Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center

Microsoft System Center

72 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft System Center	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft System Center Suite is a family of IT management software for network monitoring, updating and patching, endpoint protection with anti-malware, data protection and backup, ITIL- structured IT service management, remote administration and more. It is available in two editions: standard and datacenter. Datacenter provides unlimited virtualization for high density private clouds, while standard is for lightly or non-virtualized private cloud workloads.	$1,323 per month

Pricing

Microsoft System Center

Editions & Modules

Standard Edition: $1323
Datacenter Edition: $3607

Offerings

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

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft System Center
Considered Both Products	Microsoft System Center Verified User Consultant 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 General Manager 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 Engineer 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 Manager 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 Engineer 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 Professional 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? AH Amy Howard Computer and Network Spec 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 Engineer 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 Account Manager Chose Microsoft System Center I would say Microsoft System Center and Oracle were about the same. Oracle seemed to be a little more user-friendly, but for the most part, they are both comparable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose Microsoft System Center Because it rocks and it just works. With the other software, you would have to do a lot of monkey work to make it work. Incentivized Helpful? Mark Fitzgerald Adjunct Professor Chose Microsoft System Center I have used ZENworks, Altiris, and Landesk. They are all good products in their own right and have many strengths. The pricing, bundling SCCM with our Microsoft site license, really helps create an ROI that puts SCCM over the top. Pricing aside it is a tool designed by … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft System Center I have not chosen this software directly because I found myself in an environment that already used this product, a purely Microsoft environment. Therefore the choice that has been made has proved very effective and above all suited to our needs, and for this reason, no … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Microsoft System Center I have not had any experience with another system that you would image computers other than manually imaging them locally with an image. Incentivized Helpful? Tuan Pham Infrastructure Administrator Chose Microsoft System Center Everything we have is on a Microsoft operating system, so it makes sense to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Pelinka Senior Systems Engineer Chose Microsoft System Center It's better than others because Microsoft knows its own OS better than anyone. It has a very rich feature set and allows companies to hit many areas of need with one tool. You can have IT staff get multiple tasks done just by logging in and they don't even have to leave their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft System Center We built our POC of the private cloud with vRealize Suite and Microsoft System Center. We are VMware shop so we thought the vrealize will be solution for us but we found pretty fast the vRealize Suite is very limited and very expensive compare to Microsoft. With System Center … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Operating system Pro Application deployment Pro Ability to deploy
Top Cons	Minus Physical servers Minus User friendly Minus Learning path

User Ratings
	Microsoft System Center
Likelihood to Recommend	8.5 (20 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft System Center
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft We used a product before that was designed to prevent users making changes and saving files to the desktop computer. This required a renewal of the license. By using SCCM in our environment we were able to discontinue using that product because SCCM allows us to completely restore a machine back to the original configuration. We have taught our users to save their individual work on either a network drive or a cloud drive. By doing this, if we do a re-image of their machine they have lost no data, and it makes for a faster resolution. In some instances having a computer in our SCCM environment it can become cumbersome when creating new users for very specific purposes. It can be done by creating new organizational units and applying new policies but when in a pinch it can be frustrating. For the most part we have tried to make "new" purpose images and groups to at least accommodate a quick install. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Microsoft Provides our users the ability to deploy and manage our own datacenter based on defined software with understandable solutions for storage, compute, networking and security. We are able to update at once all the computers from all departments without having to install the OS on every computer. It allows us to have everything in one place for database management and datacenter inspection as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Microsoft Needs web based storefront for requesting new software Needs ability to manage the packaging work flow better Sometimes is slow to download and there is no indication the entire catalog is being loaded, resulting in confused users not being able to find common software in the available list. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Microsoft If I had to dislike something about the system it would be how much it changes once you upgrade. This could be more of a problem of mine since I get used to one way and don't like it when it changes so much. I am enjoying the newest update, but it is a mess when you are actually going through the upgrades. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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 Anonymous Read full review
Return on Investment	Microsoft We have been able to automate our patch management, firmware and other security concerns. We have a standardized "image" ensuring our setup is consistent across the enterprise. This alone has saved us in time to support and time to understand how to use our desktops. Incentivized Mark Fitzgerald Adjunct Professor Read full review
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