Microsoft System Center vs. Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center

116 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft System Center

116 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft System Center	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…	$1,323 per month
Microsoft System Center	Score8.4 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft System Center is an enterprise-grade IT Operations Management (ITOM) suite designed for the centralized administration of data center infrastructure, virtualized environments, and hybrid cloud workloads. The platform provides unified management across heterogeneous environments, including support for Windows Server, Linux, and Azure Stack HCI. System Center is Microsoft's ITOM stack for organizations that maintain a significant on-premise footprint, vs the company's Azure-based…	$1,323 per month

Pricing

Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center

Standard Edition: $1323
Datacenter Edition: $3607

Standard Edition: $1323
Datacenter Edition: $3607

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft System Center	Microsoft System Center
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Microsoft System Center	Microsoft System Center
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center SCCM is often considered superior to Intune because it is more predictable and transparent in day-to-day operations. Errors in SCCM are clearer and easier to troubleshoot, whereas Intune issues can feel vague and harder to diagnose. SCCM also offers rich, built-in features such … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Microsoft System Center really integrated with our windows system better than any other 3rd party product which obviously you would expect to a certain extent. Our main reason to procuring System Center (apart form the options)was licensing costs. We already had a Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It has more intuitive features and business ready monitoring capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center None. We are a Microsoft business, and this is THE tool for imaging, packaging, remote support, and antivirus management. Microsoft's tool is the best for managing its software, systems, and antivirus clients. I will say that Microsoft Intune, the cloud platform, can be used … Incentivized Helpful? Amit Sanwal Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Rackspace (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft System Center The capability of SCOM as far as monitoring Windows systems is concerned is far greater than any monitoring product out there as both are a Microsoft product so integration and discoveries work well and fast. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center The versatility of the suite of application provided by the Microsoft experience center was way above the other competitors , it helped gained leverage over the other products in the market . That why we made the decision of choosing Microsoft system center as a infrastructure … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We use Azure, we have lisences, so we have no needs any other cost. And also, we want to save backup data in Azure. Veritas ask additional cost reagurally and have to rebuild bakcup environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Because Datadog was too small, we decided quickly to use Microsoft System Center. We use a lot of other Microsoft products so that discussion was quickly set internally. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We have used Ghost from Symantec (licensed), FOG and Clonezilla which are freeware products. All three products had their pros and cons. The two freeware products were functional but did lack some polish, and Ghost was a good product for imaging of desktop computers. All did … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We are using Microsoft products for a long time, so the overall confidence played a part in the decision, the feature set and licensing cost was also very high when compared with above products, so we decided to use System Center for our environment, so far it has solved many … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Sidles President in Information Technology at WebDesk Inc (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center We selected it simply because it is less expensive than the competition, but yet just as good. We saw no reason to go outside the walls of Microsoft for this task. We are satisfied with the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center This was used to monitor uor non-Windows systems and was cumbersome. Their licensing was per device with how many agents you needed; however, with System Center Operations Manager, their billing was a lot easier for their product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center All comparative features are way expensive and complex to configure in all other competitors. Value to money and ease of deployment for Microsoft based environment Incentivized Helpful? Amy Howard Computer and Network Spec in Information Technology at BND (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Microsoft System Center has more options. Microsoft System Center has the ability to image PCs as well as remotely connect to PCs, and software installation and patching where Symantec Ghost Solution Suite didn't handle all of these options as well. We haven't looked at many … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Much better UI for system center. Also, Tivoli was discontinued, so it was an easy decision. Altiris was acquired by Symantec but was unreliable and painful. It's UI was unresponsive and generally outdated. It wouldn't clean up old packages and would hog GB of disk space, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center SCOM is better than OMi for Windows-based servers monitoring. You need to know how to use Visual Studio to customize the management pack. Dynatrace is way better for all Application Performance Manager. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It has its similarities between the two from a ticketing standpoint but as a primarily Microsoft shop it is nice to have a product that was created to play along with other tools that we are using such as SCCM. We like Jira for the project management tools and Cherwell for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It is an excellent product for monitoring features like Exchange, Active Directory, DNS. Monitors are custom designed and can be adjusted to any system. Great monitors can be created even when monitoring open-source systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It is used to monitor network device health status, similar to SCOM. Microsoft SCOM is far superior, however. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center This is our first solution and we have been using it for many years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center How SCEP stacks up against some of the other AV solutions/products is that it does a pretty good job overall (not the best in the industry) at detecting/removing malware, which is the main focus for a product like this. It is also easy to use on the end-user side, which can't … Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center SCCM is often considered superior to Intune because it is more predictable and transparent in day-to-day operations. Errors in SCCM are clearer and easier to troubleshoot, whereas Intune issues can feel vague and harder to diagnose. SCCM also offers rich, built-in features such … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Microsoft System Center really integrated with our windows system better than any other 3rd party product which obviously you would expect to a certain extent. Our main reason to procuring System Center (apart form the options)was licensing costs. We already had a Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It has more intuitive features and business ready monitoring capabilities Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center None. We are a Microsoft business, and this is THE tool for imaging, packaging, remote support, and antivirus management. Microsoft's tool is the best for managing its software, systems, and antivirus clients. I will say that Microsoft Intune, the cloud platform, can be used … Incentivized Helpful? Amit Sanwal Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Rackspace (Information Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose Microsoft System Center The capability of SCOM as far as monitoring Windows systems is concerned is far greater than any monitoring product out there as both are a Microsoft product so integration and discoveries work well and fast. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center The versatility of the suite of application provided by the Microsoft experience center was way above the other competitors , it helped gained leverage over the other products in the market . That why we made the decision of choosing Microsoft system center as a infrastructure … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We use Azure, we have lisences, so we have no needs any other cost. And also, we want to save backup data in Azure. Veritas ask additional cost reagurally and have to rebuild bakcup environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Because Datadog was too small, we decided quickly to use Microsoft System Center. We use a lot of other Microsoft products so that discussion was quickly set internally. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We have used Ghost from Symantec (licensed), FOG and Clonezilla which are freeware products. All three products had their pros and cons. The two freeware products were functional but did lack some polish, and Ghost was a good product for imaging of desktop computers. All did … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center We are using Microsoft products for a long time, so the overall confidence played a part in the decision, the feature set and licensing cost was also very high when compared with above products, so we decided to use System Center for our environment, so far it has solved many … Incentivized Helpful? Alan Sidles President in Information Technology at WebDesk Inc (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center We selected it simply because it is less expensive than the competition, but yet just as good. We saw no reason to go outside the walls of Microsoft for this task. We are satisfied with the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center This was used to monitor uor non-Windows systems and was cumbersome. Their licensing was per device with how many agents you needed; however, with System Center Operations Manager, their billing was a lot easier for their product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center All comparative features are way expensive and complex to configure in all other competitors. Value to money and ease of deployment for Microsoft based environment Incentivized Helpful? Amy Howard Computer and Network Spec in Information Technology at BND (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Microsoft System Center Microsoft System Center has more options. Microsoft System Center has the ability to image PCs as well as remotely connect to PCs, and software installation and patching where Symantec Ghost Solution Suite didn't handle all of these options as well. We haven't looked at many … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center Much better UI for system center. Also, Tivoli was discontinued, so it was an easy decision. Altiris was acquired by Symantec but was unreliable and painful. It's UI was unresponsive and generally outdated. It wouldn't clean up old packages and would hog GB of disk space, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center SCOM is better than OMi for Windows-based servers monitoring. You need to know how to use Visual Studio to customize the management pack. Dynatrace is way better for all Application Performance Manager. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It has its similarities between the two from a ticketing standpoint but as a primarily Microsoft shop it is nice to have a product that was created to play along with other tools that we are using such as SCCM. We like Jira for the project management tools and Cherwell for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It is an excellent product for monitoring features like Exchange, Active Directory, DNS. Monitors are custom designed and can be adjusted to any system. Great monitors can be created even when monitoring open-source systems. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center It is used to monitor network device health status, similar to SCOM. Microsoft SCOM is far superior, however. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center This is our first solution and we have been using it for many years. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Microsoft System Center How SCEP stacks up against some of the other AV solutions/products is that it does a pretty good job overall (not the best in the industry) at detecting/removing malware, which is the main focus for a product like this. It is also easy to use on the end-user side, which can't … Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	91% Would buy again 31 Answers	91% Would buy again 31 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	97% Delivers good value for the price 33 Answers	97% Delivers good value for the price 33 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	91% Happy with the feature set 31 Answers	91% Happy with the feature set 31 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	95% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 21 Answers	95% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 21 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
97% Implementation went as expected 28 Answers	97% Implementation went as expected 28 Answers

