: Enhances the IT environment's scalability.
vMotion and DRS: Critical for disaster recovery and business continuity.

What benefits and ROI should reviews highlight?

Resource Management: Optimizes resource allocation and utilization.
Ease of Provisioning: Simplifies deploying IT assets across the organization.
Compliance Management: Ensures regulatory compliance and governance.
Reliable Stability: Provides a stable and robust IT environment.

vCenter Configuration Manager is implemented across sectors like healthcare and industry. It manages virtualization, server oversight, and host monitoring. Its automation and patch management streamline IT processes, making it a valuable tool for managing diverse IT infrastructures effectively.

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