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    Microsoft System Center

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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

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    Snow Atlas

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASnow Atlas is a cloud-native platform built from the ground up to provide Technology Intelligence for today’s hybrid enterprises. Based on a microservices architecture and standardized APIs, Snow Atlas provides a unified foundation for Snow’s IT asset management, SaaS management and FinOps solutions. It can be used to display all of the technology in an enterprise's IT stack, or to find opportunities to enhance, optimize and efficiently manage technology assets and share data with…N/A
    Pricing
    Microsoft System CenterSnow Atlas
    Editions & Modules
    Standard Edition
    $1323
    Datacenter Edition
    $3607
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    Microsoft System CenterSnow Atlas
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Would buy again
    91%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
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    Happy with the feature set
    91%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    95%
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
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    Features
    Microsoft System CenterSnow Atlas
    IT Asset Management
    Comparison of IT Asset Management features of Microsoft System Center and Snow Atlas
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    Snow Atlas
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Software and hardware inventory tracking00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    License management00 Ratings7.54 Ratings
    Asset lifecycle monitoring00 Ratings7.23 Ratings
    Contract management00 Ratings6.93 Ratings
    Asset relationship management00 Ratings6.72 Ratings
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    KACE Asset Management Appliance
    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Microsoft System CenterSnow Atlas
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (58 ratings)
    7.7
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (14 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Microsoft System CenterSnow Atlas
    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.
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    Flexera
    Assessing Compliance Assessing Renewal requirements
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    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.
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    Flexera
    • Visibility of traditional desktop and web based applications
    • Reminders when agreements and annual renewals are coming up in the next 90, 60, 30 days
    • Helps us identify similar application types, where they are being used, so we can better understand the capabilities they provide businesses
    • Provide usage trends over time to inform renewals and compliance
    • Reclaim software that is note in active use
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    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.
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    Flexera
    • SaaS connectors are not always kept up to date usually when Publishers make changes to their Portal API's. Appears to be little active monitoring on Flexera/Snow Atlas' side unless a customer reports an issue with the data being returned. Fixes are normally implemented as as quickly as possible, depending on whether it is considered a Bug Fix or a Feature Enhancement.
    • Users - Snow on SAM - No ability to add or bulk import manually. Completely reliant on AD Discovery or Entra ID Discovery
    • Users - SaaS module - No ability for bulk update of Users for things line 'Online only' or 'Qualified' user accounts. This is an issue in larger companies where you have thousands of SaaS Users being reported through connectors like Microsoft E365.
    • SaaS module Dashboard does not allow for filtering of insights to a specific Publisher.
    • Not all Back end SMACC functionality form Snow License Manager have been exposed to the front-end access, as Snow Atlas does not allow customer Administrators access to the back end or SQL databases.
    • If you are migrating from on-prem Snow License Manager to Atlas, migration tools have not been created by Snow and will require a Project to handle your migration. Without Migration tools, we had to use a Managed Service Partner who had to manually create a lot of their own scripts to retrieve data that cannot be downloaded via reports and imported into Atlas. Any attachments documentation on Agreement or License Records has to be manually re-attached/uploaded to the relevant Agreement/License records in Atlas as the migration was performed.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    Microsoft System Center Operations Manager is tightly integrated to Microsoft Windows servers os monitoring with great product support.
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    Flexera
    Provides the much needed visibility to contain spend and rationalise software
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    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.
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    Flexera
    Atlas is easy to navigate, it looks reasonably similar to the on prem version we were using previously
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    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.
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    Flexera
    Front line support staff done always understand the issue you are explaining or the need to escalate to back end/higher up areas for resolutions and can often require use of the Escalate function or emailing to your Account/Customer Success Manager. That said, once an issue properly is understood, it is handled well.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Easy to install with intuitive interactive interface during the installation process a and integration to MS SQL was smooth
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    Flexera
    We should have spun up a Project to manage the implementation. Snow indicated to us the ease in which Snow Atlas could be implemented, however this did not factor in that we were migrating from their on-prem product Snow License Manager hosted through a Managed Servicer Partner. For a clean installation, your implementation can be quick and likely not require a Project. If you are migrating from another products or are a company that can have lots of stakeholders, fingers in the pie, hurdles/business processes that need to be adhered to, definitely use a Project to perform your implementation.
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    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.
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    Flexera
    This is my 1st software license tool that I've used.
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    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).
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    Flexera
    • Made it a lot easier to determine annual Microsoft renewal numbers and only renew what we needed reducing costs
    • Helps us identify potential software that can be rationalised reducing costs
    • Helps us identify unapproved software and people aware of the the risks
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