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Microsoft System Center

Overview

What is Microsoft System Center?

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…

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Recent Reviews

System Center

9 out of 10
January 25, 2021
It is used across the whole organization. It addresses critical business solutions managing all windows endpoints and servers. It is a …
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Awards

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Pricing

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Standard Edition

$1323

On Premise

Datacenter Edition

$3607

On Premise

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $1,323 per month
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Product Demos

Flexera Software's Integration and Support of Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager

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Product Details

What is Microsoft System Center?

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.

Microsoft System Center Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Microsoft System Center starts at $1323.

The most common users of Microsoft System Center are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 management tool. Cheers to Microsoft and the team !!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Data backued up in the previouse environment could not be used and require old hardware.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 their job but Microsoft System Center while a more expensive cloning / imaging program really excelled by all of the other features it brought to the table. It allowed for very extensive image capabilities, as well as very strong desktop device management and organization. Being able to remote directly into a users desktop and controlling the desktop is a feature well worth having. We were able to eliminate buying licenses for desktop imaging, remote access, and desktop auditing by rolling them all into the services Microsoft System Center offers.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 of our problems and reduced effort and time to maintain compliance and devices.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 other software solutions in a while.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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, leading to even more issues and failed installs.
Mark Fitzgerald | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 Microsoft for Microsoft. It works.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 alternative has ever been evaluated.
Brandon Pelinka | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 desk.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 you have just one license which includes everything. With vRealize Suite you can automate only building vms or applications. With Microsoft Orchestrator you can automate any IT task you want (for example new hire onboarding).
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