User Ratings
	Microsoft System Center	Microsoft System Center
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (58 ratings)	9.3 (58 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	7.0 (1 ratings)	7.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	8.4 (5 ratings)	8.4 (5 ratings)
Support Rating	9.0 (14 ratings)	9.0 (14 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft System Center	Microsoft System Center
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft For companies with more than 10 Windows devices and needing to standardize the OS, AV, access, share resources, and install software. SCCM is the way to go. This software is unnecessary if the business is all remote users and not in an office-type setting. There are cloud offerings or none to accomplish what a business needs. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Allows the grouping of devices by user. Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices. Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system. Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft Allows the grouping of devices by user. Allows controlling updates being deployed to user devices. Allows for the repurposing of machines by being able to load new or updated software on machines that already are in the system. Allows us the ability to wipe a machine clean and restore it back to the configuration that was assigned the machine. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Microsoft The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing. A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft The product could improve in the area of having better mechanisms in place with how the SCEP client is deployed/installed from the server on the management side. We have run into this firsthand with the client not installing on an endpoint, and then having to take the time to investigate why it was not installing. A second improvement that can be made is to keep trying to improve the products detection rate for finding malware/viruses. The case can be made that there are some products out there that do a better job at this and have a higher detection rate. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Microsoft Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Usability	Microsoft It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft It is not user-friendly for the most part. With IT infrastructure, sometimes it cannot handle excess requests. Every few months, you will need an upgrade in terms of server resources to keep up with incoming alerts and requests. This does not happen all of the time, but it does happen when there are too many requests. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft There is a fair amount of documentation out there to help you when you have questions or run into issues with this product as well as tutorials on some of the more common tasks. Between the documentation and the overall ease of use we haven't had to deal with direct Microsoft support for this product. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Implementation Rating	Microsoft Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Microsoft We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach. Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft We previously used a mix of FOG and Clonezilla to image machines. The biggest issues with these products is that changing one piece of the image required you to rebuild the entire image itself. These pieces of software also did not allow you to manage applications and Windows Updates, causing IT to have to constantly touch machines after they were imaged and update or manage them with a much more hands on approach. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring. Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms. Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment. Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power). Incentivized Verified User Read full review	Microsoft It has allowed the enterprise to standardize on a single platform for monitoring. Easier troubleshooting of issues with Microsoft platforms. Greater visibility of issues across platforms when applications are hosted in a mixed environment. Additional costs for monitoring systems that are not directly supported with additional packs (iSeries, Linux on Power). Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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