Microsoft Configuration Manager targets comprehensive IT management with extensive asset management and deployment features. In comparison, Ivanti Patch for Configuration Manager offers specialized patching and user-friendly operation, excelling in patch management. Microsoft provides broad IT management coverage, whereas Ivanti focuses on efficient patching solutions.
Symantec Patch Management Solution can assist organizations in meeting their security needs by automating the detection and facilitating the remediation of security vulnerabilities for multiple operating systems (Windows, Mac, Red Hat, CentOS and SUSE) and for Microsoft applications and over 50 third-party Windows applications (Adobe, Java Runtime, common browsers and plug-ins, etc.). Patch Management Solution provides visibility into newly released software updates and the means to identify computers susceptible to the vulnerabilities addressed by such updates. It also automates the download of software update packages from vendor sites and the distribution of those packages to computers which require those patches.
