What is Microsoft System Center?
System Center helps customers gain an unified datacenter management experience with out-of-the-box monitoring, provisioning, configuration, automation, protection and self-service capabilities. You can now extend System Center capabilities with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) to deliver a cloud-inspired, platform-agnostic solution to help you manage both traditional infrastructure and modern applications with ease. System Center enhances agility and performance by streamlining the deployment, configuration, management, and monitoring of your infrastructure and virtualized software-defined datacenter.
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92 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
- Product Experience:
- 96%
- Negotiation and Contract:
- 87%
- Conflict Resolution:
- 96%
- Strategy & Innovation:
- 92%
- Service Experience:
- 100%
Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.
+93 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft System Center?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Microsoft System Center Reviews
Chioma J.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2024
Microsoft System Center: A Tool with Potentials
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft System Center from other similar products?
Microsoft system center is special in a way that it can work with different configurations that are on premise, hybrid and cloud. Also it's data security is top-notch.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The most amazing feature it has is the all in one control. It enables the control and monitoring of all activities in one location, and its integration with clouds and local systems enables faster and seamless operations.
What do you dislike most about this product?
It is resource intensive and can slow down your computer. Also, it is not very friendly to a new user and therefore it may require some time in order to master its usage.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Use the available training materials and go step by step to learn how to use the system. This will help you get the best results from it.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Efficient Service
- Inspires Innovation
Preye O.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Aug 2025
Reliable IT Management Suit for Scalable Operation
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft System Center from other similar products?
Based on my years of experience using this product, I would conclude that Microsoft System Center delivers robust integration with Windows Server and Microsoft 365 environments, enabling centralized monitoring, management, and automation for hybrid infrastructures. Its strength lies in natively supporting Active Directory, Azure services, and Windows OS, which delivers centralized techniques for performing IT operations in an enterprise that most of its competitors cannot replicate.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
My favorite feature or aspect of this product is that, the unified view within System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and Configuration Manager (SCCM) provides decent visibility into infrastructure health, patch compliance, and asset management. It simplifies deploying updates, endpoint management, and automating workflows across our infrastructure.
What do you dislike most about this product?
What I personally dislike most about this product is that, the system center's original installation and ongoing maintenance can be intensive and requires specialized skill sets. Additionally, some components are not as UI/UX and cloud-native-aware as more recent platforms are, and that effects usability and speed of onboarding.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Based on my hands-on experience with this product, I would like to recommend to someone considering this product to; Get your IT team familiar with Microsoft infrastructure before rolling out System Center. Roll it out in phases, beginning with core functionalities like SCCM for endpoint management and SCOM for monitoring. Leverage Microsoft's training content and adopt hybrid integration with Azure Arc for future proofing.
Pros
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
- Effective Service
Henry E.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Insurance
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Mar 2023
Great System Administration tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft System Center from other similar products?
Microsoft system center gives you a variety of technologies, tools, and feature sets that you can use to automate routine processes that are traditionally done manually and with human involvement.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
System Center provides me with access to specific information about when a machine was last online, its heartbeat, its most recent scan, and whether or not that specific machine is compliant or not.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The absence of Apple ecosystem integration with Microsoft System Center is the only drawback for this product. Sadly, this program is only available for Windows systems.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The suite of SCCM tools provided by the Microsoft system center is quite comprehensive and it will help your I.T. team manage the infrastructure smoothly without any major hiccup.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing